Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Field ranking · 2010
Social Sciences journal rankings 2010
2,231 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Social Sciences has 2,231 ranked journals in 2010. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.43 against 1.00, up 0.05 on 2009. A journal needs OJR 2.63 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and American Sociological Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Social Sciences (22)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1STUDI ORGANIZZATIVIFrancoAngeli · Italy | 44.32Q1 | 21.12 20.99 up from 2009 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
2Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 19.75Q1 | 4.88 4.42 down from 2009 | 168 | 66% | $0 listed | ||
3American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.28Q1 | 6.97 1.95 up from 2009 | 144 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
4American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.01Q1 | 4.45 0.42 up from 2009 | 139 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
5American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 14.93Q1 | 4.40 0.33 up from 2009 | 198 | 14% | $4,100 | ||
6Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.11Q1 | 8.44 1.54 down from 2009 | 92 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
7Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 13.93Q1 | 13.09 11.91 down from 2009 | 35 | 59% | $5,085 | ||
8CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.75Q1 | 4.58 0.75 down from 2009 | 107 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
9Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 12.72Q1 | 3.69 0.25 up from 2009 | 209 | 14% | — | ||
10American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.48Q1 | 5.28 0.47 up from 2009 | 120 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
11MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.37Q1 | 7.37 0.31 up from 2009 | 206 | 1% | — | ||
12Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.04Q1 | 5.88 2.91 up from 2009 | 40 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
13US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 11.56Q1 | 9.37 7.92 up from 2009 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
14British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.51Q1 | 3.58 0.87 up from 2009 | 123 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
15Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.46Q1 | 6.52 0.83 up from 2009 | 185 | 2% | $4,540 | ||
16Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.35Q1 | 4.24 0.43 up from 2009 | 119 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
17Indiana Journal of Global Legal StudiesIndiana University Press · United States | 11.13Q1 | 0.57 0.07 up from 2009 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
18The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.08Q1 | 6.08 1.44 up from 2009 | 60 | 19% | — | ||
19American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.69Q1 | 5.15 0.41 up from 2009 | 146 | 5% | — | ||
20Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 10.50Q1 | 4.19 2.23 down from 2009 | 35 | 36% | $4,290 | ||
21International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.45Q1 | 2.77 0.09 down from 2009 | 96 | 2% | — | ||
22West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.26Q1 | 3.51 0.06 up from 2009 | 199 | 22% | — | ||
23Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.04Q1 | 3.14 0.63 up from 2009 | 76 | 15% | — | ||
24European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.68Q1 | 2.58 0.12 up from 2009 | 74 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
25Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.47Q1 | 3.58 0.91 up from 2009 | 123 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
26Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.37Q1 | 7.50 0.05 down from 2009 | 362 | 16% | — | ||
27World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 9.16Q1 | 2.54 0.29 up from 2009 | 99 | 52% | — | ||
28Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.15Q1 | 3.11 0.42 up from 2009 | 182 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
29European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.11Q1 | 2.25 1.42 down from 2009 | 73 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
30The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.93Q1 | 3.73 0.18 down from 2009 | 103 | 2% | $4,120 | ||
31Work & StressTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.90Q1 | 6.91 1.98 up from 2009 | 63 | 25% | — | ||
32Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 8.88Q1 | 5.33 0.81 up from 2009 | 120 | 12% | — | ||
33Scandinavian Political StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 8.85Q1 | 0.96 2.18 down from 2009 | 78 | 6% | $2,950 | ||
34Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.56Q1 | 3.64 0.03 up from 2009 | 58 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
35American Politics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.38Q1 | 1.68 0.65 up from 2009 | 126 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
36The American Journal of Comparative LawOxford University Press · United States | 8.35Q1 | 3.18 2.46 up from 2009 | 101 | 20% | $4,402 | ||
37Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 8.34Q1 | 2.54 0.16 up from 2009 | 200 | 11% | $4,360 | ||
38Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.30Q1 | 3.37 0.53 up from 2009 | 88 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
39Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.29Q1 | 4.68 1.37 down from 2009 | 73 | 22% | $5,400 | ||
40Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.21Q1 | 3.58 0.52 up from 2009 | 46 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
41Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.17Q1 | 3.85 0.61 down from 2009 | 209 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
42Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 8.10Q1 | 1.43 2.33 down from 2009 | 101 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
43Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 3.45 0.80 down from 2009 | 127 | 21% | $4,070 | ||
44Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.01Q1 | 3.30 0.05 up from 2009 | 49 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
45European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.94Q1 | 4.57 0.56 up from 2009 | 171 | 23% | — | ||
46The Journal of PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.84Q1 | 2.03 0.27 up from 2009 | 409 | 4% | — | ||
47Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 7.76Q1 | 4.88 0.25 up from 2009 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
48Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 7.75Q1 | 1.89 0.82 up from 2009 | 85 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
49Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.74Q1 | 3.30 0.72 up from 2009 | 145 | 14% | — | ||
50Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.72Q1 | 3.02 1.07 up from 2009 | 186 | 12% | $3,540 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Sociology and Political Science960
- Education489
- Political Science and International Relations270
- Gender Studies55
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research41
- Health38
- Library and Information Sciences38
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law36
- Transportation35
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies32
- Demography31
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
738 additional Social Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 2,231
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,027,940 +29.7% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 1.43 +10.2% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 134Comparison-group list (134)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 1,406 | 1,451 | 1,539 | 1,622 | 1,698 | 1,765 | 1,844 | 1,932 | 2,018 | 2,111 | 2,231 | 2,335 | 2,450 | 2,548 | 2,662 | 2,755 | 2,851 | 2,959 | 2,994 | 3,028 | 3,056 | 3,141 | 3,149 | 3,144 | 3,107 | 3,066 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 443,953 | 481,120 | 524,797 | 573,040 | 615,403 | 666,449 | 723,952 | 792,817 | 867,532 | 946,631 | 1,027,940 | 1,103,353 | 1,185,358 | 1,256,728 | 1,323,833 | 1,400,086 | 1,483,492 | 1,554,301 | 1,600,611 | 1,663,801 | 1,760,718 | 1,914,483 | 2,065,185 | 2,148,493 | 2,214,535 | 2,302,259 | |
| Median OJR | 0.86 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.16 | 1.30 | 1.365 | 1.382 | 1.43 | 1.42 | 1.40 | 1.377 | 1.356 | 1.352 | 1.353 | 1.346 | 1.31 | 1.33 | 1.32 | 1.23 | 1.194 | 1.187 | 1.18 | 1.20 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.7% | 1,882 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.498 per 1,000 | 1,610 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.6% | 2,852 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 58.5% | 3,066 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400 | 1,164 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 18.2% | 2,785 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 3,066 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.22 | 3,041 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 44.4% | 3,066 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.7% | 3,059 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.