Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Domain ranking · 2010
Social Sciences journal rankings 2010
4,638 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 4,638 ranked journals in 2010. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.24 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2009. A journal needs OJR 2.35 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
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.
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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% | — | ||
2The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 21.16Q1 | 11.03 1.01 up from 2009 | 140 | 22% | $7,619 | ||
3Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 19.75Q1 | 4.88 4.42 down from 2009 | 168 | 66% | $0 listed | ||
4Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 16.65Q1 | 7.94 0.38 up from 2009 | 98 | 8% | — | ||
5Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 16.62Q1 | 7.03 2.84 down from 2009 | 216 | 4% | — | ||
6Transactions of the Philological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 16.40Q1 | 4.59 1.62 up from 2009 | 48 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
7Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 15.85Q1 | 8.27 0.60 down from 2009 | 235 | 12% | — | ||
8American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.28Q1 | 6.97 1.95 up from 2009 | 144 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
9American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.01Q1 | 4.45 0.42 up from 2009 | 139 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
10Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 14.96Q1 | 5.66 2.73 down from 2009 | 277 | 29% | $4,250 | ||
11American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 14.93Q1 | 4.40 0.33 up from 2009 | 198 | 14% | $4,100 | ||
12American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.89Q1 | 5.66 4.66 up from 2009 | 36 | 35% | — | ||
13International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 14.50Q1 | 4.80 0.42 up from 2009 | 84 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
14Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.11Q1 | 8.44 1.54 down from 2009 | 92 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
15Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 13.93Q1 | 13.09 11.91 down from 2009 | 35 | 59% | $5,085 | ||
16The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.91Q1 | 6.98 1.39 up from 2009 | 152 | 52% | — | ||
17Journal of Second Language WritingElsevier BV · United States | 13.07Q1 | 3.26 0.49 up from 2009 | 67 | 0% | $3,830 | ||
18CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.75Q1 | 4.58 0.75 down from 2009 | 107 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
19Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 12.72Q1 | 3.69 0.25 up from 2009 | 209 | 14% | — | ||
20Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.52Q1 | 6.24 0.10 down from 2009 | 284 | 34% | $4,790 | ||
21American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.48Q1 | 5.28 0.47 up from 2009 | 120 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
22MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.37Q1 | 7.37 0.31 up from 2009 | 206 | 1% | — | ||
23Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.04Q1 | 5.88 2.91 up from 2009 | 40 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
24The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.74Q1 | 6.54 0.61 up from 2009 | 272 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
25US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 11.56Q1 | 9.37 7.92 up from 2009 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
26British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 11.51Q1 | 3.58 0.87 up from 2009 | 123 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
27Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.46Q1 | 6.52 0.83 up from 2009 | 185 | 2% | $4,540 | ||
28Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.43Q1 | 5.87 1.16 down from 2009 | 179 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
29Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.35Q1 | 4.24 0.43 up from 2009 | 119 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
30Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 11.25Q1 | 7.38 1.31 up from 2009 | 294 | 19% | $4,028 | ||
31Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 11.22Q1 | 3.75 0.02 down from 2009 | 60 | 25% | $7,310 | ||
32Indiana Journal of Global Legal StudiesIndiana University Press · United States | 11.13Q1 | 0.57 0.07 up from 2009 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
33The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.08Q1 | 6.08 1.44 up from 2009 | 60 | 19% | — | ||
34American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.69Q1 | 5.15 0.41 up from 2009 | 146 | 5% | — | ||
35Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.63Q1 | 4.65 0.86 down from 2009 | 356 | 18% | $4,740 | ||
36Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.58Q1 | 4.30 0.87 down from 2009 | 141 | 12% | — | ||
37Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 10.50Q1 | 4.19 2.23 down from 2009 | 35 | 36% | $4,290 | ||
38International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.45Q1 | 2.77 0.09 down from 2009 | 96 | 2% | — | ||
39West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.26Q1 | 3.51 0.06 up from 2009 | 199 | 22% | — | ||
40International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 10.23Q1 | 4.30 0.47 down from 2009 | 79 | 19% | $4,220 | ||
41Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 10.15Q1 | 6.11 0.85 down from 2009 | 136 | 13% | $3,520 | ||
42The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 10.10Q1 | 5.33 0.44 up from 2009 | 183 | 35% | — | ||
43Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.04Q1 | 3.14 0.63 up from 2009 | 76 | 15% | — | ||
44American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.79Q1 | 6.05 1.54 up from 2009 | 703 | 33% | — | ||
45European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.68Q1 | 2.58 0.12 up from 2009 | 74 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
46Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 9.62Q1 | 4.75 0.07 up from 2009 | 257 | 19% | — | ||
47SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 9.60Q1 | 1.54 0.32 down from 2009 | 34 | 26% | $3,240 | ||
48Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.47Q1 | 3.58 0.91 up from 2009 | 123 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
49Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.43Q1 | 5.12 0.47 up from 2009 | 200 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
50Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.43Q1 | 4.28 0.12 up from 2009 | 177 | 30% | $4,638 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences2,231
- Psychology759
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance647
- Business, Management and Accounting533
- Arts and Humanities345
- Decision Sciences123
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.
1,629 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
- 4,638
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,148,912 +28.1% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 1.242 +9.1% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 2,933 | 3,074 | 3,257 | 3,421 | 3,551 | 3,684 | 3,847 | 4,034 | 4,222 | 4,411 | 4,638 | 4,858 | 5,103 | 5,326 | 5,550 | 5,769 | 5,975 | 6,155 | 6,251 | 6,310 | 6,367 | 6,458 | 6,516 | 6,519 | 6,456 | 6,382 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 973,082 | 1,101,576 | 1,187,966 | 1,289,835 | 1,324,068 | 1,431,668 | 1,541,994 | 1,678,086 | 1,825,065 | 1,985,403 | 2,148,912 | 2,303,999 | 2,468,040 | 2,603,480 | 2,734,303 | 2,869,634 | 3,018,278 | 3,128,445 | 3,209,329 | 3,319,936 | 3,489,326 | 3,755,807 | 4,010,665 | 4,149,019 | 4,247,103 | 4,426,831 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.96 | 1.0001 | 1.063 | 1.14 | 1.196 | 1.22 | 1.242 | 1.25 | 1.26 | 1.241 | 1.236 | 1.204 | 1.179 | 1.181 | 1.165 | 1.183 | 1.158 | 1.09 | 1.067 | 1.057 | 1.065 | 1.08 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.6% | 4,027 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.605 per 1,000 | 3,404 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.2% | 5,924 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 56.3% | 6,382 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390 | 2,626 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.9% | 5,817 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 6,382 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.12 | 6,330 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 42.6% | 6,382 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.1% | 6,369 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.