Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2010
960 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 960 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2009 to 1.44, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.65. 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 of Social Sciences (22)
960 ranked journals
Filters
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 | ||
4Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 13.93Q1 | 13.09 11.91 down from 2009 | 35 | 59% | $5,085 | ||
5CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.75Q1 | 4.58 0.75 down from 2009 | 107 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
6MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.37Q1 | 7.37 0.31 up from 2009 | 206 | 1% | — | ||
7Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.46Q1 | 6.52 0.83 up from 2009 | 185 | 2% | $4,540 | ||
8American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.69Q1 | 5.15 0.41 up from 2009 | 146 | 5% | — | ||
9Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.47Q1 | 3.58 0.91 up from 2009 | 123 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.37Q1 | 7.50 0.05 down from 2009 | 362 | 16% | — | ||
11World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 9.16Q1 | 2.54 0.29 up from 2009 | 99 | 52% | — | ||
12Work & StressTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.90Q1 | 6.91 1.98 up from 2009 | 63 | 25% | — | ||
13Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 8.88Q1 | 5.33 0.81 up from 2009 | 120 | 12% | — | ||
14Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.56Q1 | 3.64 0.03 up from 2009 | 58 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
15Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.29Q1 | 4.68 1.37 down from 2009 | 73 | 22% | $5,400 | ||
16Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.21Q1 | 3.58 0.52 up from 2009 | 46 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
17Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 3.45 0.80 down from 2009 | 127 | 21% | $4,070 | ||
18European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.94Q1 | 4.57 0.56 up from 2009 | 171 | 23% | — | ||
19Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 7.76Q1 | 4.88 0.25 up from 2009 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
20Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.72Q1 | 3.02 1.07 up from 2009 | 186 | 12% | $3,540 | ||
21Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.72Q1 | 2.99 0.26 up from 2009 | 422 | 9% | $4,690 | ||
22Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.61Q1 | 3.36no change | 65 | 39% | $4,090 | ||
23Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.56Q1 | 6.53 0.48 up from 2009 | 183 | 17% | $6,440 | ||
24Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.40Q1 | 2.60 0.40 up from 2009 | 155 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
25New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.39Q1 | 3.58 0.49 up from 2009 | 173 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
26Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.36Q1 | 2.42 0.40 down from 2009 | 59 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
27Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.33Q1 | 7.86 2.54 down from 2009 | 64 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
28Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.23Q1 | 2.55 0.96 down from 2009 | 167 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
29International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.16Q1 | 2.48 0.09 down from 2009 | 112 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
30Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.05Q1 | 2.89 0.15 up from 2009 | 39 | 0% | — | ||
31DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.96Q1 | 3.99 0.13 down from 2009 | 138 | 97% | $2,750 | ||
32Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.92Q1 | 2.54 0.51 up from 2009 | 92 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
33Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.69Q1 | 2.31 0.56 up from 2009 | 79 | 21% | $2,890 | ||
34Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.46Q1 | 3.17 0.20 up from 2009 | 228 | 30% | $4,590 | ||
35Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.45Q1 | 4.22 1.15 up from 2009 | 96 | 31% | $5,110 | ||
36European Journal of CriminologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 2.52 0.05 up from 2009 | 60 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
37International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 6.23Q1 | 2.44 0.04 up from 2009 | 133 | 24% | $4,320 | ||
38European Sociological ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.17Q1 | 2.41 0.59 up from 2009 | 188 | 26% | $5,323 | ||
39Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.08Q1 | 2.20 0.18 down from 2009 | 63 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
40Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 3.26 0.29 down from 2009 | 92 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
41Theoretical CriminologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 2.06 0.17 up from 2009 | 71 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
42Social ProblemsOxford University Press · United States | 6.04Q1 | 2.31 0.14 down from 2009 | 104 | 9% | $4,073 | ||
43Qualitative ResearchOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.04Q1 | 2.67 0.52 up from 2009 | 96 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
44Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.02Q1 | 2.36 0.46 down from 2009 | 98 | 31% | $3,718 | ||
45Games and CultureSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.97Q1 | 2.69 0.34 up from 2009 | 67 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
46Identity in the Information SocietySpringer Nature · Netherlands | 5.88Q1 | 2.48 0.28 up from 2009 | 33 | 98% | — | ||
47MobilitiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.75Q1 | 2.41 0.45 up from 2009 | 81 | 17% | — | ||
48Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 5.73Q1 | 1.91 0.23 down from 2009 | 87 | 20% | $4,050 | ||
49Ethnic and Racial StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.72Q1 | 1.76 0.19 up from 2009 | 231 | 25% | — | ||
50Media PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.71Q1 | 3.52 0.84 up from 2009 | 96 | 6% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- 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.
266 additional Sociology and Political Science 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
- 960
- Window papers (baseline)
- 326,495 +31.6% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 1.44 +7.4% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 588 | 615 | 642 | 679 | 716 | 742 | 776 | 826 | 861 | 899 | 960 | 1,005 | 1,049 | 1,090 | 1,140 | 1,184 | 1,233 | 1,300 | 1,315 | 1,325 | 1,333 | 1,377 | 1,389 | 1,403 | 1,402 | 1,388 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 127,769 | 139,962 | 155,545 | 173,690 | 189,148 | 206,415 | 224,690 | 248,047 | 274,644 | 301,558 | 326,495 | 347,409 | 369,647 | 386,451 | 401,728 | 420,106 | 443,739 | 460,936 | 466,601 | 478,291 | 498,577 | 539,978 | 579,161 | 604,240 | 617,692 | 634,590 | |
| Median OJR | 0.92 | 0.98 | 0.95 | 0.99 | 1.09 | 1.1344 | 1.27 | 1.34 | 1.380 | 1.3830 | 1.44 | 1.43 | 1.47 | 1.42 | 1.3831 | 1.35 | 1.3317 | 1.3322 | 1.28 | 1.31 | 1.32 | 1.22 | 1.17 | 1.14 | 1.11 | 1.1341 |
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.