Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2011
279 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 279 ranked journals in 2011. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.74 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2010. A journal needs OJR 3.33 to reach Q1. The top three are American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and Comparative Political Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
279 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 15.55Q1 | 4.04 0.36 down from 2010 | 195 | 24% | $4,100 | ||
2American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.20Q1 | 4.10 0.35 down from 2010 | 137 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
3Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.49Q1 | 3.01 0.10 down from 2010 | 146 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.21Q1 | 3.73 0.36 up from 2010 | 91 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
5Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 10.77Q1 | 2.87 0.81 down from 2010 | 209 | 17% | — | ||
6International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.76Q1 | 2.55 0.22 down from 2010 | 102 | 9% | — | ||
7European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.65Q1 | 2.21 0.04 down from 2010 | 77 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
8West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.51Q1 | 2.18 1.33 down from 2010 | 233 | 18% | — | ||
9European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.07Q1 | 1.80 0.79 down from 2010 | 118 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
10Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 7.75Q1 | 2.99 0.46 up from 2010 | 212 | 8% | $4,360 | ||
11British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.58Q1 | 2.03 1.56 down from 2010 | 148 | 36% | $3,550 | ||
12Higher Education PolicyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.52Q1 | 1.76 0.36 down from 2010 | 89 | 7% | $2,690 | ||
13European Law JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 7.24Q1 | 1.90 0.37 up from 2010 | 143 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
14International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.66Q1 | 2.01 0.19 up from 2010 | 216 | 5% | $4,936 | ||
15Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 6.51Q1 | 2.45 0.27 down from 2010 | 216 | 19% | $3,969 | ||
16European Foreign Affairs ReviewSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 6.51Q1 | 1.58 0.74 up from 2010 | 110 | 13% | — | ||
17Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.47Q1 | 2.78 0.18 up from 2010 | 152 | 19% | — | ||
18Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 1.68 0.56 down from 2010 | 155 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
19Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 6.20Q1 | 1.97 0.74 up from 2010 | 63 | 18% | $3,460 | ||
20Journal of Political PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 6.18Q1 | 1.64 0.15 down from 2010 | 86 | 19% | $4,030 | ||
21Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 1.72 0.19 down from 2010 | 129 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
22European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 5.77Q1 | 2.10 0.66 up from 2010 | 233 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
23Political BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.71Q1 | 1.82 0.87 down from 2010 | 99 | 14% | $2,990 | ||
24The Journal of PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.55Q1 | 1.61 0.42 down from 2010 | 412 | 4% | — | ||
25Regional & Federal StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.50Q1 | 0.95 0.56 down from 2010 | 96 | 8% | — | ||
26JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.18Q1 | 1.82 0.46 up from 2010 | 327 | 10% | $4,170 | ||
27Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and PracticeRoutledge · Netherlands | 5.15Q1 | 1.17 0.78 down from 2010 | 86 | 16% | — | ||
28Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 5.12Q1 | 1.29 0.19 down from 2010 | 234 | 3% | — | ||
29Journal of Social PolicyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 1.23 0.51 down from 2010 | 149 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
30Journal of Elections Public Opinion and PartiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 1.13 0.29 down from 2010 | 71 | 6% | — | ||
31Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.72Q1 | 1.46 0.43 down from 2010 | 80 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
32Transforming Government People Process and PolicyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 1.63 1.24 down from 2010 | 67 | 7% | — | ||
33Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.61Q1 | 1.94 0.17 down from 2010 | 288 | 23% | $2,290 | ||
34The Pacific ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 1.80 0.23 up from 2010 | 93 | 6% | — | ||
35Higher Education QuarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 1.49 0.13 up from 2010 | 81 | 15% | $2,900 | ||
36Policy Studies JournalWiley · United States | 4.42Q1 | 2.12 0.54 down from 2010 | 134 | 15% | $4,050 | ||
37International Journal of Electronic Government ResearchIGI Global · United States | 4.38Q1 | 1.81 0.66 up from 2010 | 63 | 11% | — | ||
38Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 4.38Q1 | 2.47 1.03 up from 2010 | 105 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
39GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 1.50 0.24 down from 2010 | 154 | 11% | $3,730 | ||
40Scandinavian Political StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 0.89 0.07 down from 2010 | 65 | 8% | $2,950 | ||
41Government and OppositionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.36Q1 | 0.93 0.31 down from 2010 | 88 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
42Comparative EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 1.52 0.04 down from 2010 | 99 | 7% | — | ||
43Quarterly Journal of Political ScienceNow Publishers · United States | 4.22Q1 | 1.55 0.06 down from 2010 | 47 | 21% | — | ||
44Acta PoliticaPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 1.10 0.20 up from 2010 | 104 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
45Security StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 1.36 0.22 up from 2010 | 71 | 1% | — | ||
46Journal of European IntegrationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 4.03Q1 | 1.17 0.36 down from 2010 | 117 | 10% | — | ||
47Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International OrganizationsLynne Rienner Publishers · Netherlands | 4.01Q1 | 1.39 0.35 up from 2010 | 106 | 17% | — | ||
48European Political Science ReviewOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 2.58 0.98 down from 2010 | 52 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
49Policy SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 3.17 0.65 up from 2010 | 69 | 26% | $3,190 | ||
50Comparative European PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 1.37 0.16 up from 2010 | 72 | 28% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,005
- Education521
- Political Science and International Relations279
- Gender Studies56
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research44
- Transportation41
- Health40
- Law39
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies33
- Demography31
- Geography, Planning and Development20
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
79 additional Political Science and International Relations journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 279
- Window papers (baseline)
- 180,910 +21.5% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.74 +8.4% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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 | 185 | 187 | 198 | 211 | 222 | 236 | 243 | 248 | 255 | 260 | 270 | 279 | 287 | 287 | 294 | 301 | 308 | 318 | 321 | 326 | 332 | 333 | 339 | 334 | 334 | 322 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 87,090 | 92,551 | 99,427 | 106,761 | 113,825 | 122,173 | 130,947 | 139,764 | 148,869 | 159,463 | 170,900 | 180,910 | 191,534 | 201,200 | 210,369 | 223,416 | 235,982 | 245,820 | 247,938 | 251,957 | 262,579 | 278,323 | 289,523 | 291,064 | 289,519 | 294,162 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.12 | 1.31 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 1.603 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 1.78 | 1.69 | 1.83 | 1.92 | 1.87 | 1.723 | 1.85 | 1.67 | 1.71 | 1.602 | 1.63 | 1.52 | 1.718 |
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.