Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Social Sciences journal rankings 2011
2,335 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Social Sciences has 2,335 ranked journals in 2011. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.42 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2010. A journal needs OJR 2.64 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, Review of Research in Education, and American Journal of Political Science.
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 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 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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1STUDI ORGANIZZATIVIFrancoAngeli · Italy | 32.79Q1 | 18.98 2.14 down from 2010 | 46 | 6% | — | ||
2Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 20.77Q1 | 5.46 0.42 down from 2010 | 35 | 9% | $2,500 | ||
3American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 15.55Q1 | 4.04 0.36 down from 2010 | 195 | 24% | $4,100 | ||
4Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 15.29Q1 | 12.83 9.60 up from 2010 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
5American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.20Q1 | 4.10 0.35 down from 2010 | 137 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
6Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.47Q1 | 4.80 0.57 up from 2010 | 116 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
7American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.94Q1 | 7.13 0.16 up from 2010 | 137 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
8American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.22Q1 | 4.99 0.30 down from 2010 | 131 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
9CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.24Q1 | 5.23 0.64 up from 2010 | 114 | 18% | $3,570 | ||
10MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 11.98Q1 | 8.54 1.17 up from 2010 | 227 | 3% | — | ||
11Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.49Q1 | 3.01 0.10 down from 2010 | 146 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
12The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.35Q1 | 5.80 0.28 down from 2010 | 59 | 35% | — | ||
13Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 11.22Q1 | 6.00 1.12 up from 2010 | 127 | 73% | $0 listed | ||
14Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.21Q1 | 3.73 0.36 up from 2010 | 91 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
15Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 11.11Q1 | 12.58 0.51 down from 2010 | 36 | 47% | $5,085 | ||
16Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.05Q1 | 6.20 0.32 down from 2010 | 165 | 7% | $4,540 | ||
17Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 10.77Q1 | 2.87 0.81 down from 2010 | 209 | 17% | — | ||
18Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.32Q1 | 4.75 1.11 up from 2010 | 60 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
19International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.76Q1 | 2.55 0.22 down from 2010 | 102 | 9% | — | ||
20Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.52Q1 | 7.50 0.94 down from 2010 | 97 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
21Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.38Q1 | 2.81 0.88 down from 2010 | 82 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
22Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.28Q1 | 4.25 0.39 up from 2010 | 203 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
23Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.26Q1 | 4.47 1.02 up from 2010 | 120 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
24Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.23Q1 | 3.58 0.28 up from 2010 | 54 | 32% | $3,650 | ||
25Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.19Q1 | 7.68 0.18 up from 2010 | 354 | 13% | — | ||
26Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.97Q1 | 3.13 0.93 up from 2010 | 69 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
27Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 8.97Q1 | 4.70 0.57 up from 2010 | 166 | 30% | $3,910 | ||
28The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.76Q1 | 4.41 0.68 up from 2010 | 114 | 4% | $4,120 | ||
29European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.65Q1 | 2.21 0.04 down from 2010 | 77 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
30Work & StressTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.65Q1 | 5.03 1.88 down from 2010 | 62 | 31% | — | ||
31Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.58Q1 | 3.11 0.47 down from 2010 | 127 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
32West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.51Q1 | 2.18 1.33 down from 2010 | 233 | 18% | — | ||
33World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.44Q1 | 2.98 0.45 up from 2010 | 89 | 38% | — | ||
34Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.42Q1 | 2.90 0.01 up from 2010 | 42 | 8% | — | ||
35Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.39Q1 | 3.19 0.71 up from 2010 | 170 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
36International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.32Q1 | 2.66 0.18 up from 2010 | 106 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
37Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.29Q1 | 9.64 3.10 up from 2010 | 217 | 23% | $6,440 | ||
38Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.07Q1 | 3.17 0.41 down from 2010 | 46 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
39European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.07Q1 | 1.80 0.79 down from 2010 | 118 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
40Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.99Q1 | 3.79 1.54 down from 2010 | 164 | 11% | — | ||
41Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 4.76 0.54 up from 2010 | 83 | 22% | $5,110 | ||
42Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.86Q1 | 3.52 0.53 up from 2010 | 457 | 8% | $4,690 | ||
43Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.81Q1 | 3.76 0.47 up from 2010 | 180 | 16% | — | ||
44Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.80Q1 | 3.38 0.21 up from 2010 | 250 | 16% | $4,590 | ||
45European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.80Q1 | 3.47 1.10 down from 2010 | 170 | 31% | — | ||
46American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.79Q1 | 4.24 0.90 down from 2010 | 149 | 6% | — | ||
47Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 7.75Q1 | 2.99 0.46 up from 2010 | 212 | 8% | $4,360 | ||
48Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.65Q1 | 3.73 0.46 down from 2010 | 32 | 15% | $4,290 | ||
49Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 7.62Q1 | 4.70 2.60 up from 2010 | 146 | — | — | ||
50New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.59Q1 | 4.00 0.42 up from 2010 | 215 | 10% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, compared.
- 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.
780 additional Social Sciences 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
- 2,335
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,103,353 +27.2% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.42 +4.0% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 134Comparison-group list (134)
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 | 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.