Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Domain ranking · 2011
Social Sciences journal rankings 2011
4,858 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 4,858 ranked journals in 2011. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.25 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2010. A journal needs OJR 2.37 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, Review of Research in Education, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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.
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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 | ||
3The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 20.38Q1 | 10.96 0.08 down from 2010 | 135 | 47% | $7,619 | ||
4Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 17.85Q1 | 10.05 2.12 up from 2010 | 104 | 5% | — | ||
5American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 15.55Q1 | 4.04 0.36 down from 2010 | 195 | 24% | $4,100 | ||
6American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 15.39Q1 | 7.15 1.49 up from 2010 | 66 | 28% | — | ||
7Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 15.37Q1 | 9.68 1.41 up from 2010 | 211 | 3% | — | ||
8Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 15.29Q1 | 12.83 9.60 up from 2010 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
9American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 15.20Q1 | 4.10 0.35 down from 2010 | 137 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
10Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.47Q1 | 4.80 0.57 up from 2010 | 116 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
11The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.05Q1 | 8.41 1.43 up from 2010 | 159 | 55% | — | ||
12American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.94Q1 | 7.13 0.16 up from 2010 | 137 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
13International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 13.37Q1 | 4.12 0.68 down from 2010 | 89 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
14American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.22Q1 | 4.99 0.30 down from 2010 | 131 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
15Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 12.96Q1 | 6.17 0.51 up from 2010 | 244 | 13% | $4,250 | ||
16Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.24Q1 | 6.51 0.27 up from 2010 | 256 | 12% | $4,790 | ||
17CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.24Q1 | 5.23 0.64 up from 2010 | 114 | 18% | $3,570 | ||
18MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 11.98Q1 | 8.54 1.17 up from 2010 | 227 | 3% | — | ||
19Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.49Q1 | 3.01 0.10 down from 2010 | 146 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
20Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 11.46Q1 | 5.13 2.25 down from 2010 | 329 | 15% | $4,028 | ||
21The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.41Q1 | 5.95 0.59 down from 2010 | 260 | 35% | $4,430 | ||
22The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.35Q1 | 5.80 0.28 down from 2010 | 59 | 35% | — | ||
23Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.22Q1 | 6.30 0.44 up from 2010 | 218 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
24Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 11.22Q1 | 6.00 1.12 up from 2010 | 127 | 73% | $0 listed | ||
25Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.21Q1 | 3.73 0.36 up from 2010 | 91 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
26Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 11.11Q1 | 12.58 0.51 down from 2010 | 36 | 47% | $5,085 | ||
27Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.05Q1 | 6.20 0.32 down from 2010 | 165 | 7% | $4,540 | ||
28Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.01Q1 | 6.52 2.41 up from 2010 | 99 | 33% | $4,170 | ||
29Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 10.98Q1 | 6.70 0.54 up from 2010 | 76 | 9% | — | ||
30Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 10.77Q1 | 2.87 0.81 down from 2010 | 209 | 17% | — | ||
31American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.62Q1 | 5.98 0.07 down from 2010 | 697 | 27% | — | ||
32Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 10.48Q1 | 6.65 0.38 down from 2010 | 204 | 5% | — | ||
33Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 10.47Q1 | 3.36 1.82 down from 2010 | 111 | 45% | $4,420 | ||
34Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.32Q1 | 4.75 1.11 up from 2010 | 60 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
35Journal of Small Business ManagementWiley · United States | 10.25Q1 | 4.32 0.10 down from 2010 | 92 | 9% | $2,500 | ||
36Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 10.16Q1 | 5.25 0.18 down from 2010 | 254 | 28% | $4,150 | ||
37Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.09Q1 | 3.35 0.93 down from 2010 | 175 | 11% | $4,638 | ||
38Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.95Q1 | 5.69 0.57 up from 2010 | 207 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
39Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.88Q1 | 4.73 0.08 up from 2010 | 373 | 22% | $4,740 | ||
40International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 9.85Q1 | 8.43 4.13 up from 2010 | 71 | 26% | $4,220 | ||
41International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.76Q1 | 2.55 0.22 down from 2010 | 102 | 9% | — | ||
42Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 9.74Q1 | 5.32 0.79 down from 2010 | 115 | 20% | $3,520 | ||
43Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.65Q1 | 4.94 0.33 up from 2010 | 435 | 24% | $4,280 | ||
44Journal of International MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.55Q1 | 4.94 0.48 up from 2010 | 75 | 6% | $5,400 | ||
45Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.52Q1 | 7.50 0.94 down from 2010 | 97 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
46Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.38Q1 | 2.81 0.88 down from 2010 | 82 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
47Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.28Q1 | 4.25 0.39 up from 2010 | 203 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
48Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.26Q1 | 4.47 1.02 up from 2010 | 120 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
49Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.25Q1 | 4.01 0.01 down from 2010 | 103 | 19% | $5,098 | ||
50Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.23Q1 | 3.58 0.28 up from 2010 | 54 | 32% | $3,650 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences2,335
- Psychology789
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance670
- Business, Management and Accounting564
- Arts and Humanities360
- Decision Sciences140
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.
1,681 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
- 4,858
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,303,999 +26.2% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.25 +4.5% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
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 |
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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.