Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2011
1,005 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,005 ranked journals in 2011. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.43 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2010. A journal needs OJR 2.64 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, American Sociological Review, and Criminology.
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)
1,005 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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1STUDI ORGANIZZATIVIFrancoAngeli · Italy | 32.79Q1 | 18.98 2.14 down from 2010 | 46 | 6% | — | ||
2American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.94Q1 | 7.13 0.16 up from 2010 | 137 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
3CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 12.24Q1 | 5.23 0.64 up from 2010 | 114 | 18% | $3,570 | ||
4MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 11.98Q1 | 8.54 1.17 up from 2010 | 227 | 3% | — | ||
5Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 11.22Q1 | 6.00 1.12 up from 2010 | 127 | 73% | $0 listed | ||
6Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 11.11Q1 | 12.58 0.51 down from 2010 | 36 | 47% | $5,085 | ||
7Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.05Q1 | 6.20 0.32 down from 2010 | 165 | 7% | $4,540 | ||
8Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.32Q1 | 4.75 1.11 up from 2010 | 60 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
9Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.26Q1 | 4.47 1.02 up from 2010 | 120 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
10Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.19Q1 | 7.68 0.18 up from 2010 | 354 | 13% | — | ||
11Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.97Q1 | 3.13 0.93 up from 2010 | 69 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
12Work & StressTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.65Q1 | 5.03 1.88 down from 2010 | 62 | 31% | — | ||
13Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.58Q1 | 3.11 0.47 down from 2010 | 127 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
14World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 8.44Q1 | 2.98 0.45 up from 2010 | 89 | 38% | — | ||
15Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.42Q1 | 2.90 0.01 up from 2010 | 42 | 8% | — | ||
16Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.39Q1 | 3.19 0.71 up from 2010 | 170 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
17International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.32Q1 | 2.66 0.18 up from 2010 | 106 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
18Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.29Q1 | 9.64 3.10 up from 2010 | 217 | 23% | $6,440 | ||
19Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.07Q1 | 3.17 0.41 down from 2010 | 46 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
20Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.99Q1 | 3.79 1.54 down from 2010 | 164 | 11% | — | ||
21Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 7.95Q1 | 4.76 0.54 up from 2010 | 83 | 22% | $5,110 | ||
22Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.86Q1 | 3.52 0.53 up from 2010 | 457 | 8% | $4,690 | ||
23Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.80Q1 | 3.38 0.21 up from 2010 | 250 | 16% | $4,590 | ||
24European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.80Q1 | 3.47 1.10 down from 2010 | 170 | 31% | — | ||
25American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.79Q1 | 4.24 0.90 down from 2010 | 149 | 6% | — | ||
26Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 7.62Q1 | 4.70 2.60 up from 2010 | 146 | — | — | ||
27New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.59Q1 | 4.00 0.42 up from 2010 | 215 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
28International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.51Q1 | 2.53 0.10 up from 2010 | 140 | 32% | $4,320 | ||
29Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.35Q1 | 2.93 0.42 down from 2010 | 83 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
30Research in Organizational BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.19Q1 | 3.39 3.78 down from 2010 | 32 | 14% | $2,340 | ||
31Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.06Q1 | 2.69 0.27 up from 2010 | 62 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
32Law & PolicyWiley · United Kingdom | 6.94Q1 | 5.00 3.50 up from 2010 | 64 | 7% | $3,040 | ||
33Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 6.88Q1 | 3.42 1.51 up from 2010 | 84 | 9% | $4,050 | ||
34Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.86Q1 | 2.97 0.43 up from 2010 | 160 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
35Qualitative ResearchOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.67Q1 | 3.08 0.41 up from 2010 | 110 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
36European Sociological ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.67Q1 | 2.59 0.19 up from 2010 | 211 | 14% | $5,323 | ||
37Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 6.60Q1 | 3.28 1.59 down from 2010 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
38Theory Culture & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.58Q1 | 3.03 1.29 up from 2010 | 206 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
39Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.56Q1 | 2.74 0.38 up from 2010 | 99 | 12% | $3,718 | ||
40European Journal of CriminologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.53Q1 | 2.18 0.34 down from 2010 | 81 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
41Review of Income and WealthWiley · United Kingdom | 6.49Q1 | 3.44 1.66 up from 2010 | 154 | 13% | $3,300 | ||
42Science CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.42Q1 | 2.83 0.17 down from 2010 | 83 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
43Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.41Q1 | 3.27 0.25 up from 2010 | 201 | 18% | $3,540 | ||
44Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 3.86 0.59 up from 2010 | 103 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
45Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.34Q1 | 1.75 0.79 down from 2010 | 98 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
46Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 3.50 0.75 up from 2010 | 283 | 13% | $4,060 | ||
47DemographyOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.15Q1 | 3.54 0.45 down from 2010 | 155 | 99% | $2,750 | ||
48Development Policy ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 6.10Q1 | 3.16 0.35 up from 2010 | 112 | 14% | $3,470 | ||
49International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.99Q1 | 3.62 0.79 up from 2010 | 232 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
50Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 2.74 0.13 up from 2010 | 160 | 20% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science 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.
296 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 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
- 1,005
- Window papers (baseline)
- 347,409 +26.5% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.43 +3.9% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 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.