Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Domain ranking · 2012
Social Sciences journal rankings 2012
5,103 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 5,103 ranked journals in 2012. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.26 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2011. A journal needs OJR 2.38 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, Journal of Economic Literature, and Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1STUDI ORGANIZZATIVIFrancoAngeli · Italy | 23.59Q1 | 0.00 18.98 down from 2011 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
2Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 20.68Q1 | 8.34 1.72 down from 2011 | 109 | 6% | — | ||
3Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 19.78Q1 | 7.54 5.29 down from 2011 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
4The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.04Q1 | 11.73 0.77 up from 2011 | 140 | 28% | $7,619 | ||
5Linguistic DiscoveryOADartmouth College Library · United States | 17.14Q1 | 11.85 10.55 up from 2011 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
6Academy of Management JournalAcademy of Management · United States | 16.42Q1 | 9.86 0.18 up from 2011 | 207 | 19% | — | ||
7The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 15.87Q1 | 7.22 1.19 down from 2011 | 161 | 44% | — | ||
8American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.44Q1 | 7.22 0.09 up from 2011 | 135 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
9American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 14.88Q1 | 4.40 0.36 up from 2011 | 199 | 14% | $4,100 | ||
10Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.78Q1 | 3.76 1.05 down from 2011 | 119 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
11American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.73Q1 | 5.70 1.45 down from 2011 | 99 | 23% | — | ||
12American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 13.58Q1 | 5.18 1.08 up from 2011 | 157 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
13Long Range PlanningElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 13.27Q1 | 5.92 0.58 down from 2011 | 107 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
14MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.81Q1 | 9.37 0.83 up from 2011 | 252 | 4% | — | ||
15American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.80Q1 | 4.96 0.03 down from 2011 | 112 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
16Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.73Q1 | 5.64 0.87 down from 2011 | 108 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
17Strategic Management JournalWiley · United States | 12.45Q1 | 5.33 0.83 down from 2011 | 236 | 15% | $4,250 | ||
18Journal of International Business StudiesPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 12.19Q1 | 5.79 0.72 down from 2011 | 211 | 21% | $4,790 | ||
19CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.61Q1 | 5.91 0.68 up from 2011 | 120 | 18% | $3,570 | ||
20The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.49Q1 | 6.28 0.48 up from 2011 | 59 | 12% | — | ||
21Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 11.48Q1 | 7.68 1.03 up from 2011 | 225 | 4% | — | ||
22The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.32Q1 | 5.79 0.16 down from 2011 | 243 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
23Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.31Q1 | 5.25 0.21 down from 2011 | 33 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
24IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.31Q1 | 6.00 1.56 down from 2011 | 41 | 36% | — | ||
25American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 11.23Q1 | 6.11 0.13 up from 2011 | 759 | 31% | — | ||
26The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 11.13Q1 | 4.92 0.51 up from 2011 | 126 | 10% | $4,120 | ||
27Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 11.10Q1 | 8.68 1.98 up from 2011 | 83 | 5% | — | ||
28Journal of Operations ManagementWiley · United States | 10.92Q1 | 6.43 1.12 up from 2011 | 122 | 13% | $3,520 | ||
29Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.71Q1 | 6.74 0.44 up from 2011 | 244 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
30Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.51Q1 | 4.40 0.82 up from 2011 | 60 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
31Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.41Q1 | 3.91 0.84 down from 2011 | 92 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
32Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.34Q1 | 5.29 1.05 up from 2011 | 188 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
33Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.30Q1 | 6.42 1.42 up from 2011 | 56 | 19% | $7,310 | ||
34Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.25Q1 | 5.86 1.82 up from 2011 | 122 | 28% | — | ||
35Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.18Q1 | 7.77 1.86 down from 2011 | 294 | 21% | $6,440 | ||
36International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 9.99Q1 | 3.03 1.09 down from 2011 | 100 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
37Organization ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 9.97Q1 | 4.79 0.31 down from 2011 | 306 | 19% | — | ||
38Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 9.76Q1 | 2.31 1.11 down from 2011 | 85 | 22% | $4,050 | ||
39Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 9.75Q1 | 5.03 0.33 up from 2011 | 171 | 28% | $3,910 | ||
40SyntaxWiley · United Kingdom | 9.74Q1 | 4.13 2.53 up from 2011 | 43 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
41Journal of Management StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 9.68Q1 | 5.23 0.02 down from 2011 | 234 | 29% | $4,150 | ||
42International Journal of Management ReviewsWiley · United Kingdom | 9.65Q1 | 6.95 1.48 down from 2011 | 81 | 21% | $4,220 | ||
43Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.51Q1 | 4.90 0.79 down from 2011 | 216 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
44Linguistic InquiryThe MIT Press · United States | 9.47Q1 | 3.64 0.75 up from 2011 | 99 | 24% | — | ||
45American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.42Q1 | 4.49 0.24 up from 2011 | 138 | 6% | — | ||
46Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.41Q1 | 5.21 2.52 up from 2011 | 59 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
47Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.41Q1 | 4.36 0.37 down from 2011 | 417 | 24% | $4,740 | ||
48Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.36Q1 | 7.71 0.03 up from 2011 | 340 | 17% | — | ||
49Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.26Q1 | 5.92 0.99 up from 2011 | 388 | 20% | $4,280 | ||
50European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.22Q1 | 3.02 0.81 up from 2011 | 89 | 15% | $3,650 |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences2,450
- Psychology812
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance707
- Business, Management and Accounting603
- Arts and Humanities377
- Decision Sciences154
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,696 additional Social Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 5,103
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,468,040 +24.3% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.26 +3.6% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.