Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2012
1,049 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,049 ranked journals in 2012. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.47 against 1.00, up 0.03 on 2011. A journal needs OJR 2.72 to reach Q1. The top three are STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, American Sociological Review, and MIS Quarterly.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
1,049 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 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% | — | ||
2American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 15.44Q1 | 7.22 0.09 up from 2011 | 135 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
3MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 12.81Q1 | 9.37 0.83 up from 2011 | 252 | 4% | — | ||
4CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.61Q1 | 5.91 0.68 up from 2011 | 120 | 18% | $3,570 | ||
5Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.41Q1 | 3.91 0.84 down from 2011 | 92 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
6Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.18Q1 | 7.77 1.86 down from 2011 | 294 | 21% | $6,440 | ||
7Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 9.76Q1 | 2.31 1.11 down from 2011 | 85 | 22% | $4,050 | ||
8American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.42Q1 | 4.49 0.24 up from 2011 | 138 | 6% | — | ||
9Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.41Q1 | 5.21 2.52 up from 2011 | 59 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
10Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.36Q1 | 7.71 0.03 up from 2011 | 340 | 17% | — | ||
11Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.12Q1 | 4.85 1.35 down from 2011 | 151 | 7% | $4,540 | ||
12Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.93Q1 | 4.30 0.17 down from 2011 | 147 | 27% | $4,070 | ||
13Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.92Q1 | 3.26 0.13 up from 2011 | 75 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
14Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.67Q1 | 3.65 0.46 up from 2011 | 165 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.53Q1 | 6.55 3.38 up from 2011 | 45 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
16Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 8.46Q1 | 9.46 4.76 up from 2011 | 146 | — | — | ||
17Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.20Q1 | 2.64 0.47 down from 2011 | 125 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
18Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.05Q1 | 3.57 0.05 up from 2011 | 486 | 11% | $4,690 | ||
19European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.88Q1 | 3.76 0.28 up from 2011 | 177 | 31% | — | ||
20World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.87Q1 | 1.95 1.03 down from 2011 | 99 | 32% | — | ||
21New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.82Q1 | 4.15 0.15 up from 2011 | 269 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
22Business HorizonsElsevier BV · United States | 7.80Q1 | 2.06 1.28 down from 2011 | 209 | 6% | $3,410 | ||
23Crime and JusticeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.78Q1 | 2.73 1.05 down from 2011 | 30 | 8% | — | ||
24Journal of Marriage and the FamilyWiley · United Kingdom | 7.68Q1 | 5.41 1.60 up from 2011 | 287 | 41% | $4,050 | ||
25Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.68Q1 | 10.45 2.13 down from 2011 | 53 | 44% | $5,085 | ||
26Qualitative ResearchOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.52Q1 | 3.17 0.09 up from 2011 | 113 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
27Journal of Sustainable TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.49Q1 | 4.68 0.67 up from 2011 | 190 | 10% | — | ||
28Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.49Q1 | 12.37 2.67 up from 2011 | 70 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
29Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 7.34Q1 | 3.58 2.42 down from 2011 | 113 | 66% | $0 listed | ||
30Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.32Q1 | 4.35 0.55 up from 2011 | 176 | 13% | — | ||
31Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.11Q1 | 3.51 0.13 up from 2011 | 236 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
32International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 6.93Q1 | 2.38 0.15 down from 2011 | 169 | 34% | $4,320 | ||
33Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.92Q1 | 3.28 1.49 down from 2011 | 62 | 23% | $5,110 | ||
34Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 6.82Q1 | 3.45 0.17 up from 2011 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
35International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.80Q1 | 2.58 0.07 down from 2011 | 109 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
36International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.78Q1 | 3.82 0.20 up from 2011 | 237 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
| 6.75Q1 | 3.37 0.67 up from 2011 | 187 | 20% | $3,190 | |||
38Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.73Q1 | 2.64 0.30 down from 2011 | 92 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
39Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 3.85 0.01 down from 2011 | 108 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
40Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.55Q1 | 2.26 1.74 down from 2011 | 89 | 22% | $5,400 | ||
41Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.48Q1 | 3.32 0.17 down from 2011 | 342 | 8% | $4,060 | ||
42Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.42Q1 | 5.22 2.42 up from 2011 | 38 | 6% | $3,590 | ||
43Social ProblemsOxford University Press · United States | 6.39Q1 | 2.63 0.10 down from 2011 | 104 | 10% | $4,073 | ||
44Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.38Q1 | 2.98 0.01 up from 2011 | 150 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
45Work & StressTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.37Q1 | 4.72 0.30 down from 2011 | 60 | 30% | — | ||
46Work Employment and SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.28Q1 | 3.21 0.67 up from 2011 | 142 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
47Games and CultureSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.20Q1 | 2.24 0.40 up from 2011 | 59 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
48AntipodeWiley · United Kingdom | 6.15Q1 | 3.40 0.16 up from 2011 | 296 | 29% | $3,520 | ||
49Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.13Q1 | 2.03 1.24 down from 2011 | 214 | 24% | $3,540 | ||
50Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.10Q1 | 2.85 1.10 up from 2011 | 101 | 27% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,049
- Education564
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Gender Studies57
- Communication54
- Safety Research49
- Public Administration48
- Health43
- Transportation40
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law37
- Anthropology36
- Urban Studies36
- Demography33
- Geography, Planning and Development24
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
300 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 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
- 1,049
- Window papers (baseline)
- 369,647 +22.6% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.47 +6.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 | 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.