Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Political Science and International Relations journal rankings 2013
287 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Political Science and International Relations has 287 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2012 to 1.78, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.28. The top three are American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Philosophy & Public Affairs.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
287 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 16.72Q1 | 6.19 1.01 up from 2012 | 163 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
2American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 12.28Q1 | 4.03 0.37 down from 2012 | 203 | 18% | $4,100 | ||
3Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 11.25Q1 | 2.84 0.76 up from 2012 | 50 | 13% | $3,460 | ||
4Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.05Q1 | 3.53 0.14 up from 2012 | 100 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
5International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.65Q1 | 3.60 0.75 up from 2012 | 97 | 22% | — | ||
6Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 9.60Q1 | 4.50 0.48 up from 2012 | 227 | 13% | $4,360 | ||
7European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.57Q1 | 2.67 0.34 down from 2012 | 105 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
8Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 8.47Q1 | 3.59 0.50 up from 2012 | 126 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
9Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.39Q1 | 2.50 0.12 down from 2012 | 201 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
10Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 8.36Q1 | 2.75 0.29 up from 2012 | 244 | 27% | — | ||
11West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.24Q1 | 2.42 0.13 up from 2012 | 268 | 15% | — | ||
12European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 7.89Q1 | 1.92 0.21 down from 2012 | 171 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
13European Journal of International RelationsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.02Q1 | 1.97 0.30 up from 2012 | 140 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
14Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 7.01Q1 | 2.16 0.12 up from 2012 | 215 | 9% | — | ||
15Legislative Studies QuarterlyWiley · United States | 6.93Q1 | 1.94 0.24 up from 2012 | 79 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
16International AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.81Q1 | 2.25 0.65 up from 2012 | 217 | 8% | $4,936 | ||
17Public Opinion QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 6.80Q1 | 3.58 0.55 up from 2012 | 185 | 15% | $3,969 | ||
18The Journal of PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.42Q1 | 2.04 0.16 up from 2012 | 429 | 8% | — | ||
19Journal of Education PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.36Q1 | 2.33 0.25 down from 2012 | 213 | 23% | — | ||
20Party PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.33Q1 | 1.62 0.01 up from 2012 | 218 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
21British Journal of Political ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.30Q1 | 2.03 0.22 down from 2012 | 181 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
22Journal of Politics in Latin AmericaOASAGE Publishing · Germany | 5.88Q1 | 0.83 0.72 down from 2012 | 46 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23JCMS Journal of Common Market StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.84Q1 | 2.07 0.11 down from 2012 | 349 | 16% | $4,170 | ||
24Political BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.75Q1 | 1.52 0.51 down from 2012 | 115 | 21% | $2,990 | ||
25Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.16Q1 | 2.27 0.41 up from 2012 | 290 | 21% | $2,290 | ||
26Policy Studies JournalWiley · United States | 5.04Q1 | 3.44 1.35 up from 2012 | 131 | 24% | $4,050 | ||
27Mediterranean PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.03Q1 | 2.03 1.09 up from 2012 | 84 | 18% | — | ||
28International Political Science ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 1.59 0.61 up from 2012 | 118 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
29European Foreign Affairs ReviewSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 4.96Q1 | 1.17 0.17 up from 2012 | 118 | 17% | — | ||
30Journal of European IntegrationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 4.93Q1 | 1.50 0.20 up from 2012 | 151 | 12% | — | ||
31International Relations of the Asia-PacificOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 1.58 0.34 up from 2012 | 68 | 0% | $3,571 | ||
32American Politics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.71Q1 | 1.46 0.35 up from 2012 | 126 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
33Acta PoliticaPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 1.38 0.20 up from 2012 | 110 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
34Social Policy and AdministrationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.59Q1 | 1.63no change | 188 | 18% | $4,330 | ||
35International Journal of Electronic Government ResearchIGI Global · United States | 4.44Q1 | 1.98 0.82 up from 2012 | 65 | 4% | — | ||
36The Chinese Journal of International PoliticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 0.93 0.15 down from 2012 | 60 | 7% | $3,981 | ||
37Comparative European PoliticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 1.06 0.42 down from 2012 | 108 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
38Foreign Policy AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 1.38 0.44 up from 2012 | 89 | 10% | $4,320 | ||
39Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 1.49 0.04 down from 2012 | 190 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
40GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 2.09 0.49 up from 2012 | 161 | 6% | $3,730 | ||
41Government and OppositionOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 0.91 0.65 down from 2012 | 82 | 52% | $3,550 | ||
42Electoral StudiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.26Q1 | 1.30 0.11 up from 2012 | 296 | 11% | $2,840 | ||
43Quarterly Journal of Political ScienceNow Publishers · United States | 4.25Q1 | 1.62 0.30 up from 2012 | 43 | 25% | — | ||
44Transforming Government People Process and PolicyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 1.86 0.60 down from 2012 | 74 | 11% | — | ||
45Journal of Elections Public Opinion and PartiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 1.45 0.05 down from 2012 | 78 | 34% | — | ||
46Political Studies ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 1.70 0.50 up from 2012 | 96 | 1% | $3,650 | ||
47Quality in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 1.46 0.15 down from 2012 | 89 | 21% | — | ||
48Comparative EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 1.57 0.25 up from 2012 | 119 | 5% | — | ||
49European Journal of Political TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 0.57 0.33 down from 2012 | 97 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
50Journal of Contemporary ChinaRoutledge · United States | 3.95Q1 | 0.99 0.27 down from 2012 | 178 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Political Science and International Relations highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,090
- Education598
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Communication57
- Gender Studies55
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration49
- Health47
- Transportation42
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Law40
- Linguistics and Language40
- Urban Studies39
- Anthropology37
- Demography34
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
85 additional Political Science and International Relations journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 287
- Window papers (baseline)
- 201,200 +17.7% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.78 +0.9% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 | 185 | 187 | 198 | 211 | 222 | 236 | 243 | 248 | 255 | 260 | 270 | 279 | 287 | 287 | 294 | 301 | 308 | 318 | 321 | 326 | 332 | 333 | 339 | 334 | 334 | 322 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 87,090 | 92,551 | 99,427 | 106,761 | 113,825 | 122,173 | 130,947 | 139,764 | 148,869 | 159,463 | 170,900 | 180,910 | 191,534 | 201,200 | 210,369 | 223,416 | 235,982 | 245,820 | 247,938 | 251,957 | 262,579 | 278,323 | 289,523 | 291,064 | 289,519 | 294,162 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.12 | 1.31 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 1.603 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 1.74 | 1.73 | 1.78 | 1.69 | 1.83 | 1.92 | 1.87 | 1.723 | 1.85 | 1.67 | 1.71 | 1.602 | 1.63 | 1.52 | 1.718 |
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.