Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Social Sciences journal rankings 2013
2,548 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Social Sciences has 2,548 ranked journals in 2013. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.38 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2012. A journal needs OJR 2.64 to reach Q1. The top three are American Political Science Review, The Future of Children, and MIS Quarterly.
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.
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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 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 | ||
2The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 14.22Q1 | 5.91 0.36 down from 2012 | 56 | 5% | — | ||
3MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 13.92Q1 | 8.35 1.02 down from 2012 | 291 | 16% | — | ||
4Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.13Q1 | 2.82 2.43 down from 2012 | 33 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
5American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.82Q1 | 7.53 0.31 up from 2012 | 134 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
6The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 12.71Q1 | 6.01 1.09 up from 2012 | 122 | 4% | $4,120 | ||
7American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 12.28Q1 | 4.03 0.37 down from 2012 | 203 | 18% | $4,100 | ||
8Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.19Q1 | 4.33 0.58 up from 2012 | 110 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
9American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.86Q1 | 4.12 0.85 down from 2012 | 121 | 18% | $2,500 | ||
10Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.68Q1 | 13.91 3.43 up from 2012 | 57 | 17% | $2,500 | ||
11Progress in Human GeographySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.61Q1 | 5.49 0.19 up from 2012 | 174 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
12Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.43Q1 | 4.26 0.14 down from 2012 | 68 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
13Philosophy & Public AffairsWiley · United States | 11.25Q1 | 2.84 0.76 up from 2012 | 50 | 13% | $3,460 | ||
14American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.04Q1 | 6.15 1.66 up from 2012 | 128 | 3% | — | ||
15Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.66Q1 | 3.87 0.22 up from 2012 | 191 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
16CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 10.42Q1 | 6.76 0.85 up from 2012 | 111 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
17Journal of European Social PolicySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.05Q1 | 3.53 0.14 up from 2012 | 100 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
18Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 9.98Q1 | —no 2012 value | 72 | — | — | ||
19Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.95Q1 | 4.43 0.78 down from 2012 | 49 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
20International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 9.65Q1 | 3.60 0.75 up from 2012 | 97 | 22% | — | ||
21Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 9.60Q1 | 4.50 0.48 up from 2012 | 227 | 13% | $4,360 | ||
22European Union PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.57Q1 | 2.67 0.34 down from 2012 | 105 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
23Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 9.27Q1 | 5.53 0.50 up from 2012 | 151 | 23% | $3,910 | ||
24Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.17Q1 | 4.07 0.94 up from 2012 | 40 | 44% | $4,290 | ||
25Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 8.95Q1 | 8.89 1.85 up from 2012 | 66 | 40% | — | ||
26Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.90Q1 | 8.59 0.82 up from 2012 | 310 | 33% | $6,440 | ||
27Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.82Q1 | 4.08 0.42 up from 2012 | 83 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
28Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.81Q1 | 4.70 0.40 up from 2012 | 173 | 21% | $4,070 | ||
29Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.73Q1 | 4.81 1.74 down from 2012 | 51 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
30Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.68Q1 | 4.44 0.53 up from 2012 | 79 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
31Political AnalysisCambridge University Press · United States | 8.47Q1 | 3.59 0.50 up from 2012 | 126 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
32Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 8.40Q1 | 0.21 7.33 down from 2012 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
33Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.39Q1 | 2.50 0.12 down from 2012 | 201 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
34Journal of European Public PolicyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 8.36Q1 | 2.75 0.29 up from 2012 | 244 | 27% | — | ||
35International Migration ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.30Q1 | 2.00 0.58 down from 2012 | 105 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
36Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.28Q1 | 4.48 0.97 up from 2012 | 219 | 22% | $4,590 | ||
37West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.24Q1 | 2.42 0.13 up from 2012 | 268 | 15% | — | ||
38Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.24Q1 | 3.18 1.25 down from 2012 | 84 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
39Brock Education JournalOABrock University · Canada | 8.23Q1 | 5.51 1.31 up from 2012 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
40Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 3.57 0.72 up from 2012 | 105 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
41Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.98Q1 | 5.19 0.34 up from 2012 | 122 | 9% | $4,540 | ||
42Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 7.96Q1 | 7.13 0.59 down from 2012 | 294 | 13% | — | ||
43American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 7.93Q1 | 3.06 0.60 up from 2012 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
44QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 7.92Q1 | 7.22 3.41 up from 2012 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
45Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.91Q1 | 4.76 0.46 down from 2012 | 35 | 5% | $3,590 | ||
46European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 7.89Q1 | 1.92 0.21 down from 2012 | 171 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
47Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.80Q1 | 9.80 2.57 down from 2012 | 56 | 14% | $3,900 | ||
48New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.77Q1 | 4.57 0.42 up from 2012 | 291 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
49Science EducationWiley · United States | 7.68Q1 | 4.85 1.07 up from 2012 | 156 | 12% | $4,050 | ||
50Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.68Q1 | 1.95 0.93 down from 2012 | 83 | 9% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, compared.
- 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.
826 additional Social Sciences 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
- 2,548
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,256,728 +22.3% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.377 -3.6% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 134Comparison-group list (134)
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 | 1,406 | 1,451 | 1,539 | 1,622 | 1,698 | 1,765 | 1,844 | 1,932 | 2,018 | 2,111 | 2,231 | 2,335 | 2,450 | 2,548 | 2,662 | 2,755 | 2,851 | 2,959 | 2,994 | 3,028 | 3,056 | 3,141 | 3,149 | 3,144 | 3,107 | 3,066 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 443,953 | 481,120 | 524,797 | 573,040 | 615,403 | 666,449 | 723,952 | 792,817 | 867,532 | 946,631 | 1,027,940 | 1,103,353 | 1,185,358 | 1,256,728 | 1,323,833 | 1,400,086 | 1,483,492 | 1,554,301 | 1,600,611 | 1,663,801 | 1,760,718 | 1,914,483 | 2,065,185 | 2,148,493 | 2,214,535 | 2,302,259 | |
| Median OJR | 0.86 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.16 | 1.30 | 1.365 | 1.382 | 1.43 | 1.42 | 1.40 | 1.377 | 1.356 | 1.352 | 1.353 | 1.346 | 1.31 | 1.33 | 1.32 | 1.23 | 1.194 | 1.187 | 1.18 | 1.20 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.7% | 1,882 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.498 per 1,000 | 1,610 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.6% | 2,852 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 58.5% | 3,066 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,400 | 1,164 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 18.2% | 2,785 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 3,066 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.22 | 3,041 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 44.4% | 3,066 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.7% | 3,059 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.