Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2014
1,140 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,140 ranked journals in 2014. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.38 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2013. A journal needs OJR 2.57 to reach Q1. The top three are MIS Quarterly, American Sociological Review, and American Journal of Sociology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
1,140 ranked journals
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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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 15.60Q1 | 10.53 2.18 up from 2013 | 280 | 28% | — | ||
2American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.57Q1 | 7.73 0.20 up from 2013 | 137 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
3American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 12.16Q1 | 5.34 0.81 down from 2013 | 124 | 6% | — | ||
4Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.61Q1 | 4.61 0.74 up from 2013 | 193 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
5Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.32Q1 | 3.91 0.53 down from 2013 | 46 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
6Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.78Q1 | 8.81 0.99 down from 2013 | 51 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.39Q1 | 6.61 1.40 up from 2013 | 77 | 50% | $5,400 | ||
8CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 9.06Q1 | 5.59 1.17 down from 2013 | 107 | 17% | $3,570 | ||
9Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 8.67Q1 | 5.64 0.59 up from 2013 | 102 | 58% | $0 listed | ||
10Asia‐Pacific Economic History ReviewWiley · Australia | 8.41Q1 | 5.68 3.99 up from 2013 | 63 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
11Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.25Q1 | 4.23 0.21 down from 2013 | 78 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
12New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.02Q1 | 4.08 0.49 down from 2013 | 316 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
13Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.00Q1 | 4.60 0.53 up from 2013 | 474 | 22% | $4,690 | ||
14QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 7.95Q1 | 3.96 3.25 down from 2013 | 79 | 20% | — | ||
15Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.86Q1 | 4.83 0.07 up from 2013 | 43 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
16Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.82Q1 | 5.01 0.18 down from 2013 | 159 | 11% | $4,540 | ||
17Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 7.70Q1 | 3.86 0.84 down from 2013 | 179 | 30% | $4,070 | ||
18Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.62Q1 | 3.20 0.66 down from 2013 | 392 | 21% | $4,060 | ||
19Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.60Q1 | 7.51 1.09 down from 2013 | 398 | 26% | $6,440 | ||
20European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.54Q1 | 4.27 1.14 up from 2013 | 157 | 24% | — | ||
21Journal of Human Development and CapabilitiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.43Q1 | 5.49 4.19 up from 2013 | 96 | 11% | — | ||
22The Journal of Economic InequalitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.42Q1 | 2.68 0.48 down from 2013 | 83 | 22% | $3,290 | ||
23Journal of Development EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.30Q1 | 3.98 0.50 down from 2013 | 256 | 29% | $4,590 | ||
24International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.30Q1 | 4.92 1.36 up from 2013 | 216 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
25Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.21Q1 | 4.99 1.38 up from 2013 | 161 | 13% | — | ||
26Internet ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 7.19Q1 | 4.54 0.60 down from 2013 | 89 | 6% | — | ||
27Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.08Q1 | 2.98 0.59 down from 2013 | 97 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
28Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.87Q1 | 2.86 0.21 down from 2013 | 49 | 37% | $4,320 | ||
29Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.86Q1 | 6.29 0.83 down from 2013 | 243 | 20% | — | ||
30Journal of electronic commerce researchUnited States | 6.83Q1 | 3.81 0.24 up from 2013 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Sustainable TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.72Q1 | 3.71 0.60 up from 2013 | 206 | 24% | — | ||
32International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 6.70Q1 | 2.47 0.05 up from 2013 | 224 | 26% | $4,320 | ||
33Information Communication & SocietyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.63Q1 | 4.95 1.98 up from 2013 | 246 | 25% | — | ||
34Social Psychology QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.61Q1 | 2.87 0.41 down from 2013 | 58 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
35Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.57Q1 | 3.99 0.19 down from 2013 | 188 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
36African AffairsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 2.55 0.82 up from 2013 | 219 | 11% | $4,544 | ||
37Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 4.59 1.81 up from 2013 | 66 | 41% | $5,110 | ||
38Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.41Q1 | 5.16 0.05 down from 2013 | 930 | 14% | $3,780 | ||
39World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.37Q1 | 3.56 0.18 up from 2013 | 589 | 34% | $5,895 | ||
40Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.29Q1 | 2.95 0.67 up from 2013 | 125 | 18% | $3,900 | ||
41Global NetworksWiley · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 2.92 0.11 up from 2013 | 92 | 15% | $4,050 | ||
42Journal of Travel & Tourism MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.16Q1 | 3.55 1.47 up from 2013 | 159 | 7% | — | ||
43Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.07Q1 | 2.80 0.20 down from 2013 | 85 | 23% | $4,090 | ||
44Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.99Q1 | 3.88 1.79 up from 2013 | 91 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
45Journal of Consumer CultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.98Q1 | 1.96 2.85 down from 2013 | 89 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
46Journal of Marriage and the FamilyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.91Q1 | 4.16 0.87 up from 2013 | 253 | 53% | $4,050 | ||
47Electronic Commerce Research and ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.89Q1 | 4.23 1.31 up from 2013 | 116 | 13% | $3,210 | ||
48Research in Organizational BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.87Q1 | 3.78 1.14 up from 2013 | 30 | 8% | $2,340 | ||
49Decision Support SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.70Q1 | 4.43 1.27 up from 2013 | 591 | 17% | $3,940 | ||
50Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.65Q1 | 2.45 0.07 up from 2013 | 183 | 20% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,140
- Education637
- Political Science and International Relations294
- Communication66
- Gender Studies59
- Public Administration50
- Safety Research50
- Health45
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Linguistics and Language41
- Transportation40
- Urban Studies38
- Anthropology36
- Demography36
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
324 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 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,140
- Window papers (baseline)
- 401,728 +15.6% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.3831 -3.6% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.