Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2016
1,233 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,233 ranked journals in 2016. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.33 against 1.00, down 0.02 on 2015. A journal needs OJR 2.62 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Interactive Marketing, MIS Quarterly, and Big Data & Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
1,233 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.72Q1 | 9.19 0.64 down from 2015 | 55 | 26% | $5,400 | ||
2MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 15.04Q1 | 9.67 1.86 down from 2015 | 184 | 25% | — | ||
3Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.16Q1 | 8.35 0.77 down from 2015 | 71 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
4American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.14Q1 | 6.76 0.33 down from 2015 | 148 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
5CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 11.94Q1 | 7.33 0.87 down from 2015 | 87 | 36% | $3,570 | ||
6Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 10.99Q1 | 6.50 0.60 down from 2015 | 133 | 80% | $0 listed | ||
7Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 10.50Q1 | 5.78 1.51 up from 2015 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
8International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.97Q1 | 6.54 0.41 up from 2015 | 248 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
9Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.96Q1 | 5.85 0.88 up from 2015 | 595 | 28% | $4,690 | ||
10American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.80Q1 | 4.28 0.10 down from 2015 | 122 | 9% | — | ||
11Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.45Q1 | 5.54 0.54 up from 2015 | 256 | 23% | $4,540 | ||
12Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.20Q1 | 11.83 0.85 up from 2015 | 68 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
13Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.16Q1 | 4.39 0.49 up from 2015 | 217 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
14Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.09Q1 | 4.82 0.35 up from 2015 | 125 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
15Internet ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 8.08Q1 | 4.95 0.85 down from 2015 | 100 | 13% | — | ||
16Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.06Q1 | 3.87 0.07 down from 2015 | 41 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
17International Journal of Research & Method in EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.98Q1 | 6.35 5.18 up from 2015 | 91 | 27% | — | ||
18Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.88Q1 | 4.52 0.62 up from 2015 | 83 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.86Q1 | 3.76 0.13 down from 2015 | 187 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
20Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.86Q1 | 4.49 1.08 up from 2015 | 105 | 50% | $3,718 | ||
21Crime and JusticeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.80Q1 | 3.33 1.77 down from 2015 | 31 | 13% | — | ||
22Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.46Q1 | 9.63 0.91 up from 2015 | 463 | 49% | $6,440 | ||
23Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.39Q1 | 3.80 0.49 up from 2015 | 371 | 27% | $4,060 | ||
24Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.38Q1 | 4.34 0.57 up from 2015 | 84 | 34% | $4,090 | ||
25Epidemiologic ReviewsOxford University Press · United States | 7.36Q1 | 6.19 8.16 down from 2015 | 35 | 57% | $5,085 | ||
26International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.32Q1 | 3.02 0.11 up from 2015 | 183 | 17% | $4,320 | ||
27Cooperation and ConflictSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.28Q1 | 2.24 0.36 up from 2015 | 101 | 29% | $3,650 | ||
28World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.27Q1 | 2.80 0.07 down from 2015 | 99 | 35% | — | ||
29Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.25Q1 | 3.81 0.81 up from 2015 | 101 | 40% | $3,650 | ||
30Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.98Q1 | 4.82 0.96 up from 2015 | 94 | 43% | $3,900 | ||
31Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic MediaTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.82Q1 | 3.99 0.09 up from 2015 | 121 | 15% | — | ||
32European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 6.81Q1 | 4.37 0.26 down from 2015 | 102 | 37% | — | ||
33PoeticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.72Q1 | 2.16 1.28 down from 2015 | 113 | 26% | $3,390 | ||
34Information Systems ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 6.68Q1 | 3.17 1.57 down from 2015 | 153 | 26% | — | ||
35Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.67Q1 | 4.14 0.98 down from 2015 | 66 | 36% | $5,110 | ||
36Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.67Q1 | 3.88 0.88 up from 2015 | 100 | 29% | $4,320 | ||
37Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.52Q1 | 2.64 0.91 up from 2015 | 89 | 31% | — | ||
38Information Communication & SocietyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.52Q1 | 4.46 0.40 down from 2015 | 288 | 26% | — | ||
39The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.50Q1 | 3.84 1.33 up from 2015 | 254 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
40New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.45Q1 | 3.99 0.03 down from 2015 | 370 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
41Third World QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 2.10 0.67 down from 2015 | 381 | 34% | — | ||
42American Behavioral ScientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.38Q1 | 2.70 0.87 down from 2015 | 308 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
43Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.23Q1 | 3.16 0.08 up from 2015 | 233 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
44Journal of electronic commerce researchUnited States | 6.22Q1 | 2.34 0.81 down from 2015 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
45Telematics and InformaticsElsevier BV · United States | 6.16Q1 | 5.17 1.01 up from 2015 | 231 | 11% | $4,020 | ||
46Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.16Q1 | 5.06 0.34 down from 2015 | 1,874 | 23% | $3,780 | ||
47Theory Culture & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.12Q1 | 2.64 0.42 down from 2015 | 243 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
48MobilitiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.11Q1 | 2.64 0.26 up from 2015 | 125 | 39% | — | ||
49Electronic Commerce Research and ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.10Q1 | 3.41 0.07 down from 2015 | 127 | 13% | $3,210 | ||
50Journal of Research in Interactive MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 3.11 0.46 up from 2015 | 54 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,233
- Education677
- Political Science and International Relations308
- Communication68
- Gender Studies63
- Health52
- Public Administration51
- Safety Research51
- Law46
- Transportation46
- Linguistics and Language45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Urban Studies42
- Demography41
- Anthropology40
- Geography, Planning and Development27
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
318 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,233
- Window papers (baseline)
- 443,739 +14.8% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.3317 -6.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.