Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2017
1,300 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,300 ranked journals in 2017. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.33 against 1.00, unchanged on 2016. A journal needs OJR 2.51 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Interactive Marketing, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, and American Sociological Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
1,300 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.33Q1 | 5.52 3.68 down from 2016 | 66 | 29% | $5,400 | ||
2Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 13.57Q1 | 3.00 2.78 down from 2016 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
3American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.34Q1 | 8.07 1.31 up from 2016 | 149 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
4MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 11.98Q1 | 8.95 0.72 down from 2016 | 179 | 14% | — | ||
5Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.44Q1 | 4.94 3.41 down from 2016 | 132 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
6Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.22Q1 | 6.09 0.23 up from 2016 | 645 | 30% | $4,690 | ||
7International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.04Q1 | 6.59 0.05 up from 2016 | 298 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
8International Journal of Research & Method in EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 10.02Q1 | 9.26 2.91 up from 2016 | 103 | 40% | — | ||
9American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.83Q1 | 5.48 1.20 up from 2016 | 125 | 8% | — | ||
10QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 9.80Q1 | 7.27 3.23 up from 2016 | 78 | 23% | — | ||
11CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 9.32Q1 | 5.78 1.55 down from 2016 | 84 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
12Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 9.18Q1 | 6.30 0.20 down from 2016 | 111 | 61% | $0 listed | ||
13Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.88Q1 | 12.58 0.75 up from 2016 | 59 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
14Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.86Q1 | 9.87 0.25 up from 2016 | 419 | 60% | $6,440 | ||
15Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.81Q1 | 4.14 0.34 up from 2016 | 106 | 48% | $3,650 | ||
16Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.77Q1 | 5.83 1.01 up from 2016 | 119 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
17Research in Organizational BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.45Q1 | 5.82 1.82 up from 2016 | 34 | 36% | $2,340 | ||
18Psychological InquiryTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.31Q1 | 13.19 6.47 up from 2016 | 49 | 30% | — | ||
19European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 8.26Q1 | 4.30 0.06 down from 2016 | 79 | 40% | — | ||
20Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.22Q1 | 3.68 1.04 up from 2016 | 68 | 19% | — | ||
21Socio-Economic ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 3.25 1.24 down from 2016 | 135 | 36% | $3,718 | ||
22Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.76Q1 | 4.50 1.04 down from 2016 | 283 | 21% | $4,540 | ||
23Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.56Q1 | 4.23 0.16 down from 2016 | 200 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
24Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.04Q1 | 3.90 0.14 up from 2016 | 169 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
25International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 7.01Q1 | 2.85 0.17 down from 2016 | 172 | 37% | $4,320 | ||
26Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.85Q1 | 3.97 0.17 up from 2016 | 366 | 35% | $4,060 | ||
27Journal of Quantitative CriminologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.77Q1 | 3.10 1.24 down from 2016 | 117 | 33% | $4,090 | ||
28Discourse & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.74Q1 | 2.52 0.44 up from 2016 | 99 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
29Journal of Information TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.63Q1 | 4.95 0.13 up from 2016 | 94 | 64% | $3,900 | ||
30Internet ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.60Q1 | 5.76 0.82 up from 2016 | 134 | 6% | — | ||
31Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.59Q1 | 3.54 0.33 down from 2016 | 150 | 42% | $4,320 | ||
32World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 6.52Q1 | 2.83 0.02 up from 2016 | 95 | 47% | — | ||
33Research & PoliticsOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 3.18 1.13 up from 2016 | 127 | 100% | $800 | ||
34Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.42Q1 | 3.74 0.36 up from 2016 | 116 | 59% | $4,070 | ||
35Business HorizonsElsevier BV · United States | 6.31Q1 | 4.07 0.66 up from 2016 | 233 | 17% | $3,410 | ||
36Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.29Q1 | 2.95 0.22 down from 2016 | 233 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
37New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.21Q1 | 3.71 0.28 down from 2016 | 404 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
38World DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 4.49 0.73 up from 2016 | 765 | 41% | $5,895 | ||
39Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.18Q1 | 3.10 0.45 up from 2016 | 224 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
40Journal of Research in Crime and DelinquencySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.17Q1 | 3.80 0.71 down from 2016 | 102 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
41Information Communication & SocietyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.14Q1 | 4.45 0.01 down from 2016 | 343 | 28% | — | ||
42Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic MediaTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.13Q1 | 3.15 0.84 down from 2016 | 128 | 12% | — | ||
43Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.12Q1 | 5.49 0.44 up from 2016 | 2,214 | 30% | $3,780 | ||
44Decision Support SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.04Q1 | 5.26 0.01 up from 2016 | 347 | 27% | $3,940 | ||
45Journal of Social IssuesWiley · United States | 6.03Q1 | 3.30 0.25 up from 2016 | 141 | 29% | $3,570 | ||
46Journal of Marriage and the FamilyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.92Q1 | 3.63 0.03 up from 2016 | 290 | 57% | $4,050 | ||
47Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 2.80 1.07 down from 2016 | 34 | 50% | $3,590 | ||
48Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 3.15 0.20 up from 2016 | 213 | 43% | $3,540 | ||
49The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.82Q1 | 3.56 0.28 down from 2016 | 251 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
50Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.79Q1 | 4.36 0.22 up from 2016 | 82 | 36% | $5,110 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,300
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations318
- Communication71
- Gender Studies63
- Health53
- Safety Research52
- Public Administration51
- Transportation48
- Linguistics and Language47
- Law46
- Urban Studies45
- Anthropology41
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Geography, Planning and Development28
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
287 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 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,300
- Window papers (baseline)
- 460,936 +14.7% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.3322 -3.7% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.