Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2019
1,325 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,325 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.31 against 1.00, up 0.03 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 2.43 to reach Q1. The top three are Social Issues and Policy Review, American Sociological Review, and Critical Historical Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
1,325 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Social Issues and Policy ReviewWiley · United States | 13.56Q1 | 10.96 1.57 down from 2018 | 32 | 56% | $3,800 | ||
2American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.86Q1 | 10.80 1.40 up from 2018 | 136 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
3Critical Historical StudiesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 11.40Q1 | 0.22 1.03 down from 2018 | 33 | 12% | — | ||
4Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.32Q1 | 9.44 2.34 up from 2018 | 682 | 26% | $4,690 | ||
5Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.24Q1 | 9.22 1.03 up from 2018 | 138 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
6Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.86Q1 | 9.11 1.78 up from 2018 | 97 | 40% | $5,400 | ||
7Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed | 9.19Q1 | 5.17 0.36 up from 2018 | 226 | 100% | — | ||
8Cultural AnthropologyOAWiley · United States | 8.86Q1 | 6.49 2.24 up from 2018 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
9International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States | 8.65Q1 | 4.68 1.15 up from 2018 | 202 | 30% | $4,320 | ||
10International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.61Q1 | 12.37 3.36 up from 2018 | 397 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
11American Journal of SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.58Q1 | 6.00 0.27 down from 2018 | 128 | 6% | — | ||
12Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.51Q1 | 17.33 3.45 up from 2018 | 39 | 82% | $3,900 | ||
13Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.36Q1 | 5.37 2.01 up from 2018 | 68 | 31% | $3,650 | ||
14CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 8.11Q1 | 7.31 1.85 up from 2018 | 94 | 38% | $3,570 | ||
15Research in Organizational BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.06Q1 | 6.70 0.75 down from 2018 | 32 | 25% | $2,340 | ||
16Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.04Q1 | 5.33 2.14 up from 2018 | 185 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
17Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.01Q1 | 7.08 0.26 up from 2018 | 272 | 27% | $4,540 | ||
18Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersWiley · United Kingdom | 7.85Q1 | 6.52 1.58 up from 2018 | 161 | 47% | $4,070 | ||
19Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.53Q1 | 6.57 2.61 up from 2018 | 207 | 30% | $4,320 | ||
20Journal of Conflict ResolutionSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.52Q1 | 4.82 3.02 up from 2018 | 174 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.52Q1 | 7.03 2.02 up from 2018 | 243 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
22The Information SocietyTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.39Q1 | 8.42 1.75 up from 2018 | 84 | 24% | — | ||
23Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.33Q1 | 5.14 1.62 up from 2018 | 54 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
24Administrative Science QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.30Q1 | 6.15 0.50 up from 2018 | 133 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
25Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 7.18Q1 | 6.82 2.63 down from 2018 | 71 | 69% | $0 listed | ||
26New Media & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.16Q1 | 6.75 1.90 up from 2018 | 433 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
27Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.10Q1 | 5.14 1.26 up from 2018 | 204 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
28Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.02Q1 | 7.38 0.39 up from 2018 | 1,967 | 31% | $3,780 | ||
29World PoliticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 7.02Q1 | 2.97 0.44 down from 2018 | 93 | 54% | — | ||
30Crime and JusticeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.00Q1 | 3.75 2.10 up from 2018 | 33 | 14% | — | ||
31Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.80Q1 | 5.53 0.50 up from 2018 | 332 | 40% | $4,060 | ||
32MIS QuarterlyMIS Quarterly · United States | 6.75Q1 | 7.55 1.32 up from 2018 | 211 | 27% | — | ||
33Business HorizonsElsevier BV · United States | 6.72Q1 | 6.39 1.52 up from 2018 | 271 | 13% | $3,410 | ||
34Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.60Q1 | 10.80 1.46 down from 2018 | 352 | 63% | $6,440 | ||
35Security DialogueSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.58Q1 | 5.11 2.14 up from 2018 | 97 | 49% | $3,650 | ||
36Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.52Q1 | 6.18 2.34 up from 2018 | 45 | 7% | — | ||
37QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 6.39Q1 | 0.57 5.81 down from 2018 | 61 | 7% | — | ||
38International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 7.74 1.57 up from 2018 | 481 | 25% | — | ||
39Theory and SocietySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.37Q1 | 4.82 2.11 up from 2018 | 68 | 29% | $2,890 | ||
40International Journal of Transitional JusticeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.26Q1 | 3.12 0.49 up from 2018 | 95 | 38% | $4,534 | ||
41Social Media + SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.17Q1 | 5.71 1.02 up from 2018 | 283 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
42Political PsychologyWiley · United States | 6.11Q1 | 5.07 0.70 up from 2018 | 216 | 39% | $4,250 | ||
43Tourism Management PerspectivesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.08Q1 | 5.65 2.13 up from 2018 | 264 | 27% | $3,780 | ||
44GeopoliticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.07Q1 | 3.92 1.29 up from 2018 | 217 | 35% | — | ||
45International Journal of Qualitative MethodsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 6.04Q1 | 5.44 1.65 up from 2018 | 169 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
46Telematics and InformaticsElsevier BV · United States | 5.94Q1 | 7.85 2.59 up from 2018 | 430 | 14% | $4,020 | ||
47Post-Soviet AffairsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.93Q1 | 2.60 0.82 down from 2018 | 63 | 27% | — | ||
48Information Communication & SocietyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.90Q1 | 5.28 0.39 up from 2018 | 394 | 31% | — | ||
49Justice QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.81Q1 | 4.42 1.50 up from 2018 | 139 | 20% | — | ||
50International Political SociologyOxford University Press · United States | 5.79Q1 | 4.00 1.25 up from 2018 | 81 | 44% | $4,320 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,325
- Education724
- Political Science and International Relations326
- Communication74
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research56
- Health53
- Public Administration51
- Law48
- Linguistics and Language48
- Urban Studies48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences44
- Demography38
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development31
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
322 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,325
- Window papers (baseline)
- 478,291 +7.8% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.31 -1.6% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.