Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2023
1,403 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,403 ranked journals in 2023. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.14 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022. A journal needs OJR 2.00 to reach Q1. The top three are Qualitative Research in Psychology, American Journal of Qualitative Research, and International Journal of Information Management.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
1,403 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Qualitative Research in PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 17.28Q1 | 3.64 18.11 down from 2022 | 66 | 65% | — | ||
2American Journal of Qualitative ResearchOAUnited States | 13.72Q1 | 23.75 18.75 up from 2022 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
3International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.11Q1 | 23.50 3.41 down from 2022 | 386 | 48% | $3,990 | ||
4QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 10.69Q1 | 27.53 27.24 up from 2022 | 51 | 30% | — | ||
5Tourism GeographiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.39Q1 | 4.99 13.69 down from 2022 | 166 | 64% | — | ||
6Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.80Q1 | 6.64 8.60 down from 2022 | 105 | 55% | $5,400 | ||
7Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.75Q1 | 11.95 0.35 up from 2022 | 246 | 40% | $4,320 | ||
8Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.74Q1 | 13.93 2.19 down from 2022 | 470 | 44% | $4,690 | ||
9Journal of Research in Interactive MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 7.64Q1 | 14.67 4.04 up from 2022 | 135 | 7% | — | ||
10American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.61Q1 | 8.99 1.60 down from 2022 | 125 | 59% | $3,900 | ||
11Journal of Sustainable TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.20Q1 | 9.71 3.22 down from 2022 | 495 | 55% | — | ||
12Technology in SocietyElsevier BV · United States | 7.17Q1 | 15.07 2.61 up from 2022 | 859 | 46% | $3,660 | ||
13European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 7.13Q1 | 9.40 4.64 down from 2022 | 172 | 60% | — | ||
14Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.08Q1 | 9.87 3.93 down from 2022 | 485 | 54% | $4,060 | ||
15Qualitative PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.73Q1 | 13.66 7.80 up from 2022 | 72 | 17% | — | ||
16Tourism Management PerspectivesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.54Q1 | 9.03 3.40 down from 2022 | 348 | 45% | $3,780 | ||
17European Review of Social PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.50Q1 | 16.60 5.89 up from 2022 | 37 | 87% | — | ||
18Journal of Hospitality Marketing & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.44Q1 | 16.14 3.26 up from 2022 | 112 | 22% | — | ||
19Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.40Q1 | 12.66 0.36 down from 2022 | 1,115 | 45% | $3,780 | ||
20Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.34Q1 | 11.19 1.11 up from 2022 | 298 | 35% | $4,540 | ||
21Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.21Q1 | 6.50 0.69 down from 2022 | 47 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
22Human Behavior and Emerging TechnologiesOAWiley · United States | 6.21Q1 | 4.80 12.21 down from 2022 | 221 | 100% | $840 | ||
23European SocietiesOARoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 2.89 10.01 down from 2022 | 146 | 66% | — | ||
24Information Technology & TourismSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.01Q1 | 8.57 5.35 down from 2022 | 72 | 43% | $3,590 | ||
25Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.94Q1 | 9.17 2.06 down from 2022 | 248 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
26Science CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.75Q1 | 4.96 6.35 down from 2022 | 91 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
27Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.65Q1 | 9.64 2.39 down from 2022 | 322 | 18% | — | ||
28Tourism ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 10.16 0.85 down from 2022 | 247 | 15% | — | ||
29Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.45Q1 | 9.75 0.05 down from 2022 | 323 | 52% | $3,900 | ||
30Journal of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Australia | 5.40Q1 | 10.10 1.06 down from 2022 | 543 | 17% | $3,400 | ||
31Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.35Q1 | 8.25 2.07 down from 2022 | 47 | 58% | $3,590 | ||
32Social Media + SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.31Q1 | 7.86 0.72 down from 2022 | 449 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
33Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.29Q1 | 10.88 0.83 up from 2022 | 42 | 79% | $3,900 | ||
34Journal of Political PowerRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.27Q1 | 5.58 2.18 up from 2022 | 86 | 67% | — | ||
35Journal of Travel & Tourism MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.26Q1 | 10.45 1.55 up from 2022 | 147 | 18% | — | ||
36Telematics and InformaticsElsevier BV · United States | 5.23Q1 | 9.88 0.73 down from 2022 | 369 | 35% | $4,020 | ||
37New Technology Work and EmploymentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.23Q1 | 6.61 0.56 up from 2022 | 93 | 85% | $3,980 | ||
38Journal of Tourism FuturesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.10Q1 | 7.69 1.32 down from 2022 | 159 | 100% | — | ||
39Current Issues in TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 7.21 3.43 down from 2022 | 784 | 27% | — | ||
40Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 8.06 0.79 up from 2022 | 126 | 75% | $5,110 | ||
41Electronic MarketsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 9.27 1.24 down from 2022 | 219 | 80% | $3,590 | ||
42Journal of Marriage and the FamilyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.94Q1 | 3.76 4.17 down from 2022 | 247 | 74% | $4,050 | ||
43International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 12.21 1.54 down from 2022 | 683 | 28% | — | ||
44Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 11.88 0.32 up from 2022 | 423 | 76% | $6,440 | ||
45Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.82Q1 | 4.98 1.25 down from 2022 | 64 | 25% | — | ||
46Business HorizonsElsevier BV · United States | 4.79Q1 | 8.91 1.24 up from 2022 | 256 | 32% | $3,410 | ||
47Communication ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 4.42 2.83 down from 2022 | 98 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
48International Journal of Qualitative MethodsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 4.73Q1 | 5.49 1.56 down from 2022 | 528 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
49Comparative Migration StudiesOASpringer Nature · Netherlands | 4.65Q1 | 6.19 0.80 up from 2022 | 149 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
50Journal of Peace ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.65Q1 | 4.93 0.07 up from 2022 | 248 | 53% | $3,900 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
257 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,403
- Window papers (baseline)
- 604,240 +21.2% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.14 -13.8% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.