Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Domain ranking · 2024
Social Sciences journal rankings 2024
6,456 ranked journals · Domain
Social Sciences has 6,456 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.07 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2023. A journal needs OJR 1.87 to reach Q1. The top three are QMiP Bulletin, International Journal of Information Management, and American Journal of Qualitative Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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.
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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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society | 21.96Q1 | 45.58 18.04 up from 2023 | 48 | 12% | — | ||
2International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.98Q1 | 32.50 9.00 up from 2023 | 273 | 61% | $3,990 | ||
3American Journal of Qualitative ResearchOAUnited States | 12.02Q1 | 20.90 2.85 down from 2023 | 122 | 100% | — | ||
4International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 10.69Q1 | 29.98 11.21 up from 2023 | 190 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 10.60Q1 | 21.46 0.60 down from 2023 | 300 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
6International SecurityThe MIT Press · United States | 10.25Q1 | 8.19 2.25 up from 2023 | 73 | 39% | — | ||
7Qualitative PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.70Q1 | 1.00 12.66 down from 2023 | 88 | 26% | — | ||
8Higher Education for the FutureSAGE Publishing · India | 9.69Q1 | 1.21 32.68 down from 2023 | 42 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
9Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 9.62Q1 | 15.38 5.39 down from 2023 | 63 | 24% | — | ||
10Contemporary Security PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.43Q1 | 7.23 0.18 down from 2023 | 83 | 65% | — | ||
11West European PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.33Q1 | 5.40 1.87 down from 2023 | 216 | 94% | — | ||
12Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.04Q1 | 15.58 1.65 up from 2023 | 426 | 31% | $4,690 | ||
13Innovation and Green DevelopmentOAElsevier BV | 8.85Q1 | 18.46 6.08 down from 2023 | 71 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
14Academy of Management AnnalsRoutledge · United States | 8.65Q1 | 16.05 3.39 up from 2023 | 60 | 42% | — | ||
15American Journal of Political ScienceWiley · United States | 8.63Q1 | 7.96 0.63 up from 2023 | 228 | 76% | $4,100 | ||
16Journal of democracyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 8.59Q1 | 6.01 1.13 up from 2023 | 200 | 8% | — | ||
17RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.56Q1 | 9.85 3.18 up from 2023 | 173 | 44% | $3,650 | ||
18Government Information QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 8.20Q1 | 12.42 0.50 up from 2023 | 226 | 52% | $4,360 | ||
19Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.08Q1 | 13.14 2.98 up from 2023 | 440 | 56% | $4,740 | ||
20Journal of Research in Interactive MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 8.03Q1 | 13.22 1.45 down from 2023 | 167 | 14% | — | ||
21Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 7.89Q1 | 15.19 6.29 down from 2023 | 88 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
22Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.78Q1 | 10.03 1.92 down from 2023 | 198 | 44% | $4,320 | ||
23American Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press · United States | 7.72Q1 | 6.59 1.98 down from 2023 | 415 | 94% | $3,550 | ||
24Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 7.47Q1 | 16.42 0.44 down from 2023 | 2,230 | 42% | $3,490 | ||
25The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.45Q1 | 10.56 1.84 down from 2023 | 63 | 31% | $4,120 | ||
26Business Strategy and the EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 7.36Q1 | 16.60 0.22 up from 2023 | 923 | 74% | $4,480 | ||
27Critical Inquiry in Language StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.32Q1 | 3.38 2.25 down from 2023 | 66 | 36% | — | ||
28American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 8.01 0.97 down from 2023 | 117 | 62% | $3,900 | ||
29Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.26Q1 | 14.99 0.18 down from 2023 | 502 | 51% | $5,190 | ||
30American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.17Q1 | 12.70 0.73 up from 2023 | 328 | 25% | — | ||
31Technology in SocietyElsevier BV · United States | 7.00Q1 | 16.43 1.36 up from 2023 | 860 | 38% | $3,660 | ||
32Policy and SocietyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.96Q1 | 8.17 1.09 down from 2023 | 105 | 100% | $1,634 | ||
33Comparative Political StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.92Q1 | 5.03 1.40 down from 2023 | 247 | 66% | $3,900 | ||
34Journal of Business ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 6.91Q1 | 12.69 0.64 down from 2023 | 2,498 | 53% | $4,440 | ||
35European Review of Social PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.89Q1 | 8.95 7.65 down from 2023 | 34 | 60% | — | ||
36Journal of English-Medium InstructionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 6.83Q1 | 2.42 0.86 down from 2023 | 31 | 33% | — | ||
37Journal of Sustainable TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 9.63 0.08 down from 2023 | 367 | 47% | — | ||
38SystemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 7.04 0.59 down from 2023 | 468 | 32% | $3,980 | ||
39Psychological BulletinAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.81Q1 | 20.89 0.91 up from 2023 | 93 | 53% | — | ||
40Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.78Q1 | 6.70 1.59 down from 2023 | 503 | 51% | $4,140 | ||
41Journal of MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.75Q1 | 10.75 2.05 down from 2023 | 168 | 46% | $5,400 | ||
42Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 10.18 1.64 down from 2023 | 61 | 50% | $3,010 | ||
43European Journal of Political ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 4.79 0.01 down from 2023 | 211 | 90% | $3,550 | ||
44International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 6.66Q1 | 11.50 2.41 up from 2023 | 1,149 | 30% | $3,770 | ||
45Human Resource Management ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 6.66Q1 | 18.86 4.26 up from 2023 | 105 | 63% | $5,170 | ||
46Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.57Q1 | 9.32 1.01 down from 2023 | 269 | 57% | $3,900 | ||
47Research Methods in Applied LinguisticsElsevier BV | 6.56Q1 | 13.26 2.99 up from 2023 | 79 | 67% | $2,000 | ||
48Journal of Retailing and Consumer ServicesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.55Q1 | 16.22 1.11 up from 2023 | 1,082 | 27% | $4,510 | ||
49Academy of Management ReviewAcademy of Management · United States | 6.54Q1 | 7.62 0.39 down from 2023 | 135 | 23% | — | ||
50The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 6.53Q1 | 10.35 0.55 up from 2023 | 135 | 100% | — |
Fields of Social Sciences, compared.
- Social Sciences3,107
- Psychology1,036
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance853
- Business, Management and Accounting736
- Arts and Humanities539
- Decision Sciences185
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
1,369 additional Social Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 6,456
- Window papers (baseline)
- 4,247,103 +13.1% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.065 -2.5% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 301
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 2,933 | 3,074 | 3,257 | 3,421 | 3,551 | 3,684 | 3,847 | 4,034 | 4,222 | 4,411 | 4,638 | 4,858 | 5,103 | 5,326 | 5,550 | 5,769 | 5,975 | 6,155 | 6,251 | 6,310 | 6,367 | 6,458 | 6,516 | 6,519 | 6,456 | 6,382 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 973,082 | 1,101,576 | 1,187,966 | 1,289,835 | 1,324,068 | 1,431,668 | 1,541,994 | 1,678,086 | 1,825,065 | 1,985,403 | 2,148,912 | 2,303,999 | 2,468,040 | 2,603,480 | 2,734,303 | 2,869,634 | 3,018,278 | 3,128,445 | 3,209,329 | 3,319,936 | 3,489,326 | 3,755,807 | 4,010,665 | 4,149,019 | 4,247,103 | 4,426,831 | |
| Median OJR | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.96 | 1.0001 | 1.063 | 1.14 | 1.196 | 1.22 | 1.242 | 1.25 | 1.26 | 1.241 | 1.236 | 1.204 | 1.179 | 1.181 | 1.165 | 1.183 | 1.158 | 1.09 | 1.067 | 1.057 | 1.065 | 1.08 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.6% | 4,027 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.605 per 1,000 | 3,404 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.2% | 5,924 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 56.3% | 6,382 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,390 | 2,626 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 20.9% | 5,817 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 6,382 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 1.12 | 6,330 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 42.6% | 6,382 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 49.1% | 6,369 journals |
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.