Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2024
1,402 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Sociology and Political Science has 1,402 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.11 against 1.00, down 0.02 on 2023. A journal needs OJR 1.91 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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
1,402 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 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% | — | ||
4Qualitative PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 9.70Q1 | 1.00 12.66 down from 2023 | 88 | 26% | — | ||
5Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.04Q1 | 15.58 1.65 up from 2023 | 426 | 31% | $4,690 | ||
6Journal of Research in Interactive MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 8.03Q1 | 13.22 1.45 down from 2023 | 167 | 14% | — | ||
7Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.78Q1 | 10.03 1.92 down from 2023 | 198 | 44% | $4,320 | ||
8American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 7.29Q1 | 8.01 0.97 down from 2023 | 117 | 62% | $3,900 | ||
9Technology in SocietyElsevier BV · United States | 7.00Q1 | 16.43 1.36 up from 2023 | 860 | 38% | $3,660 | ||
10European Review of Social PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.89Q1 | 8.95 7.65 down from 2023 | 34 | 60% | — | ||
11Journal of Sustainable TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 9.63 0.08 down from 2023 | 367 | 47% | — | ||
12Journal of Hospitality Marketing & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.44Q1 | 14.57 1.57 down from 2023 | 145 | 26% | — | ||
13Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.42Q1 | 9.21 1.98 down from 2023 | 309 | 30% | $4,540 | ||
14Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.27Q1 | 11.55 1.11 down from 2023 | 1,155 | 47% | $3,780 | ||
15Electronic MarketsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 6.15Q1 | 9.46 0.19 up from 2023 | 221 | 76% | $3,590 | ||
16Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.91Q1 | 8.10 1.65 down from 2023 | 334 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
17Tourism ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.89Q1 | 10.38 0.22 up from 2023 | 273 | 18% | — | ||
18Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.85Q1 | 9.88 4.90 up from 2023 | 70 | 32% | — | ||
19Tourism Management PerspectivesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.83Q1 | 9.03 0.01 up from 2023 | 332 | 40% | $3,780 | ||
20Journal of Tourism FuturesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.82Q1 | 9.96 2.27 up from 2023 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
21New Technology Work and EmploymentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 8.61 2.00 up from 2023 | 87 | 73% | $3,980 | ||
22Comparative Migration StudiesOASpringer Nature · Netherlands | 5.65Q1 | 4.32 1.88 down from 2023 | 134 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
23Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 7.73 2.13 down from 2023 | 396 | 54% | $4,060 | ||
24Information Systems FrontiersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.52Q1 | 12.54 1.18 up from 2023 | 338 | 54% | $3,290 | ||
25Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESICOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 9.95 0.80 down from 2023 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
26Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.40Q1 | 12.36 1.49 up from 2023 | 46 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
27International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.29Q1 | 11.74 0.47 down from 2023 | 719 | 27% | — | ||
28Journal of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Australia | 5.25Q1 | 9.65 0.45 down from 2023 | 551 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
29European Journal of Information SystemsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 5.23Q1 | 7.18 2.22 down from 2023 | 147 | 58% | — | ||
30Social Media + SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.12Q1 | 6.49 1.37 down from 2023 | 463 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
31Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.10Q1 | 6.11 0.39 down from 2023 | 47 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
32CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 6.04 0.07 down from 2023 | 82 | 50% | $3,570 | ||
33Telematics and InformaticsElsevier BV · United States | 5.04Q1 | 11.21 1.33 up from 2023 | 309 | 38% | $4,020 | ||
34Business HorizonsElsevier BV · United States | 4.95Q1 | 8.18 0.74 down from 2023 | 228 | 54% | $3,410 | ||
35Journal of Economic CriminologyOAElsevier BV | 4.87Q1 | 6.55no 2023 value | 42 | 100% | $1,540 | — | |
36Politics & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.83Q1 | 4.04 0.87 down from 2023 | 74 | 73% | $3,650 | ||
37Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 6.72 1.33 down from 2023 | 147 | 77% | $5,110 | ||
38Journal of Travel & Tourism MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.73Q1 | 10.67 0.22 up from 2023 | 151 | 14% | — | ||
39Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 11.15 0.73 down from 2023 | 413 | 73% | $6,440 | ||
40International Studies ReviewOxford University Press · United States | 4.69Q1 | 3.86 0.68 up from 2023 | 209 | 46% | $4,320 | ||
41Internet ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 8.57 0.83 up from 2023 | 311 | 26% | — | ||
42International Journal of AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.61Q1 | 6.82 0.61 down from 2023 | 195 | 48% | — | ||
43GeopoliticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.59Q1 | 4.35 0.24 up from 2023 | 179 | 68% | — | ||
44Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.59Q1 | 6.69 2.95 down from 2023 | 326 | 24% | — | ||
45Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 6.24 2.01 down from 2023 | 58 | 70% | $3,590 | ||
46Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States | 4.55Q1 | 6.17 0.91 down from 2023 | 115 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
47Decision Support SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.54Q1 | 8.43 0.62 down from 2023 | 343 | 41% | $3,940 | ||
48Journal of Hospitality and Tourism TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 8.84 1.29 up from 2023 | 149 | 10% | — | ||
49Information Technology & TourismSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.50Q1 | 10.22 1.65 up from 2023 | 80 | 35% | $3,590 | ||
50Big Data & SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 7.07 2.10 down from 2023 | 293 | 100% | $2,000 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Sociology and Political Science highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,402
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication72
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research60
- Health56
- Urban Studies54
- Public Administration51
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language48
- Law46
- Demography40
- Library and Information Sciences40
- Anthropology36
- Geography, Planning and Development35
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
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.
225 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 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
- 1,402
- Window papers (baseline)
- 617,692 +14.4% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.11 -8.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 56
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 |
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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.