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Sociology and Political Science journal rankings 2025

1,388 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences

Sociology and Political Science has 1,388 ranked journals in 2025. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.13 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2024. A journal needs OJR 1.93 to reach Q1. The three highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are International Journal of Information Management, Tourism Management, and Journal of Destination Marketing & Management: each is likely ranked within the top 14.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 score is computed on.

1,388
45% of Social Sciences
Median OJR

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.

1.13+0.02 vs 2024
This subfieldAll 0.78World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

28%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,491
Median positive listed APC: $3,491 among 514 journals. Another 18 list $0; 856 have no known price. All fields: $3,200.

Subfields of Social Sciences (22)

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1,388 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Sociology and Political Science ranking, 2025

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different.

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.

OJR

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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025.

A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change.

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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #1,152 of 1,388QMiP BulletinBritish Psychological Society
28.27Q11.72 43.85 down from 20244631%—
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #5 of 1,388International Journal of Information ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
12.22Q129.79 2.70 down from 202421836%$3,990
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #6 of 1,388Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
9.29Q115.76 0.18 up from 202444931%$4,690
Rank 4; likely between #1 and #789 of 1,388American Journal of Qualitative ResearchOAUnited States
8.84Q12.35 18.54 down from 2024135100%—
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #23 of 1,388Journal of Interactive AdvertisingTaylor & Francis · United States
8.02Q111.89 2.02 up from 20247234%—
Rank 6; likely between #3 and #11 of 1,388Journal of Destination Marketing & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
7.82Q19.28 0.76 down from 202418539%$4,320
Rank 7; likely between #2 and #34 of 1,388Personality and Social Psychology ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States
7.50Q116.81 4.44 up from 20245064%$3,900
Rank 8; likely between #3 and #25 of 1,388New Technology Work and EmploymentWiley · United Kingdom
7.25Q16.27 2.33 down from 20248479%$3,980
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #18 of 1,388Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier BV · Netherlands
6.74Q112.44 0.90 up from 20241,08448%$3,780
Rank 10; likely between #5 and #27 of 1,388American Sociological ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
6.71Q17.93 0.08 down from 202411339%$3,900Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 11; likely between #7 and #19 of 1,388Technology in SocietyElsevier BV · United States
6.65Q115.44 0.98 down from 202484831%$3,660
Rank 12; likely between #6 and #24 of 1,388Tourism ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
6.56Q110.95 0.57 up from 202431115%—
Rank 13; likely between #3 and #102 of 1,388Sociological Methods & ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
6.45Q15.20 2.29 down from 20249567%$3,900
Rank 14; likely between #5 and #38 of 1,388Journal of Research in Interactive MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
6.44Q110.80 2.42 down from 202414615%—
Rank 15; likely between #8 and #30 of 1,388Journal of Sustainable TourismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
6.22Q19.63no change31940%—
Rank 16; likely between #9 and #27 of 1,388Journal of Travel ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
6.22Q110.34 2.23 up from 202433648%$3,900
Rank 17; likely between #6 and #48 of 1,388Journal of Hospitality Marketing & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States
6.00Q113.13 1.45 down from 202413513%—
Rank 18; likely between #10 and #32 of 1,388International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
5.91Q113.13 1.39 up from 202463622%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 19; likely between #7 and #57 of 1,388Telematics and InformaticsElsevier BV · United States
5.77Q110.84 0.36 down from 202423732%$4,020
Rank 20; likely between #7 and #53 of 1,388Business HorizonsElsevier BV · United States
5.74Q19.32 1.14 up from 202419743%$3,410
Rank 21; likely between #2 and #193 of 1,388Qualitative Research in PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States
5.64Q16.61 2.64 up from 20248760%—
Rank 22; likely between #13 and #40 of 1,388Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaOAPublisher not listed
5.61Q13.01 0.43 down from 2024406100%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 23; likely between #15 and #37 of 1,388Journal of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementElsevier BV · Australia
5.61Q111.01 1.36 up from 202447720%$3,400
Rank 24; likely between #7 and #64 of 1,388Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationOAWiley · United States
5.58Q18.26 2.09 up from 2024111100%$0 listed
Rank 25; likely between #9 and #51 of 1,388CriminologyWiley · United Kingdom
5.51Q15.02 1.02 down from 20247865%$3,570
Rank 26; likely between #15 and #44 of 1,388Tourism Management PerspectivesElsevier BV · Netherlands
5.47Q19.02 0.01 down from 202430029%$3,780Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 27; likely between #11 and #59 of 1,388Information Systems FrontiersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
5.43Q17.38 5.17 down from 202431346%$3,290Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 28; likely between #12 and #51 of 1,388Journal of Travel & Tourism MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States
5.43Q111.82 1.15 up from 202416713%—
Rank 29; likely between #5 and #90 of 1,388International Journal of Qualitative MethodsOASAGE Publishing · United States
5.41Q18.83 3.68 up from 2024655100%$2,650
Rank 30; likely between #16 and #47 of 1,388Annals of Tourism ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.37Q18.03 0.29 up from 202439447%$4,060Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 31; likely between #17 and #53 of 1,388Information & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
5.24Q18.25 0.96 down from 202431829%$4,540Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 32; likely between #12 and #92 of 1,388Journal of Tourism FuturesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
5.11Q14.94 5.03 down from 2024122100%—
Rank 33; likely between #19 and #59 of 1,388Internet ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
5.11Q18.73 0.16 up from 202432118%—
Rank 34; likely between #14 and #75 of 1,388GeopoliticsTaylor & Francis · United States
5.03Q14.55 0.20 up from 202419962%—Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 35; likely between #15 and #79 of 1,388Electronic MarketsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
4.98Q111.59 2.13 up from 202422367%$3,590
Rank 36; likely between #18 and #70 of 1,388Information Systems JournalWiley · United Kingdom
4.94Q18.11 1.39 up from 202417169%$5,110
Rank 37; likely between #23 and #61 of 1,388Social Media + SocietyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
4.90Q16.70 0.20 up from 2024482100%$1,000
Rank 38; likely between #13 and #82 of 1,388Political GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.84Q14.35 0.72 down from 202447660%$3,540Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 39; likely between #14 and #107 of 1,388Information and OrganizationElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.81Q18.47 2.23 up from 20246159%$3,590
Rank 40; likely between #20 and #85 of 1,388Journal of Interactive MarketingSAGE Publishing · United States
4.77Q17.05 0.48 down from 202410129%$5,400
Rank 41; likely between #16 and #86 of 1,388Tourism GeographiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
4.74Q16.61 1.24 up from 202417657%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 42; likely between #21 and #79 of 1,388Journal of Applied PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
4.73Q17.03 0.34 up from 202426523%—
Rank 43; likely between #13 and #123 of 1,388Sociological TheorySAGE Publishing · United States
4.67Q14.53 1.58 down from 20245048%$3,900
Rank 44; likely between #14 and #131 of 1,388Journal of International Relations and DevelopmentPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
4.63Q13.87 0.76 up from 20248376%—
Rank 45; likely between #32 and #67 of 1,388Decision Support SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.63Q18.86 0.43 up from 202436323%$3,940
Rank 46; likely between #18 and #103 of 1,388International Studies QuarterlyOxford University Press · United States
4.61Q13.75 0.38 up from 202435156%$4,320
Rank 47; likely between #25 and #86 of 1,388Journal Of Vacation MarketingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
4.57Q16.12 0.35 down from 202418744%$3,900
Rank 48; likely between #31 and #77 of 1,388International Journal of Tourism ResearchWiley · United Kingdom
4.49Q16.78 0.65 down from 202427053%$3,800
Rank 49; likely between #29 and #91 of 1,388Media Culture & SocietySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
4.47Q14.03 0.71 down from 202432579%$3,650
Rank 50; likely between #33 and #80 of 1,388Global Environmental ChangeElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.45Q110.49 0.66 down from 202435672%$6,440

The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated

Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

186 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 2022–2024, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
1,388
Window papers (baseline)
634,590 +9.6% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
1.1341 -2.7% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
56

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals5886156426797167427768268618999601,0051,0491,0901,1401,1841,2331,3001,3151,3251,3331,3771,3891,4031,4021,388
Window papers (baseline)127,769139,962155,545173,690189,148206,415224,690248,047274,644301,558326,495347,409369,647386,451401,728420,106443,739460,936466,601478,291498,577539,978579,161604,240617,692634,590
Median OJR0.920.980.950.991.091.13441.271.341.3801.38301.441.431.471.421.38311.351.33171.33221.281.311.321.221.171.141.111.1341

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.