Journal of Politics

SJR Rank #553H-index: 167SJR: 3.492Best quartile: Q1

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Country

United Kingdom

Type

journal

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Subject Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceQ1

Areas: Social Sciences

Most published research topics

Electoral Systems and Political ParticipationAmerican Constitutional Law and PoliticsReligion and Society InteractionsPolitical Systems and GovernancePolitical Influence and Corporate StrategiesJudicial and Constitutional StudiesPolitical Theory and InfluenceSocial Media and PoliticsPolitical Philosophy and EthicsPolitical Conflict and Governance

Source: OpenAlex

Publication Statistics

Documents per Year

Detailed Information

ISSN

1468-2508, 0022-3816

SJR Best Quartile

Region

Western Europe

Citations per Document (2 years)

3.36

References per Document

51.88

Coverage

1939-2026

Scope

Established in 1939 and published for the Southern Political Science Association, The Journal of Politics is a leading general-interest journal of political science and the oldest regional political science journal in the United States. The scholarship published in The Journal of Politics is theoretically innovative and methodologically diverse, and comprises a blend of the various intellectual approaches that make up the discipline. The Journal of Politics features balanced treatments of research from scholars around the world, in all subfields of political science including American politics, comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and political methodology.

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