List of Journals
The category ‘All Categories’ comprises 818 journals..
The choice of journals is based on Web of Science 's SSCI (Social Science Citations Index).
Note:
• The column Rank refers to the ranking accorded to the journal by Web of Science based on the 2-year Journal Impact Factor 2020 (released in mid-2021).
• Journals listed in pale letters do not deposit scholarly metadata at CrossRef. As a consequence, OOIR cannot track their latest papers.
• The logo 
denotes fully Open Access journals.
Please select a discipline to see a list of the respective journals, or see the whole list of all journals in all categories here.
The following only lists the top 10 journals of each respective discipline.
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Political Analysis | Cambridge University Press | ca. 8.6 |
| 2 | Annual Review of Political Science | Annual Reviews | ca. 8.0 |
| 3 | International Affairs | Oxford University Press | ca. 7.9 |
| 4 | Political Communication | Taylor & Francis | ca. 7.8 |
| 5 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge University Press | ca. 7.8 |
| 6 | Review of International Organizations | Springer | ca. 7.7 |
| 7 | International Security | MIT | ca. 7.4 |
| 8 | Journal of European Public Policy | Taylor & Francis | ca. 7.3 |
| 9 | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Oxford University Press | ca. 7.0 |
| 10 | Environmental Politics | Taylor & Francis | ca. 6.7 |
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Sociological Review | SAGE | ca. 9.6 |
| 2 | Annals of Tourism Research | Elsevier | ca. 9.0 |
| 3 | Annual Review of Sociology | Annual Reviews | ca. 8.0 |
| 4 | Sociological Methods & Research | SAGE | ca. 6.9 |
| 5 | Sociology of Education | SAGE | ca. 6.0 |
| 6 | Information, Communication & Society | Taylor & Francis | ca. 5.4 |
| 7 | Work, Employment and Society | SAGE | ca. 5.1 |
| 8 | Sociology | SAGE | ca. 4.8 |
| 9 | Work and Occupations | SAGE | ca. 4.7 |
| 10 | American Journal of Sociology | University of Chicago Press | ca. 4.6 |
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context | Spanish Society of Forensic Psychology | ca. 9.3 |
| 2 | Harvard Law Review | Harvard Law Review Association | ca. 9.0 |
| 3 | Regulation & Governance | Wiley | ca. 5.4 |
| 4 | Yale Law Journal | The Yale Law Journal Company | ca. 5.3 |
| 5 | Stanford Law Review | Stanford University | ca. 4.2 |
| 6 | Law and Human Behavior | APA | ca. 3.7 |
| 7 | Journal of Law and the Biosciences | Oxford University Press | ca. 3.5 |
| 8 | American Criminal Law Review | Georgetown University Law Center | ca. 3.4 |
| 9 | Transnational Environmental Law | Cambridge University Press | ca. 3.4 |
| 10 | Columbia Law Review | Columbia Law Review Association, Inc. | ca. 3.3 |
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dialogues in Human Geography | SAGE | ca. 11.7 |
| 2 | Economic Geography | Taylor & Francis | ca. 11.7 |
| 3 | Progress in Human Geography | SAGE | ca. 10.2 |
| 4 | Global Environmental Change | Elsevier | ca. 9.5 |
| 5 | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | Oxford University Press | ca. 8.3 |
| 6 | Environment and Planning D | SAGE | ca. 6.6 |
| 7 | Landscape and Urban Planning | Elsevier | ca. 6.1 |
| 8 | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems | Elsevier | ca. 5.3 |
| 9 | Antipode | Wiley | ca. 5.0 |
| 10 | Journal of Transport Geography | Elsevier | ca. 4.9 |
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Economic History | Cambridge University Press | ca. 3.5 |
| 2 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge University Press | ca. 2.1 |
| 3 | Past & Present | Oxford University Press | ca. 2.1 |
| 4 | Cliometrica | Springer | ca. 2.1 |
| 5 | American Historical Review | Oxford University Press | ca. 1.9 |
| 6 | Economic History Review | Wiley | ca. 1.9 |
| 7 | Memory Studies | SAGE | ca. 1.5 |
| 8 | Journal of Interdisciplinary History | MIT Press | ca. 1.5 |
| 9 | Nations and Nationalism | Wiley | ca. 1.4 |
| 10 | Intelligence and National Security | Taylor & Francis | ca. 1.3 |
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China Journal | University of Chicago Press | ca. 3.8 |
| 2 | Journal of Contemporary China | Taylor & Francis | ca. 3.7 |
| 3 | Journal of Contemporary Asia | Taylor & Francis | ca. 3.2 |
| 4 | African Affairs | Oxford University Press | ca. 3.2 |
| 5 | China Quarterly | Cambridge University Press | ca. 3.1 |
| 6 | Post-Soviet Affairs | Taylor & Francis | ca. 2.9 |
| 7 | Mediterranean Politics | Taylor & Francis | ca. 2.5 |
| 8 | Pacific Review | Taylor & Francis | ca. 2.4 |
| 9 | Eurasian Geography and Economics | Taylor & Francis | ca. 2.2 |
| 10 | Central Asian Survey | Taylor & Francis | ca. 2.2 |
| Rank | Journal | Publisher | Impact Factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Communication Monographs | Taylor & Francis | ca. 8.6 |
| 2 | New Media & Society | SAGE | ca. 8.0 |
| 3 | Digital Journalism | Taylor & Francis | ca. 7.9 |
| 4 | Communication Methods & Measures | Taylor & Francis | ca. 7.8 |
| 5 | Political Communication | Taylor & Francis | ca. 7.8 |
| 6 | Journal of Communication | Oxford University Press | ca. 7.2 |
| 7 | International Journal of Press/Politics | SAGE | ca. 6.5 |
| 8 | Journal of Public Relations Research | Taylor & Francis | ca. 6.4 |
| 9 | Comunicar | Grupo Comunicar Ediciones | ca. 6.0 |
| 10 | Journal of Advertising | Taylor & Francis | ca. 5.5 |