List of Journals in the Social Sciences

List of Journals

The category ‘All Categories’ comprises 823 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 2021 (released in mid-2022).

• 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.

Political Science

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	Annual Review of Political Science	Annual Reviews	ca. 12.0
2	Policy and Society	Taylor & Francis	ca. 10.1
3	Political Analysis	Cambridge University Press	ca. 9.0
4	American Political Science Review	Cambridge University Press	ca. 8.0
5	Review of International Organizations	Springer	ca. 7.8
6	International Security	MIT	ca. 7.1
7	Political Communication	Taylor & Francis	ca. 6.1
8	Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory	Oxford University Press	ca. 6.1
9	European Journal of Political Research	Wiley	ca. 5.7
10	International Organization	Cambridge University Press	ca. 5.7

» See all journals in Political Science

Sociology

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	Annals of Tourism Research	Elsevier	ca. 12.8
2	American Sociological Review	SAGE	ca. 12.4
3	Population and Development Review	Wiley	ca. 10.5
4	Annual Review of Sociology	Annual Reviews	ca. 10.0
5	Journal of Cultural Economy	Taylor & Francis	ca. 6.6
6	Sociological Science	Society for Sociological Science	ca. 6.2
7	Sociological Methodology	SAGE	ca. 6.1
8	Social Forces	Oxford University Press	ca. 5.8
9	European Societies	Taylor & Francis	ca. 5.5
10	Social Problems	Oxford University Press	ca. 5.3

» See all journals in Sociology

Law

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context	Spanish Society of Forensic Psychology	ca. 9.8
2	Journal of Law and the Biosciences	Oxford University Press	ca. 6.0
3	Harvard Law Review	Harvard Law Review Association	ca. 6.0
4	Stanford Law Review	Stanford University	ca. 5.0
5	Yale Law Journal	The Yale Law Journal Company	ca. 4.9
6	Transnational Environmental Law	Cambridge University Press	ca. 3.9
7	Columbia Law Review	Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.	ca. 3.8
8	Law and Human Behavior	APA	ca. 3.8
9	University of Pennsylvania Law Review	University of Pennsylvania Law Review	ca. 3.5
10	Psychology, Public Policy, and Law	APA	ca. 3.3

» See all journals in Law

Geography

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	Dialogues in Human Geography	SAGE	ca. 27.0
2	Economic Geography	Taylor & Francis	ca. 14.9
3	Global Environmental Change	Elsevier	ca. 11.1
4	Landscape and Urban Planning	Elsevier	ca. 8.1
5	Progress in Human Geography	SAGE	ca. 7.6
6	Computers, Environment and Urban Systems	Elsevier	ca. 6.4
7	Journal of Transport Geography	Elsevier	ca. 5.8
8	Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society	Oxford University Press	ca. 5.1
9	Journal of Rural Studies	Elsevier	ca. 5.1
10	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	Taylor & Francis	ca. 5.1

» See all journals in Geography

History

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	Economic History Review	Wiley	ca. 2.4
2	Past & Present	Oxford University Press	ca. 2.3
3	Nations and Nationalism	Wiley	ca. 2.0
4	Journal of Global History	Cambridge University Press	ca. 2.0
5	American Historical Review	Oxford University Press	ca. 1.8
6	Revista de Historia Economica	Cambridge University Press	ca. 1.8
7	Historical Methods	Taylor & Francis	ca. 1.6
8	Cliometrica	Springer	ca. 1.5
9	Management & Organizational History	Taylor & Francis	ca. 1.3
10	Environmental History	Oxford University Press	ca. 1.2

» See all journals in History

Area Studies

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	Eurasian Geography and Economics	Taylor & Francis	ca. 3.7
2	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	Taylor & Francis	ca. 3.2
3	China Journal	University of Chicago Press	ca. 3.1
4	Journal of Contemporary China	Taylor & Francis	ca. 3.1
5	Critical Asian Studies	Taylor & Francis	ca. 3.0
6	African Affairs	Oxford University Press	ca. 3.0
7	East European Politics	Taylor & Francis	ca. 3.0
8	Journal of Chinese Political Science	Springer	ca. 2.6
9	Southeast European and Black Sea Studies	Taylor & Francis	ca. 2.5
10	Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies	Wiley	ca. 2.3

» See all journals in Area Studies

Communication

Rank	Journal	Publisher	Impact Factor
1	Communication Methods & Measures	Taylor & Francis	ca. 8.0
2	Science Communication	SAGE	ca. 7.4
3	Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication	Oxford University Press	ca. 7.4
4	Digital Journalism	Taylor & Francis	ca. 6.8
5	Journal of Advertising	Taylor & Francis	ca. 6.5
6	Communication Research	SAGE	ca. 6.3
7	Political Communication	Taylor & Francis	ca. 6.1
8	International Journal of Advertising	Taylor & Francis	ca. 5.8
9	Journal of Communication	Oxford University Press	ca. 5.7
10	Comunicar	Grupo Comunicar Ediciones	ca. 5.7

» See all journals in Communication