Social Sciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	American Economic Review	32
2	Accident Analysis and Prevention	16
3	American Sociological Review	13
4	American Political Science Review	11
5	American Educational Research Journal	9
6	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	7
7	Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science	6
8	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society	5
9	Acta Politica	4
-	American Behavioral Scientist	4
11	American Journal of Orthopsychiatry	3
-	African Affairs	3
-	Journal of Nursing Administration	3
14	Africa Spectrum	2
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	2
-	American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education	2
-	Acta Sociologica	2
-	American Anthropologist	2
-	Acta Oeconomica	2
20	African Studies	1
-	American Speech	1
-	American Business Law Journal	1
-	American Journal of Comparative Law	1
-	Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research	1
-	American Journal of Physics	1
26	Africa	0
-	American Antiquity	0
-	American Biology Teacher	0
-	AORN Journal	0
-	African Studies Review	0
-	American Journal of International Law	0
-	American Journal of Sociology	0
-	American Journal of Archaeology	0
-	American Journal of Nursing	0

(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)