Contemporary Italian Politics

Aims & Scope

Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy.

The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product.

We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties.

On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media.

Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate.

On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful.

With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	2.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7724

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	229

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.726

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	22

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• ‘Techno-populism’ as a new party family: the case of the Five Star Movement and Podemos

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Christopher J., Carlo Invernizzi

• The ‘refugee crisis’ in Italy as a crisis of legitimacy

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Pietro

• Italy: the promised land of populism?

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Marco

• The five stars continue to shine: the consolidation of Grillo’s ‘movement party’ in Italy

  Citation: 49

  Authors: Luigi, Fabio

• Italian migration policy and politics: Exacerbating paradoxes

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Andrew, Andrea

• The populist parties and their electoral success: different causes behind different populisms? The case of the Five-star Movement and the League

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Manuela

• The 5 Star Movement: a political laboratory

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Ilvo

• Populist electoral competition in Italy: the impact of sub-national contextual factors

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Daniele, Mattia

• The Italian elections of February 2013: the end of the Second Republic?

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Roberto

• Super Mario 2: comparing the technocrat-led Monti and Draghi governments in Italy

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Diego, Johannes

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