Critical Review

Aims & Scope

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent.

Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change?

What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs?

Are these sources reliable?

Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications.

Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.238

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	34

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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 Arts and Humanities and 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.

• The nature of belief systems in mass publics (1964)

  Citation: 613

  Authors: Philip E.

• CAUSES OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

  Citation: 312

  Authors: Viral V., Matthew

• THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION

  Citation: 241

  Authors: David, Michael, Armin, Katarina, Alan, Thomas, Brigitte

• The Epistemology of Fact Checking

  Citation: 174

  Authors: Joseph E., Ryden W.

• The myth of the civic nation

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Bernard

• THE POLITICS OF MOTIVATION

  Citation: 141

  Authors: James N.

• Where did economics go wrong? Modern economics as a flight from reality

  Citation: 125

  Authors: Peter J.

• How elitism undermines the study of voter competence

  Citation: 123

  Authors: Arthur

• Revisiting the Epistemology of Fact-Checking

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Michelle A.

• Voter ignorance and the democratic ideal

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Ilya

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