Politics and Society

Aims & Scope

Politics & Society is a peer-reviewed journal.

All submitted papers are read by a rotating editorial board member.

If a paper is deemed potentially publishable, it is sent to another board member, who, if agreeing that it is potentially publishable, sends it to a third board member.

If and only if all three agree, the paper is sent to the entire editorial board for consideration at board meetings.

The editorial board meets three times a year, and the board members who are present (usually between 9 and 14) make decisions through a deliberative process that also considers written reports from absent members.

Unlike many journals which rely on 1–3 individual blind referee reports and a single editor with final say, the peers who decide whether to accept submitted work are thus the full editorial board of the journal, comprised of scholars from various disciplines, who discuss papers openly, with author names known, at meetings.

Editors are required to disclose potential conflicts of interest when evaluating manuscripts and to recuse themselves from voting if such a potential exists.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.7
2024	4.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.973

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	84

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1472

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	344

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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.

• The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans

  Citation: 940

  Authors: CLAIRE JEAN

• Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

  Citation: 745

  Authors: ARCHON, ERIK OLIN

• Deliberative Impacts: The Macro-Political Uptake of Mini-Publics

  Citation: 544

  Authors: Robert E., John S.

• Institutionalizing Dualism: Complementarities and Change in France and Germany

  Citation: 514

  Authors: Bruno, Kathleen

• Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal

  Citation: 497

  Authors: ARUN, ELINOR

• The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism

  Citation: 477

  Authors: ELLEN M.

• Why Islam is like Spanish: Cultural Incorporation in Europe and the United States

  Citation: 445

  Authors: ARISTIDE R., LONG LITT

• Rethinking Comparative Political Economy

  Citation: 421

  Authors: Lucio, Jonas

• Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work

  Citation: 402

  Authors: MARGARET

• Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States

  Citation: 385

  Authors: Jacob S., Paul

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