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Journals for “Political Science Research and Education”
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Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Under each journal, "Publishes on" shows which of the matched topics it publishes and what share of its recent papers they make up. Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them; "Not recorded" does not mean the journal is free.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PS Political Science & Politics Cambridge University Press · United States Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (24%) | 100% | 71.6 | #5,874 | 731 | 56% | Not recorded | |
| 2 | International Studies Perspectives Oxford University Press · United States Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (22%) | 90% | 62.8 | #11,136 | 110 | 39% | Not recorded | |
| 3 | European Political Science Palgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom · DOAJ Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (17%) | 69% | 64.6 | #10,020 | 241 | 56% | US$3,655 | |
| 4 | International Studies SAGE Publishing · India Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (13%) | 53% | 53.0 | #17,435 | 146 | 21% | Not recorded | |
| 5 | Political anthropological research on international social sciences Brill · The Netherlands Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (15%) | 63% | 33.6 | #35,801 | 67 | 60% | Not recorded | |
| 6 | Journal of Political Science Education Taylor & Francis · United States Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (8%) | 33% | 60.4 | #12,715 | 280 | 16% | Not recorded | |
| 7 | Pôle Sud University of Montpellier · France Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (10%) | 40% | 36.6 | #32,110 | 92 | 38% | Not recorded | |
| 8 | Political Studies Review SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (6%) | 24% | 64.4 | #10,154 | 429 | 51% | Not recorded | |
| 9 | International Relations SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (5%) | 20% | 65.5 | #9,518 | 223 | 55% | Not recorded | |
| 10 | Policy Sciences Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (3%) | 14% | 74.3 | #4,458 | 192 | 71% | Not recorded | |
| 11 | Millennium Journal of International Studies SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (5%) | 19% | 63.7 | #10,546 | 187 | 66% | Not recorded | |
| 12 | Polity University of Chicago Press · United States Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (4%) | 17% | 63.2 | #10,905 | 300 | 6% | Not recorded | |
| 13 | The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association Japanese Political Science Association · Japan Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (9%) | 36% | 21.6 | #50,909 | 154 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 14 | Political Science Today Cambridge University Press · United States Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (8%) | 34% | 25.4 | #46,382 | 481 | 99% | Not recorded | |
| 15 | Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (3%) | 14% | 62.2 | #11,505 | 457 | 63% | Not recorded | |
| 16 | Revista Relaciones Internacionales University of El Salvador · El Salvador · DOAJ Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (10%) | 43% | 6.8 | #61,583 | 60 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 17 | The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education Cambridge University Press · Australia · DOAJ Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (4%) | 16% | 53.2 | #17,296 | 90 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 18 | Political Observer | Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política (Portuguese Journal of Political Science) Political Observatory · Portugal · DOAJ Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (8%) | 31% | 23.1 | #49,125 | 80 | 100% | Not recorded | |
| 19 | GOVERNABILITAS (Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan Semesta) Sekolah Tinggi Pembangunan Masyarakat Desa APMD · Indonesia Publishes on: Political Science Research and Education (7%) | 28% | 16.9 | #55,752 | 61 | 100% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
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