Political science journals

This post introduces psjournals — a new dataset on political science journals as well as an R package and a Shiny app that accompany the dataset. If you are looking for quick directions, click here for the package, here for the app.

Some might find this dataset useful for teaching, if not for research. However, many are likely to use psjournals for selection purposes — to see where they can submit their manuscript for consideration.

Selecting a journal for submission is not always an easy task — at least not for everyone or at every occasion. Journal scope and prestige are among the important criteria, but there are others. psjournals includes variables on article types and their length limits as well as on scope and prestige.

To facilitate filtering through journals and variables, I have built a Shiny app, live at https://resulumit.shinyapps.io/psjournals/. It can be used here as well, in the window below.

I have also created a simple package for the dataset in R, for those who may prefer to work with it locally on their device. The package, hosted on GitHub, can be installed and used as follows.

# install the package
devtools::install_github("resulumit/psjournals")

# load the package
library(psjournals)

# view the dataset
View(psjournals)

# filter the dataset
subset(psjournals, type_category == "research_note")

Any issues with the data, package, and/or app can be reported at https://github.com/resulumit/psjournals/issues/.