Review articles remain an important part of academic publishing, offering overviews of the current state of knowledge, synthesising research trends, or critically engaging with key debates. Political science journals feature a variety of article types that fall under this broad category, including state-of-the-field reviews, literature surveys, and review essays. These formats provide scholars with an opportunity to summarise key developments, highlight gaps in the literature, and propose directions for future research.
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Replication studies play a critical role in advancing knowledge and ensuring the robustness of findings. Some journals are increasingly recognising this by introducing dedicated article categories for replication studies. These categories provide a clear pathway for researchers to share their work replicating and scrutinising existing studies, fostering transparency, and improving the reliability of published research.
At least seven political science journals now publish a specific article type for replication studies.
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Some political science journals now publish a dedicated article type for data. These publications — often referred as Data Notes bu the terminology does vary across journals — serve to highlight new datasets, document their construction, and support data sharing within the research community. For instance, Electoral Studies describes their data notes as follows:
These … are designed to promote, describe, and demonstrate the potential of data sources that could interest Electoral Studies readers.
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It would be great if the psjournals app included information on turnaround times and acceptance rates in political science journals. This is one of the most common requests that I receive from its users, and I could not agree more.
These statistics are unfortunately unavailable for many journals.
The ones published by Taylor & Francis are now a welcome exception. The publisher has recently started to provide statistics on journal turnaround times and acceptance rates on its website — in separate sections for individual journals.
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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.
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This blogpost has led to an app that filters data on political science journals, including the journal indexes covered here. Try it out at https://resulumit.shinyapps.io/psjournals.
Here is a list of all political science journals in the Social Science Citations Index (SSCI),* ranked according to their h5-index on Google Scholar.
Google Scholar provides a similar list of top journals in political science, but this includes only the top 20 journals. I was wondering how the list looked below this number.
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I have created a list of open access journals in political science—journals that make all of their articles freely accessible without delay.
Please bear in mind that this is not an exhaustive list and that editorial policies change. If you notice that one or more journals are missing or that one or more existing entries need updating, please send me an email. I would be happy to hear from you.
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The data in this blog post was last updated in November 2024. It previously led to the development of an app that allows users to filter data on political science journals, including different article types. Try it out at https://resulumit.shinyapps.io/psjournals.
In addition to ‘regular’ articles, some political science journals publish shorter manuscripts as well. They are often called research notes, but the name, and indeed the format itself, can differ from one journal to another.
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