Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science

"Compares the citation impact of journals in a given field as measured over three different time spans."

"Calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period—in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures from the Thomson Scientific Journal Performance Indicators." Source: ISI Thomson Scientific

Top 5:

1. Am. Polit. Sci Rev.
2. Am. J. Polit. Science
3. Journal of Democracy
4. J. Conflict Resolution
5. Political Geography

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