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Political Studies

Political Studies is a journal indexed in SJR in Sociology and Political Science with an H index of 110. It has a price of 2650 €. It has an SJR impact factor of 1,967 and it has a best quartile of Q1. It is published in English. It has an SJR impact factor of 1,967.

Political Studies focuses its scope in these topics and keywords: political, democracy, gendered, incumbent, problems, rawlsian, democracies, representative, disaggregating, siting‘mere, ...

ISSN: 0032-3217

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Category: Sociology and Political Science

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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SJR Impact Factor trending_up

1,967 Q1

H-index 110

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25% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

2.650 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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SJR Impact

1,967

H-index

110

Docs (year)

154

Docs 3y

171

Total refs

10787

Cites 3y

929

Citable 3y

170

Cites/Doc 2y

5.13

Ref/Doc

70.05

Immediate OA

2650 €

Embargoed OA

NPD

Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

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E. E. Schattschneider's The Semisovereign People

Does Inclusion Require Democracy?

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Discriminating Methods: Tests for Non-Nested Discrete Choice Models

Difference and the Concept of the Political in Contemporary Political Philosophy

Demographics and (Equal?) Voice: Assessing Participation in Online Deliberative Sessions

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Political Studies has an SJR of 1,967 (best quartile Q1) in the CountryOfPapers database.

Immediate OA APC is 2650 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Political Studies is 25%.

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