Contemporary Politics is an international peer-reviewed journal which examines the intersection of national and international politics. Recognising that the boundaries between domestic and international politics are inherently porous, it provides a platform for studies which problematise, cross or transcend the disciplinary divide between international relations and comparative politics. It publishes scholarly work which explores international interactions without ignoring the role of national and local trends, and/or explains national difference while being sensitive broader trends in contemporary global politics.
Over the last two decades, Contemporary Politics has developed a track record of publishing on political institutions, governance regimes and political economy. However, the journal welcome submissions on any topic which sits at the intersection of domestic and international politics. It takes an interest in major conceptual and theoretical issues generated by current world politics, and carries articles which should be accessible to informed academic and non-academic audiences.
Contemporary Politics is keen to uncover and explain politics in hidden spaces, which are obscured by the conventional disciplinary categories of comparative politics and international relations. It is not constrained by disciplinary boundaries, and welcomes submissions that bring marginalized and misunderstood aspects of contemporary politics into focus and into the academic mainstream.
While the journal does not have a book review section, it publishes lengthy review articles that are both theoretically-rich and empirically informed. Authors of prospective review articles are encouraged to contact the editors to discuss proposals.
Contemporary Politics is committed to publishing special issues on topics of relevant to its audience and editorial aims. Special issue proposals may be sent to the editors at any time, and should include a full list of authors and article titles.
Journal metrics
Usage
133K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.3 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.4 (2023) 5 year IF
4.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.731 (2023) SNIP
0.801 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
8 days avg. from submission to first
decision
80 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
11 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
20% acceptance rate
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Andrew Rosser - University of Melbourne, Australia
Editorial Board:
Amitav Acharya - American University, USA David Altman - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Alice Ba - University of Delaware, USA Mark Beeson - University of Western Australia, Australia Tanja Börzel - Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Shaun Breslin - University of Warwick, UK Andre Broome - University of Warwick, UK Marco Bünte - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Mely Caballero-Anthony - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Luis Cabrera - Griffith University, Australia Toby Carroll - University of Macau Priya Chacko - University of Adelaide, Australia Melissa Curley - University of Queensland, Australia Thomas Diez - University of Tubingen, Germany Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira - University of Minho, Portugal Evelyn Goh - Australian National University Andreas Goldthau - Royal Holloway, UK Stephan Haggard - University of California, San Diego Natasha Hamilton-Hart - University of Auckland, New Zealand Eric Helleiner - University of Waterloo, Canada Richard Higgott - Vrije Universiteit Brussels Ian Holliday - University of Hong Kong Kanishka Jayasuriya - Murdoch University, Australia Eun Mee Kim - Ewha Womans University, South Korea Johnna Montgomorie - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Lee Morgenbesser - Griffith University, Australia Helen E.S. Nesadurai - Monash University, Malaysia Edward Newman - University of Leeds, UK Kevin Parthenay - Sciences Po, France Nicola Phillips - University of Melbourne, Australia John Ravenhill - University of Waterloo, Canada Garry Rodan - Murdoch University, Australia Silke Trommer - University of Manchester, UK Peter Vale - Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa Andrew WalterUniversity of Melbourne, Australia Yong Wang - Peking University, China Jeffrey Wilson - Murdoch University, Australia Hidetaka Yoshimatsu - Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Japan Daojiong Zha - Peking University, China
Contemporary Politics
A Routledge journal relaunched in 2008, first founded in 1995 at London South Bank University by Kate Hudson.
Abstracting and indexing
Contemporary Politics is covered by the following abstracting, indexing and citation services: International Political Science Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts and Zeller Verlag (IBZ/IBR).
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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