About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Political Ideologies is dedicated to the analysis of political ideology in its theoretical and conceptual aspects, and to investigating the nature and roles of particular ideological manifestations and practices. The Journal of Political Ideologies serves as a major discipline-developing vehicle for an innovative, growing and vital field in political studies. It is open to exploring new methodologies that illuminate the complexity and richness of ideological structures and solutions both formed by and forming political thinking and political imagination. Concurrently, the Journal of Political Ideologies supports a broad research agenda aimed at building inter-disciplinary bridges with relevant areas and invigorating cross-disciplinary debate.
Political ideologies are indispensable to appreciating the role of political thought within social, temporal and spatial contexts, both at conscious and unconscious levels. The Journal of Political Ideologies examines ideologies in all their modes, from elite articulations to expressions of vernacular understandings. In parallel it emphasizes that political action, processes and institutions are endowed with ideological import and shaped to a considerable extent by political ideologies.
The indeterminacy of the notion of ideology is recognized in a number of ways. It is concerned with attempts to control political language and discourse, with epistemological issues of truth, distortion and dissimulation, and with sociological phenomena of power, dominance and exploitation. All those also encompass functional questions denoting action-oriented political thinking. Significant attention is also devoted to analyzing ideologies in terms of their actual histories, their comparative geographical and cultural expression, their non-verbal manifestations, and the idea-patterns of particular ideological variants and ideological traditions. The changing forms of ideologies in the 21st century constitute a further focus.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to anonymized peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 163K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.6 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.000 (2023) SNIP
- 0.343 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 59 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 132 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 8 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 25% acceptance rate
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Journal metrics in brief
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 the following metrics (find out why).
- 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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor:
Marius Ostrowski - European University Institute, Italy
Founding Editor:
Michael Freeden - Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
Associate Editors:
Hugo Drochon - University of Nottingham, UK
Sean Fleming - University of Nottingham, UK
Eloise Harding - University of Southampton, UK
Mathew Humphrey - University of Nottingham, UK
James Meadowcroft - Carleton University, Canada
Marc Stears - University College London, UK
Maiken Umbach - University of Nottingham, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Rochana Bajpai - SOAS, University of London, UK
Terence Ball - Arizona State University, USA
Patrick Dunleavy - London School of Economics, UK
Robert Eccleshall - Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
Elizabeth Frazer - New College, Oxford, UK
Andrew Gamble - University of Sheffield, UK
Ruth Levitas - University of Bristol, UK
Mohiaddin Mesbahi - Florida International University, USA
Aletta Norval - University of Essex, UK
Noel O’Sullivan - University of Hull, UKCarole Pateman - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Raymond Plant - University of Southampton, UK
Paolo Pombeni - University of Bologna, Italy
Pierre Rosanvallon - Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron, Paris, France
Shawn W. Rosenberg - University of California, Irvine, USA
Quentin Skinner - Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Manfred B. Steger - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Teun A. van Dijk - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Andrew Vincent - University of Sheffield, UK>,br/> Laurence Whitehead - Nuffield College, Oxford, UK
Slavoj Žižek - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Updated 11 January 2023
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