Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable?
Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.
Because contributions to Critical Review should be accessible to scholars in all four subfields of political science, technical approaches and jargon should be avoided. Unsolicited submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor and, if found suitable for further consideration, subject to (a) double anonymized external peer review at the discretion of either the Editor or the author; (b) internal peer review; or (c) both a and b. Option b sometimes renders option a unnecessary, in our judgment. But authors may nevertheless ask for option a (e.g., for career reasons).
“A must for idea-hungry political scientists.” --David Mayhew, Yale University
“Scholarly, quirky, and unpredictable.” –Daniel Bell, Harvard University
“An excellent publication.” --Anthony Giddens, London School of Economics
Journal metrics
Usage
86K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
1.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.626 (2023) SNIP
0.197 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
29 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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.
Scott Althaus -University of Illinois, USA Shlomo Avineri -Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Ronald Beiner -University of Toronto, Canada John Bullock - Northwestern University, USA David Colander - Middlebury College, USA Aurelian Craiutu- Indiana University, USA Samuel DeCanio - Kings College London, UK John Dunn -University of Cambridge, UK Michael Allen Gillespie -Duke University, USA François Godard - University of Geneva, Switzerland John Gray - London School of Economics, UK Paul Gunn - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Daniel M. Hausman -University of Wisconsin, USA Tom Hoffman - Spring Hill College, USA Daniel Kuehn - American University, USA Hélène Landemore -Yale University, USA Steven Lukes -New York University, USA Stephen Macedo -Princeton University, USA Alexandra R. Maryanski- University of California, Riverside, USA David R. Mayhew -Yale University, USA Russell Muirhead -Dartmouth College, USA Jerry Z. Muller -Catholic University of America, USA Mark Pennington - King's College London, UK Edmund Phelps -Columbia University, USA Robert Putnam -Harvard University, USA Paul R. Quirk- University of British Columbia, Canada Amartya Sen -Harvard University, USA Robert Y. Shapiro - Columbia University, USA Theda Skocpol -Harvard University, USA Rogers M. Smith -University of Pennsylvania, USA Jeffrey K. Tulis -University of Texas, Austin, USA Nick Weller - University of Southern California, USA Bernard Yack - Brandeis University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Critical Review is indexed or abstracted in: ABC-Clio , Book Review Index, CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online), Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Economic Literature Index on DIALOG , EconLit on CD-ROM , Hoover’s, Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, International Bibliography of Book Reviews, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, The Left Index, Luce Online, Net Content, Northern Light, Peace Research Abstracts, Periodica Islamica, The Philosopher’s Index, Political Science Abstracts, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), Research Alrt, Sage Human Resources Abstracts, Sage Public Administration Abstracts, Screaming Media, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Sociological Abstracts, UNESCO DARE Databank of Social Sciences Periodicals on UNESCO CD-ROM and ECHO , United States Political Science Documents, Worldwide Political Abstracts, and Yellowbrix.
Open access
Critical Review is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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Print ISSN:
0891-3811
Online ISSN:
1933-8007
4 issues per year
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