The Journal of Political Power was established in 2008 to provide an interdisciplinary venue for focused studies and scholarly debates surrounding the origins, development, and application of power in contemporary society. The journal's contributions have thus far drawn together scholars from diverse fields of inquiry to ask new questions about the enduring relevance of classical studies of power.
We welcome empirical and theoretical work on the diverse arenas in which power can be understood including: class and class relations, culture and cultural systems, gender, globalization and international relations, institutions and institutional change, ethnicity, nationalism and the nation-state, politics, race and racism, and violence and war.
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Journal metrics
Usage
147K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
4.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.940 (2023) SNIP
0.898 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
32 days avg. from submission to first
decision
79 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
11% 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
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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.
Pertti Alasuutari -Tampere University, Finland Selina Gallo-Cruz -Syracuse University, USA Mona Lilja -University of Gothenburg, Sweden Suvi Salmenniemi -University of Turku, Finland
Book Reviews Editor:
Liam Farrell -University of Brighton, UK
Managing Editor:
Heba Sigurdardóttir - Tampere University, Finland
Editorial Board:
Jeffrey C. Alexander - Yale University, USA Amy Allen - Pennsylvania State University, USA David Baldwin - Columbia University and Princeton University, USA Terrence Ball - Arizona State University, USA Asef Bayat - University of Illinois, USA Colin Beck -Pomona College, California, USA Erkki Berndtson - University of Helsinki, Finland Craig Calhoun - New York University, USA Phil Cerny - Rutgers University, USA Stewart Clegg - University of Technology, Australia Randall Collins - University of Pennsylvania, USA Maeve Cooke - University College Dublin, Ireland Kathy Davis - University of Utrecht, Netherlands Mitchell Dean - Macquarie University, Australia Keith Dowding - London School of Economics and Political Science, UK / Australia National University, Australia Rainer Forst - Goethe-University, Germany Giulio M. Gallarotti - Wesleyan and Columbia Universities, Middletown, CT and New York City, USA Marco Garrido - University of Chicago, USA Ray Gordon - Bond University, Australia Carol Gould - City University of New York, USA Henri Goverde - Radboud University, Netherlands John Gledhill - University of Manchester, UK John A. Hall - McGill University, Canada Mark Haugaard - University of Galway, Ireland Clarissa Hayward - Washington University, USA Jonathan Hearn - University Of Edinburgh, UK Risto Heiskala - University of Tampere, Finland Hans Joas - Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Richard Jenkins - University of Sheffield, UK Ravinder Kaur - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Krishan Kumar - University of Virginia, USA Risto Kunelius - University of Helsinki, Finland Eeva Luhtakallio - University of Helsinki, Finland Steven Lukes- New York University, USA Michael Mann- University of California, USA Siniša Maleševic - University College Dublin, Ireland Daniel Morales - Sun Yat-sen University, China Peter Morriss - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Gianfranco Poggi - University of Trento, Italy John Scott - University of Plymouth, UK Isaac Reed - University of Virginia, USA Philip Smith - Yale University, USA Andreas Wimmer - University of California, LA, USA
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Political Power is indexed in the following databases:
EBSCOhost - Current Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts Database, International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center, Political Science Complete, and TOC Premier; Elsevier - Scopus; OCLC - ArticleFirst, and Electronic Collections Online; Ovid - International Political Science Abstracts Database; and Thomson Reuters - Web of Science.
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