Congress & the Presidency is an interdisciplinary journal of political science and history that features articles on Congress, the President, the interaction between the two institutions, and national policy-making. Created by the United States Capitol Historical Society, the journal has been published by the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies for over 25 years. The journal is a leading forum for important research on these two branches of government.
Congress & the Presidency features peer-reviewed research articles from all methodological perspectives and is noted for its openness to both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The journal encourages research examining both contemporary and historical aspects of the legislative and executive branches of national government.
Congress & the Presidency features reviews of important recent books in the field of congressional and presidential studies; these reviews are often authored by prominent scholars from the discipline. The journal periodically produces special issues that provide analysis of fundamental and timely issues on congressional and presidential topics.
Peer Review Policy: Research articles in this journal generally undergo rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and double-anonymous review by content experts.
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Journal metrics
Usage
13K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.600 (2023) SNIP
0.397 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
44 days avg. from submission to first
decision
45 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
19% acceptance rate
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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.
EDITOR EMERITUS James A. Thurber -American University, USA
REVIEWS AND BOOKS EDITOR Adam L. Warber - Clemson University, USA
MANAGING EDITOR Ryan DeTamble- American University, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD
E. Scott Adler -University of Colorado, USA John Aldrich -Duke University, USA Julia Azari - Marquette University, USA Terri Bimes -University of California, Berkeley, USA Sarah Binder -George Washington University, USA Jon Bond -Texas A&M University, USA MaryAnne Borrelli -Connecticut College, USA Janet Box-Steffensmeier -Ohio State University, USA Brandice Canes-Wrone -Princeton University, USA Michael Crespin -University of Oklahoma, USA George C. Edwards III -Texas A&M University, USA C. Lawrence Evans -William and Mary University, USA Jasmine Farrier -University of Louisville, USA Morris Fiorina -Stanford University, USA Matthew Green -Catholic University, USA Lori Cox Han -Chapman University, USA John R. Hibbing -University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Karen Hult -Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA Vincent Hutchings -University of Michigan, USA Jeffery A. Jenkins -University of Southern California, USA Nancy Kassop -State University of New York, New Paltz, USA Gregory Koger -The University of Miami, USA Keith Krehbiel -Stanford University, USA Frances Lee -Princeton University, USA Forrest Maltzman - George Washington University, USA Seth Masket -Denver University, USA Kenneth Mayer -University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Nolan McCarty -Princeton University, USA Vincent Moscardelli -University of Connecticut, USA John Owens- University of Westminster, UK Paul Quirk - University of British Columbia, Canada Andrew Rudalevige - Bowdoin College, USA Brian F. Schaffner - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Eric Schickler -University of California, Berkeley, USA Wendy Schiller -Brown University, USA Stephen Skowronek -Yale University, USA Steven S. Smith -Washington University in St. Louis, USA Charles Stewart, III -Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Matthew Streb - Northern Illinois University, USA Terry Sullivan -University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA Michele Swers -Georgetown University, USA Keith Whittington -Princeton University, USA Daniel Wirls- UC Santa Cruz, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Congress & the Presidency is abstracted/indexed in: Periodicals Index Online, Emerging Sources Citations Index (ESCI)
Open access
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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