About this journal
Aims and scope
Aims & Scope
JEPOP aims to publish research of the highest quality on elections, public opinion, participation and political parties. Published under the auspices of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom specialist group of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties (EPOP), it welcomes submissions based on either comparative or single nation studies. The journal has no methodological bias other than demonstrable excellence.
Data Transparency
JEPOP subscribes to the principles of Data Access and Research Transparency (DART) contained in the Joint Editors Transparency Statement to which it is a signatory: http://www.dartstatement.org/2014-journal-editors-statement-jets. For papers employing data, authors must agree to deposit the data and files required to replicate their results before submitting a manuscript for review. If there are limitations or restrictions on data access or if an exception will be requested for any reason, then the author should contact the JEPOP editors to explain the situation before submitting the manuscript. Exceptions to the policy will be granted at the discretion of the editors.
Peer Review
To ensure the continued high quality of articles, all submissions are subject to peer and editorial review.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 122K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.144 (2023) SNIP
- 1.045 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 88 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 106 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 18% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors:
Robin E. Best - Binghamton University (SUNY), USA
Zachary D. Greene - University of Strathclyde, UK
Mona Krewel - Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Editor Bios:
Robin E. Best is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Binghamton University (SUNY). She has previously held positions at the University of Missouri, Leiden University (the Netherlands), and Syracuse University. Her research addresses various aspects of democratic representation, political parties, electoral institutions, voting behavior, and electoral geography, with a focus on the established democracies of Europe, North America, and Australasia.
Zachary Greene holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Iowa. He is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) of Political Science in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He serves as co-convenor of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties section of the Political Studies Association. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim. Dr Greene's research focuses on the impact of intra-party politics and policy disagreements from voter and activist groups throughout the representation and policy-making process. His research uses comparative research designs for theory development and regularly combines mixed methods and computational approaches for the study of natural language processing and machine learning.
Mona Krewel holds a PhD from the University of Mainz (Germany), and currently is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She has previously held positions at Cornell University (USA) and the University of Mannheim (Germany). Her area of expertise includes political party behavior, voting behavior, media effects on political perceptions, attitudes and behavior, social media, survey research and text analysis, with a geographic focus on Europe an Australasia.
Associate Editors:
Ko Maeda - University of North Texas, USA
Alessandro Nai - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Matthew Singer - University of Connecticut, USA
Editorial Assistant:
Didem Seyis - Binghamton University (SUNY), USA
Editorial Board: Margaret Ariotti - University of Georgia, USA
Susan Banducci - University of Exeter, UK
Sara Binzer Hobolt - London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
André Blais - University of Montreal, Canada
Shaun Bowler - University of California, Riverside, USA
Wouter van der Brug - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andrea Ceron - University of Milan, Italy
Yun-han Chu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ivor Crewe - University College, Oxford, UK
John Curtice - University of Strathclyde, UK
Ruth Dassonville - University of Montreal, Canada
David Denver - Lancaster University, UK
Geoffrey Evans - Oxford University, UK
Ed Fieldhouse – University of Manchester, UK
Steve Fisher - Oxford University, UK
Justin Fisher - Brunel University, UK
Jessica Fortin-Rittberger - University of Salzburg, Austria
Mark Franklin – European University Institute, Italy & Trinity College, USA
Theresa Gessler - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rachel Gibson – University of Manchester, UK
Lara Greaves - University of Auckland, NZ
Donald Green - Columbia University, USA
Thomas Gschwend - University of Mannheim, Germany
Kasper Hansen - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunshine Hillygus - Duke University, USA
Marc Hooghe - K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Yusaku Horiuchi - Dartmouth College, USA
Richard Katz - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Joy Langston – CIDE, Mexico
Sandra Ley - CIDE, Mexico
Laurence Leduc - University of Toronto, Canada
Juan Pablo Luna – Pontifical University, Chile
Maarja Luhiste – Newcastle University, UK
Ian McAllister - Australian National University, Australia
Kenneth McElwain – University of Tokyo, Japan
Mona Morgan-Collins - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Stefan Muller - University College Dublin, Ireland
Fabian Neuner - Arizona State University, USA
Diana O’Brien – Indiana University, USA
Charles Pattie - University of Sheffield, UK
Carolina Plescia - University of Vienna, Austria
Jonathan Polk - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Stefanie Reher - University of Strathclyde, UK
Jason Reifler – University of Exeter, UK
Pedro Riera - University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Jan Rovny – Sciences Po-Paris, France
Sara Sadhwani - Pomona College, USA
Christina J. Schneider - University of California, San Diego, USA
Yael Shomer - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Stuart Soroka - McGill University, Canada
Benjamin Stanley – SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Jae-Jae Spoon - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Mary Stegmaier - University of Missouri, USA
Daniel Stevens - University of Exeter, UK
Emilie van Haute - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Markus Wagner – University of Vienna, Austria
Stefaan Walgrave - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Hanna Wass – University of Helsinki, Finland
Bernhard Wessels - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany
Annika Werner - Australian National University, Australia
Kristi Winters – GESIS, Germany
Christopher Wlezien - University of Texas at Austin, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 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.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
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Society information
JEPOP is the official journal of the Elections, Public Opinion & Parties ( EPOP) Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Join EPOP
Visit the society homepage at: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/epop
4 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (2005 - current)
Formerly known as
- British Elections & Parties Review (1997 - 2004)
- British Elections and Parties Yearbook (1991 - 1996)
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