East European Politics is an international refereed journal which publishes cutting-edge research covering the government, politics, and societies of the post-communist space. In geographical terms, EEP covers the entire post-communist region, including East Central and South Eastern Europe, Russia and all the other countries of the former Soviet Union.
The journal publishes original scholarship on political developments in individual countries, together with cross-country comparative analyses, and studies relating the post-communist region to other parts of the world. EEP accepts historical studies only where they show a clear and direct link to the politics of the contemporary post-communist space. The journal is open to multiple methodological approaches, but we only accept rigorous and clearly outlined research designs demonstrating the highest standards of conceptualisation and theory-building.
In addition to research articles and a substantial book reviews section, EEPpublishes thematic special issues. The journal also publishes regular ‘symposium’ sections and review articles devoted to briefer analysis of particular events, political issues, and important theoretical and conceptual developments. The Editors welcome proposals for these special collections.
Peer Review All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Endorsements:
"In every field of academic endeavor there are journals that are simply indispensable. In the field of East European Studies one of such journals is East European Politics. Everybody interested in the politics of the region will find in it timely, insightful, and theoretically savvy analyses of the situation in specific countries and extremely useful comparative panoramas."
Jan Kubik President, The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Professor at Rutgers University and University College London
"With its focus on the politics and government of Eastern Europe, East European Politics provides the ideal complement to West European Politics. Its comparative approach and its empirically rich analyses of the political systems of post-Communist Europe make it mandatory reading for anybody who is interested in how European countries converge and diverge."
Klaus H. Goetz Chair in Political Systems and European Integration, University of Munich Co-editor, West European Politics
" East European Politics is an invaluable source for new research on Eastern Europe domestic politics and foreign relations. I recommend this journal often to both students and colleagues for publishing high quality articles by experts in the field of Russian and East European Studies."
Hilary Appel Claremont McKenna College
" East European Politics is a vital journal, containing great articles on key political developments and events in the region, which are extremely useful in both research and teaching."
Cas Mudde Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor University of Georgia
Journal metrics
Usage
151K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.0 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.9 (2023) 5 year IF
7.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
2.208 (2023) SNIP
1.262 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
28 days avg. from submission to first
decision
77 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
16% acceptance rate
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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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Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
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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.
Senior Editors: Adam Fagan - King's College London, UK Petr Kopecký - Leiden University, Netherlands
Editors: Lenka Bustikova-Siroky –University of Florida, USA Andrea L. P. Pirro -University of Bologna, Italy Maria Spirova -Leiden University, Netherlands (reviews)
Editorial Assistant: David Gazsi - King's College London, UK
Editorial Board: Agnes Batory -Central European University (CEU), Austria Michael Bernhard -University of Florida, USA Sarah Birch -King’s College London, UK Dorothee Bohle - European University Institute (EUI), Italy Aron Buzogány - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria Ondrej Císar - Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Mikolaj Czesnik - SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland Antoaneta Dimitrova - Leiden University, Netherlands Zsolt Enyedi - Central European University (CEU), Hungary Sergiu Gherghina - University of Glasgow, UK Béla Greskovits -Central European University (CEU), Hungary Petra Guasti -Charles University, Czech Republic Sean Hanley -School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL), UK Tim Haughton - University of Birmingham, UK Levente Littvay - Central European University (CEU), Hungary Luke March - University of Edinburgh, UK Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling - University of Nottingham, UK Conor O’Dwyer - University of Florida, USA Mitchell A. Orenstein - University of Pennsylvania, USA Maria Popova - McGill University, Canada Jan Rovny - Sciences Po, France Allan Sikk -School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL), UK Ben Stanley -SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland Katrin Uba -Uppsala University, Sweden Milada Anna Vachudova -University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Michael Waller (Founding Editor) -Emeritus, Keele University, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Indexed in Web of Science (SSCI) and Scopus.
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East European Politics welcomes high-quality and cutting-edge proposals for themed special issues. Our policy is to consider only promising proposals that are within our scope. A special issue will typically comprise 8 articles, plus a 5,000-word introduction. We also run symposia of 3, 4 or 5 articles, plus a shorter introduction. The upper word limit for each manuscript is 8,000 words.
Our main criteria for selecting special issue proposals are:
(Expected) quality and impact of the articles and overall volume;
Originality of the theme and/or the methodology of the research in relation to extant scholarship.
Please submit your proposal to [email protected]. The proposal should include the following:
An overview of the proposed volume, including reference to the points raised above;
Names and affiliations of all authors;
200-word abstracts for each proposed article;
A list of proposed reviewers for each piece, none of whom is linked to the contributors through institutional affiliations and work collaborations (past or present);
A timetable to the final submission.
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