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European Political Science

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Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 92 37 40 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 41
Documents by Best Scientists*: 42
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.671
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at European Political Science?

European Political Science explores disciplines such as Comparative politics, Political philosophy, Public administration, European studies and International relations. The work on Comparative politics tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Global politics, International political economy, Political economy and Political science of religion. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on International political economy, it also covered topics in Political geography and Foreign policy analysis.

Issues in Political science of religion were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Political culture and Political communication. While Political philosophy is the focus of European Political Science, it also provided insights into the studies of Social science, Democracy, State (polity) and Media studies. The journal focused on Social science research but expanded to cover Gender studies.

It holds forums on Public administration that merges themes from other disciplines such as American political science and Multi-level governance. The research on European studies featured in European Political Science combines topics in other fields like Higher education and Public relations. Biology and political science is a major topic of Systems theory in political science research.

  • Comparative politics (77.80%)
  • Political philosophy (50.91%)
  • Public administration (36.75%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • governance network theory: towards a second generation (116 citations)
  • the core commitments of critical terrorism studies (113 citations)
  • Performing Governance Through Networks (109 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at European Political Science:

The most cited articles primarily tackle Comparative politics, European studies, International relations, Political philosophy and Public administration. The works on Comparative politics tackled in the journal articles bring together disciplines like Global politics, International political economy, Political economy and Multi-level governance. Issues in European studies were discussed in the most cited papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Social science, Political methodology, Public relations and Problem-based learning.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Politics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Comparative politics, Political philosophy, Politics, Political economy and Democracy. It facilitates discussions on Comparative politics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Discipline, Higher education, Democratization, Public relations and International relations. Many of the studies tackled connect International relations with a similar field of study like Active learning.

The close relationship between Authoritarianism and Legitimacy is one of the points of interest dissected in Political philosophy research. Topics in Politics explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Government, Context (language use) and Perception. While Political economy is the key highlight in it, it also covered some subjects on Opposition (politics) and Autocracy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Online teaching, student success, and retention in political science courses (8 citations)
  • The POLITICIZE dataset: an inventory of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) in Europe (7 citations)
  • The triumph of partisanship: political scientists in the public debate about Catalonia’s independence crisis (2010–2018) (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in European Political Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Martin J. Bull (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Martin Westlake (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Alasdair Blair (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Daniel Stockemer (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lasse Thomassen (8 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in European Political Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • European University Institute (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Salford (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leiden University (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Amsterdam (13 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 7.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.68% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.63% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 26.76% of all publications and 54.93% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • The Austrian Corona Panel Project: monitoring individual and societal dynamics amidst the COVID-19 crisis

    Bernhard Kittel;Sylvia Kritzinger;Hajo Boomgaarden;Barbara Prainsack

    (2021)
    91 Citations
  • Online teaching, student success, and retention in political science courses

    Kerstin Hamann;Rebecca A. Glazier;Bruce M. Wilson;Philip H. Pollock

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • What do we (not) know about demand-side populism? A systematic literature review on populist attitudes

    (2022)
    24 Citations
  • The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS

    Daniel Stockemer;Alasdair Blair;Ekaterina Rashkova

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Who governs Europe? A new historical dataset on governments and party systems since 1848

    Fernando Casal Bértoa;Zsolt Enyedi

    (2021)
    17 Citations
  • Co-option, control and criticality: the politics of relevance regimes for the future of political science

    Justyna Bandola-Gill;Matthew Flinders;Alexandra Anderson

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • A gendered pattern? Publishing, submission and reviewing in West European Politics

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • Gender and Politics Research in Europe: Towards a Consolidation of a Flourishing Political Science Subfield?

    Petra Ahrens;Silvia Erzeel;Elizabeth Evans;Johanna Kantola

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • The Performance of Opposition Parties in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes: Three Case Studies from the Western Balkans

    Claudia Laštro;Florian Bieber

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • A study of voting behaviour in an exceptional context: the 2017 Catalan election study

    Eric Guntermann;André Blais;Ignacio Lago;Marc Guinjoan

    (2020)
    10 Citations

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