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European Union Politics
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European Union Politics

1465-1165

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/eup

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 38 44 51 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 48
Documents by Best Scientists*: 54
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 79
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.683
Impact Factor: 2.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at European Union Politics?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Political economy, Politics, Public administration, European integration and Parliament. Political economy research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Voting, Development economics, Immigration, Economic system and Democracy. While Politics is the key highlight in the journal, it also covered some subjects on International economics and Economic and monetary union.

The research on Public administration featured in European Union Politics combines topics in other fields like Council of Ministers, Legislature, Member states, Commission and European commission. The journal explores topics in Legislature which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Legislation and Negotiation. The research on European integration tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Government, Public opinion and European Union law.

It features Public opinion research that overlaps with concepts in Eurobarometer. The Parliament research discussed is included in the broader subject of Law. The Law study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Law and economics.

  • Political economy (33.89%)
  • Politics (30.88%)
  • Public administration (26.21%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Calculation, Community and Cues Public Opinion on European Integration (620 citations)
  • Undivided Loyalties Is National Identity an Obstacle to European Integration (448 citations)
  • Legislative Politics in the European Union (425 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at European Union Politics:

The published articles primarily tackle European integration, Politics, Political economy, Public administration and Public opinion. Aside from investigating topics in Conditionality under Politics, the most cited publications also explore concepts in Variation (linguistics). The journal articles explore topics in Public administration which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Treaty, Law, State (polity), Parliament and Member states.

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

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Democracy

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Political economy, Politics, European integration, Parliament and Member states. The Political economy works featured in European Union Politics incorporate elements from Voting, National identity, Immigration, European debt crisis and Public opinion. Nationalism and Voting behavior are all aspects of Politics research featured in it.

In addition to European integration research, European Union Politics aims to explore topics under Incentive and Ideology. The featured Parliament studies mainly concentrate on Turnout but also cover areas of interest in Mobilization and Voter turnout. The studies on Member states discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Index (economics), Composite index, Far right and Electoral politics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Populist and nativist attitudes: Does ingroup-outgroup thinking spill over across domains?: (4 citations)
  • The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism (4 citations)
  • One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016: (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 Union Politics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Claes H. de Vreese (16 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Thomas König (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert Thomson (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fabio Franchino (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Christophe Crombez (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 Union Politics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Amsterdam (41 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Mannheim (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Leiden University (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • ETH Zurich (20 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, 2.27% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 32.56% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 18.60% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.91% of all publications and 20.93% 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

  • Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements

    Unknown

    (2022)
    77 Citations
  • The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine

    Unknown

    (2024)
    66 Citations
  • Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers

    (2022)
    44 Citations
  • Does differentiated integration strengthen the democratic legitimacy of the EU? Evidence from the 2015 Danish opt-out referendum:

    Dominik Schraff;Frank Schimmelfennig

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Keeping the euro at any cost? Explaining attitudes toward the euro-austerity trade-off in Greece:

    Ignacio Jurado;Ignacio Jurado;Stefanie Walter;Stefanie Walter;Nikitas Konstantinidis;Nikitas Konstantinidis;Elias Dinas

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration

    (2022)
    39 Citations
  • What asylum and refugee policies do Europeans want? Evidence from a cross-national conjoint experiment

    Anne-Marie Jeannet;Tobias Heidland;Martin Ruhs

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism

    Wouter van der Brug;Eelco Harteveld

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration

    Unknown

    (2022)
    32 Citations
  • Economic determinants of public support for European integration, 1995–2018:

    Chase Foster;Chase Foster;Jeffry Frieden

    (2021)
    31 Citations

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