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Frontiers in Political Science
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Frontiers in Political Science

2673-3145

Published by: Frontiers Media S.A.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 75 32 41 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 67
Documents by Best Scientists*: 72
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 22
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.759
Impact Factor: 1.9

Top Publications

  • The Effect of Frames on COVID-19 Vaccine Resistance

    Risa Palm;Toby Bolsen;Justin T. Kingsland

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Political Trust in the “Places That Don't Matter”

    Lawrence McKay;Will Jennings;Gerry Stoker

    (2021)
    62 Citations
  • Who perceives women's rights as threatening to men and boys? Explaining modern sexism among young men in Europe

    Unknown

    (2022)
    59 Citations
  • The UK Government’s COVID-19 Policy: What Does “Guided by the Science” Mean in Practice?

    Paul Cairney

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Corrigendum: Infodemic Pathways: Evaluating the Role that Traditional and Social Media Play in Cross-National Information Transfer

    Aengus Bridgman;Eric Merkley;Oleg Zhilin;Peter John Loewen

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Over-Time Trends in Incivility on Social Media: Evidence From Political, Non-Political, and Mixed Sub-Reddits Over Eleven Years

    Qiusi Sun;Magdalena Wojcieszak;Sam Davidson

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Trust, Mistrust and Distrust: A Gendered Perspective on Meanings and Measurements

    (2021)
    19 Citations
  • Hostile, Benevolent, Implicit: How Different Shades of Sexism Impact Gendered Policy Attitudes

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization

    (2022)
    17 Citations
  • Responsiveness, Performance and Corruption: Reasons for the Decline of Political Trust

    Mariano Torcal;Pablo Christmann

    (2021)
    16 Citations

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