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International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
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International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society

0891-4486

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10767

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 330 5 5 2

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 12
Documents by Best Scientists*: 13
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.315
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society?

Politics, Political economy, Law, Social science and Democracy are the subjects of interest in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. The work on Politics tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Power (social and political), Gender studies, State (polity) and Media studies. The concepts on Political economy presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Civil society, Context (language use), Development economics and Nationalism.

The Law works, particularly on Communism are tackled in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. Social science research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Epistemology and Political psychology.

  • Politics (34.59%)
  • Political economy (18.70%)
  • Law (17.30%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Shifting the Risk: New Employment Patterns, Informalization, and Women's Work (122 citations)
  • Shared History Project: A PRIME Example of Peace-Building Under Fire (95 citations)
  • Religious institutions and transnationalism: A case study of catholic and evangelical Salvadoran immigrants (83 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society:

The most cited papers are organized to address concerns in the fields of Politics, Political economy, Law, Economic growth and Globalization. The studies on Politics discussed at the journal papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Aesthetics, Gender studies and Public administration. The journal papers focus on Political economy but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Panopticon, Labor history, Mythology, State (polity) and Hegemony.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Politics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society aims to foster the development of research in Politics, Civil society, Political economy, State (polity) and Populism. It features Politics research that overlaps with concepts in Public relations. Civil society studies covered in International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society falls within the purview of Law.

In International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Critical discourse analysis, Narrative, Jurisprudence, Government and Legitimacy are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Political economy research. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society explores research in State (polity) alongside concepts in Law and economics and other areas of study in Neoliberalism, Corporation, Normative and Liberalism. Topics in Populism were tackled in line with various other fields like Psychological intervention, Public intellectuals, Economic history, Argumentative and Humanities.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Public Epistemologies and Intellectual Interventions in Contemporary Italy (3 citations)
  • Does Phenomenology (Still) Matter? Three Phenomenological Traditions and Sociological Theory (1 citations)
  • Situating the “Cultural Reach” of Cities in a Multiscalar Field (1 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 International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Franco Ferrarotti (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stanford M. Lyman (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arthur J. Vidich (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Guy Oakes (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Donald A. Nielsen (11 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 International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • The New School (35 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Cambridge (19 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Aarhus University (7 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, 4.88% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.51% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.82% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.26% of all publications and 56.41% 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.

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No matter if you choose to continue in academic research or decide to apply your knowledge in a practical setting such as a school, your passion for Politics, Culture, and Society can lead you to a fulfilling and impactful career.

Top Publications

  • Introduction to this Special Issue Cultural Diplomacy: What Role for Cities and Civil Society Actors?

    Yudhishthir Raj Isar;Anna Triandafyllidou

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Feeling It/Not Feeling It: Mood Stories as Accounts of Political Intuition

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • The Imagined Globe: Remapping the World Through Public Diplomacy at the Asia Society

    Sarah E.K. Smith;Peggy Levitt;Rebecca Selch

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Command: Individual or Collective? A Review of Anthony King’s Command: The Twenty-First-Century General (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

    Lawrence Freedman

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • A Reply to Thomas Sealy’s “Just and Reasonable, but Is It Multiculturalism? A Review of Raphael Cohen-Almagor’s Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (2021, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)”

    (2022)
    0 Citations

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