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Politics, Groups, and Identities
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Politics, Groups, and Identities

2156-5503

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpgi20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Political Science 152 16 20 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 25
Documents by Best Scientists*: 28
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 1.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Politics, Groups, and Identities?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Politics, Gender studies, Social psychology, Law and Race (biology). Politics research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Political economy and State (polity). Politics, Groups, and Identities focuses on Gender studies but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Identity (social science), Ethnic group, Immigration and Social movement.

It focuses on Representation (politics) as well as the interrelated topic of Legislature.

  • Politics (44.92%)
  • Gender studies (33.33%)
  • Social psychology (17.29%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Attitudes toward transgender rights: perceived knowledge and secondary interpersonal contact (62 citations)
  • The Trump majority: white womanhood and the making of female voters in the U.S. (62 citations)
  • Who stereotypes female candidates? Identifying individual differences in feminine stereotype reliance (55 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Politics, Groups, and Identities:

The published articles investigate studies in Politics, Gender studies, Social psychology, Representation (politics) and State (polity). The majority of Politics studies in the most cited publications are focused on the issues of Politics of the United States. While Social psychology is the focus of the published articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Context (language use) and Racial group.

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 aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Gender studies, Politics, Public opinion, Race (biology) and Social psychology. While the primary focus in Politics, Groups, and Identities is Gender studies, it also dissects topics surrounding Identity (social science) and Transgender as a whole. While it focused on Politics, it was also able to explore topics like Social media, Political economy and Public administration.

While Public opinion is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Affect (psychology), Immigration, Political psychology, Self-interest and Criminology. Research in Racism and the interrelating topic of Affirmative action and Racial politics were among the subjects of interest in the Criminology studies discussed in Politics, Groups, and Identities. Politics, Groups, and Identities focuses on Social psychology but sometimes tackles the closely related topic of Perception which is concerned with Social identity theory.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Beyond generalized ethnocentrism: Islam-specific beliefs and prejudice toward Muslim Americans (11 citations)
  • The adoption of youth quotas after the Arab uprisings (11 citations)
  • Intersectional stereotyping in policing: an analysis of traffic stop outcomes (9 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 Politics, Groups, and Identities (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Andrew R. Flores (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eric Gonzalez Juenke (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Nadia E. Brown (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gabriel R. Sanchez (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Matt A. Barreto (4 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 Politics, Groups, and Identities (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Purdue University (20 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Rutgers University (15 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Northwestern University (12 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Arizona State University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous 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, 1.85% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.75% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.66% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.98% of all publications and 56.60% 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

  • Xenophobia in the time of pandemic: othering, anti-Asian attitudes, and COVID-19

    Tyler T. Reny;Matt A. Barreto

    (2020)
    297 Citations
  • Elite cues and public polarization on transgender rights

    Philip Edward Jones;Paul R. Brewer

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Media portrayals of Muslims: a comparative sentiment analysis of American newspapers, 1996–2015

    Erik Bleich;A. Maurits van der Veen

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Who wants to hire a more diverse faculty? A conjoint analysis of faculty and student preferences for gender and racial/ethnic diversity

    John M. Carey;Kevin R. Carman;Katherine P. Clayton;Yusaku Horiuchi

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Descriptive representation and political knowledge

    Jennifer Wolak;Eric Gonzalez Juenke

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Better for everyone: black descriptive representation and police traffic stops

    Leah Christiani;Kelsey Shoub;Frank R. Baumgartner;Derek A. Epp

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Perceived group discrimination and the integration paradox in stigmatized neighborhoods

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Re-examining the relationship between Latino population size and position taking on Latino interests in the US House of Representatives

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Youth’s low presence in parliament: the perspective of candidates and elective representatives

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Perceived racial efficacy and voter engagement among African Americans

    (2023)
    3 Citations

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