Ranking & Metrics
Impact Score is a novel metric devised to rank conferences based on the number of contributing the best scientists in addition to the h-index estimated from the scientific papers published by the best scientists. See more details on our methodology page.
The foci of Research & Politics are Politics, Political economy, Law, Social psychology and Public opinion.
The journal addresses concerns in Politics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Social media and Positive economics.
The journal holds forums on Political economy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Authoritarianism, Democracy, Voting and Presidential system.
The Democracy research dealing mostly with Democratization is the focus of Research & Politics.
Government and Legislature are all areas of Law tackled in it.
Research on Social psychology addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of Ideology.
The Public opinion study featured in Research & Politics draws connections with the study of Public relations.
Politics (27.64%)
Political economy (20.80%)
Law (16.24%)
What are the most cited papers published in the journal?
“Who are these people?” Evaluating the demographic characteristics and political preferences of MTurk survey respondents: (466 citations)
Are samples drawn from Mechanical Turk valid for research on political ideology (351 citations)
Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data (351 citations)
Research areas of the most cited articles at Research & Politics:
The published articles facilitate discussions on Politics, Law, Political economy, Social media and Public opinion.
The journal papers feature works in Politics, more specifically Ideology, and explore their relation to disciplines like Resource (project management).
The journal articles explore research in Regime change and overlapping concepts in Autocracy and Middle East to expand the discourse in Political economy.
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:
The journal covers a variety of subjects, including Political economy, Politics, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and Pandemic.
Topics in Political economy explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Absolute (philosophy), Alliance, Scholarship, Constitution and Presidential election.
The work on Presidential election tackled in Research & Politics brings together disciplines like Conventional wisdom, Identity politics, Affect (psychology), Polarization (politics) and Far right.
It focuses on Politics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Survey data collection and Demographic economics.
The studies on Misinformation discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Criminology and Populism.
In addition to Voting research, it aims to explore topics under Economic growth, Polling and Archaeology.
The most cited articles from the last journal are:
How populism and conservative media fuel conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 and what it means for COVID-19 behaviors (9 citations)
Demographic polarization and the rise of the far right: Brazil’s 2018 presidential election: (4 citations)
Postal delivery disruptions and the fragility of voting by mail: Lessons from Maine (3 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.
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Top authors and change over time
The top authors publishing in Research & Politics (based on the number of publications) are:
Brendan Nyhan (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
Joseph Wright (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
Erica Frantz (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
Kai Arzheimer (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
Nicholas Goedert (3 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.
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Top affiliations and change over time
Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered
The top affiliations publishing in Research & Politics (based on the number of publications) are:
University of Essex (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
Pennsylvania State University (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
New York University (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
Stanford University (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
University of Georgia (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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.
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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.
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During the most recent 2021 edition, 9.68% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.43% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 21.43% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 28.57% of all publications and 28.57% 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.
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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.
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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).
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The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.
