Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Int. Polit. Sci. Rev. Publication history 1980-present | Discipline Political science | |
Language English, with abstracts in French and Spanish Edited by Marian Sawer, Mark Kesselman Publisher Sage Publications on behalf of the International Political Science Association | ||
The International Political Science Review/Revue Internationale de Science Politique is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of political science. The editors-in-chief are Mark Kesselman (Columbia University) and Marian Sawer (Australian National University). It was established in 1980 and is published by Sage Publications on behalf of the International Political Science Association.
Contents
Editors' choice and special issues
Editors' choice collections of articles on a particular theme, selected from past issues, were initiated in 2011. So far there have been collections on ideology, regimes and regime change, political parties and party systems, gender and political behaviour, gender and political institutions and religion and politics. Access to the articles in these collections is free. The journal also occasionally publishes special issues.
Meisel-Laponce Award
The journal has a cash prize of $1000 for the best article published in the previous four years. The prize was first awarded in 2012 and went to Jorgen Moller and Svend-Erik Skaaning, for Beyond the radial delusion: Conceptualising and measuring democracy and non-democracy. There is free access to the winning and short-listed articles. The next award will be made at the International Political Science Association's World Congress in Istanbul in 2016.
Most cited article
The most cited paper published in the journal since the beginning of 2002, cited over 300 times according to Google Scholar, is:
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.954, ranking it 68th out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science".