This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Political Science and International Relations journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | American Economic Association | 19457707, 19457715 | 9.804 |
| 2 | Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology,The | Elsevier BV | 22138595, 22138587 | 9.767 |
| 3 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Elsevier USA | 15583597, 07351097 | 9.756 |
| 4 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Publishing Group | 20585276 | 9.69 |
| 5 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Verlag | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.607 |
| 6 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452123, 15435008 | 9.575 |
| 7 | Journal of Economic Literature | American Economic Association | 220515 | 9.445 |
| 8 | Strategic Management Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10970266, 01432095 | 9.443 |
| 9 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19475454, 19475462 | 9.438 |
| 10 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 19313128 | 9.373 |
| 11 | Genome Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 14747596 | 9.371 |
| 12 | Nature Immunology | Nature Publishing Group | 15292908, 15292916 | 9.135 |
| 13 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | Nature Publishing Group | 17401534, 17401526 | 9.103 |
| 14 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 25225820 | 8.971 |
| 15 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 8.964 |
| 16 | Progress in Materials Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 18732208, 00796425 | 8.941 |
| 17 | Lancet Psychiatry,The | Elsevier Ltd. | 22150374, 22150366 | 8.932 |
| 18 | Advanced Materials | Wiley-Blackwell | 09359648, 15214095 | 8.663 |
| 19 | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | Annual Reviews Inc. | 23270608 | 8.656 |
| 20 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | American Economic Association | 19457731, 1945774X | 8.636 |
| 21 | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | Nature Publishing Group | 17595037, 17595029 | 8.561 |
| 22 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01637525, 15452093 | 8.451 |
| 23 | JAMA Cardiology | American Medical Association | 23806583, 23806591 | 8.324 |
| 24 | Nature Electronics | Nature Publishing Group | 25201131 | 8.302 |
| 25 | Circulation | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. | 00097322, 15244539 | 8.281 |
| 26 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | IEEE Computer Society | 1628828 | 8.269 |
| 27 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press Journals | 00346535, 15309142 | 8.245 |
| 28 | Advanced Energy Materials | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 16146832, 16146840 | 8.226 |
| 29 | Journal of Economic Perspectives | American Economic Association | 8953309 | 7.785 |
| 30 | Nature Reviews Neurology | Nature Publishing Group | 17594766, 17594758 | 7.736 |
| 31 | Academy of Management Review | Academy of Management | 3637425 | 7.618 |
| 32 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.568 |
| 33 | Psychological Bulletin | American Psychological Association | 00332909, 19391455 | 7.504 |
| 34 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | The Optical Society | 19438206 | 7.473 |
| 35 | Journal of Marketing | American Marketing Association | 15477185, 00222429 | 7.461 |
| 36 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15485951, 15485943 | 7.45 |
| 37 | ACS Energy Letters | American Chemical Society | 23808195 | 7.362 |
| 38 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Elsevier | 1654101 | 7.346 |
| 39 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press | 00221007, 15409538 | 7.265 |
| 40 | ACM Transactions on Graphics | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 15577368, 07300301 | 7.148 |
| 41 | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265498, 15234614 | 7.127 |
| 42 | Journal of Management | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01492063, 15571211 | 7.121 |
| 43 | Review of Corporate Finance Studies | Oxford University Press | 20469136, 20469128 | 7.118 |
| 44 | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford University Press | 00935301, 15375277 | 7.117 |
| 45 | Nature Protocols | Nature Publishing Group | 17542189 | 7.063 |
| 46 | Electrochemical Energy Reviews | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 25208136 | 7.061 |
| 47 | Cell Systems | Cell Press | 24054712 | 7.048 |
| 48 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 6.921 |
| 49 | Organization Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265455, 10477039 | 6.871 |
| 50 | Endocrine Reviews | The Endocrine Society | 19457189, 0163769X | 6.86 |
| 51 | Annual Review of Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19411383, 19411391 | 6.847 |
| 52 | International Journal of Computer Vision | Springer Netherlands | 09205691, 15731405 | 6.838 |
| 53 | Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | Elsevier BV | 3601285 | 6.777 |
| 54 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.735 |
| 55 | Nature Reviews Cardiology | Nature Publishing Group | 17595010, 17595002 | 6.721 |
| 56 | NBER Macroeconomics Annual | University of Chicago Press | 15372642, 08893365 | 6.688 |
| 57 | Annals of Mathematics | Princeton University Press | 0003486X | 6.677 |
| 58 | Fungal Diversity | Springer Netherlands | 15602745, 18789129 | 6.674 |
| 59 | Lancet Rheumatology, The | Lancet Publishing Group | 26659913 | 6.633 |
| 60 | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1638998 | 6.59 |
| 61 | Marketing Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 07322399, 1526548X | 6.584 |
| 62 | Science Robotics | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 24709476 | 6.569 |
| 63 | Diabetes Care | American Diabetes Association Inc. | 19355548, 01495992 | 6.528 |
| 64 | Molecular Systems Biology | Wiley-Blackwell | 17444292 | 6.523 |
| 65 | Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports | Elsevier BV | 0927796X | 6.443 |
| 66 | Annals of Statistics | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 905364 | 6.35 |
| 67 | Physics Reports | Elsevier | 3701573 | 6.327 |
| 68 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 7338716 | 6.32 |
| 69 | Materials Today | Elsevier | 13697021 | 6.3 |
| 70 | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14679868, 13697412 | 6.251 |
| 71 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1543592X | 6.234 |
| 72 | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Elsevier Ltd. | 1879307X, 13646613 | 6.222 |
| 73 | Nature Metabolism | Springer Berlin | 25225812 | 6.201 |
| 74 | Systematic Biology | Oxford University Press | 1076836X, 10635157 | 6.183 |
| 75 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Publishing Group | 17586798, 1758678X | 6.134 |
| 76 | Annual Review of Entomology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 00664170, 15454487 | 6.09 |
| 77 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1089778X | 6.078 |
| 78 | IEEE Wireless Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15361284 | 6.06 |
| 79 | Cell Reports Medicine | Cell Press | 26663791 | 5.956 |
| 80 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | American Thoracic Society | 1073449X, 15354970 | 5.95 |
| 81 | American Sociological Review | American Sociological Association | 00031224, 19398271 | 5.944 |
| 82 | Journal of Accounting Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1475679X, 00218456 | 5.922 |
| 83 | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging | Elsevier Inc. | 1936878X, 18767591 | 5.914 |
| 84 | Progress in Polymer Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 796700 | 5.886 |
| 85 | Journal of Business Venturing | Elsevier Inc. | 8839026 | 5.829 |
| 86 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge University Press | 15375943, 00030554 | 5.816 |
| 87 | Nature Sustainability | Nature Publishing Group | 23989629 | 5.789 |
| 88 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 5.756 |
| 89 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | American Chemical Society | 15205126, 00027863 | 5.728 |
| 90 | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | American Economic Association | 19457669, 19457685 | 5.678 |
| 91 | Ecology Letters | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1461023X, 14610248 | 5.673 |
| 92 | Nature Biomedical Engineering | Nature Publishing Group | 2157846X | 5.635 |
| 93 | EMBO Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 02614189, 14602075 | 5.633 |
| 94 | JAMA Psychiatry | American Medical Association | 21686238, 2168622X | 5.59 |
| 95 | Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research | U.S. National Center for Health Statistics | 00832057, 23330872 | 5.541 |
| 96 | Journal of the European Economic Association | Wiley-Blackwell | 15424774, 15424766 | 5.535 |
| 97 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | Nature Publishing Group | 2397334X | 5.533 |
| 98 | Light: Science and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 20477538 | 5.497 |
| 99 | JACC: Heart Failure | Elsevier BV | 22131787, 22131779 | 5.474 |
| 100 | Annual Review of Political Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 10942939, 15451577 | 5.468 |
| 101 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | Elsevier Ltd. | 01695347, 18728383 | 5.42 |
| 102 | Cement and Concrete Research | Elsevier Ltd. | 88846 | 5.408 |
| 103 | Annual Review of Sociology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 03600572, 15452115 | 5.406 |
| 104 | Journal of Labor Economics | University of Chicago | 0734306X, 15375307 | 5.389 |
| 105 | Journal of Marketing Research | American Marketing Association | 00222437, 15477193 | 5.372 |
| 106 | Annual Review of Financial Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19411367, 19411375 | 5.368 |
| 107 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | BMJ Publishing Group | 00034967, 14682060 | 5.366 |
| 108 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 17520908, 17520894 | 5.364 |
| 109 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | Oxford University Press | 15371719, 07374038 | 5.341 |
| 110 | Psychological Methods | American Psychological Association | 1082989X, 19391463 | 5.295 |