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 | Academy of Management Review | Academy of Management | 3637425 | 9.996 |
| 2 | Endocrine Reviews | Endocrine Society | 19457189, 0163769X | 9.991 |
| 3 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452123, 15435008 | 9.949 |
| 4 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 19346069, 19313128 | 9.892 |
| 5 | Review of Finance | Oxford University Press | 1573692X, 15723097 | 9.87 |
| 6 | Journal of Accounting Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1475679X, 00218456 | 9.774 |
| 7 | Nature Metabolism | Nature Research | 25225812 | 9.602 |
| 8 | Administrative Science Quarterly | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00018392, 19303815 | 9.595 |
| 9 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer International Publishing | 25225820 | 9.588 |
| 10 | Nature Aging | Springer | 26628465 | 9.5 |
| 11 | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | American Economic Association | 19457790, 19457782 | 9.427 |
| 12 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.3 |
| 13 | Energy and Environmental Science | Royal Society of Chemistry | 17545692, 17545706 | 9.244 |
| 14 | National Vital Statistics Reports | National Center for Health Statistics | 15518922, 15518930 | 9.227 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Bioengineering | Springer Nature | 27316092 | 9.178 |
| 16 | Annals of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics at Princeton University | 0003486X, 19398980 | 9.137 |
| 17 | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | Nature Publishing Group | 17595037, 17595029 | 9.087 |
| 18 | Nature Biomedical Engineering | Nature Research | 2157846X | 8.997 |
| 19 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 8.871 |
| 20 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press | 00346535, 15309142 | 8.83 |
| 21 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 1654101 | 8.748 |
| 22 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01637525, 15452093 | 8.648 |
| 23 | Science Immunology | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 24709468 | 8.56 |
| 24 | Psychological Bulletin | American Psychological Association | 00332909, 19391455 | 8.496 |
| 25 | Nano-Micro Letters | Open Access Science Online | 23116706, 21505551 | 8.402 |
| 26 | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 01492195, 1545861X | 8.38 |
| 27 | Progress in Materials Science | Elsevier Ltd | 18732208, 00796425 | 8.365 |
| 28 | Marketing Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 07322399, 1526548X | 8.324 |
| 29 | Circulation | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 00097322, 15244539 | 8.311 |
| 30 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Elsevier Inc. | 15583597, 07351097 | 8.275 |
| 31 | Advanced Materials | Wiley-Blackwell | 09359648, 15214095 | 8.266 |
| 32 | Journal of Management | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01492063, 15571211 | 8.251 |
| 33 | The Lancet Public Health | Elsevier Ltd | 24682667 | 8.25 |
| 34 | Annual Review of Financial Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19411367, 19411375 | 8.229 |
| 35 | Journal of Economic Perspectives | American Economic Association | 08953309, 19447965 | 8.181 |
| 36 | Electrochemical Energy Reviews | Springer | 25208136, 25208489 | 8.084 |
| 37 | The Lancet Psychiatry | Elsevier Ltd | 22150374, 22150366 | 8.07 |
| 38 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 19438206 | 8.026 |
| 39 | Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | Elsevier B.V. | 3601285 | 8.013 |
| 40 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Research | 17586798, 1758678X | 7.978 |
| 41 | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Springer Netherlands | 23659440 | 7.947 |
| 42 | Organization Science | INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences | 15265455, 10477039 | 7.929 |
| 43 | Nature Sustainability | Nature Publishing Group | 23989629 | 7.896 |
| 44 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | American Economic Association | 19457731, 1945774X | 7.737 |
| 45 | Molecular Plant | Cell Press | 16742052, 17529867 | 7.692 |
| 46 | Advanced Energy Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 16146832, 16146840 | 7.677 |
| 47 | The Lancet Respiratory Medicine | Elsevier Ltd | 22132619, 22132600 | 7.652 |
| 48 | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | Elsevier Inc. | 15561380, 15560864 | 7.497 |
| 49 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Research | 20585276 | 7.44 |
| 50 | eLight | Springer | 26628643, 20971710 | 7.423 |
| 51 | Nature Protocols | Springer Nature | 17502799, 17542189 | 7.403 |
| 52 | Journal of Marketing Research | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00222437, 15477193 | 7.363 |
| 53 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | Elsevier B.V. | 00034967, 14682060 | 7.286 |
| 54 | Journal of the European Economic Association | Wiley-Blackwell | 15424774, 15424766 | 7.259 |
| 55 | Earth System Science Data | Copernicus Publications | 18663516, 18663508 | 7.199 |
| 56 | Diabetes Care | American Diabetes Association Inc. | 19355548, 01495992 | 7.161 |
| 57 | Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence | Elsevier B.V. | 2666920X | 7.083 |
| 58 | Nature Reviews Neurology | Nature Research | 17594766, 17594758 | 7.083 |
| 59 | Cellular and Molecular Immunology | Springer Nature | 20420226, 16727681 | 7.021 |
| 60 | Nature Machine Intelligence | Springer International Publishing | 25225839 | 6.902 |
| 61 | Journal of Labor Economics | University of Chicago Press | 0734306X, 15375307 | 6.774 |
| 62 | Nature Reviews Psychology | Nature Publishing Group | 27310574 | 6.763 |
| 63 | Annual Review of Medicine | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1545326X, 00664219 | 6.762 |
| 64 | Foundations and Trends in Finance | Now Publishers Inc | 15672409, 15672395 | 6.641 |
| 65 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 6.584 |
| 66 | Nature Physics | Nature Research | 17452473, 17452481 | 6.581 |
| 67 | Journal of Econometrics | Elsevier B.V. | 03044076, 18726895 | 6.575 |
| 68 | American Journal of Political Science | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00925853, 15405907 | 6.539 |
| 69 | Cell Genomics | Cell Press | 2666979X | 6.518 |
| 70 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15580008, 07338716 | 6.496 |
| 71 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.494 |
| 72 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15485951, 15485943 | 6.482 |
| 73 | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | IEEE Computer Society | 10636919 | 6.466 |
| 74 | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging | Elsevier Inc. | 1936878X, 18767591 | 6.43 |
| 75 | Management Science | INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences | 00251909, 15265501 | 6.428 |
| 76 | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Springer New York | 00920703, 15527824 | 6.426 |
| 77 | Annual Review of Political Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 10942939, 15451577 | 6.416 |
| 78 | Educational Psychologist | Routledge | 15326985, 00461520 | 6.305 |
| 79 | Journal of Monetary Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 3043932 | 6.262 |
| 80 | Molecular Neurodegeneration | BioMed Central Ltd | 17501326 | 6.262 |
| 81 | Progress in Polymer Science | Elsevier Ltd | 796700 | 6.25 |
| 82 | Cement and Concrete Research | Elsevier Ltd | 88846 | 6.233 |
| 83 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452050, 15435938 | 6.175 |
| 84 | The Lancet Rheumatology | Elsevier Ltd | 26659913 | 6.167 |
| 85 | Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1936530 | 6.161 |
| 86 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 17520908, 17520894 | 6.141 |
| 87 | Leadership Quarterly | Elsevier Inc. | 10489843 | 6.124 |
| 88 | Econometrics Journal | Oxford University Press | 13684221, 1368423X | 6.123 |
| 89 | Journal of Human Resources | University of Wisconsin Press | 15488004, 0022166X | 6.085 |
| 90 | JAMA Cardiology | American Medical Association | 23806583, 23806591 | 6.028 |
| 91 | Nature Food | Springer Nature | 26621355 | 5.996 |
| 92 | Human Reproduction Update | Oxford University Press | 14602369, 13554786 | 5.991 |
| 93 | ACM Computing Surveys | Association for Computing Machinery | 03600300, 15577341 | 5.985 |
| 94 | New Astronomy Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 13876473 | 5.925 |
| 95 | International Journal of Information Management | Elsevier Ltd | 2684012 | 5.899 |
| 96 | Science Robotics | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 24709476 | 5.883 |
| 97 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press | 00221007, 15409538 | 5.83 |
| 98 | Genome Biology | BioMed Central Ltd | 1474760X, 14747596 | 5.792 |
| 99 | ACS Energy Letters | American Chemical Society | 23808195 | 5.783 |
| 100 | Journal of Business Venturing | Elsevier Inc. | 8839026 | 5.778 |
| 101 | Nature Water | Springer Nature | 27316084 | 5.735 |
| 102 | Information Systems Research | INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences | 15265536, 10477047 | 5.679 |
| 103 | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | SAGE Publications Ltd | 10422587, 15406520 | 5.67 |
| 104 | ACM Transactions on Graphics | Association for Computing Machinery | 15577368, 07300301 | 5.633 |
| 105 | Proceedings of the IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582256, 00189219 | 5.561 |
| 106 | Review of Accounting Studies | Springer New York | 15737136, 13806653 | 5.56 |
| 107 | Journal of Service Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10946705, 15527379 | 5.517 |
| 108 | Developmental Cell | Cell Press | 15345807, 18781551 | 5.494 |
| 109 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | American Chemical Society | 15205126, 00027863 | 5.491 |
| 110 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge University Press | 15375943, 00030554 | 5.433 |
| 111 | The Lancet Healthy Longevity | Elsevier Ltd | 26667568 | 5.433 |
| 112 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | American Thoracic Society | 1073449X, 15354970 | 5.423 |
| 113 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 5.413 |
| 114 | Personnel Psychology | Wiley-Blackwell | 00315826, 17446570 | 5.41 |
| 115 | Circulation Research | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 00097330, 15244571 | 5.371 |
| 116 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 1466410 | 5.361 |
| 117 | JAMA Psychiatry | American Medical Association | 21686238, 2168622X | 5.335 |
| 118 | Journal of Operations Management | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 18731317, 02726963 | 5.334 |
| 119 | European Heart Journal | Oxford University Press | 15229645, 0195668X | 5.326 |
| 120 | Physics Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 3701573 | 5.32 |
| 121 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 5.222 |
| 122 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452069, 1543592X | 5.205 |
| 123 | Economic Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 14680297, 00130133 | 5.181 |
| 124 | Journal of Management Studies | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00222380, 14676486 | 5.178 |
| 125 | InfoMat | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 25673165 | 5.171 |
| 126 | Nature Plants | Nature Research | 2055026X, 20550278 | 5.106 |
| 127 | European Respiratory Journal | European Respiratory Society | 09031936, 13993003 | 5.076 |
| 128 | Annual Review of Nutrition | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01999885, 15454312 | 5.05 |
| 129 | Advanced Functional Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 16163028, 1616301X | 5.022 |
| 130 | IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1558173X, 00189200 | 5.013 |
| 131 | International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture | Elsevier Ltd | 8906955 | 5.005 |
| 132 | Clinical Psychology Review | Elsevier Inc. | 18737811, 02727358 | 5.002 |
| 133 | Translational Neurodegeneration | BioMed Central Ltd | 20479158 | 4.992 |
| 134 | European Journal of Heart Failure | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 13889842, 18790844 | 4.965 |
| 135 | Studies in Mycology | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 1660616 | 4.962 |
| 136 | Matter | Cell Press | 25902393, 25902385 | 4.959 |
| 137 | Cell Systems | Cell Press | 24054720, 24054712 | 4.954 |
| 138 | Implementation Science | BioMed Central Ltd | 17485908 | 4.951 |
| 139 | Light: Science and Applications | Springer Nature | 20477538, 20955545 | 4.946 |
| 140 | Cell Reports Medicine | Cell Press | 26663791 | 4.932 |
| 141 | Materials Today | Elsevier B.V. | 13697021, 18734103 | 4.909 |
| 142 | Responsive Materials | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 28348966 | 4.908 |
| 143 | Nature Communications | Nature Research | 20411723 | 4.904 |
| 144 | Nature Human Behaviour | Nature Publishing Group | 23973374 | 4.896 |
| 145 | Human Resource Management Review | Elsevier Ltd | 10534822 | 4.892 |
| 146 | Interdisciplinary Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 2767441X, 27674401 | 4.859 |
| 147 | Organization Theory | SAGE Publications Ltd | 26317877 | 4.852 |
| 148 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | BMJ Publishing Group | 03063674, 14730480 | 4.847 |
| 149 | Energy Storage Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 24058297 | 4.845 |
| 150 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 17590876, 17590884 | 4.842 |
| 151 | Journal of International Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 18730353, 00221996 | 4.841 |
| 152 | Educational Psychology Review | Springer New York | 1040726X, 1573336X | 4.84 |
| 153 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | IEEE Computer Society | 01628828, 19393539 | 4.829 |
| 154 | Bone Research | Springer Nature | 20954700, 20956231 | 4.815 |
| 155 | New Crops | KeAi Communications Co. | 29499526 | 4.787 |
| 156 | Psychological Methods | American Psychological Association | 1082989X, 19391463 | 4.769 |
| 157 | Nature Cardiovascular Research | Springer | 27310590 | 4.767 |
| 158 | Cement and Concrete Composites | Elsevier Ltd | 9589465 | 4.762 |
| 159 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | Elsevier Ltd | 01695347, 18728383 | 4.728 |
| 160 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | Nature Research | 2397334X | 4.671 |
| 161 | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management | INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences | 15265498, 15234614 | 4.661 |
| 162 | Blood Cancer Discovery | American Association for Cancer Research Inc. | 26433230, 26433249 | 4.623 |
| 163 | RAND Journal of Economics | Wiley-Blackwell | 17562171, 07416261 | 4.617 |
| 164 | Radiology: Artificial Intelligence | Radiological Society of North America Inc. | 26386100 | 4.61 |
| 165 | Biological Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell | 1469185X, 14647931 | 4.609 |
| 166 | Molecular Psychiatry | Springer Nature | 14765578, 13594184 | 4.602 |
| 167 | Human Resource Management | Wiley-Liss Inc. | 00904848, 1099050X | 4.598 |
| 168 | Quantitative Economics | Wiley-Blackwell | 17597323, 17597331 | 4.595 |
| 169 | Global Change Biology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13652486, 13541013 | 4.581 |
| 170 | The Lancet Planetary Health | Elsevier B.V. | 25425196 | 4.577 |
| 171 | Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism | Elsevier Inc. | 10432760, 18793061 | 4.543 |
| 172 | Alzheimer's and Dementia | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 15525279, 15525260 | 4.53 |
| 173 | IEEE Wireless Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15580687, 15361284 | 4.523 |
| 174 | The Lancet Regional Health - Europe | Elsevier Ltd | 26667762 | 4.499 |
| 175 | Tourism Management | Elsevier Ltd | 02615177, 18793193 | 4.496 |
| 176 | Advanced Powder Materials | KeAi Communications Co. | 2772834X | 4.495 |
| 177 | Carbon Energy | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 26379368 | 4.473 |
| 178 | Research Policy | Elsevier B.V. | 487333 | 4.471 |
| 179 | Journal of International Business Studies | Palgrave Macmillan | 00472506, 14786990 | 4.454 |
| 180 | Brookings Papers on Economic Activity | Brookings Institution Press | 00072303, 15334465 | 4.451 |
| 181 | Cardiovascular Diabetology | BioMed Central Ltd | 14752840 | 4.447 |
| 182 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 108545 | 4.445 |
| 183 | Computers and Education | Elsevier Ltd | 3601315 | 4.434 |
| 184 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | Elsevier B.V. | 18733883, 09263373 | 4.415 |
| 185 | EMBO Journal | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 02614189, 14602075 | 4.413 |
| 186 | Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | Cambridge University Press | 00221090, 17566916 | 4.404 |
| 187 | Accounting Review | American Accounting Association | 00014826, 15587967 | 4.403 |
| 188 | Cardiovascular Research | Oxford University Press | 17553245, 00086363 | 4.399 |
| 189 | Trends in Immunology | Elsevier Ltd | 14714906, 14714981 | 4.398 |
| 190 | Radiology | Radiological Society of North America Inc. | 00338419, 15271315 | 4.388 |
| 191 | Political Analysis | Cambridge University Press | 10471987, 14764989 | 4.368 |
| 192 | Advanced Photonics | SPIE | 25775421 | 4.365 |
| 193 | The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health | Elsevier B.V. | 23524642 | 4.365 |
| 194 | IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 19493061, 19493053 | 4.363 |
| 195 | Strategic Organization | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1741315X, 14761270 | 4.36 |
| 196 | Organization Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17413044, 01708406 | 4.358 |
| 197 | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 1879307X, 13646613 | 4.351 |
| 198 | Carbon Neutralization | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 27693325, 27693333 | 4.341 |
| 199 | Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems | KeAi Communications Co. | 26673452 | 4.336 |
| 200 | Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental | W.B. Saunders | 00260495, 15328600 | 4.328 |
| 201 | IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 19493029, 19493037 | 4.318 |
| 202 | Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2: Data Evaluation and Methods Research | National Center for Health Statistics | 00832057, 23330872 | 4.307 |
| 203 | Remote Sensing of Environment | Elsevier Inc. | 344257 | 4.266 |
| 204 | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | American Economic Association | 19457669, 19457685 | 4.257 |
| 205 | Nature Computational Science | Springer Nature | 26628457 | 4.252 |
| 206 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | Elsevier Ltd | 380717 | 4.24 |
| 207 | Smart Learning Environments | SpringerOpen | 21967091 | 4.239 |
| 208 | Molecular Systems Biology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 17444292 | 4.229 |
| 209 | IEEE Transactions on Power Systems | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 08858950, 15580679 | 4.217 |
| 210 | npj Digital Medicine | Nature Publishing Group | 23986352 | 4.215 |