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 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer International Publishing | 25225820 | 9.803 |
| 2 | Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19475454, 19475462 | 9.795 |
| 3 | NBER Macroeconomics Annual | University of Chicago Press | 15372642, 08893365 | 9.76 |
| 4 | eScience | KeAi Communications Co. | 20972431, 26671417 | 9.726 |
| 5 | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | Department of Health and Human Services | 01492195, 1545861X | 9.559 |
| 6 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Verlag | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.465 |
| 7 | Endocrine Reviews | The Endocrine Society | 19457189, 0163769X | 9.175 |
| 8 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Elsevier Inc. | 15583597, 07351097 | 9.015 |
| 9 | Advanced Materials | Wiley-Blackwell | 09359648, 15214095 | 8.851 |
| 10 | Psychological Bulletin | American Psychological Association | 00332909, 19391455 | 8.696 |
| 11 | Circulation | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 00097322, 15244539 | 8.668 |
| 12 | Journal of Management | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01492063, 15571211 | 8.636 |
| 13 | Annals of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics at Princeton University | 0003486X | 8.627 |
| 14 | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | American Economic Association | 19457790, 19457782 | 8.597 |
| 15 | Progress in Materials Science | Elsevier Ltd | 18732208, 00796425 | 8.566 |
| 16 | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford University Press | 00935301, 15375277 | 8.562 |
| 17 | The Lancet Public Health | Elsevier Ltd | 24682667 | 8.408 |
| 18 | Journal of Accounting Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1475679X, 00218456 | 8.396 |
| 19 | Advanced Energy Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 16146832, 16146840 | 8.378 |
| 20 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01637525, 15452093 | 8.291 |
| 21 | Journal of Economic Perspectives | American Economic Association | 8953309 | 8.262 |
| 22 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452123, 15435008 | 8.258 |
| 23 | Review of Finance | Oxford University Press | 1573692X, 15723097 | 8.22 |
| 24 | Science Immunology | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 24709468 | 8.22 |
| 25 | Nano-Micro Letters | Open Access Science Online | 23116706, 21505551 | 8.188 |
| 26 | Annual Review of Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19411383, 19411391 | 8.094 |
| 27 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Research | 17586798, 1758678X | 8.046 |
| 28 | Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | Elsevier B.V. | 3601285 | 8.031 |
| 29 | Organization Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265455, 10477039 | 8.026 |
| 30 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15485951, 15485943 | 8.021 |
| 31 | Nature Reviews Bioengineering | Springer Nature | 27316092 | 7.993 |
| 32 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) | 19438206 | 7.982 |
| 33 | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | Elsevier Inc. | 15561380, 15560864 | 7.948 |
| 34 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | American Economic Association | 19457731, 1945774X | 7.94 |
| 35 | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | Nature Publishing Group | 17595037, 17595029 | 7.884 |
| 36 | Journal of Monetary Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 3043932 | 7.872 |
| 37 | Electrochemical Energy Reviews | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 25208136, 25208489 | 7.79 |
| 38 | Marketing Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 07322399, 1526548X | 7.543 |
| 39 | Nature Metabolism | Springer Berlin | 25225812 | 7.529 |
| 40 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 1654101 | 7.505 |
| 41 | Journal of the European Economic Association | Wiley-Blackwell | 15424774, 15424766 | 7.503 |
| 42 | The Lancet Psychiatry | Elsevier Ltd | 22150374, 22150366 | 7.458 |
| 43 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 7.431 |
| 44 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press Journals | 00346535, 15309142 | 7.425 |
| 45 | Interdisciplinary Materials | John Wiley and Sons Inc | 2767441X, 27674401 | 7.351 |
| 46 | Nature Sustainability | Nature Publishing Group | 23989629 | 7.292 |
| 47 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.125 |
| 48 | Nature Aging | Springer | 26628465 | 7.081 |
| 49 | Cell Host and Microbe | Cell Press | 19346069, 19313128 | 7.067 |
| 50 | Nature Reviews Psychology | Nature Publishing Group | 27310574 | 7.064 |
| 51 | Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 0927796X | 7.056 |
| 52 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 7338716 | 7.023 |
| 53 | Journal of Marketing Research | American Marketing Association | 00222437, 15477193 | 6.961 |
| 54 | Annual Review of Political Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 10942939, 15451577 | 6.903 |
| 55 | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Springer New York | 00920703, 15527824 | 6.896 |
| 56 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Research | 20585276 | 6.893 |
| 57 | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | SAGE Publications Ltd | 10422587, 15406520 | 6.876 |
| 58 | Organization Theory | SAGE Publications Ltd | 26317877 | 6.872 |
| 59 | ACS Energy Letters | American Chemical Society | 23808195 | 6.799 |
| 60 | Annual Review of Medicine | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1545326X, 00664219 | 6.794 |
| 61 | The Lancet Respiratory Medicine | Elsevier Ltd | 22132619, 22132600 | 6.788 |
| 62 | Clinical Psychology Review | Elsevier Inc. | 18737811, 02727358 | 6.617 |
| 63 | Journal of Human Resources | University of Wisconsin Press | 15488004, 0022166X | 6.588 |
| 64 | Diabetes Care | American Diabetes Association Inc. | 19355548, 01495992 | 6.566 |
| 65 | Fungal Diversity | Springer Nature | 15602745, 18789129 | 6.546 |
| 66 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.415 |
| 67 | Journal of Labor Economics | University of Chicago Press | 0734306X, 15375307 | 6.404 |
| 68 | The Lancet Planetary Health | Elsevier B.V. | 25425196 | 6.386 |
| 69 | Innovation Geoscience | 29598753 | 6.384 | |
| 70 | American Journal of Political Science | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00925853, 15405907 | 6.28 |
| 71 | International Journal of Information Management | Elsevier Ltd | 2684012 | 6.26 |
| 72 | Proceedings of the IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582256, 00189219 | 6.247 |
| 73 | Cell Genomics | Cell Press | 2666979X | 6.238 |
| 74 | Journal of Business Venturing | Elsevier Inc. | 8839026 | 6.234 |
| 75 | Nano Research Energy | Tsinghua University Press | 27910091, 27908119 | 6.16 |
| 76 | Progress in Polymer Science | Elsevier Ltd | 796700 | 6.089 |
| 77 | Nature Food | Springer Nature | 26621355 | 6.088 |
| 78 | Annual Review of Financial Economics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 19411367, 19411375 | 6.062 |
| 79 | Journal of Service Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10946705, 15527379 | 6.011 |
| 80 | Nature Water | Springer Nature | 27316084 | 5.962 |
| 81 | Science Robotics | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 24709476 | 5.94 |
| 82 | JAMA Cardiology | American Medical Association | 23806583, 23806591 | 5.936 |
| 83 | Cellular and Molecular Immunology | Springer Nature | 20420226, 16727681 | 5.916 |
| 84 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 5.885 |
| 85 | Nature Machine Intelligence | Springer International Publishing | 25225839 | 5.876 |
| 86 | Nature Protocols | Springer Nature | 17502799, 17542189 | 5.854 |
| 87 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press | 00221007, 15409538 | 5.834 |
| 88 | Nature Reviews Neurology | Nature Research | 17594766, 17594758 | 5.828 |
| 89 | Review of Accounting Studies | Springer New York | 15737136, 13806653 | 5.817 |
| 90 | Cement and Concrete Research | Elsevier Ltd | 88846 | 5.815 |
| 91 | ACM Computing Surveys | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 03600300, 15577341 | 5.797 |
| 92 | Educational Psychologist | Routledge | 15326985, 00461520 | 5.794 |
| 93 | Energy Storage Materials | Elsevier B.V. | 24058297 | 5.791 |
| 94 | JAMA Psychiatry | American Medical Association | 21686238, 2168622X | 5.755 |
| 95 | Materials Today | Elsevier B.V. | 13697021, 18734103 | 5.755 |
| 96 | Physics Reports | Elsevier B.V. | 3701573 | 5.735 |
| 97 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | Elsevier B.V. | 00034967, 14682060 | 5.731 |
| 98 | Management Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 00251909, 15265501 | 5.72 |
| 99 | Genome Biology | BioMed Central Ltd | 1474760X, 14747596 | 5.71 |
| 100 | Carbon Energy | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 26379368 | 5.701 |
| 101 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452050, 15435938 | 5.7 |
| 102 | InfoMat | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 25673165 | 5.683 |
| 103 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 5.666 |
| 104 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 5.594 |
| 105 | International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture | Elsevier Ltd | 8906955 | 5.577 |
| 106 | European Journal of Heart Failure | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 13889842, 18790844 | 5.559 |
| 107 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | American Chemical Society | 15205126, 00027863 | 5.554 |
| 108 | Nature Human Behaviour | Nature Publishing Group | 23973374 | 5.537 |
| 109 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge University Press | 15375943, 00030554 | 5.532 |
| 110 | Molecular Plant | Cell Press | 16742052, 17529867 | 5.519 |
| 111 | Molecular Neurodegeneration | BioMed Central Ltd | 17501326 | 5.488 |
| 112 | Journal of Management Studies | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00222380, 14676486 | 5.465 |
| 113 | Advanced Functional Materials | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 1616301X | 5.439 |
| 114 | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging | Elsevier Inc. | 1936878X, 18767591 | 5.426 |
| 115 | Personnel Psychology | Wiley-Blackwell | 00315826, 17446570 | 5.414 |
| 116 | Leadership Quarterly | Elsevier Inc. | 10489843 | 5.393 |
| 117 | Economic Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 14680297, 00130133 | 5.371 |
| 118 | Human Reproduction Update | Oxford University Press | 14602369, 13554786 | 5.357 |
| 119 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 5.341 |
| 120 | GigaScience | Oxford University Press | 2047217X | 5.314 |
| 121 | American Journal of Psychiatry | American Psychiatric Association | 0002953X, 15357228 | 5.27 |
| 122 | Annual Review of Sociology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 03600572, 15452115 | 5.262 |
| 123 | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | American Economic Association | 19457669, 19457685 | 5.225 |
| 124 | JACC: Heart Failure | Elsevier Inc. | 22131787, 22131779 | 5.218 |
| 125 | Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence | Elsevier B.V. | 2666920X | 5.217 |
| 126 | Strategic Organization | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1741315X, 14761270 | 5.21 |
| 127 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | Elsevier B.V. | 18733883, 09263373 | 5.18 |
| 128 | Developmental Cell | Cell Press | 15345807, 18781551 | 5.18 |
| 129 | The Lancet Healthy Longevity | Elsevier Ltd | 26667568 | 5.166 |
| 130 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 17520908, 17520894 | 5.138 |
| 131 | Advanced Powder Materials | KeAi Communications Co. | 2772834X | 5.1 |
| 132 | JAMA Pediatrics | American Medical Association | 21686211, 21686203 | 5.085 |
| 133 | Journal of International Business Studies | Palgrave Macmillan | 00472506, 14786990 | 5.078 |
| 134 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | American Thoracic Society | 1073449X, 15354970 | 5.076 |
| 135 | Academy of Management Perspectives | Academy of Management | 15589080 | 5.063 |
| 136 | Organization Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17413044, 01708406 | 5.032 |
| 137 | Light: Science and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 20477538 | 5.018 |
| 138 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 10575987, 15458601 | 41.754 |
| 139 | Intensive Care Medicine | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 14321238, 03424642 | 4.999 |
| 140 | European Heart Journal | Oxford University Press | 15229645, 0195668X | 4.987 |
| 141 | International Organization | Cambridge University Press | 15315088, 00208183 | 4.977 |
| 142 | Cell Systems | Cell Press | 24054720, 24054712 | 4.943 |
| 143 | Psychological Methods | American Psychological Association | 1082989X, 19391463 | 4.925 |
| 144 | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | S. Karger AG | 00333190, 14230348 | 4.904 |
| 145 | Circulation Research | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | 00097330, 15244571 | 4.897 |
| 146 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | Elsevier Ltd | 01695347, 18728383 | 4.876 |
| 147 | Information Systems Research | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265536, 10477047 | 4.85 |
| 148 | Health Psychology Review | Routledge | 17437202, 17437199 | 4.838 |
| 149 | EMBO Journal | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 02614189, 14602075 | 4.821 |
| 150 | Nature Plants | Nature Research | 2055026X, 20550278 | 4.815 |
| 151 | Matter | Cell Press | 25902393, 25902385 | 4.804 |
| 152 | Molecular Systems Biology | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 17444292 | 4.783 |
| 153 | Advanced Photonics | SPIE | 25775421 | 4.777 |
| 154 | Annals of Statistics | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 905364 | 4.769 |
| 155 | Nature Communications | Nature Research | 20411723 | 4.761 |
| 156 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | BMJ Publishing Group | 03063674, 14730480 | 4.724 |
| 157 | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | IEEE Computer Society | 10636919 | 4.718 |
| 158 | Annual Review of Entomology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 00664170, 15454487 | 4.655 |
| 159 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | Elsevier B.V. | 108545 | 4.638 |
| 160 | Review of Asset Pricing Studies | Oxford University Press | 20459920, 20459939 | 4.621 |
| 161 | IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 19493053 | 4.608 |
| 162 | Global Change Biology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13652486, 13541013 | 4.6 |
| 163 | Nano Energy | Elsevier B.V. | 22112855 | 4.566 |
| 164 | Journal of Supply Chain Management | Wiley-Blackwell | 15232409, 1745493X | 4.562 |
| 165 | Journal of Operations Management | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 18731317, 02726963 | 4.52 |
| 166 | PhotoniX | Springer International Publishing | 26621991 | 4.514 |
| 167 | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Elsevier Ltd | 1879307X, 13646613 | 4.506 |
| 168 | European Respiratory Journal | European Respiratory Society | 09031936, 13993003 | 4.502 |
| 169 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 17590876, 17590884 | 4.501 |
| 170 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.497 |
| 171 | Implementation Science | BioMed Central Ltd | 17485908 | 4.491 |
| 172 | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265498, 15234614 | 4.486 |
| 173 | MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems | Management Information Systems Research Center | 02767783, 21629730 | 4.486 |
| 174 | Acta Neuropathologica | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 00016322, 14320533 | 4.483 |
| 175 | Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | Cambridge University Press | 00221090, 17566916 | 4.465 |
| 176 | Journal of Advertising | M.E. Sharpe Inc. | 15577805, 00913367 | 4.455 |
| 177 | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15361276, 15582248 | 4.454 |
| 178 | IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics | IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity | 21682275, 21682267 | 4.45 |
| 179 | Cement and Concrete Composites | Elsevier Ltd | 9589465 | 4.446 |
| 180 | Quantitative Economics | Wiley-Blackwell | 17597323, 17597331 | 4.438 |
| 181 | Annual Review of Nutrition | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01999885, 15454312 | 4.435 |
| 182 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | Elsevier B.V. | 1466410 | 4.428 |
| 183 | IEEE Wireless Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15361284 | 4.406 |
| 184 | Educational Psychology Review | Springer New York | 1040726X, 1573336X | 4.384 |
| 185 | Biological Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell | 1469185X, 14647931 | 4.383 |
| 186 | Current Climate Change Reports | Springer International Publishing AG | 21986061 | 4.363 |
| 187 | Accounts of Materials Research | American Chemical Society | 26436728 | 4.358 |
| 188 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | Nature Research | 2397334X | 4.357 |
| 189 | Political Analysis | Cambridge University Press | 10471987, 14764989 | 4.353 |
| 190 | Journal of International Economics | Elsevier B.V. | 18730353, 00221996 | 4.321 |
| 191 | Blood Cancer Discovery | NLM (Medline) | 26433230, 26433249 | 4.316 |
| 192 | Journal of World Business | Elsevier Inc. | 10909516 | 4.297 |
| 193 | The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health | Elsevier B.V. | 23524642 | 4.289 |
| 194 | IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 19493029, 19493037 | 4.261 |
| 195 | Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer | BMJ Publishing Group | 20511426 | 4.22 |
| 196 | Sleep Medicine Reviews | W.B. Saunders Ltd | 15322955, 10870792 | 4.209 |
| 197 | American Sociological Review | American Sociological Association | 00031224, 19398271 | 4.203 |
| 198 | Cancer Treatment Reviews | W.B. Saunders Ltd | 03057372, 15321967 | 4.183 |
| 199 | RAND Journal of Economics | Wiley-Blackwell | 17562171, 07416261 | 4.173 |
| 200 | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07350015, 15372707 | 4.171 |