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 | Annual Review of Public Health | Annual Reviews Inc. | 01637525, 15452093 | 9.963 |
| 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Springer Verlag | 09354956, 14320754 | 9.937 |
| 3 | Advanced Materials | Wiley-Blackwell | 09359648, 15214095 | 9.538 |
| 4 | Nature Reviews Methods Primers | Springer Nature | 26628449 | 9.476 |
| 5 | Nature Reviews Physics | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 25225820 | 9.34 |
| 6 | Advances in Computers | Academic Press Inc. | 652458 | 9.308 |
| 7 | Genome Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 14747596 | 9.249 |
| 8 | Nature Microbiology | Nature Publishing Group | 20585276 | 9.187 |
| 9 | Advanced Energy Materials | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 16146832, 16146840 | 9.044 |
| 10 | Electrochemical Energy Reviews | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | 25208136 | 8.905 |
| 11 | Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15534006, 15534014 | 8.628 |
| 12 | Journal of Economic Perspectives | American Economic Association | 8953309 | 8.59 |
| 13 | Progress in Materials Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 18732208, 00796425 | 8.515 |
| 14 | Strategic Management Journal | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 10970266, 01432095 | 8.497 |
| 15 | Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press Journals | 00346535, 15309142 | 8.371 |
| 16 | Annual Review of Political Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 10942939, 15451577 | 8.346 |
| 17 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | Elsevier USA | 15583597, 07351097 | 8.343 |
| 18 | Advances in Optics and Photonics | Optica Publishing Group | 19438206 | 8.332 |
| 19 | Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology,The | Elsevier Ltd. | 22138595, 22138587 | 8.217 |
| 20 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | American Economic Association | 19457731, 1945774X | 8.175 |
| 21 | Lancet Psychiatry,The | Elsevier Ltd. | 22150374, 22150366 | 8.167 |
| 22 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452123, 15435008 | 8.131 |
| 23 | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | Nature Publishing Group | 17595037, 17595029 | 8.124 |
| 24 | Nature Physics | Nature Publishing Group | 17452473 | 7.955 |
| 25 | ACS Energy Letters | American Chemical Society | 23808195 | 7.855 |
| 26 | Circulation | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. | 00097322, 15244539 | 7.8 |
| 27 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge University Press | 15375943, 00030554 | 7.734 |
| 28 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 7338716 | 7.656 |
| 29 | Psychological Bulletin | American Psychological Association | 00332909, 19391455 | 7.635 |
| 30 | Marketing Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 07322399, 1526548X | 7.593 |
| 31 | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | American Society for Microbiology | 08938512, 10986618 | 7.584 |
| 32 | Journal of Marketing Research | American Marketing Association | 00222437, 15477193 | 7.415 |
| 33 | American Sociological Review | American Sociological Association | 00031224, 19398271 | 7.412 |
| 34 | JAMA Cardiology | American Medical Association | 23806583, 23806591 | 7.371 |
| 35 | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | Springer International Publishing AG | 16144961, 23673648 | 7.235 |
| 36 | Journal of Management | SAGE Publications Inc. | 01492063, 15571211 | 7.213 |
| 37 | Endocrine Reviews | The Endocrine Society | 19457189, 0163769X | 7.205 |
| 38 | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265498, 15234614 | 7.126 |
| 39 | Cell Systems | Cell Press | 24054712 | 7.112 |
| 40 | Nature Metabolism | Springer Berlin | 25225812 | 7.045 |
| 41 | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | Annual Reviews Inc. | 23270608 | 7.036 |
| 42 | Nature Reviews Cardiology | Nature Publishing Group | 17595010, 17595002 | 6.932 |
| 43 | Nature Climate Change | Nature Publishing Group | 17586798, 1758678X | 6.849 |
| 44 | Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports | Elsevier BV | 0927796X | 6.842 |
| 45 | Annals of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics at Princeton University | 0003486X | 6.76 |
| 46 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15485951, 15485943 | 6.744 |
| 47 | Nature Protocols | Nature Publishing Group | 17542189 | 6.732 |
| 48 | Nature Biomedical Engineering | Nature Publishing Group | 2157846X | 6.625 |
| 49 | JAMA Psychiatry | American Medical Association | 21686238, 2168622X | 6.578 |
| 50 | Nature Sustainability | Nature Publishing Group | 23989629 | 6.568 |
| 51 | IEEE Wireless Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15361284 | 6.556 |
| 52 | Organization Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 15265455, 10477039 | 6.541 |
| 53 | Nature Reviews Neurology | Nature Publishing Group | 17594766, 17594758 | 6.536 |
| 54 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | BMJ Publishing Group | 00034967, 14682060 | 6.489 |
| 55 | Science Robotics | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 24709476 | 6.479 |
| 56 | Physical Review X | American Physical Society | 21603308 | 6.267 |
| 57 | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Springer New York | 00920703, 15527824 | 6.248 |
| 58 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | American Thoracic Society | 1073449X, 15354970 | 6.237 |
| 59 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press | 00221007, 15409538 | 6.237 |
| 60 | Intensive Care Medicine | Springer Verlag | 14321238, 03424642 | 6.229 |
| 61 | Molecular Systems Biology | Wiley-Blackwell | 17444292 | 6.22 |
| 62 | Nature Machine Intelligence | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 25225839 | 6.21 |
| 63 | Materials Today | Elsevier | 13697021 | 6.194 |
| 64 | Nature Reviews Earth and Environment | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | 2662138X | 6.193 |
| 65 | InfoMat | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | 25673165 | 6.153 |
| 66 | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07350015, 15372707 | 6.15 |
| 67 | Nature Geoscience | Nature Publishing Group | 17520908, 17520894 | 6.11 |
| 68 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Elsevier | 1654101 | 6.1 |
| 69 | Journal of the European Economic Association | Wiley-Blackwell | 15424774, 15424766 | 6.087 |
| 70 | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Annual Reviews Inc. | 846597 | 6.083 |
| 71 | Journal of Consumer Research | Oxford University Press | 00935301, 15375277 | 6.024 |
| 72 | Diabetes Care | American Diabetes Association Inc. | 19355548, 01495992 | 6.008 |
| 73 | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1638998 | 5.985 |
| 74 | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | IEEE Computer Society | 10636919 | 5.952 |
| 75 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | American Chemical Society | 15205126, 00027863 | 5.945 |
| 76 | Journal of Monetary Economics | Elsevier | 3043932 | 5.944 |
| 77 | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer | 15561380, 15560864 | 5.866 |
| 78 | Cell Reports Medicine | Cell Press | 26663791 | 5.841 |
| 79 | Fungal Diversity | Springer Netherlands | 15602745, 18789129 | 5.784 |
| 80 | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1089778X | 5.767 |
| 81 | Journal of Econometrics | Elsevier BV | 3044076 | 5.744 |
| 82 | Physics Reports | Elsevier | 3701573 | 5.691 |
| 83 | Review of Finance | Oxford University Press | 1573692X, 15723097 | 5.68 |
| 84 | Progress in Energy and Combustion Science | Elsevier BV | 3601285 | 5.679 |
| 85 | Progress in Polymer Science | Elsevier Ltd. | 796700 | 5.676 |
| 86 | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15361276 | 5.662 |
| 87 | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15505499 | 5.662 |
| 88 | Annual Review of Entomology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 00664170, 15454487 | 5.655 |
| 89 | Nature Human Behaviour | Nature Publishing Group | 23973374 | 5.639 |
| 90 | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Elsevier Ltd. | 1879307X, 13646613 | 5.615 |
| 91 | European Journal of Heart Failure | Wiley-Blackwell | 13889842, 18790844 | 5.601 |
| 92 | Advanced Functional Materials | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 1616301X | 5.565 |
| 93 | Proceedings of the IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 15582256, 00189219 | 5.564 |
| 94 | EMBO Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 02614189, 14602075 | 5.484 |
| 95 | Review of Corporate Finance Studies | Oxford University Press | 20469136, 20469128 | 5.448 |
| 96 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1543592X | 5.409 |
| 97 | Light: Science and Applications | Nature Publishing Group | 20477538 | 5.406 |
| 98 | Developmental Cell | Cell Press | 15345807, 18781551 | 5.385 |
| 99 | Journal of Financial Intermediation | Academic Press Inc. | 10960473, 10429573 | 5.384 |
| 100 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | Nature Publishing Group | 2397334X | 5.374 |
| 101 | IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics | IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity | 21682275, 21682267 | 5.365 |
| 102 | JACC: Heart Failure | Elsevier BV | 22131787, 22131779 | 5.352 |
| 103 | Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision | Now Publishers Inc | 15722740 | 5.329 |
| 104 | Management Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 00251909, 15265501 | 5.322 |
| 105 | Cement and Concrete Research | Elsevier Ltd. | 88846 | 5.294 |
| 106 | IEEE Communications Magazine | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 1636804 | 5.285 |
| 107 | Nano-Micro Letters | 23116706, 21505551 | 5.276 | |
| 108 | Annals of Statistics | Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 905364 | 5.219 |
| 109 | Molecular Plant | Cell Press | 16742052, 17529867 | 5.209 |
| 110 | Nature Plants | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | 2055026X | 5.205 |
| 111 | Studies in Mycology | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 1660616 | 5.202 |
| 112 | Energy Storage Materials | Elsevier BV | 24058297 | 5.179 |
| 113 | Journal of Accounting Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1475679X, 00218456 | 5.165 |
| 114 | Molecular Neurodegeneration | BioMed Central Ltd. | 17501326 | 5.158 |
| 115 | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | American Economic Association | 19457669, 19457685 | 5.156 |
| 116 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | Elsevier Ltd. | 01695347, 18728383 | 5.127 |
| 117 | IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 19493053 | 5.118 |
| 118 | Nature Communications | Nature Publishing Group | 20411723 | 5.116 |
| 119 | JAMA Pediatrics | American Medical Association | 21686211, 21686203 | 5.109 |
| 120 | Journal of Public Economics | Elsevier | 472727 | 5.1 |
| 121 | Journal of International Business Studies | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | 00472506, 14786990 | 5.093 |
| 122 | Handbook of Econometrics | Elsevier | 15734412 | 5.036 |
| 123 | Nano Energy | Elsevier BV | 22112855 | 5.03 |
| 124 | Journal of Business Venturing | Elsevier Inc. | 8839026 | 5.029 |
| 125 | Journal of Service Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10946705, 15527379 | 4.981 |
| 126 | Evidence-Based Mental Health | BMJ Publishing Group | 1468960X, 13620347 | 4.969 |
| 127 | American Journal of Political Science | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00925853, 15405907 | 4.963 |
| 128 | International Journal of Information Management | Elsevier Ltd. | 2684012 | 4.906 |
| 129 | Innovation Policy and the Economy | University of Chicago Press | 15313468, 15372618 | 4.903 |
| 130 | Acta Neuropathologica | Springer Verlag | 00016322, 14320533 | 4.897 |
| 131 | Matter | Cell Press | 25902393, 25902385 | 4.896 |
| 132 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | Elsevier | 18733883, 09263373 | 4.887 |
| 133 | Cell Genomics | Cell Press | 2666979X | 4.863 |
| 134 | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | Elsevier | 1466410 | 4.855 |
| 135 | Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks | Morgan and Claypool Publishers | 19354185 | 4.854 |
| 136 | Academy of Management Perspectives | Academy of Management | 15589080 | 4.84 |
| 137 | Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control | Now Publishers Inc | 23256826, 23256818 | 4.816 |
| 138 | Political Analysis | Cambridge University Press | 10471987, 14764989 | 4.815 |
| 139 | International Organization | Cambridge University Press | 15315088, 00208183 | 4.798 |
| 140 | Accounts of Materials Research | American Chemical Society | 26436728 | 4.788 |
| 141 | Advanced Photonics | SPIE | 25775421 | 4.787 |
| 142 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15452050, 15435938 | 4.784 |
| 143 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | BMJ Publishing Group | 03063674, 14730480 | 4.764 |
| 144 | Information Fusion | Elsevier | 18726305, 15662535 | 4.756 |
| 145 | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | S. Karger AG | 00333190, 14230348 | 4.738 |
| 146 | ACS Nano | American Chemical Society | 1936086X, 19360851 | 4.728 |
| 147 | Journal of Labor Economics | University of Chicago | 0734306X, 15375307 | 4.727 |
| 148 | AI Open | KeAi Communications Co. | 26666510 | 4.726 |
| 149 | European Respiratory Journal | European Respiratory Society | 09031936, 13993003 | 4.722 |
| 150 | Trends in Immunology | Elsevier Ltd. | 14714906, 14714981 | 4.689 |
| 151 | Organizational Research Methods | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15527425, 10944281 | 4.626 |
| 152 | Lancet Rheumatology, The | Elsevier Ltd. | 26659913 | 4.586 |
| 153 | Cell Reports | Cell Press | 22111247 | 4.574 |
| 154 | Carbon Energy | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 26379368 | 4.571 |
| 155 | Clinical Psychology Review | Elsevier Inc. | 18737811, 02727358 | 4.541 |
| 156 | Organization Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 17413044, 01708406 | 4.537 |
| 157 | Review of Asset Pricing Studies | Oxford University Press | 20459920, 20459939 | 4.537 |
| 158 | Circulation Research | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. | 00097330, 15244571 | 4.531 |
| 159 | Journal of Management Studies | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00222380, 14676486 | 4.492 |
| 160 | Reports on Progress in Physics | IOP Publishing Ltd. | 13616633, 00344885 | 4.467 |
| 161 | ACM Computing Surveys | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 03600300, 15577341 | 4.457 |
| 162 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | IEEE Computer Society | 1628828 | 4.447 |
| 163 | Accounting Review | American Accounting Association | 14826 | 4.446 |
| 164 | PhotoniX | Springer | 26621991 | 4.445 |
| 165 | JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging | Elsevier Inc. | 1936878X, 18767591 | 4.435 |
| 166 | Ecology Letters | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1461023X, 14610248 | 4.426 |
| 167 | Annals of PDE | Springer Science + Business Media | 21992576, 25245317 | 4.425 |
| 168 | PRX Quantum | American Physical Society | 26913399 | 4.415 |
| 169 | Biological Reviews | Wiley-Blackwell | 1469185X, 14647931 | 4.388 |
| 170 | Mathematical Programming Computation | Springer Verlag | 18672949, 18672957 | 4.377 |
| 171 | Energy and Environmental Materials | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 25750348, 25750356 | 4.338 |
| 172 | Nature Aging | Springer | 26628465 | 4.336 |
| 173 | Economic Journal | Wiley-Blackwell | 14680297, 00130133 | 4.334 |
| 174 | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 00189286, 15582523 | 4.334 |
| 175 | Leadership Quarterly | Elsevier Inc. | 10489843 | 4.331 |
| 176 | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | Wiley-Blackwell | 10422587, 15406520 | 4.323 |
| 177 | Strategic Organization | SAGE Publications Ltd | 1741315X, 14761270 | 4.284 |
| 178 | Radiocarbon | Cambridge University Press | 338222 | 4.271 |
| 179 | IEEE Network | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. | 08908044, 1558156X | 4.266 |
| 180 | eLife | eLife Sciences Publications | 2050084X | 4.251 |
| 181 | Psychological Methods | American Psychological Association | 1082989X, 19391463 | 4.247 |
| 182 | Earth System Science Data | Copernicus Publications | 18663516, 18663508 | 4.24 |
| 183 | Annual Review of Medicine | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1545326X, 00664219 | 4.233 |
| 184 | Annual Review of Physical Chemistry | Annual Reviews Inc. | 0066426X, 15451593 | 4.232 |
| 185 | Strategy Science | INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 23332077, 23332050 | 4.232 |
| 186 | American Journal of Psychiatry | American Psychiatric Association | 0002953X, 15357228 | 4.231 |
| 187 | Review of Accounting Studies | Springer New York | 15737136, 13806653 | 4.212 |
| 188 | Annual Review of Sociology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 03600572, 15452115 | 4.196 |
| 189 | Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, The | Elsevier BV | 23524642 | 4.179 |
| 190 | California Management Review | Haas School of Business | 21628564, 00081256 | 4.17 |
| 191 | Eurosurveillance | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) | 15607917, 1025496X | 4.145 |
| 192 | Applied Physics Reviews | AIP Publishing LLC | 19319401 | 4.143 |
| 193 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | Elsevier | 108545 | 4.121 |
| 194 | Optica | Optica Publishing Group | 23342536 | 4.096 |
| 195 | Journal of Interactive Marketing | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10949968, 15206653 | 4.092 |
| 196 | Advanced Science | Wiley-VCH Verlag | 21983844 | 4.086 |
| 197 | Radiology | Radiological Society of North America Inc. | 00338419, 15271315 | 4.073 |
| 198 | Global Change Biology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13652486, 13541013 | 4.069 |
| 199 | Remote Sensing of Environment | Elsevier Inc. | 344257 | 4.057 |
| 200 | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 21596778, 2159676X | 4.045 |