|
Rank |
2005
Impact Factor |
Impact
2001-05 |
Impact
1981-2005 |
1 |
International
Security
(2.63) |
Internat.
Organization
(5.46) |
Internat.
Organization
(20.76) |
2 |
Am.
J. Internat. Law
(2.15) |
World
Politics
(3.68) |
World
Politics
(17.57) |
3 |
Internat.
Organization
(2.06) |
J.
Conflict Resolution
(3.53) |
Int.
J. Geogr. Info. Sys.
(13.28) |
4 |
Foreign
Affairs
(2.06) |
International
Security
(3.52) |
J.
Conflict Resolution
(12.84) |
5 |
Stanford
J. Int. Law
(1.81) |
J.
Common Market Studies
(2.73) |
Int.
Studies Quarterly
(9.82) |
6 |
Eur.
J. Int. Relations
(1.50) |
Alternatives-Soc.
Trans.
(2.60) |
International
Security
(9.62) |
7 |
Int.
Studies Quarterly
(1.42) |
Int.
Studies Quarterly
(2.50) |
Post-Soviet
Affairs
(6.29) |
8 |
World
Politics
(1.31) |
Am.
J. Internat. Law
(2.24) |
Conflict
Mgmt./Peace S.
(5.05) |
9 |
J.
Peace Research
(1.29) |
J.
Peace Research
(2.20) |
J.
Peace Research
(5.02) |
10 |
Conflict
Mgmt./Peace S.
(1.29) |
Eur.
J. Int. Relations
(2.12) |
Internat.
Interactions
(4.98) |
The
above table compares the citation impact of journals in a given
field as measured over three different time spans. The left-hand
column ranks journals based on their 2004 "impact factor,"
as enumerated in the current edition of the Thomson Scientific
Journal Citation Reports®. The 2004 impact factor is calculated
by taking the number of all current citations to source items
published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing
by the number of articles published in the journal during the
same period—in other words, a ratio between citations
and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next
two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures
from the Thomson Scientific Journal Performance Indicators.
In these columns, total citations to a journal's published papers
are divided by the total number of papers that the journal published,
producing a citations-per-paper impact score over a five-year
period (middle column) and a 25-year period (right-hand column).
SOURCE: Journal Citation Reports and Journal Performance Indicators. |
