Political Research Quarterly

Academic journal

Political Research Quarterly

Discipline| Political science
Language| English
Edited by| Charles Anthony Smith, Andrew Flores, Jennifer Garcia, Stephen Andrew Nuno, Davin Phoenix, Julia Jordan-Zachary, Heather Smith-Cannoy, Christopher Stout, Jami Taylor, Angelia Wilson, Wendy Wong, Jacob Sutherland
Publication details

Former name(s)

Western Political Quarterly

History| 1948-present
Publisher|

SAGE Publications on behalf of the University of Utah (United States)

Frequency| Quarterly

Impact factor

| 2.531 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Political Res. Q.
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
ISSN| 1065-9129 (print)
1938-274X (web)

LCCN| 93657077
OCLC no.| 638770729
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

Political Research Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of political science. The editor-in-chief is Charles Anthony Smith (University of California, Irvine); with associate editors: Andrew Flores (American University), Jennifer Garcia (Oberlin College), Stephen Andrew Nuno (Northern Arizona University), Davin Phoenix (University of California, Irvine), Julia Jordan-Zachary (Wake Forest University), Heather Smith-Cannoy (Arizona State University), Christopher Stout (Oregon State University), Jami Taylor (University of Toledo), Angelia Wilson (University of Manchester), and Wendy Wong (University of British Columbia); and managing editor: Jacob Sutherland (University of California, Irvine).

The journal was established in 1948[1] and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the University of Utah. It is the official journal of the Western Political Science Association.

## History

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Originally named the Western Political Quarterly, it served as the official journal of the Western Political Science Association since it was first published by the University of Utah in March, 1948. The relationship between the association and the journal was formalized in 1971. The journal was renamed Political Research Quarterly in 1992.[2]

## Abstracting and indexing

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.531, ranking it 67th out of 187 journals in the category "Political Science".[3]

## See also

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* List of political science journals

## References

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1. ^ Elisabeth Gayon (1985). "Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique". In Madeleine Grawitz [in French]; Jean Leca [in French] (eds.). Traité de science politique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 305\. ISBN 2-13-038858-2.
2. ^ Moulds, E. (2009). "Where We Came from: Defining the Western Political Science Association: A Brief, Very Selective Organizational History Sampled from the Archives of the WPSA". Political Research Quarterly. 62 (4): 840–842. doi:10.1177/1065912909346698. JSTOR 25594452. S2CID 154252897.
3. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Political Science". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.

## External links

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* Official website