Political Science (journal)

Not to be confused with PS Political Science & Politics.

Political Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science. It was established at Victoria University of Wellington in 1948 and remains New Zealand's sole professional journal of political science.^[1] It is published by Taylor and Francis and has a broadly comparative or international approach, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Political Science

Discipline	Political science
Language	English
Edited by	David Capie, Jana von Stein and Jack Vowles
Publication details
History	1948–present
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Frequency	Triannual
Impact factor	1.2 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Political Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0032-3187 (print) 2041-0611 (web)
LCCN	54036318
OCLC no.	7342321
Links
Journal homepage

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2024 impact factor is 1.2, ranking it 75th out of 156 journals in the category "Political Science".^[2]