The ''American Political Science Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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covering all areas of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

. It is an official journal of the American Political Science Association and is published on their behalf by

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. The journal was established in 1906. It is considered a flagship journal in political science.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index,

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/ Social & Behavioral Sciences,

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, and the International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature and Social Sciences. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 3.316, ranking it 5th out of 165 journals in the category "Political Science".

Editorial team

The first three managing editors were W. W. Willoughby (1906-1916), John A. Fairlie (1917-1925) and Frederic A. Ogg (1926–1949). For the 2020–2024 term, the journal is co-led by a 12 member editorial team of

Sharon Wright Austin Sharon Wright Austin (née Sharon D. Wright) is an American political scientist, currently a professor of political science at the University of Florida, where she was also a longtime Director of the African-American Studies Program. Austin is a ...

Michelle Dion Michelle Dion is a political scientist, currently a professor in the department of political science and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Gender and Methodology at McMaster University, as well as the founding director of McMaster University ...

, Celeste Montoya, Clarissa Rile Hayward,

Kelly Kadera Kelly M. Kadera is an American political scientist, currently a professor at the University of Iowa. She studies international conflict, democratic survival, and gender in academia using formal theory, dynamic modeling, and empirical methods. ...

Julie Novkov Julie Novkov is an American political scientist, currently a professor of political science and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She studies the history of American law, American political development, ...

Valeria Sinclair-Chapman Valeria Sinclair-Chapman is an American political scientist, currently a professor of political science and African-American studies at Purdue University. Sinclair-Chapman studies American political institutions, the representation of minority g ...

Dara Strolovitch Dara Strolovitch is an American political scientist, currently Professor of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Political Science at Yale University. She studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the ...

Aili M. Tripp Aili Mari Tripp (born 24 May 1958) is a Finnish and American political scientist, currently the Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Education and early career T ...

Denise Walsh Denise Walsh is an American political scientist, currently a professor of political science and women, gender and sexuality at the University of Virginia. She studies the relationship between women's rights and political inclusion and level of d ...

S. Laurel Weldon S. Laurel Weldon is a Canadian and American political scientist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. She is a democratic and feminist theorist, known for studies of the cross-national evolution ...

, and

Elisabeth Jean Wood Elisabeth Jean Wood is an American political scientist, currently the Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor of the Human Environment, professor of political science, and professor of international and area studies at Yale University. She studies sexu ...

. This team's term will last until May 2024. The editorial team noted in a publication of the American Political Science Association that, while many journals have had all-male editorial teams, many fewer political science journals have had all-woman teams. This team follows a 2016–2020 editorial team that had been primarily based in Europe, in an attempt to globalize the reach of the ''American Political Science Review''.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.apsanet.org/apsr
''American Political Science Review'' Archive at Hathitrust
1906 establishments in the United States Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United States Cambridge University Press academic journals English-language journals Political science in the United States Political science journals Publications established in 1906 Quarterly journals

Abstracting and indexing

Editorial team

See also

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Further reading

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