''Political Science'' is a triannual
peer-reviewed academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
covering
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 ...
. It was established at
Victoria University of Wellington in 1948 and remains New Zealand's sole professional journal of political science.
[New Zealand Political Science Association]
NZPSA Political Science Journal
/ref> It is published by Taylor and Francis and has a broadly comparative or international approach, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents
''Current Contents'' is a rapid alerting service database from Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information and Thomson Reuters. It is published online and in several different printed subject sections.
History
''C ...
, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and the Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index ...
. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Colle ...
'', its 2013 impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
is 0.700, ranking it 75th out of 156 journals in the category "Political Science".
References
External links
* {{Official, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpnz20/current
Political science journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Publications established in 1948
English-language journals
Triannual journals