''The International Journal of Press/Politics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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covering the field 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 ...

and

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, especially the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. The

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is Cristian Vaccari ( Loughborough University). It was established in 1996 and is published by

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, Social Sciences Citation Index, Wilson Social Sciences Index Retrospective,

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, and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 6.592, ranking it 9th out of 182 journals in the category "Political Science" and 7th out of 94 journals in the category "Communication".

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