New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

International Relations

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2024
1 International Security ca. 6.5
2 Global Environmental Politics ca. 5.2
3 International Affairs ca. 5
- Review of International Political Economy ca. 5
5 International Organization ca. 4.8
6 Foreign Affairs ca. 4.7
7 Contemporary Security Policy ca. 4.5
8 Chinese Journal of International Politics ca. 4.1
9 International Studies Review ca. 4
- JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies ca. 4
11 Review of International Organizations ca. 3.7
- European Journal of International Relations ca. 3.7
13 Security Studies ca. 3.6
- World Politics ca. 3.6
15 Current History ca. 3.5
- Journal of Peace Research ca. 3.5
17 Journal of International Relations and Development ca. 3.4
18 Emerging Markets Finance and Trade ca. 3.3
- European Security ca. 3.3
- International Studies Quarterly ca. 3.3
- Journal of European Integration ca. 3.3
22 Australian Journal of International Affairs ca. 3.2
- International Political Sociology ca. 3.2
24 Review of International Studies ca. 3.1
- World Trade Review ca. 3.1
26 European Journal of International Law ca. 3
- International Theory ca. 3
- Politics ca. 3
- World Economy ca. 3
- Cooperation and Conflict ca. 3
31 New Political Economy ca. 2.8
- International Journal ca. 2.8
33 Space Policy ca. 2.7
- Globalizations ca. 2.7
35 Journal of the Japanese and International Economies ca. 2.6
36 Journal of Conflict Resolution ca. 2.5
- Journal of Strategic Studies ca. 2.5
38 Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding ca. 2.4
- Pacific Review ca. 2.4
- Security Dialogue ca. 2.4
- British Journal of Politics & International Relations ca. 2.4
42 International Studies Perspectives ca. 2.3
- Latin American Politics and Society ca. 2.3
- American Journal of International Law ca. 2.3
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ca. 2.3
46 Common Market Law Review ca. 2.2
- Contemporary Southeast Asia ca. 2.2
- Global Policy ca. 2.2
- Millennium-Journal of International Studies ca. 2.2
- Terrorism and Political Violence ca. 2.2
51 International Relations ca. 2.1
52 Foreign Policy Analysis ca. 2
53 International Relations of the Asia-Pacific ca. 1.9
- Studies in Comparative International Development ca. 1.9
- Chinese Journal of International Law ca. 1.9
- Ocean Development and International Law ca. 1.9
- Review of World Economics ca. 1.9
58 International Journal of Transitional Justice ca. 1.8
- Washington Quarterly ca. 1.8
- Journal of Contemporary European Studies ca. 1.8
- Studies in Conflict & Terrorism ca. 1.8
- Asia Europe Journal ca. 1.8
- Ethics & International Affairs ca. 1.8
64 International Peacekeeping ca. 1.7
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ca. 1.7
66 Middle East Policy ca. 1.5
- Conflict Management and Peace Science ca. 1.5
- Human Rights Law Review ca. 1.5
69 International Interactions ca. 1.4
- Peacebuilding ca. 1.4
- Survival ca. 1.4
- Korea Observer ca. 1.4
- Cambridge Review of International Affairs ca. 1.4
74 Journal of Human Rights ca. 1.3
- Journal of World Trade ca. 1.3
76 International Politics ca. 1.2
- Global Governance ca. 1.2
- Mediterranean Politics ca. 1.2
79 Pacific Focus ca. 1.1
80 Intelligence and National Security ca. 1
- Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional ca. 1
82 Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations ca. 0.9
- Communist and Post-Communist Studies ca. 0.9
84 Journal of Cold War Studies ca. 0.6
85 Diplomacy & Statecraft ca. 0.4
86 War in History ca. 0.2
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