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''Comparative Political Studies'' is a
peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...
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 ...
. It was established in 1968 by
SAGE Publications SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California. It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...
, who continue to publish it today. The editors are David J. Samuels, University of Minnesota, and Benjamin W. Ansell, University of Oxford. The journal publishes methodological, theoretical, and research articles in the field of
comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the ''comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relatin ...
at both the cross-national and intra-national levels.


Abstracting and indexing

''Comparative Political Studies'' is abstracted and indexed in
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and the
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. According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2017
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 ...
of 2.919, ranking it 16th out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science".


See also

*
List of political science journals This is a list of political science journals presenting representative academic journals in the field of political science. A *'' Acta Politica'' *''African Affairs'' *'' American Journal of Political Science'' *''American Political Science Re ...


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