The ''American Political Science Review'' (''APSR'') is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering all areas of
political science
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. It is an official journal of the
American Political Science Association and is published on their behalf by
Cambridge University Press
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. APSR was established in 1906 and is the flagship journal in political science.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the
Social Sciences Citation Index
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Current Contents
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History
''Current Contents ...
'' / Social & Behavioral Sciences,
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
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Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2016
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
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,
Michelle Dion, Celeste Montoya,
Clarissa Rile Hayward,
Kelly Kadera,
Julie Novkov,
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman,
Dara Strolovitch,
Aili M. Tripp,
Denise Walsh,
S. Laurel Weldon, and
Elisabeth Jean Wood.
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''.
See also
*
List of political science journals
This is a list of political science journals presenting representative peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of political science.
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*'' Acta Politica''
*'' African Affairs''
*'' American Affairs''
*'' American Journal of Political Scie ...
References
Further reading
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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