Electoral Studies

Electoral Studies
DisciplinePolitical science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byOliver Heath, Kaat Smets
Publication details
History1982-present
Publisher
FrequencyBi-monthly
1.817 (2018)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Elect. Stud.
Indexing
ISSN0261-3794 (print)
1873-6890 (web)
LCCN84641833
OCLC no.644057930
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Electoral Studies is an international bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting. It was first established in 1982 by David Butler (Nuffield College, Oxford) and Bo Särlvik (University of Essex) and is widely recognised as a major journal in the field of political science. It is housed at Royal Holloway, University of London and is published by Elsevier (formerly Butterworths and Butterworth-Heinemann). The current editors-in-chief as of January 2018 are Oliver Heath (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Kaat Smets (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the former long-standing editors-in-chief were Harold Clarke (University of Texas at Dallas) and Geoffrey Evans (Nuffield College, Oxford).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.070, ranking it 88th out of 182 journals in the category "Political Science".[1]

According to Google Scholar Metrics, the journal has an h-index of 37, ranking it 23rd in the category "Political Science".[2]

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References

  1. ^ "Electoral Studies". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
  2. ^ Google Scholar. "Top publications." Retrieved from: https://resulumit.com/blog/polisci-google-scholar/. 2019.