Journal profile · POLITICAL SCIENCE
European Union Politics
ISSN 1465-1165 · eISSN 1741-2757 · SAGE
European Union Politics: CAS Zone 1 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 2.3; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,650; review about 187 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 24.1% (journal website); 67 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
European Union Politics is published by SAGE and is in Zone 1 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are European Union Policy and Governance, Electoral Systems and Political Participation and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, together about 56.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
European Union Politics (EUP) is an exciting international journal that provides the forum for advanced peer-reviewed research on all aspects of the processes of government, politics and policy in the European Union. Led by a global editorial team and with a commitment to the highest scholarly standards, European Union Politics adopts a transnational approach to the challenges that the project of European integration faces in the 21st century."In my opinion, it has become the leading social science journal dealing with EU issues... must reading for anyone interested in the EU as well as for those interested in theoretical developments in comparative politics and international relations" James Caporaso, University of Washington, Seattle, USA"EUP's major selling point is its unique combination of a substantive focus on the EU with a commitment to the empirical methods and analytical techniques of modern political science. EUP thereby finds an important place for EU studies within modern political science more generally." Michael Laver, Department of Politics, New York University, USA"EUP brings together substantive expertise on EU issues with theoretical understanding of debates in the social sciences, and methodological sophistication in the presentation of arguments. It is clearly the best existing journal on EU." George Tsebelis UCLA, USA"The journal is essential reading for all those seeking an analytic understanding of how the European Union works now, and will work over the horizon" Patrick Dunleavy, London School of Economics, UKAll issues of European Union Politics are available on SAGE Journals Online.Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eup
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): POLITICAL SCIENCE
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Germany 9, United States 6, Netherlands 4, United Kingdom 3, Italy 2 (40 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- European Union Policy and GovernanceSocial Sciences29.5%
- Electoral Systems and Political ParticipationSocial Sciences16.2%
- Political Influence and Corporate StrategiesBusiness, Management and Accounting11.1%
- Social Policy and Reform StudiesSocial Sciences5.9%
- European and International Law StudiesSocial Sciences5.7%
- Populism, Right-Wing MovementsSocial Sciences5.6%
- Political Systems and GovernanceSocial Sciences2.6%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.3LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.46LetPub ·
- h-index
- 100OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 590OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.27OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 13%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 73.47%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 34LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 984 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27 | 18 | 4 |
| 2025 | 67 | 32 | 140 |
| 2024 | 34 | 30 | 274 |
| 2023 | 34 | 31 | 272 |
| 2022 | 75 | 34 | 722 |
| 2021 | 42 | 26 | 1,196 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 24.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 187 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 114 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 9,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- forum articleA typical EUP issue also contains a forum article with a maximum length of 6,000 words. Forum article offer reviews of current scholarship or present novel rese…Length not stated
- letterPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. European Union Politics is an international academic journ…Length not stated
- original researchPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. European Union Politics is an international academic journ…Length not stated
- research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. European Union Politics is an international academic journ…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. European Union Politics is an international academic journ…Length not stated
- short research articleEUP also publishes shorter research articles of 1,000 to 2,000 words maximum of 3 display items. These peer reviewed letters report original research and are su…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
Data sharing policy: Authors are encouraged to share research data in a relevant public data repository, include a data availability statement, and cite the data. Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Publication ethics: The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review policy: Double anonymized peer review. Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double- anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reje…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint policy: The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Model summary
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 1465-1165
- Electronic ISSN
- 1741-2757
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about European Union Politics
What CAS zone is European Union Politics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, European Union Politics is in Zone 1 of Sociology, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Political Science; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of European Union Politics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.3; CiteScore 6.4, h-index 100.
How long does peer review take at European Union Politics?
The publisher reports about 187 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 24.1%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of European Union Politics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 9,000 words; Reference style: Harvard; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of European Union Politics based?
Of the 40 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Germany (9), United States (6) and Netherlands (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index European Union Politics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, European Union Politics is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is European Union Politics open access, and what is the APC?
European Union Politics is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .