Journal of Political Ideologies

Journal of Political Ideologies is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Populism, Right-Wing Movements, Political and Economic history of UK and US and Political Economy and Marxism, together about 31.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Political Ideologies is dedicated to the analysis of political ideology in its theoretical and conceptual aspects, and to investigating the nature and roles of particular ideological manifestations and practices. The Journal of Political Ideologies serves as a major discipline-developing vehicle for an innovative, growing and vital field in political studies. It is open to exploring new methodologies that illuminate the complexity and richness of ideological structures and solutions both formed by and forming political thinking and political imagination. Concurrently, the Journal of Political Ideologies supports a broad research agenda aimed at building inter-disciplinary bridges with relevant areas and invigorating cross-disciplinary debate. Political ideologies are indispensable to appreciating the role of political thought within social, temporal and spatial contexts, both at conscious and unconscious levels. The Journal of Political Ideologies examines ideologies in all their modes, from elite articulations to expressions of vernacular understandings. In parallel it emphasizes that political action, processes and institutions are endowed with ideological import and shaped to a considerable extent by political ideologies. The indeterminacy of the notion of ideology is recognized in a number of ways. It is concerned with attempts to control political language and discourse, with epistemological issues of truth, distortion and dissimulation, and with sociological phenomena of power, dominance and exploitation. All those also encompass functional questions denoting action-oriented political thinking. Significant attention is also devoted to analyzing ideologies in terms of their actual histories, their comparative geographical and cultural expression, their non-verbal manifestations, and the idea-patterns of particular ideological variants and ideological traditions. The changing forms of ideologies in the 21st century constitute a further focus. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to anonymized peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): POLITICAL SCIENCE

Editor-in-chief Marius OstrowskiPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 2, Germany 1, Italy 1, Slovenia 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

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.

Impact

Impact factor

1.53LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

5.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.83LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.83Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.75Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

57OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

264OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.09OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

6.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

32.61%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

16LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

242,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

14%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

70 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

177 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1356-9317

Electronic ISSN

1469-9613

Latest issue on the website

Volume 31, Issue 2 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website