Journal profile · POLITICAL SCIENCE
Swiss Political Science Review
ISSN 1424-7755 · eISSN 1662-6370 · Wiley-Blackwell
Swiss Political Science Review: CAS Zone 3 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.93; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,140; median 255 days to acceptance (63 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 35% (journal website); 53 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Swiss Political Science Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Social Policy and Reform Studies and Political Systems and Governance, together about 35.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR) is a generalist political science journal whose aim is to advance academic knowledge and debate in political research. The SPSR is published on behalf of the Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA). Because of its origins, the journal is particularly interested in issues such as federalism and decentralisation, direct democracy, or consociational politics, but it publishes research from any major area and subfield of political science. The SPSR encourages contributions from different theoretical and methodological approaches and especially welcomes intellectual exchange across traditional boundaries between political science subfields and with its neighbouring disciplines (sociology, social psychology, law, anthropology, economics, and philosophy). It publishes original and innovative work that makes a theoretical, methodological and/or empirical contribution to the study of political phenomena. A fully refereed journal, the SPSR publishes research articles, book reviews, as well as special issues on selected topics. It collaborates with the Swiss Blog DeFacto; authors can post the main findings of their SPSR articles in German, French, or Italian. SPSR has been published since 1995, replacing the Annuaire suisse de science politique/Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Politische Wissenschaft. Full text of the annuals is available via the following link: http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/volumes?UID=svp-001 Abstracting and Indexing Information EconLit (AEA) Historical Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing) IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur) International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) Political Science Complete (EBSCO Publishing) ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): POLITICAL SCIENCE
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Electoral Systems and Political ParticipationSocial Sciences16.4%
- Social Policy and Reform StudiesSocial Sciences10.2%
- Political Systems and GovernanceSocial Sciences8.8%
- Populism, Right-Wing MovementsSocial Sciences7.9%
- Public Administration and Political AnalysisSocial Sciences7.9%
- European Union Policy and GovernanceSocial Sciences7.1%
- Political Influence and Corporate StrategiesBusiness, Management and Accounting5.8%
- Social Media and PoliticsSocial Sciences5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Political Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceEconLitPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 1.93LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2024
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.07LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.23LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher)
- 1.09Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 64OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 435OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.99OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 78.82%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 44Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 207,588Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,377 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27 | 21 | 0 |
| 2025 | 53 | 43 | 61 |
| 2024 | 62 | 48 | 221 |
| 2023 | 38 | 32 | 88 |
| 2022 | 54 | 33 | 396 |
| 2021 | 79 | 51 | 1,145 |
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 Crossref · to
255 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 212 days – 342 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 40 days (64 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 304 days
- Sample
- 63 articles with submission and acceptance dates (94 in the window); the latest was accepted on
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".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 35%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 35%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 51 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 51 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 205 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 37 daysPublisher website ·
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 3,140 / EUR 2,380 / GBP 1,580 | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted5
- book reviews and research notesPlease consult our Book Review guidelines and our Research Note guidelines.Length not stated
- debatesOffering a platform for discussion of a controversial issue, the SPSR also publishes Debates.Length not stated
- original research articlesArticles should not exceed 10,000 words. This includes the main text, figures, and tables. References and footnotes do not need to be included into the word cou…Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles are peer-reviewed and have a maximum word count of 10000, exclusive of the bibliography.Length not stated
- special issuesThe SPSR publishes one special issue per year.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Open access, Self-archiving
- Authorship
Manuscripts accepted in English, French, German, or Italian. Model summary
SPSR welcomes manuscripts written in English, French, German, or Italian.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Data and material to replicate analyses must be made publicly available; data accessibility statement required for accepted articles. Model summary
The SPSR requires that the data and other material to replicate the analyses presented in an article is made publicly available. Exceptions may be granted but need to be explained and well founded. Authors will be required to provide a data accessibility statement for all accepted articles, linking, preferably, to an appropriate public repository or to supporting online information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee (APC) to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers up…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Embargo period is 12 months, applies to published version. Model summary
The embargo period for SPSR is 12 months and pertains to the published version as well.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1424-7755
- Electronic ISSN
- 1662-6370
- Society / sponsor
- Swiss Political Science Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 32, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Swiss Political Science Review
What CAS zone is Swiss Political Science Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Swiss Political Science Review is in Zone 3 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Political Science. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Swiss Political Science Review?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.93; CiteScore 3.7, h-index 64.
How long does peer review take at Swiss Political Science Review?
Based on the dates recorded on 63 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 255 days (interquartile range 212–342 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 35% (2025). 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.
Which databases index Swiss Political Science Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Swiss Political Science Review is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and EconLit; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Swiss Political Science Review open access, and what is the APC?
Swiss Political Science Review is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,140.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .