Talk:List of political science journals

RfC on journal list names

There is an RfC regarding the standardization of journal lists names. Please comment at Talk:List of journals#RFC. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:38, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Reorganizing

Would it make sense to reorganize this list and e.g. add impact factors, publishers, and categories/scope of each journal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dysase (talk • contribs) 18:28, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Request or comments

What objective criteria are used in determination which journals to include to the list and which not to? I ask as my contribution by inclusion of the Croatian Political Science Review was reverted by Snooganssnoogans because journal is "not notable". As it is published for decades and is certainly leading academic journal in Serbo-Croatian speaking area with regular publication in English I would like to receive further clarification on objective criteria used in this list. Kind regards.--MirkoS18 (talk) 21:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Notability. Per SJR, the journal has existed in 1985 and 2015-.[1] That's six years. And the journal has an impact factor 0.25 which is very low. Per SJR's rankings, there are hundreds of poli sci journals that rank ahead of it (and when it comes to very low impact factors, there's virtually no difference between all the journals near the bottom). This list of political science journal would be made useless if 500 poli sci journals were to be added to it. Currently, the list contains journals that are actually notable, and in my view, it should stay that way. But I understand that there isn't a firm rule for inclusion and I know your edit and concerns are in good faith. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 21:44, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for prompt feedback. A minor feedback, the journal exists uninterruptedly since 1964 (and its available on the HRČAK: Portal of scientific journals of Croatia) and it is only available on the quoted platform for the stated period. As for your reasoning, I do not necessarily seriously question it (I can even agree that there should be certain standard which can preferably be applied universally-universality would justify even imperfect standard). Now, my problem is that the article does not state explicitly that this is the list of political science journals based on their impact factor. Impact factor is certainly one of the major indicator, but I think we might also agree that it is certainly not the only one. Impact factor may affect non-English language publications, publications independent of major academic publishers, non-internationalized publications etc. They may still be relevant, well done and as the journal in question is certainly reference point for academic political science in Serbo-Croatian speaking area. Now, if this is indeed list as per journals' impact factor it should be clarified in the article's lead section as otherwise deleting certain journals seems quite arbitrary. Once again, thanks for your response and hope my feedback is helpful as well.--MirkoS18 (talk) 22:02, 23 May 2020 (UTC)