Perspectives on Politics
academic journal
Perspectives on Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science. It was established in 2003 and is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association. The editors-in-chief are Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University). The associate editor is Shmuel Nili (Northwestern); the founding editor was Jennifer Hochschild.
Editorship
2023-: Ana Arjona, Wendy Pearlman
2017-2023: Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill
2009-2017: Jeffrey C. Isaac
2005-2008: James Johnson
2002-2005: Jennifer Hochschild
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.234, ranking it 8th out of 165 journals in the category "Political Science".
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