Jun 29, 2023

Celebrating our 2022 Journal Citation Metrics

We are proud to announce that Bristol University Press and Policy Press journals have achieved some of their best ever Impact Factor and Scopus CiteScore results this year.

Highlights include:

• Policy & Politics has achieved its highest results ever with an Impact Factor of 4.7 and a CiteScore of 6.3. Policy & Politics is now ranked 16th out of 187 Political Science journals (Q1) and 7th out of 49 Public Administration journals (Q1) in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports.

• Evidence & Policy achieved an Impact Factor of 2.1 and a CiteScore of 4.7, placing it in the 90th percentile of journals ranked in the Social Sciences (miscellaneous) category in Scopus.

• We are delighted that nine Bristol University Press and Policy Press journals indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index received their first Impact Factors in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports.

• The European Journal of Politics and Gender received an excellent first Impact Factor in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports. The journal achieved an Impact Factor of 2.1 and a CiteScore of 2.7, placing it in the 78th percentile of journals ranked in the Political Science and International Relations category in Scopus.

• Global Discourse also received its first Impact Factor in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, achieving an Impact Factor of 1.5 and a Cite Score of 3.3. Global Discourse is placed in the 84th percentile of journals ranked in the Political Science and International Relations category in Scopus.

• Critical and Radical Social Work, Emotions and Society, the International Journal of Care and Caring, the Journal of Gender-Based Violence, the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, the Journal of Psychosocial Studies and Voluntary Sector Review also all received their first Impact Factors in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports.

• According to the 2023 Journal Citation Reports total citations in 2022 across the Bristol University Press and Policy Press journals list increased by 10%.

“These results are a strong endorsement of the quality of our journals and their value to the scholarly community. As a not-for-profit publisher with a mission to tackle global social challenges, we are proud to work with our fantastic editorial teams and wider journal communities to produce research that has real world as well as academic impact."

- Julia Mortimer, Journals and Open Access Director, Bristol University Press

We want to thank all of our authors, reviewers, editors, board members, partners and readers for their contributions to the journals’ success! To celebrate these achievements we have created a free collection of highly cited articles featuring papers that have contributed to our 2022 citation metrics.

Enjoy the collection for free until 31 July

Or browse by journal:

Critical and Radical Social Work
Emotions and Society
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Evidence & Policy
Families Relationships and Societies
Global Discourse
International Journal of Care and Caring
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Journal of Poverty & Social Justice
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Policy & Politics
Voluntary Sector Review