International Political Science Review


The International Political Science Review/Revue Internationale de Science Politique is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of political science. The editors-in-chief are Marian Sawer and Theresa Reidy. It was established in 1980 and is published by Sage Publications on behalf of the International Political Science Association.

Editors' choice and thematic special issues

Editors' choice collections of articles on a particular theme, selected from past issues, were initiated in 2011. So far there have been collections on ideology, regimes and regime change, , , , , and . Access to the articles in these collections is free.
The journal also regularly publishes thematic special issues. Recent examples include special issues on , , and .

Meisel-Laponce Award

The journal has a cash prize of $1000 for the best article published in the previous four years. The prize was first awarded in 2012 and went to Jorgen Moller and Svend-Erik Skaaning, for Beyond the radial delusion: Conceptualising and measuring democracy and non-democracy. There is free access to the winning and short-listed articles. In 2016 the prize was awarded to Lingling Qi and Doh Chull Shin for '
The next award will be made at the International Political Science Association's World Congress in Lisbon in 2020.

Most cited article

The most cited paper published in the journal since the beginning of 2002, cited over 900 times according to Google Scholar, is:
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.321, ranking it 75th out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science".