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Political Analysis is ranked #1 of 93 journals in Political Science according to the 2007 ISI Journal Citation Reports.

Special Issues of Political Analysis

2001: Estimating Legislators' Preferences with Roll Call Data

2002: Spatial Methods in Political Science

2003: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models

2006: Causal Complexity and Qualitative Methods

2007: Time-Series Cross-Section Analysis

2008: The Statistical Analysis of Political Text

'More than any other journal, Political Analysis publishes the most powerful new ideas for the empirical analysis of politics. No serious researcher in the field, and no serious research library, will want to be without a subscription.'
Prof. Christopher Achen, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

'Political Analysis is the leading journal for innovative new quantitative work in political methodology, and the journal shows great promise for becoming an important voice in the ongoing effort to bridge quantitative and qualitative methodology.'
Prof. David Collier, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

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IMPACT FACTOR AND RANKING


YearImpact FactorSsi: Political Science
20084.7801 out of 99
20072.5351 out of 93
20060.91720 out of 85

This information is taken from the Journal Citation Reports, published annually as part of the Social Science Citation Index by ISI.