A global ranking of political science departments is presented using publication and citation measures drawn from a multi-continent dataset.
📊 What Was Collected
- 115,427 articles and 12,696 books were compiled.
- Publications include works written in English and other languages.
- Records cover 5,586 faculty members across 178 departments.
- Departments span North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and Africa.
🔎 How Departments Were Ranked
- Departments are ranked using three bibliometric criteria:
- Citations to articles published by faculty members
- Impact factors of the journals in which faculty published
- Number of top publications in which faculty published
📈 What the Rankings Present
- Results are provided for overall research productivity and for more recent research productivity, allowing both long-term and current comparisons across departments and regions.
⚖️ Why This Matters
- The dataset and ranking approach offer a standardized, global portrait of departmental research output and influence that can inform institutional assessment, comparative research, and bibliometric study.
