any value to it?
value of an american journal of political science for a political economsit?
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Political scientist here (I do political economy from the PS side).
Political Analysis is like the Econometrica of Poli Sci, in terms of its reputation, impact factor. It's obviously several steps below Econometrica in terms of the quality of work, but it's the best journal in political science for that type of work, far and away.
APSR is the flagship journal.
AJPS is second to APSR, and publishes quite a bit of the better quantitative work in political science. It is a good outlet--though I can't speak to how it is viewed among economists.
Pol Econ types could also consider International Organization, if your work has an international bent (trade, FDI, migration, etc).
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how is quartely journal of political science?
Political scientist here (I do political economy from the PS side).
Political Analysis is like the Econometrica of Poli Sci, in terms of its reputation, impact factor. It's obviously several steps below Econometrica in terms of the quality of work, but it's the best journal in political science for that type of work, far and away.
APSR is the flagship journal.
AJPS is second to APSR, and publishes quite a bit of the better quantitative work in political science. It is a good outlet--though I can't speak to how it is viewed among economists.
Pol Econ types could also consider International Organization, if your work has an international bent (trade, FDI, migration, etc). -
Another political economist at top five here. Second ^2 comments.
^QJPS is good but new so its reputation is mixed. The top people think better of QJPS than people in general because we judge it by the work it publishes (which is good) more than its institutional reputation (which is limited since it is so new).
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Quant polisci type here. Political Analysis is a bit of a joke, and calling it the "econometrica of political science" is like referring to Catawba Valley Community College as "Harvard on the Highway." It is highly cited, and has a high rejection rate, and it can help in a PS tenure case. And they do publish some really good stuff. But you have to look carefully at who the author is, because PA publishes some truly embarrassing garbage.
AJPS and APSR are both excellent. APSR is a half step above. Journal of Politics is a step or two down from AJPS, more valuable to people in American politics than other subfields, and probably not worth much to an economist. AJPS and APSR would be.
But holy lord stay out of Political Analysis.
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Leaving aside Political Analysis (since it's a different beast), this would be my order of preference for publishing my work on political economy, without consideration of field (i.e. some political scientists would probably prefer I publish in APSR than JPE, but those people are idiots).
1. AER/QJE/JPE
2. APSR
3. Top field econ journal?? (JDE, etc) -- not 100% sure about this one--could be tied with #4 or even between #4 and #5. Depends on the field too.
4. AJPS and International Organization (IO)
5. Journal of Politics and International Studies Quarterly.....big gap....
Lots of other journals like RIPE, New Pol Econ, etc.
Just my two cents. I'm not sure about where to put top field journals in econ or QJPS, but this should give you a rough guide that others can contest if they feel so inclined.
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Political Analysis is not the poli sci equivalent of Econometrica. Econometrica is a top-5 "general" journal with a technical bent. PA is field journal that only political methodologists publish in and the contributions of an individual article may be minimal. PA also carries no weight in econ depts. Also, this is more of a topic for PSJR.
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^Don't know about PSJR. But it happened after many people posted about sexual harrasement charges againt Stathis Kalyvas. There was a Yale News Daily article on them. Serious stuff, if true. Did Stathis hire lawyers? Or were the admins just careless. I almost just paid the DNS charges, but them people would think I'm behind PSJR or something.
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Political scientist here. I am interested in this claim: "But you have to look carefully at who the author is, because PA publishes some truly embarrassing garbage."
Care to name some examples of which articles are part of this garbage? I look at PA and I see that some of them are interesting substantive contributions, and others are the "Statisticians do this technique, political scientists haven't heard about it, here's how to do it in Stata so that you can do it too" type.
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Read this board for a week or two and you'll realize that some bad work gets published in Econometrica as well. AER and QJE too.
PA is a good outlet and a worthwhile hit on the CV, and everyone here knows it (whether some bad work gets published there or not). From a tenure perspective, that's all that really matters.
Of course, only economists can comment on whether it has any worth in an econ dept., but it does in every poli sci dept I've ever been affiliated with. Some value it quite highly.
That said, an economist with that type of paper would probably be better off publishing in applied econometrics journals or something similar, since then there is no chance of having it discounted because it's in poli sci. That's not as true of substantively-focused journals like APSR, AJPS, IO, etc.