Political Science Quarterly

Its editor-in-chief is Robert Y. Shapiro (Columbia University). Each issue consists of five or six articles as well as up to 40 book reviews.

Political Science Quarterly

Discipline	Political science
Language	English
Edited by	Robert Y. Shapiro
Publication details
History	1886–present
Publisher	Academy of Political Science (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	2.675 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Political Sci. Q.
NLM	Polit Sci Q
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0032-3195 (print) 1538-165X (web)
LCCN	07036315
JSTOR	00323195
OCLC no.	785797935
Links
Journal homepage Online archive Online archive (Academy of Political Science)

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.675, ranking it 60th out of 183 journals in the category "Political Science." According to the SCImago Journal Rank, the PSQ has a score of 1.025, ranking it 159 out of 1316 journals in the category "Sociology and Political Science."

Political Science Quarterly was established in 1886 by John W. Burgess (Columbia University), the Academy's first president, with the active involvement of New York publisher George A. Plimpton.

Demetrios James Caraley, political scientist at Columbia University, served as the editor of the journal for 43 years from 1973 to 2020.