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.