Publication opportunities in Scopus indexed journals for political science and law

Abstract

Due to changes in the model of higher education, universities previously operated by the state have been transferred to trust foundations in the hope of functioning more efficiently. As a result, the allocation of development funds has also changed, based on a three-channel funding logic that takes into account (1) the intake of students, (2) research activity, and (3) institutional infrastructure. Our studies focus on the funding of research activity, with indicators that can be considered as subsets of each other and are founded on publication performance based on the Hungarian Science Bibliography (MTMT); and in all cases the indicators include the requirement to write a publication that has a WoS or Scopus identifier. Meanwhile, between 96% and 99% of scientific publications by academics and researchers in the field of political science and law are not indexed in WoS or Scopus. In Scimagojr, political science and law is covered by three journal lists—Law, Public Administration, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law—in which 1,098 articles on political science and law were published between 1999 and 2022, most of them by Hungarian authors and researchers from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University. 8% of the journal articles were in D1, 15% in Q1, 20% in Q2, 26% in Q3, and 31% in Q4 quartile. The number of journals used was 228 out of 1,243.