European Journal of Political Research (EJPR)

Aims and scope

European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) is ECPR’s flagship journal. It is a leading outlet for cutting-edge scholarship in political science, consistently ranked among the discipline’s top journals worldwide.

EJPR publishes research that upholds the highest scientific standards and advances the discipline theoretically, methodologically, and empirically, with clear relevance for policy and society. The journal embraces all major subfields, methodological approaches, and geographic areas, fostering diversity and openness within a strong scholarly community.

EJPR is committed to the highest standards of peer review, providing authors with timely and constructive feedback.

The editors are firmly committed to open science principles, which they conceive as an integral part of the scientific process. EJPR promotes research transparency and integrity through a clear reproducibility policy, and it encourages submitting authors to use preregistrations and pre-analysis plans whenever possible.

Through its full Open Access partnership with Cambridge University Press, EJPR can ensure your research meets the highest standards of accessibility, and reaches a global readership.