Electoral Studies
Electoral Studies is an international bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting. It was first established in 1982 by David Butler and Bo Särlvik and is widely recognised as a major journal in the field of political science. It is housed at Royal Holloway, University of London and is published by Elsevier. The current editors-in-chief as of January 2018 are Oliver Heath and Kaat Smets and the former long-standing editors-in-chief were Harold Clarke and Geoffrey Evans.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.817, ranking it 58th out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science".
According to Google Scholar Metrics, the journal has an h-index of 37, ranking it 14th in the category "Political Science".Editors-in-Chief
- 1982–1992 – David Butler
- 1982–1998 – Bo Särlvik and from 1983
- 1995–2017 – Harold D Clarke and from 2002
- 1999–2017 – Geoffrey Evans
- 2018–Present – Oliver Heath
- 2018–Present – Kaat Smets
- 1992–1999 – Iain McLean
- 1999–2009 – Elinor Scarbrough
- 2009–2013 – Robert Johns
- 2013–2016 – Thomas Scotto
