World Politics

World Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of political science published by Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University, founded in 1948 and covering international relations and comparative politics, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.6（World Politics）是由（Johns Hopkins University Press）代表（Princeton University）的（Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies）出版的季刊政治学期刊，1948 年创办，聚焦国际关系与比较政治，2025 年影响因子为 3.6。

Scope

• International relations, including security, international political economy and foreign policy国际关系，涵盖安全、国际政治经济与外交政策。
• Comparative politics, encompassing institutions, regimes, political behaviour and democratization比较政治，涵盖制度、政体、政治行为与民主化。
• Analytical and theoretical research articles that pose important substantive political questions提出重要实质政治问题的分析与理论研究文章。
• Review articles that compare and synthesize thematically related books and set future research agendas对主题相关著作进行比较与综合、并规划未来研究议程的综述文章。
• The journal does not publish opinion pieces, policy papers, political theory, strictly historical studies or journalistic current-affairs narratives该刊不刊登评论文章、政策文章、政治理论、纯历史研究或新闻式时评。

History

• Founded in 1948, the journal is produced under the editorial sponsorship of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies该刊 1948 年创办，由（Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies）提供编辑赞助。
• It was published by Johns Hopkins University Press until 2007, then by Cambridge University Press from volume 60, and returned to Johns Hopkins University Press in 2023该刊曾由（Johns Hopkins University Press）出版至 2007 年，自第 60 卷起改由（Cambridge University Press）出版，2023 年又回到（Johns Hopkins University Press）。
• Since 2007 all submissions have been handled through the ScholarOne Manuscripts online system自 2007 年起，所有投稿均通过（ScholarOne Manuscripts）在线系统处理。
• It is a quarterly published in both print and online, and authors of quantitative work must deposit their data in the journal's Harvard Dataverse archive该刊为季刊，同时出版纸质与在线版，定量研究作者须将数据存放于该刊的（Harvard Dataverse）档案库。

Editors

• The journal is led by an editorial chair and an executive editor rather than a single editor-in-chief该刊由编辑委员会主席与执行编辑共同主持，而非单一主编。
• Grigore Pop-Eleches, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, serves as editorial chair（Princeton University）政治与国际事务教授 Grigore Pop-Eleches 任编委会主席。
• Emily W. Babson is the executive editor执行编辑为 Emily W. Babson。
• The journal employs a triple-blind review process and generally requires at least two non-Princeton referees per manuscript该刊实行三盲评审，每篇稿件通常至少需两名非（Princeton）审稿人评审。