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PRESS RELEASE
Release date: 02/07/2010
Country of issue: New York, NY, USA
Politics journal taken up by Thomson Reuters citation service
The journal, Politics & Gender, published by Cambridge University Press on
behalf of the Women and Political Research Section of the American
Political Science Association, has been accepted for inclusion in the
Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index from 2011.
Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest
quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics. The
journal is read by members of the Women and Politics Research Section,
political scientists, researchers in women's studies and gender
researchers.
Politics & Gender aims to represent the full range of questions, issues,
and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political
science, including comparative politics, international relations, political
theory, and U.S. politics.
Published by the Cambridge University Press Americas division, Politics &
Gender also publishes studies that address fundamental questions in
politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference,
as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical
categories and conventional methodologies.
Politics & Gender will now be indexed and abstracted in these Thomson
Reuters’ services:
♦ Social Sciences Citation Index®
♦ Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition
♦ Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
Cambridge Journals’ Americas Marketing Manager, Susan Soule, said: “We are
delighted that Politics & Gender is to be included in these prestigious
citation services. They will help the journal to further improve its
service to the scientific and scholarly research community.”
Kim L. Fridkin, President of the Women and Politics Research Section,
commented: “The inclusion of Politics & Gender in these important citation
services signifies that this young journal is being recognized as an
important source of scholarship in a relatively short period of time”.
Politics & Gender is currently abstracted and indexed by CSA Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts); Environmental
Sciences and Pollution Management; International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences; SCOPUS Feminist Periodicals Online; International Political
Science Abstracts; Article First; Electronic Collections Online;
Environmental and Pollution Management Sociological Abstracts and
GenderWatch Online.
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About the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political
Science Association
This section’s purpose is to foster the study of woman and politics within
the discipline of political science.
About the American Political Science Association
Founded in 1903, the American Political Science Association is the leading
professional organization for the study of political science and serves
more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. With a range of programs and
services for individuals, departments, and institutions, APSA brings
together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and
occupational endeavours within and outside academe in order to expand
awareness and understanding of politics.
The direct advancement of knowledge is at the core of APSA activities. The
APSA promotes scholarly communication in political science through a
variety of initiatives including publishing three distinguished journals:
American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and PS:
Political Science and Politics.
For further information, please go to: www.apsanet.org
About Cambridge Journals
Cambridge University Press publishes around 250 peer-reviewed academic
journals across a wide spread of subject areas, in print and online. Many
of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and
together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of
research available today.
For further information about Cambridge Journals, go to
http://journals.cambridge.org
About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of
Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions. It is the
oldest publisher and printer in the world, having been operating
continuously since 1584.
Throughout its history, the Press has maintained a reputation for
innovation and enterprise, through publishing the latest research, and
through supporting the latest methodologies for teaching and learning. Its
purpose is to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide. It
publishes around 250 journals and over 2,500 books annually for
distribution in nearly every country in the world.
For further information, please go to: www.cambridge.org
Susan Soule
Journals Marketing Manager
Cambridge University Press, Americas
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