Latest Impact Factors for Political Science Journals

We are pleased to bring you the latest impact factors for our political science journals. The highlights include:

Increasing Impact

• Electoral Studies
  Was 0.455 now 0.812 (78% increase)
• Communist and Post-Communist Studies
  Was 0.273 now 0.370 (36% increase)
• Space Policy
  Was 0.446 now 0.490 (10% increase)
• The Social Science Journal
  Was 0.136 now 0.190 (40% increase)
• Futures
  Was 0.376 now 0.738 (96% increase)

See all 5 year impact factors for Elsevier’s Political Science journals here.

Space Policy - Announcing the 2008 Maxim Tarasenko Award
Elsevier would like to announce the 2008 competition, for which the closing date is 1 September 2008. The winning entry will be published in the journal's first issue of the following year. Further information is available from the   journal homepage.

Space Policy - Maxim Tarasenko Award 2007
E lsevier is delighted to announce the winner of the Maxim Tarasenko essay competition for 2007. The winning entry is by Masahiko Fukushima of the International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University, The Netherlands. The paper, Legal analysis of the International Space Station (ISS) programme using the concept of “legalisation”, appears in the February 2008 issue of Space Policy, Volume 24, Issue 1.

Electoral Studies - Online Submission now Available!
Authors can now   submit their research online. Papers can also be reviewed and tracked electronically via this system.

History of European Ideas – Online Submission now Available!
Authors can now   submit their research online. Papers can also be reviewed and tracked electronically via this system.

UK Space Conference 2008
26-29 March 2008, Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom
For further information, please see the BNSC website.

Political Studies Association
1-3 April 2008, Swansea, UK
More conference information is available on the   association website.

European Consortium of Political Research
25-27 August 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Find out more by visiting the   Consortium Website.

American Political Science Association
28-31 August 2008, Boston, USA
Find out more by visiting the   Association’s website.

Evil and terrorism are at the top of the political debate today, but why not take the longer view by reading the highly popular article Terrorists and witches: popular ideas of evil in the early modern period
by Johannes Dillinger featured in History of European Ideas, Volume 30, Issue 2 (June 2004).

Resettlement for China's Three Gorges Dam: socio-economic impact and institutional tensions

Russia and the Iraq War: was Putin's policy a failure?
Galia Golan
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 429-459

China and Global Energy Markets
Cornelius, P.; Story, J.
Orbis, Volume 51, Issue 1, 1 December 200