Skip to main content
Intended for healthcare professionals

Research & Politics (RAP) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, which focusses on research in political science and related fields through open access publication of the very best cutting-edge research and policy analysis. View full journal description

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Browse by

Articles most recently published online for this journal.
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Xenophobic violence in Sweden 2009–2022: Introducing the dataset

  • Anton Törnberg
  • Måns Lundstedt
  • Victoria Vallström
  • Mattias Wahlström
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Do they really believe that? Measuring salient conspiracy endorsement

  • Lisa Basil
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Corruption next door, satisfaction at home: Spillover effects of corruption on political trust in China

  • Yixuan Zhang
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Allied commitments and public support for military interventions: A cross-national experiment

  • Michal Smetana
  • Marek Vranka
  • Ondrej Rosendorf
View latest issues
Most read articles in this journal in the last 6 months.
Open Access
Research article
First published  

What’s woke? Ordinary Americans’ understandings of wokeness

  • Benjamin M. VanDreew
  • Joseph B. Phillips
  • B. Kal Munis
  • Spencer Goidel
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media

  • Hunt Allcott
  • Matthew Gentzkow
  • Chuan Yu
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Are Muslim countries more prone to violence?

  • Nils Petter Gleditsch
  • Ida Rudolfsen
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but highly correlated with far right attitudes

  • Kai Arzheimer
View all
Most cited articles published in this journal in the last 3 years. These statistics are updated weekly using data sourced exclusively from CrossRef.
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Large language models as a substitute for human experts in annotating political text

  • Michael Heseltine
  • Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Do AIs know what the most important issue is? Using language models to code open-text social survey responses at scale

  • Jonathan Mellon
  • Jack Bailey
  • Ralph Scott
  • James Breckwoldt
  • Marta Miori
  • Phillip Schmedeman
Open Access
Research article
First published  

How politicians learn about public opinion

  • Stefaan Walgrave
  • Karolin Soontjens
Open Access
Research article
First published  

Temporal validity as meta-science

  • Kevin Munger
View all
Articles with the highest Altmetric score from the last 3 months, indicating influence and impact.
Editor's Pick
Special Issues
Special collections index
Going positive: The effects of negative and positive advertising on candidate success and voter turnout

Liam C. Malloy

Research & Politics

View All

You might be interested in

Learn about our Special Collections

Frequently Asked Questions

For more information on Research & Politics, please read the journal's FAQs.
More

RAP 2024's Editor's Pick

The editorial team of R&P is excited to share a collection of articles they particularly enjoyed in the 2024 volumes.
View more

Information for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers

Sage supports authors, editors, and reviewers throughout all steps of the publishing process. Explore our resources:

Editor Collections

Click here to see Editor Collections
More

Open your research with confidence

Discover more about Sage Gold Open Access including our Special Collections and flagship titles. From endocrinology to ethnography, we publish a broad range of over 200 journals.
Learn More

Also from Sage