Public Opinion Quarterly (print: , online: ) is an academic journal

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 published by Oxford University Press

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 for the American Association for Public Opinion Research

American Association for Public Opinion Research

The American Association for Public Opinion Research , founded in 1947, is an organization of approximately 1900 survey research professionals from academia, non-profit organizations, polling firms, and government...

. It was established in 1937 and according to the Journal Citation Reports

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 its 2009 impact factor

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 is 1.588, ranking it 8th out of 68 listed journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary", 6th out of 54 in the category "Communication", and 13th out of 112 in the category "Political Science".

The journal was originally sponsored by Princeton University

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's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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. Its first editor was former diplomat Dewitt Clinton Poole.