[7] He was founder and editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Italian Political Science Review) from 1971 to 2003.

[8] Sartori was also a regular contributor, as an op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

In 1970, he and others established the first permanent research committee of the newly created International Political Science Association (IPSA).

[18] In 2015, Sartoti received a Mexican venera of the Order of the Aztec Eagle from president Enrique Peña Nieto.

Since 2004, the American Political Science Association (APSA) Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research gives the Giovanni Sartori Book Award annually to "honors Giovanni Sartori's work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings.