Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2003
390 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 390 ranked journals in 2003. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.07 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2002. A journal needs OJR 2.23 to reach Q1. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Policy, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3)
390 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 18.25Q1 | 8.51 1.72 up from 2002 | 133 | 17% | $7,619 | ||
2Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 16.37Q1 | 6.47 1.89 down from 2002 | 45 | 25% | $7,310 | ||
3The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.47Q1 | 5.66 0.05 up from 2002 | 180 | 48% | — | ||
4International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 14.37Q1 | 4.63 0.80 up from 2002 | 123 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
5The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 11.49Q1 | 3.48 0.59 down from 2002 | 40 | 21% | $3,986 | ||
6Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.42Q1 | 3.64 0.90 down from 2002 | 159 | 11% | — | ||
7Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.20Q1 | 3.89 2.02 up from 2002 | 47 | 3% | $4,638 | ||
8The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 9.31Q1 | 4.86 0.99 up from 2002 | 76 | 21% | $3,986 | ||
9Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.21Q1 | 3.37 0.07 down from 2002 | 109 | 20% | $4,299 | ||
10American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.67Q1 | 3.91 0.23 up from 2002 | 620 | 10% | — | ||
11Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.36Q1 | 3.73 0.93 up from 2002 | 274 | 11% | $4,280 | ||
12Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.21Q1 | 3.38 0.61 up from 2002 | 185 | 8% | — | ||
13Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 8.02Q1 | 2.83 0.28 down from 2002 | 72 | 33% | — | ||
14The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.16Q1 | 2.89 0.93 up from 2002 | 119 | 18% | $6,530 | ||
15EconometricaWiley · United States | 6.64Q1 | 3.01 0.16 up from 2002 | 304 | 20% | $5,290 | ||
16Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.11Q1 | 3.39 1.23 up from 2002 | 163 | 19% | $4,660 | ||
17The Journal of Law Economics and OrganizationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.11Q1 | 2.20 0.32 up from 2002 | 61 | 13% | $4,106 | ||
18The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 6.08Q1 | 2.86 0.77 up from 2002 | 187 | 21% | — | ||
19Journal of Industrial EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 5.83Q1 | 2.55 0.05 up from 2002 | 79 | 50% | $3,350 | ||
20Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.70Q1 | 2.30 0.54 up from 2002 | 112 | 3% | — | ||
21The RAND Journal of EconomicsWiley · United States | 5.59Q1 | 2.38 0.05 up from 2002 | 109 | 23% | $3,400 | ||
22The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 1.79 0.50 down from 2002 | 337 | 23% | $4,463 | ||
23European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.31Q1 | 2.77 0.77 up from 2002 | 339 | 18% | $3,690 | ||
24Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.14Q1 | 2.94 1.21 up from 2002 | 97 | 14% | $5,098 | ||
25Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.96Q1 | 2.51 0.06 up from 2002 | 176 | 13% | $4,260 | ||
26Housing Policy DebateTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 1.95 0.94 up from 2002 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
27Land EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 4.65Q1 | 2.49 1.03 up from 2002 | 129 | 7% | — | ||
28Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.59Q1 | 1.48 0.70 down from 2002 | 337 | 11% | $4,510 | ||
29Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 0.90 0.43 down from 2002 | 57 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
30Journal of Evolutionary EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.49Q1 | 1.73 0.56 up from 2002 | 82 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
31Oxford Economic PapersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 2.15 0.55 up from 2002 | 124 | 18% | $5,359 | ||
32Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 2.14 0.51 up from 2002 | 124 | 14% | $3,870 | ||
33JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.42Q1 | 6.31 0.30 up from 2002 | 4,209 | 9% | — | ||
34The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 4.41Q1 | 2.11 0.35 up from 2002 | 108 | 9% | — | ||
35Economie et Statistique / Economics and StatisticsOAThe National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies · France | 4.40Q1 | 2.30 1.27 up from 2002 | 170 | 0% | — | ||
36Health EconomicsWiley · United States | 4.36Q1 | 2.22 0.08 up from 2002 | 268 | 8% | $4,050 | ||
37Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.30Q1 | 2.01 0.08 up from 2002 | 122 | 15% | $3,620 | ||
38Economic Development QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.11Q1 | 0.64 0.13 down from 2002 | 94 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
39Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 1.66 0.10 up from 2002 | 78 | 28% | $4,250 | ||
40The Energy JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.02Q1 | 2.49 0.92 up from 2002 | 65 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
41Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.01Q1 | 1.62 0.44 up from 2002 | 151 | 8% | $5,080 | ||
42The Journal of Modern African StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 1.72 0.92 up from 2002 | 97 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
43Geographical AnalysisWiley · United States | 3.86Q1 | 1.81 0.59 up from 2002 | 88 | 40% | $3,760 | ||
44Journal of Geographical SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.64Q1 | 1.72 0.92 up from 2002 | 81 | 5% | $3,490 | ||
45Oxford Development StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 1.09 0.25 down from 2002 | 61 | 11% | — | ||
46Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.57Q1 | 1.63 0.43 up from 2002 | 123 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
47Regional Science and Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.56Q1 | 1.44 0.18 up from 2002 | 123 | 13% | $3,600 | ||
48Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 1.00 0.03 up from 2002 | 333 | 15% | — | ||
49Economics of TransitionWiley · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 1.06 0.57 down from 2002 | 90 | 21% | — | ||
50Economics and PoliticsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 0.73 0.58 down from 2002 | 47 | 37% | $3,240 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
170 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 390
- Window papers (baseline)
- 100,650 +37.5% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 1.07 +3.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 317 | 344 | 374 | 390 | 397 | 413 | 423 | 446 | 466 | 492 | 526 | 546 | 576 | 608 | 634 | 655 | 684 | 691 | 690 | 701 | 698 | 708 | 719 | 711 | 714 | 710 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 73,194 | 85,106 | 91,878 | 100,650 | 101,327 | 110,166 | 117,011 | 125,509 | 133,417 | 142,774 | 154,284 | 163,635 | 175,713 | 183,093 | 192,533 | 198,646 | 202,770 | 202,907 | 202,534 | 203,611 | 209,785 | 229,040 | 252,466 | 269,566 | 277,099 | 284,770 | |
| Median OJR | 1.037 | 1.089 | 1.10 | 1.07 | 1.144 | 1.15 | 1.16 | 1.27 | 1.33 | 1.29 | 1.219 | 1.28 | 1.216 | 1.25 | 1.20 | 1.141 | 1.085 | 1.054 | 1.06 | 1.036 | 1.046 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.91 | 0.92 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.