Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2003
487 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 487 ranked journals in 2003. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.06 against 1.00, down 0.04 on 2002. A journal needs OJR 2.21 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 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3)
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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 | ||
5Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.29Q1 | 5.89 0.88 up from 2002 | 193 | 7% | $4,740 | ||
6The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.81Q1 | 6.47 1.62 up from 2002 | 351 | 22% | $4,430 | ||
7The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 11.49Q1 | 3.48 0.59 down from 2002 | 40 | 21% | $3,986 | ||
8Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.42Q1 | 3.64 0.90 down from 2002 | 159 | 11% | — | ||
9Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.20Q1 | 3.89 2.02 up from 2002 | 47 | 3% | $4,638 | ||
10The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 9.31Q1 | 4.86 0.99 up from 2002 | 76 | 21% | $3,986 | ||
11Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.21Q1 | 3.37 0.07 down from 2002 | 109 | 20% | $4,299 | ||
12American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.67Q1 | 3.91 0.23 up from 2002 | 620 | 10% | — | ||
13Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.36Q1 | 3.73 0.93 up from 2002 | 274 | 11% | $4,280 | ||
14Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.21Q1 | 3.38 0.61 up from 2002 | 185 | 8% | — | ||
15Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 8.02Q1 | 2.83 0.28 down from 2002 | 72 | 33% | — | ||
16Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 7.38Q1 | 5.06 1.41 up from 2002 | 136 | 9% | $4,028 | ||
17The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.16Q1 | 2.89 0.93 up from 2002 | 119 | 18% | $6,530 | ||
18Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.03Q1 | 1.89 1.90 down from 2002 | 122 | 4% | — | ||
19EconometricaWiley · United States | 6.64Q1 | 3.01 0.16 up from 2002 | 304 | 20% | $5,290 | ||
20Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.46Q1 | 3.24 0.22 down from 2002 | 203 | 18% | $4,300 | ||
21Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.11Q1 | 3.39 1.23 up from 2002 | 163 | 19% | $4,660 | ||
22The Journal of Law Economics and OrganizationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.11Q1 | 2.20 0.32 up from 2002 | 61 | 13% | $4,106 | ||
23The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 6.08Q1 | 2.86 0.77 up from 2002 | 187 | 21% | — | ||
24Journal of Industrial EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 5.83Q1 | 2.55 0.05 up from 2002 | 79 | 50% | $3,350 | ||
25Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.70Q1 | 2.30 0.54 up from 2002 | 112 | 3% | — | ||
26The RAND Journal of EconomicsWiley · United States | 5.59Q1 | 2.38 0.05 up from 2002 | 109 | 23% | $3,400 | ||
27The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 1.79 0.50 down from 2002 | 337 | 23% | $4,463 | ||
28European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.31Q1 | 2.77 0.77 up from 2002 | 339 | 18% | $3,690 | ||
29Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.14Q1 | 2.94 1.21 up from 2002 | 97 | 14% | $5,098 | ||
30Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.05Q1 | 2.60 0.55 up from 2002 | 457 | 6% | — | ||
31Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.96Q1 | 2.51 0.06 up from 2002 | 176 | 13% | $4,260 | ||
32Housing Policy DebateTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 1.95 0.94 up from 2002 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
33The Journal of BusinessUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.75Q1 | 2.11 0.22 up from 2002 | 83 | 12% | — | ||
34Land EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 4.65Q1 | 2.49 1.03 up from 2002 | 129 | 7% | — | ||
35Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.59Q1 | 1.48 0.70 down from 2002 | 337 | 11% | $4,510 | ||
36Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 0.90 0.43 down from 2002 | 57 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
37Journal of Evolutionary EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.49Q1 | 1.73 0.56 up from 2002 | 82 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
38Oxford Economic PapersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 2.15 0.55 up from 2002 | 124 | 18% | $5,359 | ||
39Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 1.97 0.75 down from 2002 | 99 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
40IMF Staff PapersSpringer Nature · United States | 4.48Q1 | 2.20 0.35 up from 2002 | 81 | 18% | — | ||
41Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 2.14 0.51 up from 2002 | 124 | 14% | $3,870 | ||
42JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.42Q1 | 6.31 0.30 up from 2002 | 4,209 | 9% | — | ||
43The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 4.41Q1 | 2.11 0.35 up from 2002 | 108 | 9% | — | ||
44Economie et Statistique / Economics and StatisticsOAThe National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies · France | 4.40Q1 | 2.30 1.27 up from 2002 | 170 | 0% | — | ||
45Health EconomicsWiley · United States | 4.36Q1 | 2.22 0.08 up from 2002 | 268 | 8% | $4,050 | ||
46Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.30Q1 | 2.01 0.08 up from 2002 | 122 | 15% | $3,620 | ||
47New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 1.91 0.56 up from 2002 | 97 | 7% | — | ||
48Economic Development QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.11Q1 | 0.64 0.13 down from 2002 | 94 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
49Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 1.66 0.10 up from 2002 | 78 | 28% | $4,250 | ||
50The Energy JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.02Q1 | 2.49 0.92 up from 2002 | 65 | 16% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, compared.
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.
213 additional Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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
- 487
- Window papers (baseline)
- 133,423 +33.5% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 1.061 +2.6% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 42Comparison-group list (42)
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 | 395 | 425 | 460 | 487 | 498 | 514 | 531 | 559 | 581 | 609 | 647 | 670 | 707 | 738 | 766 | 798 | 826 | 834 | 837 | 849 | 845 | 851 | 865 | 854 | 853 | 853 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 99,973 | 113,603 | 122,133 | 133,423 | 136,804 | 148,238 | 157,778 | 169,254 | 180,801 | 194,355 | 211,936 | 226,900 | 245,854 | 257,623 | 271,446 | 280,922 | 287,325 | 287,637 | 285,717 | 287,386 | 299,609 | 328,459 | 359,376 | 375,644 | 380,630 | 387,914 | |
| Median OJR | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.106 | 1.061 | 1.111 | 1.1362 | 1.1363 | 1.27 | 1.33 | 1.28 | 1.22 | 1.26 | 1.23 | 1.25 | 1.20 | 1.16 | 1.10 | 1.056 | 1.08 | 1.058 | 1.05 | 0.97 | 0.95 | 0.945 | 0.92 | 0.943 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.8% | 553 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 2.400 per 1,000 | 478 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.6% | 787 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 59.7% | 853 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,275 | 442 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 27.5% | 793 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 853 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.94 | 849 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 42.5% | 853 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 48.9% | 852 journals |
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.