Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2004
397 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 397 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2003 to 1.14, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.12. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Organization, and Economic Policy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
397 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 18.29Q1 | 8.25 0.26 down from 2003 | 127 | 17% | $7,619 | ||
2International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 13.79Q1 | 3.72 0.91 down from 2003 | 121 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
3Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 12.33Q1 | 5.27 1.20 down from 2003 | 48 | 31% | $7,310 | ||
4The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.26Q1 | 5.44 0.22 down from 2003 | 164 | 48% | — | ||
5Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.17Q1 | 3.20 0.17 down from 2003 | 128 | 15% | $4,299 | ||
6Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.60Q1 | 3.99 0.35 up from 2003 | 200 | 4% | — | ||
7American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.40Q1 | 3.28 0.63 down from 2003 | 622 | 15% | — | ||
8Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.37Q1 | 4.02 0.64 up from 2003 | 183 | 13% | — | ||
9The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.30Q1 | 4.41 1.52 up from 2003 | 129 | 19% | $6,530 | ||
10Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.20Q1 | 3.47 0.42 down from 2003 | 76 | 16% | $4,638 | ||
11The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 8.19Q1 | 2.65 2.21 down from 2003 | 72 | 45% | $3,986 | ||
12Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.90Q1 | 4.02 0.29 up from 2003 | 332 | 15% | $4,280 | ||
13OECD Economic StudiesOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development | 7.66Q1 | 2.65 2.65 up from 2003 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
14Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.20Q1 | 3.95 0.56 up from 2003 | 179 | 18% | $4,660 | ||
15The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 7.18Q1 | 2.59 0.89 down from 2003 | 39 | 50% | $3,986 | ||
16Journal of Industrial EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 6.94Q1 | 2.16 0.39 down from 2003 | 79 | 23% | $3,350 | ||
17The Journal of Law Economics and OrganizationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.88Q1 | 2.75 0.55 up from 2003 | 70 | 9% | $4,106 | ||
18Brookings Papers on Economic ActivityUnited States | 6.45Q1 | 3.15 0.32 up from 2003 | 69 | 39% | — | ||
19EconometricaWiley · United States | 6.37Q1 | 3.25 0.24 up from 2003 | 321 | 15% | $5,290 | ||
20The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 6.30Q1 | 3.06 0.20 up from 2003 | 219 | 20% | — | ||
21Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.11Q1 | 2.14 0.16 down from 2003 | 113 | 14% | — | ||
22Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 2.38 0.24 up from 2003 | 116 | 9% | $3,870 | ||
23Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.25Q1 | 3.54 1.03 up from 2003 | 184 | 6% | $4,260 | ||
24Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 2.51 1.61 up from 2003 | 61 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
25Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.07Q1 | 2.68 1.68 up from 2003 | 317 | 9% | — | ||
26JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.03Q1 | 8.21 1.90 up from 2003 | 4,054 | 8% | — | ||
27European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.95Q1 | 2.23 0.55 down from 2003 | 345 | 24% | $3,690 | ||
28American Law and Economics ReviewOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 1.94 1.07 up from 2003 | 49 | 10% | $4,029 | ||
29The RAND Journal of EconomicsWiley · United States | 4.77Q1 | 1.51 0.87 down from 2003 | 117 | 23% | $3,400 | ||
30Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.73Q1 | 1.81 0.18 up from 2003 | 182 | 17% | $5,080 | ||
31The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.62Q1 | 1.80 0.01 up from 2003 | 383 | 38% | $4,463 | ||
32Explorations in Economic HistoryElsevier BV · United States | 4.54Q1 | 1.45 0.61 up from 2003 | 83 | 7% | $3,280 | ||
33Oxford Economic PapersOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 1.26 0.89 down from 2003 | 112 | 22% | $5,359 | ||
34The Economic History ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 1.08 0.56 up from 2003 | 138 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
35International Regional Science ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 2.63 1.61 up from 2003 | 76 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
36Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.21Q1 | 1.73 0.26 up from 2003 | 378 | 12% | $4,510 | ||
37Health EconomicsWiley · United States | 4.17Q1 | 2.44 0.22 up from 2003 | 262 | 9% | $4,050 | ||
38Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 2.03 0.91 down from 2003 | 99 | 13% | $5,098 | ||
39Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.08Q1 | 2.09 0.08 up from 2003 | 191 | 16% | $3,620 | ||
40The Journal of Law and EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.07Q1 | 2.24 0.80 up from 2003 | 84 | 0% | — | ||
41Oxford Bulletin of Economics and StatisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 1.32 0.61 up from 2003 | 109 | 40% | $3,840 | ||
42Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 1.59 0.07 down from 2003 | 79 | 33% | $4,250 | ||
43Brookings-Wharton papers on urban affairsUnited States | 3.81Q1 | 0.54 0.50 down from 2003 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
44The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 3.79Q1 | 1.49 0.62 down from 2003 | 148 | 9% | — | ||
45Business HistoryTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 0.93 0.54 up from 2003 | 85 | 3% | — | ||
46International Economic ReviewWiley · United States | 3.59Q1 | 1.38 0.27 down from 2003 | 154 | 38% | $3,570 | ||
47Journal of Economics & Management StrategyWiley · United States | 3.57Q1 | 1.31 0.21 up from 2003 | 134 | 31% | $3,240 | ||
48Journal of Applied EconometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 1.90 0.59 up from 2003 | 128 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
49The North American Journal of Economics and FinanceElsevier BV · United States | 3.48Q1 | 1.52 0.30 down from 2003 | 62 | 12% | $3,050 | ||
50Journal of Evolutionary EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.47Q1 | 1.24 0.49 down from 2003 | 79 | 4% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
185 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 397
- Window papers (baseline)
- 101,327 +19.1% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 1.144 +5.1% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.