Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2012
576 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 576 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2011 to 1.22, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.21. The top three are Journal of Economic Literature, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
576 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 20.68Q1 | 8.34 1.72 down from 2011 | 109 | 6% | — | ||
2The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.04Q1 | 11.73 0.77 up from 2011 | 140 | 28% | $7,619 | ||
3The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 15.87Q1 | 7.22 1.19 down from 2011 | 161 | 44% | — | ||
4American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 13.73Q1 | 5.70 1.45 down from 2011 | 99 | 23% | — | ||
5American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 11.23Q1 | 6.11 0.13 up from 2011 | 759 | 31% | — | ||
6Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.30Q1 | 6.42 1.42 up from 2011 | 56 | 19% | $7,310 | ||
7Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.25Q1 | 5.86 1.82 up from 2011 | 122 | 28% | — | ||
8International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 9.99Q1 | 3.03 1.09 down from 2011 | 100 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
9Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.26Q1 | 5.92 0.99 up from 2011 | 388 | 20% | $4,280 | ||
10American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.60Q1 | 5.46 0.92 up from 2011 | 124 | 59% | — | ||
11EconometricaWiley · United States | 8.08Q1 | 5.16 0.48 down from 2011 | 204 | 22% | $5,290 | ||
12The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 8.03Q1 | 4.06 0.38 up from 2011 | 324 | 37% | — | ||
13Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.78Q1 | 3.51 0.17 up from 2011 | 178 | 18% | $4,638 | ||
14Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.37Q1 | 3.72 0.40 up from 2011 | 108 | 25% | $4,494 | ||
15The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.23Q1 | 4.59 0.67 up from 2011 | 272 | 24% | $4,463 | ||
16The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.16Q1 | 4.04 0.52 down from 2011 | 177 | 29% | $6,530 | ||
17Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.10Q1 | 2.97 0.64 down from 2011 | 89 | 15% | — | ||
18Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.93Q1 | 2.28 0.82 down from 2011 | 111 | 1% | — | ||
19The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 6.81Q1 | 2.84no change | 88 | 11% | $3,986 | ||
20The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 6.68Q1 | 4.27 0.56 up from 2011 | 56 | 5% | $3,986 | ||
21Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.67Q1 | 3.28 0.27 down from 2011 | 215 | 13% | $4,660 | ||
22Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 6.15Q1 | 2.11 0.52 down from 2011 | 141 | 25% | $5,080 | ||
23Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 6.02Q1 | 2.92 0.11 down from 2011 | 179 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
24Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 2.18 0.09 down from 2011 | 391 | 17% | — | ||
25JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.82Q1 | 9.44 1.49 up from 2011 | 3,419 | 13% | — | ||
26Journal of Economics & Management StrategyWiley · United States | 5.71Q1 | 1.91 0.93 down from 2011 | 110 | 40% | $3,240 | ||
27Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 3.37 0.81 up from 2011 | 241 | 31% | $4,668 | ||
28Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 2.40 0.89 down from 2011 | 201 | 21% | $4,299 | ||
29Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.54Q1 | 4.33 1.27 up from 2011 | 65 | 6% | — | ||
30American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.38Q1 | 3.30 0.01 down from 2011 | 96 | 33% | — | ||
31Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.37Q1 | 2.33no change | 329 | 20% | $4,510 | ||
32International Economic ReviewWiley · United States | 4.89Q1 | 1.95 1.09 down from 2011 | 145 | 22% | $3,570 | ||
33Review of Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.84Q1 | 2.98 0.81 up from 2011 | 114 | 14% | $3,320 | ||
34Oxford Bulletin of Economics and StatisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 1.53 1.03 down from 2011 | 146 | 19% | $3,840 | ||
35Real Estate EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 2.16 0.35 down from 2011 | 87 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
36Spatial Economic AnalysisRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 2.45 0.26 up from 2011 | 62 | 14% | — | ||
37Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.66Q1 | 3.13 0.22 down from 2011 | 148 | 21% | $3,620 | ||
38Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 3.85 0.80 up from 2011 | 222 | 15% | $4,330 | ||
39Technological and Economic Development of EconomyOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 4.45Q1 | 4.31 0.69 up from 2011 | 124 | 100% | $727 | ||
40The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 4.39Q1 | 2.56 0.14 down from 2011 | 197 | 30% | — | ||
41International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.38Q1 | 3.36 1.71 up from 2011 | 75 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
42Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 2.16 0.30 down from 2011 | 148 | 35% | $4,250 | ||
43Labour EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 2.01 0.25 up from 2011 | 243 | 22% | $3,240 | ||
44Ecological EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.26Q1 | 3.56 0.30 down from 2011 | 820 | 20% | $3,730 | ||
45European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 1.93 0.12 down from 2011 | 192 | 17% | $3,690 | ||
46De EconomistSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 4.21Q1 | 2.38 0.88 up from 2011 | 67 | 60% | $3,290 | ||
47Papers of the Regional Science AssociationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 2.11 0.14 up from 2011 | 185 | 88% | $2,740 | ||
48Journal of Business Economics and ManagementOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 4.08Q1 | 2.78 0.04 down from 2011 | 112 | 100% | $647 | ||
49Applied Economic Perspectives and PolicyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 2.69 0.04 down from 2011 | 70 | 11% | $3,750 | ||
50Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 2.17 1.85 down from 2011 | 100 | 23% | $5,098 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
232 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 576
- Window papers (baseline)
- 175,713 +23.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.216 -5.8% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.