Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2012
707 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 707 ranked journals in 2012. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.23 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2011. A journal needs OJR 2.23 to reach Q1. 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.
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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% | — | ||
5The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.32Q1 | 5.79 0.16 down from 2011 | 243 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
6IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.31Q1 | 6.00 1.56 down from 2011 | 41 | 36% | — | ||
7American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 11.23Q1 | 6.11 0.13 up from 2011 | 759 | 31% | — | ||
8Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 10.30Q1 | 6.42 1.42 up from 2011 | 56 | 19% | $7,310 | ||
9Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 10.25Q1 | 5.86 1.82 up from 2011 | 122 | 28% | — | ||
10International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 9.99Q1 | 3.03 1.09 down from 2011 | 100 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
11Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.41Q1 | 4.36 0.37 down from 2011 | 417 | 24% | $4,740 | ||
12Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.26Q1 | 5.92 0.99 up from 2011 | 388 | 20% | $4,280 | ||
13Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 9.21Q1 | 4.28 0.85 down from 2011 | 331 | 12% | $4,028 | ||
14American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.60Q1 | 5.46 0.92 up from 2011 | 124 | 59% | — | ||
15EconometricaWiley · United States | 8.08Q1 | 5.16 0.48 down from 2011 | 204 | 22% | $5,290 | ||
16The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 8.03Q1 | 4.06 0.38 up from 2011 | 324 | 37% | — | ||
17Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.78Q1 | 3.51 0.17 up from 2011 | 178 | 18% | $4,638 | ||
18Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.37Q1 | 3.72 0.40 up from 2011 | 108 | 25% | $4,494 | ||
19The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.23Q1 | 4.59 0.67 up from 2011 | 272 | 24% | $4,463 | ||
20The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.16Q1 | 4.04 0.52 down from 2011 | 177 | 29% | $6,530 | ||
21Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.10Q1 | 2.97 0.64 down from 2011 | 89 | 15% | — | ||
22Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.93Q1 | 2.28 0.82 down from 2011 | 111 | 1% | — | ||
23The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 6.81Q1 | 2.84no change | 88 | 11% | $3,986 | ||
24The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 6.68Q1 | 4.27 0.56 up from 2011 | 56 | 5% | $3,986 | ||
25Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.67Q1 | 3.28 0.27 down from 2011 | 215 | 13% | $4,660 | ||
26IMF Staff PapersSpringer Nature · United States | 6.24Q1 | —no 2011 value | 43 | — | — | ||
27Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.22Q1 | 3.15 0.40 up from 2011 | 248 | 23% | $4,300 | ||
28Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 6.15Q1 | 2.11 0.52 down from 2011 | 141 | 25% | $5,080 | ||
29Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 6.02Q1 | 2.92 0.11 down from 2011 | 179 | 10% | $3,900 | ||
30Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 2.18 0.09 down from 2011 | 391 | 17% | — | ||
31JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.82Q1 | 9.44 1.49 up from 2011 | 3,419 | 13% | — | ||
32Journal of Economics & Management StrategyWiley · United States | 5.71Q1 | 1.91 0.93 down from 2011 | 110 | 40% | $3,240 | ||
33Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 3.37 0.81 up from 2011 | 241 | 31% | $4,668 | ||
34Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 2.40 0.89 down from 2011 | 201 | 21% | $4,299 | ||
35Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.54Q1 | 4.33 1.27 up from 2011 | 65 | 6% | — | ||
36American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.38Q1 | 3.30 0.01 down from 2011 | 96 | 33% | — | ||
37Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.37Q1 | 2.33no change | 329 | 20% | $4,510 | ||
38Cambridge Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.35Q1 | 1.36 1.40 down from 2011 | 169 | 13% | $4,514 | ||
39European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 2.44 0.09 down from 2011 | 88 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
40International Economic ReviewWiley · United States | 4.89Q1 | 1.95 1.09 down from 2011 | 145 | 22% | $3,570 | ||
41Review of Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.84Q1 | 2.98 0.81 up from 2011 | 114 | 14% | $3,320 | ||
42IMF Staff Position NoteInternational Monetary Fund | 4.82Q1 | 5.37 0.59 up from 2011 | 49 | — | — | ||
43Oxford Bulletin of Economics and StatisticsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 1.53 1.03 down from 2011 | 146 | 19% | $3,840 | ||
44Real Estate EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 2.16 0.35 down from 2011 | 87 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
45Spatial Economic AnalysisRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 2.45 0.26 up from 2011 | 62 | 14% | — | ||
46Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 4.66Q1 | 3.13 0.22 down from 2011 | 148 | 21% | $3,620 | ||
47Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 3.85 0.80 up from 2011 | 222 | 15% | $4,330 | ||
48Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 1.13no change | 204 | 7% | — | ||
49Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 4.56Q1 | 2.07 0.45 down from 2011 | 144 | 21% | $2,850 | ||
50Technological and Economic Development of EconomyOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 4.45Q1 | 4.31 0.69 up from 2011 | 124 | 100% | $727 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, compared.
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.
292 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 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
- 707
- Window papers (baseline)
- 245,854 +26.5% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.23 -4.2% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 42Comparison-group list (42)
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 | 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.