Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2015
655 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 655 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2014 to 1.14, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.10. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and American Economic Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
655 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 21.43Q1 | 9.84 2.73 down from 2014 | 157 | 36% | $7,619 | ||
2The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 18.90Q1 | 10.45 0.36 down from 2014 | 149 | 43% | — | ||
3American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 14.84Q1 | 8.88 1.69 down from 2014 | 792 | 40% | — | ||
4IMF staff discussion noteInternational Monetary Fund | 12.30Q1 | 10.04 5.00 up from 2014 | 36 | 63% | — | ||
5Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.66Q1 | 5.72 0.88 down from 2014 | 121 | 7% | — | ||
6Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.80Q1 | 5.70 0.24 down from 2014 | 432 | 46% | $4,280 | ||
7American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.64Q1 | 4.65 1.63 down from 2014 | 96 | 26% | — | ||
8American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.59Q1 | 6.47 0.34 up from 2014 | 127 | 43% | — | ||
9The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.45Q1 | 6.64 1.15 up from 2014 | 146 | 41% | $6,530 | ||
10Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.66Q1 | 5.05 0.04 up from 2014 | 171 | 28% | $4,668 | ||
11International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 8.56Q1 | 3.82 0.40 up from 2014 | 120 | 36% | $3,550 | ||
12Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.17Q1 | 4.69 2.21 up from 2014 | 92 | 51% | $4,494 | ||
13Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.10Q1 | 3.86 1.16 up from 2014 | 165 | 33% | $4,638 | ||
14EconometricaWiley · United States | 7.95Q1 | 6.16 0.67 up from 2014 | 245 | 32% | $5,290 | ||
15Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.64Q1 | 3.81 1.19 down from 2014 | 127 | 23% | — | ||
16American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.61Q1 | 5.37 0.88 up from 2014 | 129 | 46% | — | ||
17Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 7.44Q1 | 3.44 0.43 up from 2014 | 136 | 12% | $5,080 | ||
18The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 7.10Q1 | 4.10 0.27 down from 2014 | 248 | 39% | — | ||
19The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.86Q1 | 3.43 0.68 down from 2014 | 285 | 50% | $4,463 | ||
20Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.72Q1 | 3.86 0.59 down from 2014 | 65 | 29% | $7,310 | ||
21Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.66Q1 | 3.89 0.76 up from 2014 | 104 | 19% | — | ||
22Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.48Q1 | 3.72 0.57 up from 2014 | 215 | 23% | $4,660 | ||
23JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.70Q1 | 8.72 0.45 up from 2014 | 4,106 | 21% | — | ||
24Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 2.97 0.66 down from 2014 | 206 | 32% | $3,870 | ||
25Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 3.17 0.03 up from 2014 | 131 | 21% | $4,250 | ||
26Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.51Q1 | 2.74 0.56 down from 2014 | 154 | 37% | $4,299 | ||
27IZA Journal of European Labor StudiesSpringer Nature · Germany | 5.37Q1 | 2.31 0.25 up from 2014 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
28Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.30Q1 | 2.36 0.26 up from 2014 | 89 | 4% | — | ||
29IZA Journal of Labor PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.28Q1 | 2.27 1.10 down from 2014 | 58 | 100% | $1,105 | ||
30Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.19Q1 | 4.38 0.27 down from 2014 | 173 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
31Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 2.26 0.21 up from 2014 | 469 | 53% | — | ||
32Journal of Applied EconometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.79Q1 | 2.84 0.57 up from 2014 | 166 | 29% | $4,030 | ||
33Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.76Q1 | 2.30 0.18 down from 2014 | 333 | 33% | $4,510 | ||
34Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 3.73 0.11 up from 2014 | 330 | 30% | $4,330 | ||
| 4.47Q1 | 4.22 3.35 down from 2014 | 41 | 100% | $916 | |||
36Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.43Q1 | 4.93 0.53 up from 2014 | 56 | 6% | — | ||
37Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 2.11 0.16 down from 2014 | 113 | 25% | $5,098 | ||
38Resources PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 3.71 0.17 up from 2014 | 197 | 22% | $3,810 | ||
39Labour EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.36Q1 | 2.13 0.04 up from 2014 | 232 | 39% | $3,240 | ||
40Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.07Q1 | 3.09 0.05 up from 2014 | 272 | 30% | $4,260 | ||
41European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.03Q1 | 2.04 0.35 down from 2014 | 320 | 45% | $3,690 | ||
42International Economic ReviewWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 2.33 0.24 up from 2014 | 158 | 20% | $3,570 | ||
43Business Ethics QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United States | 3.98Q1 | 2.24 0.12 down from 2014 | 128 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
44The Journal of Law Economics and OrganizationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 1.31 0.54 down from 2014 | 93 | 22% | $4,106 | ||
45Journal of Regional ScienceWiley · United States | 3.96Q1 | 1.71 0.09 down from 2014 | 170 | 22% | $3,730 | ||
46Quantitative EconomicsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 2.22 0.75 down from 2014 | 52 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
47European Journal of Political EconomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 1.95 0.05 down from 2014 | 192 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
48Scandinavian Journal of EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 2.34 0.43 up from 2014 | 158 | 39% | $3,470 | ||
49The Journal of Law and EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.83Q1 | 2.45 0.47 down from 2014 | 102 | 9% | — | ||
50Ecological EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 4.36 0.15 down from 2014 | 736 | 26% | $3,730 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
222 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 655
- Window papers (baseline)
- 198,646 +13.1% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.141 -6.2% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.