Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2016
684 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 684 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2015 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.98. The top three are The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and IMF staff discussion note.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
684 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 21.65Q1 | 11.02 0.57 up from 2015 | 146 | 60% | — | ||
2The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 20.55Q1 | 9.64 0.20 down from 2015 | 157 | 44% | $7,619 | ||
3IMF staff discussion noteInternational Monetary Fund | 17.98Q1 | 11.27 1.23 up from 2015 | 47 | 33% | — | ||
4American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.89Q1 | 6.95 1.93 down from 2015 | 786 | 10% | — | ||
5American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 11.12Q1 | 6.87 0.40 up from 2015 | 125 | 50% | — | ||
6American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 11.00Q1 | 4.92 0.28 up from 2015 | 104 | 41% | — | ||
7Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.81Q1 | 5.60 0.12 down from 2015 | 119 | 7% | — | ||
8Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.22Q1 | 6.09 0.39 up from 2015 | 406 | 43% | $4,280 | ||
9The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.14Q1 | 5.42 1.23 down from 2015 | 153 | 44% | $6,530 | ||
10Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.07Q1 | 4.49 0.20 down from 2015 | 100 | 31% | $4,494 | ||
11EconometricaWiley · United States | 8.83Q1 | 6.15 0.01 down from 2015 | 224 | 28% | $5,290 | ||
12Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.61Q1 | 4.24 0.35 up from 2015 | 123 | 33% | — | ||
13Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.09Q1 | 5.07 1.25 up from 2015 | 130 | 26% | — | ||
14Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.89Q1 | 3.95 0.09 up from 2015 | 58 | 30% | $7,310 | ||
15International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 7.86Q1 | 3.51 0.30 down from 2015 | 127 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
16American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.50Q1 | 5.90 0.53 up from 2015 | 136 | 47% | — | ||
17Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.40Q1 | 3.76 1.29 down from 2015 | 168 | 18% | $4,668 | ||
18Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.11Q1 | 3.98 0.13 up from 2015 | 163 | 31% | $4,638 | ||
19The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 7.00Q1 | 4.33 0.23 up from 2015 | 193 | 45% | — | ||
20Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.95Q1 | 3.14 0.58 down from 2015 | 213 | 23% | $4,660 | ||
21The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 6.59Q1 | 3.04 1.76 down from 2015 | 40 | 28% | $3,986 | ||
22The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 6.49Q1 | 4.97 2.59 up from 2015 | 187 | 9% | — | ||
23The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 3.62 0.19 up from 2015 | 330 | 55% | $4,463 | ||
24Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.88Q1 | 2.69 0.43 up from 2015 | 452 | 52% | — | ||
25Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.75Q1 | 4.54 0.39 down from 2015 | 69 | 12% | — | ||
26JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.55Q1 | 8.62 0.10 down from 2015 | 4,047 | 25% | — | ||
27Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 3.22 0.05 up from 2015 | 137 | 31% | $4,250 | ||
28Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 5.10Q1 | 2.07 0.90 down from 2015 | 212 | 45% | $3,870 | ||
29Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 2.71 0.03 down from 2015 | 157 | 44% | $4,299 | ||
30Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.84Q1 | 2.70 0.74 down from 2015 | 134 | 18% | $5,080 | ||
31Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.80Q1 | 2.64 0.34 up from 2015 | 343 | 38% | $4,510 | ||
32IZA Journal of Labor EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.45Q1 | 1.70 0.11 up from 2015 | 45 | 100% | $1,535 | ||
33Journal of Policy Analysis and ManagementWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 2.75 0.43 up from 2015 | 193 | 21% | $3,770 | ||
34The World Bank Economic ReviewOxford University Press | 4.25Q1 | 1.98 0.35 down from 2015 | 128 | 40% | $3,986 | ||
35Agricultural EconomicsWiley · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 1.91 1.21 down from 2015 | 210 | 29% | $4,030 | ||
36Journal of Regional ScienceWiley · United States | 4.21Q1 | 3.00 1.29 up from 2015 | 125 | 23% | $3,730 | ||
37Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 4.75 1.03 up from 2015 | 344 | 43% | $4,330 | ||
38Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.18Q1 | 3.78 0.60 down from 2015 | 195 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
39Journal of Applied EconometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 2.52 0.32 down from 2015 | 187 | 46% | $4,030 | ||
40International Economic ReviewWiley · United States | 3.91Q1 | 2.40 0.08 up from 2015 | 151 | 26% | $3,570 | ||
41IZA Journal of Labor PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.84Q1 | 1.98 0.29 down from 2015 | 68 | 100% | $1,105 | ||
42Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 2.33 0.22 up from 2015 | 97 | 36% | $5,098 | ||
43Review of Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 3.82Q1 | 2.21 0.77 up from 2015 | 133 | 83% | $3,320 | ||
44Papers of the Regional Science AssociationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.82 0.01 up from 2015 | 188 | 95% | $2,740 | ||
45The Journal of Law and EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.77Q1 | 1.84 0.61 down from 2015 | 103 | 14% | — | ||
46Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.77Q1 | 3.24 0.15 up from 2015 | 267 | 42% | $4,260 | ||
47European Review of Agricultural EconomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 2.43 0.33 up from 2015 | 115 | 45% | $5,071 | ||
48Regional Studies Regional ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 1.55 0.77 up from 2015 | 80 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
49Business Ethics QuarterlyCambridge University Press · United States | 3.63Q1 | 2.12 0.12 down from 2015 | 112 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
50Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 3.60Q1 | 3.52 0.41 down from 2015 | 676 | 31% | $3,490 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
202 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 684
- Window papers (baseline)
- 202,770 +10.7% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.085 -13.1% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.