Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2016
37 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 37 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.20 on 2015 to 1.48, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.08. The top three are Journal of International Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and Journal of Air Transport Management.
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)
37 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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1Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.71Q1 | 3.07 0.23 up from 2015 | 251 | 30% | $4,300 | ||
2Cambridge Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 1.81 0.68 down from 2015 | 269 | 32% | $4,514 | ||
3Journal of Air Transport ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 3.23 1.09 up from 2015 | 278 | 18% | $3,250 | ||
4Review of World EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.03Q1 | 1.73 0.25 down from 2015 | 97 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
5Review of International EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 2.02 0.96 up from 2015 | 185 | 27% | $3,350 | ||
6Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper SeriesPublisher not listed | 2.81Q1 | 1.54 0.10 down from 2015 | 95 | 85% | — | ||
7Southeast Asian EconomiesInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies · Singapore | 2.79Q1 | 1.28 0.11 up from 2015 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
8Review of Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 1.44 0.44 up from 2015 | 117 | 11% | — | ||
9Journal of International Trade Law and PolicyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 0.39 0.03 up from 2015 | 45 | 25% | — | ||
10World EconomyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 0.99 0.22 down from 2015 | 406 | 26% | $3,570 | ||
11Review of Keynesian EconomicsEdward Elgar Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q2 | 0.78 0.07 down from 2015 | 93 | 29% | — | ||
12The Developing EconomiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q2 | 0.59 0.55 down from 2015 | 42 | 14% | $2,760 | ||
13Economics of TransportationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q2 | 1.88 0.88 up from 2015 | 55 | 15% | $2,400 | ||
14Asian-Pacific Economic LiteratureWiley · Australia | 1.81Q2 | 0.84 0.02 up from 2015 | 51 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
15International Journal of Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.69Q2 | 1.04 0.37 up from 2015 | 74 | 26% | — | ||
16Journal of International Trade & Economic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.67Q2 | 0.82 0.14 up from 2015 | 115 | 16% | — | ||
17Open Economies ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 1.22 0.30 up from 2015 | 119 | 16% | $2,990 | ||
18Journal of Post Keynesian EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.60Q2 | 0.90 0.12 down from 2015 | 170 | 21% | — | ||
19MetroeconomicaWiley · Italy | 1.48Q2 | 1.14 0.53 up from 2015 | 100 | 28% | $3,350 | ||
| 1.42Q3 | 0.94 0.03 down from 2015 | 125 | 100% | — | |||
21The B E Journal of MacroeconomicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.22Q3 | 0.38 0.07 down from 2015 | 94 | 24% | $2,712 | ||
22International Economics and Economic PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q3 | 0.54 0.09 down from 2015 | 106 | 27% | $3,190 | ||
23The International Trade JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.09Q3 | 0.86 0.08 up from 2015 | 68 | 12% | — | ||
24The Journal of Comparative Asian DevelopmentOARoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.09Q3 | 0.66 0.22 up from 2015 | 57 | 11% | — | ||
25Brazilian Journal of Political EconomyOAEditora 34 · Brazil | 1.04Q3 | 0.45 0.21 down from 2015 | 141 | 100% | — | ||
26European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies InterventionOAEdward Elgar Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 0.57 0.30 down from 2015 | 68 | 91% | — | ||
27Economic Commentary (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)OAUnited States | 0.65Q3 | 0.35 0.12 up from 2015 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
28CEPAL reviewUnited Nations Publications | 0.59Q3 | 0.33 0.04 down from 2015 | 59 | 16% | — | ||
29Investigación EconómicaOAElsevier BV · Mexico | 0.54Q4 | 0.23 0.31 down from 2015 | 142 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Transport LiteratureOASciELO · Brazil | 0.48Q4 | 0.33 0.20 down from 2015 | 190 | — | — | ||
31Economia AplicadaOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.46Q4 | 0.26 0.19 down from 2015 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
32Revista de Economia ContemporâneaOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.44Q4 | 0.20no change | 67 | 100% | — | ||
33World Customs JournalAustralia | 0.30Q4 | 0.20 0.05 up from 2015 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of International Logistics and TradeOASouth Korea | 0.29Q4 | 0.23 0.12 down from 2015 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Air Transport StudiesOAGreece | 0.24Q4 | 0.13 0.09 up from 2015 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Business and EconomicsAcademic Star Publishing Company · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.10 0.05 up from 2015 | 256 | 0% | — | ||
37Independent Journal of Management & ProductionOASão Paulo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology · Brazil | 0.17Q4 | 0.14 0.16 down from 2015 | 154 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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.
24 additional General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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
- 37
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,080 +14.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.48 +22.3% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 20 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 40 | 37 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 41 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,906 | 12,370 | 13,192 | 14,296 | 15,520 | 16,494 | 17,799 | 19,186 | 20,985 | 23,138 | 26,210 | 28,924 | 32,119 | 34,263 | 36,314 | 38,113 | 39,080 | 39,235 | 38,783 | 40,424 | 46,549 | 54,847 | 61,563 | 61,639 | 59,925 | 57,883 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.56 | 0.78 | 0.66 | 0.91 | 0.80 | 1.03 | 0.90 | 1.276 | 1.210 | 1.10 | 1.07 | 1.34 | 1.208 | 1.16 | 1.275 | 1.48 | 1.31 | 1.35 | 1.51 | 1.24 | 1.001 | 1.17 | 0.998 | 1.13 | 0.87 |
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.