Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2017
691 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 691 ranked journals in 2017. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.05 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2016. A journal needs OJR 1.91 to reach Q1. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and IMF staff discussion note.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
691 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.58Q1 | 12.19 2.55 up from 2016 | 157 | 53% | $7,619 | ||
2The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 18.42Q1 | 9.39 1.63 down from 2016 | 147 | 60% | — | ||
3IMF staff discussion noteInternational Monetary Fund | 13.91Q1 | 8.55 2.72 down from 2016 | 46 | 83% | — | ||
4American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.40Q1 | 8.45 1.58 up from 2016 | 112 | 42% | — | ||
5Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 9.96Q1 | 6.70 1.64 up from 2016 | 146 | 27% | — | ||
6International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 9.17Q1 | 4.17 0.66 up from 2016 | 124 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
7Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.65Q1 | 5.90 0.19 down from 2016 | 426 | 46% | $4,280 | ||
8Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.53Q1 | 3.35 1.13 down from 2016 | 116 | 48% | $4,494 | ||
9The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 8.44Q1 | 4.79 0.62 down from 2016 | 162 | 43% | $6,530 | ||
10Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.26Q1 | 5.05 0.80 up from 2016 | 146 | 20% | — | ||
11The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 8.25Q1 | 7.10 2.14 up from 2016 | 166 | 29% | — | ||
12EconometricaWiley · United States | 8.14Q1 | 4.73 1.41 down from 2016 | 209 | 24% | $5,290 | ||
13American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.00Q1 | 4.96 0.04 up from 2016 | 95 | 50% | — | ||
14American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.66Q1 | 5.36 0.54 down from 2016 | 128 | 46% | — | ||
15American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.61Q1 | 4.19 2.76 down from 2016 | 1,528 | 38% | — | ||
16Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.36Q1 | 3.76 1.84 down from 2016 | 158 | 17% | — | ||
17Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.75Q1 | 3.66 0.29 down from 2016 | 66 | 40% | $7,310 | ||
18Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.56Q1 | 3.77 0.01 up from 2016 | 141 | 59% | $4,668 | ||
19Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.54Q1 | 2.78 1.20 down from 2016 | 158 | 40% | $4,638 | ||
20JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.23Q1 | 10.80 2.18 up from 2016 | 3,660 | 26% | — | ||
21The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 5.79Q1 | 3.47 0.86 down from 2016 | 206 | 40% | — | ||
22Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 2.56 0.13 down from 2016 | 422 | 67% | — | ||
23Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.48Q1 | 3.14no change | 223 | 28% | $4,660 | ||
24Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 5.38Q1 | 3.30 0.60 up from 2016 | 143 | 30% | $5,080 | ||
25The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 2.91 0.71 down from 2016 | 327 | 42% | $4,463 | ||
26Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 5.19Q1 | 2.99 0.23 down from 2016 | 133 | 28% | $4,250 | ||
27Russian Journal of EconomicsOACIG Media Group · Russia | 5.15Q1 | 2.56 0.80 up from 2016 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
28Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.86Q1 | 5.59 0.84 up from 2016 | 321 | 44% | $4,330 | ||
29Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 4.76Q1 | 2.68no 2016 value | 31 | 100% | $2,200 | — | |
30The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 4.71Q1 | 3.41 0.37 up from 2016 | 39 | 44% | $3,986 | ||
31Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.64Q1 | 4.25 1.01 up from 2016 | 258 | 37% | $4,260 | ||
32IZA Journal of Labor PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.43Q1 | 2.33 0.35 up from 2016 | 70 | 100% | $1,105 | ||
33Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.43Q1 | 2.24 0.40 down from 2016 | 337 | 39% | $4,510 | ||
34Review of Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.35Q1 | 1.99 0.23 down from 2016 | 125 | 85% | $3,320 | ||
35Journal of Regional ScienceWiley · United States | 4.32Q1 | 2.33 0.67 down from 2016 | 120 | 40% | $3,730 | ||
36Agricultural EconomicsWiley · Netherlands | 4.07Q1 | 2.58 0.67 up from 2016 | 205 | 18% | $4,030 | ||
37Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.07Q1 | 3.54 1.01 down from 2016 | 77 | 27% | — | ||
38Journal of Applied EconometricsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 2.10 0.42 down from 2016 | 192 | 20% | $4,030 | ||
39International Economic ReviewWiley · United States | 3.97Q1 | 2.43 0.03 up from 2016 | 156 | 26% | $3,570 | ||
40Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.84Q1 | 3.85 0.07 up from 2016 | 215 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
41Industrial and Corporate ChangeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 2.09 0.62 down from 2016 | 159 | 48% | $4,299 | ||
42European Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.78Q1 | 2.30 0.10 up from 2016 | 398 | 40% | $3,690 | ||
43Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 3.76Q1 | 3.97 0.45 up from 2016 | 878 | 38% | $3,490 | ||
44Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 2.63 0.72 up from 2016 | 67 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
45China Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.60Q1 | 2.31 0.37 up from 2016 | 315 | 16% | $4,380 | ||
46Regional Science and Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.58Q1 | 1.98 0.19 up from 2016 | 203 | 19% | $3,600 | ||
47Quantitative EconomicsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 2.20 0.16 down from 2016 | 70 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
48Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 2.63 0.29 up from 2016 | 98 | 30% | $5,098 | ||
49Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 3.45Q1 | 3.41 0.32 up from 2016 | 168 | 35% | $3,620 | ||
50European Journal of Political EconomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 1.95 0.13 down from 2016 | 228 | 30% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
199 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 691
- Window papers (baseline)
- 202,907 +5.4% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.054 -12.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.