Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2018
690 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 690 ranked journals in 2018. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.06 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2017. A journal needs OJR 1.81 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: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
690 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 19.35Q1 | 15.89 3.70 up from 2017 | 155 | 47% | $7,619 | ||
2The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 17.41Q1 | 11.97 2.58 up from 2017 | 146 | 100% | — | ||
3IMF staff discussion noteInternational Monetary Fund | 11.79Q1 | 8.93 0.39 up from 2017 | 39 | 88% | — | ||
4American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.00Q1 | 6.44 2.01 down from 2017 | 114 | 61% | — | ||
5The Journal of Human ResourcesUniversity of Wisconsin Press · United States | 9.27Q1 | 2.91 4.20 down from 2017 | 148 | 25% | — | ||
6Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 8.86Q1 | 7.39 0.69 up from 2017 | 198 | 40% | — | ||
7Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.42Q1 | 7.94 2.04 up from 2017 | 405 | 55% | $4,280 | ||
8Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 7.84Q1 | 5.74 2.08 up from 2017 | 60 | 33% | $7,310 | ||
9Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.74Q1 | 3.83 1.22 down from 2017 | 162 | 25% | — | ||
10International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 7.44Q1 | 4.92 0.75 up from 2017 | 129 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
11American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.34Q1 | 4.16 0.80 down from 2017 | 98 | 44% | — | ||
12The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.76Q1 | 4.35 0.44 down from 2017 | 189 | 46% | $6,530 | ||
13JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.57Q1 | 13.34 2.54 up from 2017 | 3,366 | 32% | — | ||
14Economics and PoliticsWiley · United Kingdom | 6.37Q1 | 5.28 4.11 up from 2017 | 54 | 36% | $3,240 | ||
15Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.33Q1 | 4.22 0.86 up from 2017 | 106 | 28% | $4,494 | ||
16Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 6.24Q1 | 4.87 2.19 up from 2017 | 53 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
17EconometricaWiley · United States | 6.01Q1 | 4.63 0.10 down from 2017 | 205 | 27% | $5,290 | ||
18American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.96Q1 | 4.52 0.83 down from 2017 | 138 | 50% | — | ||
19American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.81Q1 | 3.92 0.27 down from 2017 | 1,541 | 50% | — | ||
20Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.79Q1 | 4.01 1.45 up from 2017 | 426 | 61% | — | ||
21Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 3.70 0.08 down from 2017 | 136 | 60% | $4,668 | ||
22Future Business JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 5.60Q1 | 4.66 2.10 up from 2017 | 35 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.36Q1 | 4.70 0.94 up from 2017 | 175 | 15% | — | ||
24The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 5.33Q1 | 4.51 1.04 up from 2017 | 200 | 46% | — | ||
25Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 5.32Q1 | 3.71 0.72 up from 2017 | 139 | 31% | $4,250 | ||
26Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 5.17Q1 | 3.20 0.10 down from 2017 | 146 | 32% | $5,080 | ||
27Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.10Q1 | 5.66 2.12 up from 2017 | 83 | 22% | — | ||
28Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.09Q1 | 3.57 0.43 up from 2017 | 206 | 28% | $4,660 | ||
29Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.93Q1 | 3.46 0.83 up from 2017 | 70 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
30Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 3.30 0.52 up from 2017 | 149 | 47% | $4,638 | ||
31Russian Journal of EconomicsOACIG Media Group · Russia | 4.89Q1 | 2.51 0.05 down from 2017 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Health EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.80Q1 | 4.50 0.25 up from 2017 | 256 | 49% | $4,260 | ||
33Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.79Q1 | 4.82 3.29 up from 2017 | 80 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
34Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 4.72 1.77 up from 2017 | 136 | 26% | $4,250 | ||
35Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 4.53 1.90 up from 2017 | 119 | 23% | $5,098 | ||
36Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 4.52Q1 | 5.72 1.74 up from 2017 | 1,017 | 40% | $3,490 | ||
37The Economic JournalOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 2.60 0.31 down from 2017 | 356 | 41% | $4,463 | ||
38International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.47Q1 | 5.41 2.87 up from 2017 | 103 | 56% | $4,090 | ||
39Journal of International Commerce Economics and PolicyWorld Scientific · Singapore | 4.32Q1 | 4.03 3.49 up from 2017 | 53 | 8% | — | ||
40IZA Journal of Labor PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.04Q1 | 2.75 0.42 up from 2017 | 59 | 100% | $1,105 | ||
41Journal of Regional ScienceWiley · United States | 3.88Q1 | 2.42 0.09 up from 2017 | 108 | 30% | $3,730 | ||
42Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 5.32 0.27 down from 2017 | 313 | 46% | $4,330 | ||
43Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 2.94 0.70 up from 2017 | 302 | 46% | $4,510 | ||
44Review of Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · United States | 3.69Q1 | 2.27 0.29 up from 2017 | 143 | 30% | $3,320 | ||
45Climate PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 5.35 1.60 up from 2017 | 216 | 59% | — | ||
46Journal of African EconomiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 3.00 1.74 up from 2017 | 119 | 22% | $4,687 | ||
47The World Bank Research ObserverOxford University Press | 3.56Q1 | 3.19 0.22 down from 2017 | 31 | 55% | $3,986 | ||
48Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.51Q1 | 4.76 0.91 up from 2017 | 233 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
49Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative ScienceOAEmerald Publishing Limited · Peru | 3.51Q1 | 2.47 0.88 up from 2017 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
50European Journal of Political EconomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 2.54 0.58 up from 2017 | 217 | 32% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
206 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 690
- Window papers (baseline)
- 202,534 +2.0% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.06 -6.9% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.