Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2019
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 38 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR rose 0.16 on 2018 to 1.51, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.94. The top three are Journal of International Economics, Journal of Air Transport Management, and Contributions to Political Economy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
38 ranked journals
Filters
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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.85Q1 | 3.70 0.37 up from 2018 | 278 | 38% | $4,300 | ||
2Journal of Air Transport ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.23 0.84 up from 2018 | 405 | 30% | $3,250 | ||
3Contributions to Political EconomyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 2.13 0.90 up from 2018 | 30 | 6% | $4,514 | ||
4Cambridge Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 1.86 0.39 down from 2018 | 225 | 31% | $4,514 | ||
5Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper SeriesPublisher not listed | 2.28Q1 | 2.49 0.88 up from 2018 | 92 | 72% | — | ||
6Journal of International Trade & Economic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.88 0.99 up from 2018 | 144 | 18% | — | ||
7Southeast Asian EconomiesInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies · Singapore | 1.98Q1 | 1.66 0.20 up from 2018 | 138 | 0% | — | ||
8International Journal of Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.76 0.78 up from 2018 | 54 | 20% | — | ||
9Open Economies ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 1.72 0.21 up from 2018 | 131 | 38% | $2,990 | ||
10Review of Keynesian EconomicsEdward Elgar Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.23 0.03 up from 2018 | 98 | 33% | — | ||
11Review of World EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.92Q2 | 1.39 0.46 down from 2018 | 91 | 40% | $3,190 | ||
12Journal of Business Cycle ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.83Q2 | 0.59 0.08 down from 2018 | 32 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
13Journal of Post Keynesian EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.75Q2 | 1.17 0.24 up from 2018 | 114 | 13% | — | ||
14International Economics and Economic PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.67Q2 | 2.00 0.92 up from 2018 | 84 | 26% | $3,190 | ||
15Review of Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 1.48 0.74 up from 2018 | 101 | 21% | — | ||
16Brazilian Journal of Political EconomyOAEditora 34 · Brazil | 1.62Q2 | 1.09 0.57 up from 2018 | 141 | 100% | — | ||
17World EconomyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 1.20 0.02 up from 2018 | 431 | 21% | $3,570 | ||
18Review of International EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 1.11 0.04 down from 2018 | 166 | 31% | $3,350 | ||
19Journal of Global Economic AnalysisOAUnited States | 1.54Q2 | 1.16 2.60 down from 2018 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
20Economics of TransportationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q3 | 1.90 0.42 up from 2018 | 39 | 50% | $2,400 | ||
21MetroeconomicaWiley · Italy | 1.41Q3 | 1.12 0.02 down from 2018 | 112 | 29% | $3,350 | ||
22The Developing EconomiesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q3 | 1.00 0.57 up from 2018 | 40 | 24% | $2,760 | ||
23European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies InterventionOAEdward Elgar Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.19Q3 | 0.96 0.13 up from 2018 | 69 | 68% | — | ||
| 1.12Q3 | 1.17 0.56 up from 2018 | 87 | — | — | |||
25Asian-Pacific Economic LiteratureWiley · Australia | 1.10Q3 | 0.73 0.05 down from 2018 | 54 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
26The International Trade JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q3 | 1.11 0.46 up from 2018 | 89 | 30% | — | ||
27Economic Commentary (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)OAUnited States | 0.84Q3 | 0.87 0.14 up from 2018 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
28Investigación EconómicaOAElsevier BV · Mexico | 0.69Q3 | 0.72 0.23 up from 2018 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
29Revista de Economia ContemporâneaOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.55Q3 | 0.42 0.08 up from 2018 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
30The B E Journal of MacroeconomicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.46Q4 | 0.26 0.43 down from 2018 | 89 | 14% | $2,712 | ||
31Independent Journal of Management & ProductionOASão Paulo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology · Brazil | 0.39Q4 | 0.45 0.06 up from 2018 | 222 | 100% | — | ||
32CEPAL reviewUnited Nations Publications | 0.35Q4 | 0.38 0.03 up from 2018 | 108 | 6% | — | ||
33World Customs JournalAustralia | 0.34Q4 | 0.31 0.06 up from 2018 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of International Logistics and TradeOASouth Korea | 0.26Q4 | 0.32 0.02 down from 2018 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
35Economia AplicadaOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.22Q4 | 0.14 0.04 up from 2018 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.14Q4 | 0.08 0.13 down from 2018 | 30 | 100% | — | |||
37Journal of Air Transport StudiesOAGreece | 0.08Q4 | 0.10 0.03 up from 2018 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Business and EconomicsAcademic Star Publishing Company · United States | 0.06Q4 | 0.02 0.27 down from 2018 | 65 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with General Economics, Econometrics and Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 40,424 +3.4% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.51 +2.1% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.