Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Field ranking · 2020
Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2020
845 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 845 ranked journals in 2020. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.05 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2019. A journal needs OJR 1.82 to reach Q1. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and American Economic Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3)
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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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 21.07Q1 | 18.99 1.34 up from 2019 | 122 | 50% | $7,619 | ||
2The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 19.13Q1 | 12.93 7.15 down from 2019 | 144 | 100% | — | ||
3American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.45Q1 | 13.53 5.03 up from 2019 | 524 | 51% | — | ||
4Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.35Q1 | 4.75 1.95 down from 2019 | 55 | 31% | $7,310 | ||
5Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.02Q1 | 6.21 1.09 down from 2019 | 88 | 40% | $4,494 | ||
6Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.61Q1 | 8.61 0.45 down from 2019 | 129 | 21% | — | ||
7International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 8.54Q1 | 8.22 1.00 down from 2019 | 129 | 55% | $3,550 | ||
8Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 8.15Q1 | 8.31 1.01 up from 2019 | 84 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
9American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.03Q1 | 9.76 1.57 up from 2019 | 123 | 57% | — | ||
10Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.61Q1 | 9.81 1.88 up from 2019 | 492 | 52% | $4,280 | ||
11Review of Development FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.53Q1 | 6.31 2.27 up from 2019 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
12Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.17Q1 | 8.47 2.07 up from 2019 | 304 | 39% | — | ||
13Future Business JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 6.93Q1 | 8.76 2.61 up from 2019 | 38 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 6.86Q1 | 6.72 2.12 up from 2019 | 102 | 47% | — | ||
15Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.84Q1 | 7.41 1.06 up from 2019 | 431 | 30% | $4,740 | ||
16The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 6.53Q1 | 6.11 0.63 up from 2019 | 270 | 29% | $4,430 | ||
17AEA Papers and ProceedingsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 6.36Q1 | 6.09 2.67 up from 2019 | 262 | 41% | — | ||
18Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.31Q1 | 6.62 2.59 up from 2019 | 90 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
19Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 6.21Q1 | 10.39 2.66 up from 2019 | 1,024 | 47% | $3,490 | ||
20JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 5.91Q1 | 12.87 1.12 up from 2019 | 3,149 | 33% | — | ||
21EconometricaWiley · United States | 5.53Q1 | 6.41 0.74 up from 2019 | 205 | 46% | $5,290 | ||
22Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 5.51Q1 | 6.05 1.58 up from 2019 | 418 | 27% | $4,028 | ||
23Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 4.26 0.34 down from 2019 | 521 | 63% | — | ||
24New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 5.09 0.75 up from 2019 | 175 | 42% | — | ||
25American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.28Q1 | 7.43 1.15 up from 2019 | 154 | 67% | — | ||
26The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.22Q1 | 6.14 1.21 up from 2019 | 216 | 37% | $6,530 | ||
27Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 5.58 1.11 up from 2019 | 150 | 42% | $4,250 | ||
28Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.94Q1 | 4.96 0.62 up from 2019 | 89 | 39% | — | ||
29The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 4.91Q1 | 5.01 0.10 up from 2019 | 239 | 45% | — | ||
30Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.91Q1 | 4.12 0.41 up from 2019 | 261 | 36% | $4,300 | ||
31Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.84Q1 | 4.86 0.80 up from 2019 | 156 | 21% | $3,060 | ||
32IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 5.04 1.97 up from 2019 | 73 | 23% | — | ||
33Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 4.05 2.57 down from 2019 | 122 | 58% | $5,098 | ||
34International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 4.77Q1 | 6.57 2.36 up from 2019 | 349 | 35% | $3,770 | ||
35Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.68Q1 | 4.75 0.55 up from 2019 | 155 | 47% | $5,080 | ||
36Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.52Q1 | 4.03 0.55 down from 2019 | 300 | 35% | $4,660 | ||
37Journal of Multinational Financial ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.49Q1 | 3.85 0.02 down from 2019 | 81 | 21% | $3,080 | ||
38The Journal of Finance and Data ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 4.38Q1 | 5.84 1.91 up from 2019 | 36 | 100% | $550 | ||
39Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 4.96 1.54 up from 2019 | 155 | 49% | $4,638 | ||
40Economics and PoliticsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 1.69 0.96 down from 2019 | 53 | 32% | $3,240 | ||
41Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.27Q1 | 3.24 0.74 down from 2019 | 158 | 32% | — | ||
42Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 4.22Q1 | 4.15 0.57 up from 2019 | 239 | 30% | $2,930 | ||
43Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.12Q1 | 4.85 1.28 up from 2019 | 537 | 31% | $3,820 | ||
44Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.07Q1 | 4.68 1.30 down from 2019 | 74 | 33% | — | ||
45Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 4.07Q1 | 4.99 0.89 up from 2019 | 751 | 32% | $3,730 | ||
46European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 4.54no change | 71 | 77% | $3,900 | ||
47Journal of the European Economic AssociationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 3.46 0.52 down from 2019 | 210 | 52% | $4,668 | ||
48Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.99Q1 | 3.98 0.56 up from 2019 | 341 | 54% | $4,510 | ||
49Economic SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.93Q1 | 3.94 1.37 up from 2019 | 127 | 21% | $2,930 | ||
50Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.93Q1 | 5.22 1.61 up from 2019 | 105 | 100% | $0 listed |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
249 additional Economics, Econometrics and Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 845
- Window papers (baseline)
- 299,609 +4.2% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.05 -0.8% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 42Comparison-group list (42)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 395 | 425 | 460 | 487 | 498 | 514 | 531 | 559 | 581 | 609 | 647 | 670 | 707 | 738 | 766 | 798 | 826 | 834 | 837 | 849 | 845 | 851 | 865 | 854 | 853 | 853 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 99,973 | 113,603 | 122,133 | 133,423 | 136,804 | 148,238 | 157,778 | 169,254 | 180,801 | 194,355 | 211,936 | 226,900 | 245,854 | 257,623 | 271,446 | 280,922 | 287,325 | 287,637 | 285,717 | 287,386 | 299,609 | 328,459 | 359,376 | 375,644 | 380,630 | 387,914 | |
| Median OJR | 1.03 | 1.09 | 1.106 | 1.061 | 1.111 | 1.1362 | 1.1363 | 1.27 | 1.33 | 1.28 | 1.22 | 1.26 | 1.23 | 1.25 | 1.20 | 1.16 | 1.10 | 1.056 | 1.08 | 1.058 | 1.05 | 0.97 | 0.95 | 0.945 | 0.92 | 0.943 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.8% | 553 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 2.400 per 1,000 | 478 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -3.6% | 787 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 59.7% | 853 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,275 | 442 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 27.5% | 793 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 853 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.94 | 849 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 42.5% | 853 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 48.9% | 852 journals |
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.