Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2021
708 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 708 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2020 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and American Economic Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
708 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 16.37Q1 | 19.54 0.55 up from 2020 | 121 | 58% | $7,619 | ||
2The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.55Q1 | 15.58 2.65 up from 2020 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
3American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.66Q1 | 14.98 1.45 up from 2020 | 381 | 42% | — | ||
4Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 8.83Q1 | 16.49 8.18 up from 2020 | 84 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
5JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 8.57Q1 | 28.55 15.69 up from 2020 | 3,573 | 34% | — | ||
| 8.49Q1 | 18.92 17.38 up from 2020 | 84 | 56% | $2,900 | |||
7Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.53Q1 | 14.46 10.48 up from 2020 | 379 | 44% | $4,510 | ||
8Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 11.38 9.41 up from 2020 | 73 | 78% | $3,920 | ||
9Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 6.80Q1 | 10.59 1.98 up from 2020 | 114 | 13% | — | ||
10International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 6.72Q1 | 6.79 1.43 down from 2020 | 131 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
11Research in GlobalizationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.64Q1 | 13.78 11.78 up from 2020 | 32 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
12Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 6.60Q1 | 11.07 6.08 up from 2020 | 973 | 41% | $3,730 | ||
13Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.42Q1 | 9.41 0.40 down from 2020 | 537 | 65% | $4,280 | ||
14Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.22Q1 | 11.10 7.06 up from 2020 | 124 | 53% | $5,098 | ||
15Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 6.15Q1 | 12.40 2.00 up from 2020 | 1,193 | 45% | $3,490 | ||
16Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.02Q1 | 6.32 2.15 down from 2020 | 300 | 26% | — | ||
17Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.99Q1 | 5.29 0.93 down from 2020 | 99 | 49% | $4,494 | ||
18International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 5.90Q1 | 8.48 1.91 up from 2020 | 406 | 36% | $3,770 | ||
19American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.70Q1 | 9.29 0.48 down from 2020 | 140 | 43% | — | ||
20Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.55Q1 | 6.06 0.55 down from 2020 | 125 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
21American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.49Q1 | 7.77 0.34 up from 2020 | 153 | 49% | — | ||
22American Economic Review InsightsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.39Q1 | 7.56 2.48 up from 2020 | 57 | 39% | — | ||
23American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.14Q1 | 6.45 0.28 down from 2020 | 126 | 44% | — | ||
24Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.11Q1 | 8.94 3.72 up from 2020 | 126 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.10Q1 | 8.06 3.21 up from 2020 | 413 | 40% | $3,820 | ||
26Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.95Q1 | 6.51 1.54 up from 2020 | 84 | 46% | — | ||
27The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 5.89 0.25 down from 2020 | 237 | 58% | $6,530 | ||
28Journal of Asian Business and Economic StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 6.07 3.59 up from 2020 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
29AEA Papers and ProceedingsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.33Q1 | 5.58 0.51 down from 2020 | 404 | 25% | — | ||
30Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 10.00 4.37 up from 2020 | 330 | 41% | $4,250 | ||
31Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.29Q1 | 6.41 1.67 up from 2020 | 148 | 43% | $5,080 | ||
32EconometricaWiley · United States | 4.14Q1 | 5.46 0.95 down from 2020 | 234 | 48% | $5,290 | ||
33Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 6.11 0.53 up from 2020 | 153 | 43% | $4,250 | ||
34Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 4.53 0.27 up from 2020 | 524 | 75% | — | ||
35Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 4.10 0.07 up from 2020 | 315 | 38% | $4,660 | ||
36Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 7.25 1.61 up from 2020 | 344 | 62% | $4,330 | ||
37Journal of Multinational Financial ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.87Q1 | 5.20 1.35 up from 2020 | 88 | 26% | $3,080 | ||
38Journal of Industrial and Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media | 3.80Q1 | 7.12 4.67 up from 2020 | 87 | 35% | $3,390 | ||
39International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 4.65 0.94 up from 2020 | 124 | 40% | $3,660 | ||
40Structural Change and Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.78Q1 | 6.24 2.08 up from 2020 | 294 | 32% | $3,880 | ||
41Future Business JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 3.77Q1 | 4.00 4.76 down from 2020 | 61 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
42The Review of Economics and StatisticsThe MIT Press · United States | 3.74Q1 | 4.45 0.56 down from 2020 | 299 | 48% | — | ||
43Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 3.52 1.23 down from 2020 | 62 | 40% | $7,310 | ||
44Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 3.97 0.99 down from 2020 | 148 | 60% | $4,638 | ||
45Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative ScienceOAEmerald Publishing Limited · Peru | 3.56Q1 | 6.15 3.31 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
46Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 4.88 0.85 up from 2020 | 218 | 56% | $3,870 | ||
47Resources PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 8.91 2.54 up from 2020 | 776 | 24% | $3,810 | ||
48Energy EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 9.75 1.56 up from 2020 | 1,139 | 35% | $4,280 | ||
49Applied Economic Perspectives and PolicyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 7.21 3.97 up from 2020 | 171 | 38% | $3,750 | ||
50Journal of Labor EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.34Q1 | 4.02 0.78 up from 2020 | 154 | 26% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
192 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 708
- Window papers (baseline)
- 229,040 +13.1% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.96 -9.3% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.