Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2021
851 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 851 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2020 to 0.97, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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 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 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 Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 12.66Q1 | 21.94 19.19 up from 2020 | 44 | 40% | $4,028 | ||
3The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 12.55Q1 | 15.58 2.65 up from 2020 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
4American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 10.66Q1 | 14.98 1.45 up from 2020 | 381 | 42% | — | ||
5Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 8.83Q1 | 16.49 8.18 up from 2020 | 84 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
6JAMAAmerican 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 | |||
8Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.53Q1 | 14.46 10.48 up from 2020 | 379 | 44% | $4,510 | ||
9Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 11.38 9.41 up from 2020 | 73 | 78% | $3,920 | ||
10Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 6.80Q1 | 10.59 1.98 up from 2020 | 114 | 13% | — | ||
11International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 6.72Q1 | 6.79 1.43 down from 2020 | 131 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
12Research in GlobalizationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.64Q1 | 13.78 11.78 up from 2020 | 32 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
13Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 6.60Q1 | 11.07 6.08 up from 2020 | 973 | 41% | $3,730 | ||
14Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.42Q1 | 9.41 0.40 down from 2020 | 537 | 65% | $4,280 | ||
15Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.29Q1 | 7.86 0.45 up from 2020 | 467 | 35% | $4,740 | ||
16Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 6.22Q1 | 11.10 7.06 up from 2020 | 124 | 53% | $5,098 | ||
17Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 6.15Q1 | 12.40 2.00 up from 2020 | 1,193 | 45% | $3,490 | ||
18Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.02Q1 | 6.32 2.15 down from 2020 | 300 | 26% | — | ||
19Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.99Q1 | 5.29 0.93 down from 2020 | 99 | 49% | $4,494 | ||
20International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 5.90Q1 | 8.48 1.91 up from 2020 | 406 | 36% | $3,770 | ||
21American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.70Q1 | 9.29 0.48 down from 2020 | 140 | 43% | — | ||
22Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 5.57Q1 | 7.71 1.66 up from 2020 | 430 | 34% | $4,028 | ||
23Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.55Q1 | 6.06 0.55 down from 2020 | 125 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
24American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.49Q1 | 7.77 0.34 up from 2020 | 153 | 49% | — | ||
25The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 5.46Q1 | 6.04 0.07 down from 2020 | 285 | 31% | $4,430 | ||
26American Economic Review InsightsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.39Q1 | 7.56 2.48 up from 2020 | 57 | 39% | — | ||
27American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.14Q1 | 6.45 0.28 down from 2020 | 126 | 44% | — | ||
28Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.11Q1 | 8.94 3.72 up from 2020 | 126 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.10Q1 | 8.06 3.21 up from 2020 | 413 | 40% | $3,820 | ||
30Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.95Q1 | 6.51 1.54 up from 2020 | 84 | 46% | — | ||
31Journal of Air Transport ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 7.48 2.68 up from 2020 | 370 | 45% | $3,250 | ||
32The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 5.89 0.25 down from 2020 | 237 | 58% | $6,530 | ||
33The Journal of Finance and Data ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 4.41Q1 | 0.79 5.05 down from 2020 | 32 | 100% | $550 | ||
34Journal of Asian Business and Economic StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 6.07 3.59 up from 2020 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 4.40Q1 | 3.83 1.16 down from 2020 | 103 | 34% | $2,640 | ||
36New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 5.73 0.64 up from 2020 | 179 | 55% | — | ||
37AEA Papers and ProceedingsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.33Q1 | 5.58 0.51 down from 2020 | 404 | 25% | — | ||
38Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 10.00 4.37 up from 2020 | 330 | 41% | $4,250 | ||
39Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 4.29Q1 | 6.41 1.67 up from 2020 | 148 | 43% | $5,080 | ||
40Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 4.84 0.73 up from 2020 | 253 | 45% | $4,300 | ||
41EconometricaWiley · United States | 4.14Q1 | 5.46 0.95 down from 2020 | 234 | 48% | $5,290 | ||
42Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 6.11 0.53 up from 2020 | 153 | 43% | $4,250 | ||
43European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 4.46 0.08 down from 2020 | 61 | 78% | $3,900 | ||
44Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 4.53 0.27 up from 2020 | 524 | 75% | — | ||
45Journal of Monetary EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 4.10 0.07 up from 2020 | 315 | 38% | $4,660 | ||
46IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 5.38 0.35 up from 2020 | 76 | 64% | — | ||
47Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 7.25 1.61 up from 2020 | 344 | 62% | $4,330 | ||
48Journal of Multinational Financial ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.87Q1 | 5.20 1.35 up from 2020 | 88 | 26% | $3,080 | ||
49Journal of Industrial and Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media | 3.80Q1 | 7.12 4.67 up from 2020 | 87 | 35% | $3,390 | ||
50International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 4.65 0.94 up from 2020 | 124 | 40% | $3,660 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, compared.
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.
242 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 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
- 851
- Window papers (baseline)
- 328,459 +15.0% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.97 -10.7% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 42Comparison-group list (42)
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 | 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.