Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2021
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 39 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.24 on 2020 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of International Trade & Economic Development.
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)
39 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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1Journal of Air Transport ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 7.48 2.68 up from 2020 | 370 | 45% | $3,250 | ||
2Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 4.84 0.73 up from 2020 | 253 | 45% | $4,300 | ||
3Journal of International Trade & Economic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 3.58 1.11 up from 2020 | 127 | 17% | — | ||
4Review of World EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.50Q1 | 2.44 0.56 up from 2020 | 94 | 65% | $3,190 | ||
5Cambridge Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.50 0.32 down from 2020 | 181 | 41% | $4,514 | ||
6World EconomyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.25 0.64 up from 2020 | 513 | 38% | $3,570 | ||
7International Journal of Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.81 0.35 down from 2020 | 59 | 23% | — | ||
8Economics of TransportationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 3.95 1.35 up from 2020 | 54 | 32% | $2,400 | ||
9Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper SeriesPublisher not listed | 1.69Q1 | 3.12 1.71 up from 2020 | 81 | 87% | — | ||
10International Economics and Economic PolicySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.05 1.00 up from 2020 | 79 | 57% | $3,190 | ||
11Review of Keynesian EconomicsEdward Elgar Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 1.53 0.15 down from 2020 | 102 | 35% | — | ||
12Review of International EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.38 0.28 up from 2020 | 168 | 37% | $3,350 | ||
13Southeast Asian EconomiesInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies · Singapore | 1.37Q2 | 0.88 0.43 down from 2020 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
14Journal of Global Economic AnalysisOAUnited States | 1.35Q2 | 3.88 1.65 up from 2020 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
15Open Economies ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 1.55 0.18 down from 2020 | 136 | 55% | $2,990 | ||
16Brazilian Journal of Political EconomyOAEditora 34 · Brazil | 1.27Q2 | 1.29 0.17 up from 2020 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
17Review of Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.41 0.23 down from 2020 | 130 | 25% | — | ||
18MetroeconomicaWiley · Italy | 1.06Q2 | 1.15 0.43 down from 2020 | 115 | 25% | $3,350 | ||
19Journal of Post Keynesian EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.10 0.24 down from 2020 | 111 | 24% | — | ||
20Journal of Asian Economic IntegrationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.00Q2 | 0.97 0.11 up from 2020 | 31 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
21The Developing EconomiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q3 | 0.61 0.33 down from 2020 | 45 | 20% | $2,760 | ||
22Journal of International Trade Law and PolicyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 1.16 0.79 up from 2020 | 31 | 31% | — | ||
23Economic Commentary (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)OAUnited States | 0.81Q3 | 2.00 1.52 up from 2020 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
24The International Trade JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q3 | 1.18 0.23 up from 2020 | 82 | 12% | — | ||
25Asian-Pacific Economic LiteratureWiley · Australia | 0.78Q3 | 1.06 0.06 up from 2020 | 59 | 11% | $2,900 | ||
26European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies InterventionOAEdward Elgar Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 0.74 0.13 down from 2020 | 92 | 89% | — | ||
27CEPAL reviewUnited Nations Publications | 0.71Q3 | 0.55 0.36 down from 2020 | 105 | 7% | — | ||
28Contributions to Political EconomyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.55 0.12 up from 2020 | 41 | 0% | $4,514 | ||
29Investigación EconómicaOAElsevier BV · Mexico | 0.64Q3 | 0.67 0.11 up from 2020 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
30World Customs JournalAustralia | 0.52Q3 | 0.67 0.16 down from 2020 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
31Independent Journal of Management & ProductionOASão Paulo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology · Brazil | 0.48Q4 | 1.23 0.34 up from 2020 | 334 | 100% | — | ||
32The Japanese Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.46Q4 | 0.43 0.07 down from 2020 | 33 | 15% | — | ||
33Journal of International Logistics and TradeOASouth Korea | 0.40Q4 | 1.03 0.60 up from 2020 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
34Revista de Economia ContemporâneaOAFederal University of Rio de Janeiro · Brazil | 0.37Q4 | 0.26 0.32 down from 2020 | 139 | 100% | — | ||
35Economia AplicadaOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 0.23Q4 | 0.29 0.11 up from 2020 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
36The B E Journal of MacroeconomicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.30 0.08 down from 2020 | 81 | 33% | $2,712 | ||
37Journal of Air Transport StudiesOAGreece | 0.14Q4 | 0.11 0.06 up from 2020 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Business and EconomicsAcademic Star Publishing Company · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.08 0.03 up from 2020 | 178 | 0% | — | ||
39American Review of Political EconomyUnited States | 0.08Q4 | 0.12 0.12 up from 2020 | 41 | 73% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 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.
17 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 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,847 +41.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.001 -25.6% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
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 |
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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.