Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Field ranking · 2022
Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2022
865 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 865 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.95, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 12.32Q1 | 13.28 6.26 down from 2021 | 136 | 38% | $7,619 | ||
2Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 11.75Q1 | 25.92 9.43 up from 2021 | 63 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
3The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 9.73Q1 | 11.40 4.17 down from 2021 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
4The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.33Q1 | 15.30 6.64 down from 2021 | 62 | 32% | $4,028 | ||
5American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.60Q1 | 12.50 2.48 down from 2021 | 383 | 34% | — | ||
6Journal of African TradeOAAtlantis Press · Netherlands | 8.59Q1 | 9.00 7.87 up from 2021 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
7Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.02Q1 | 13.93 0.53 down from 2021 | 377 | 39% | $4,510 | ||
8JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.98Q1 | 21.19 7.36 down from 2021 | 3,841 | 34% | — | ||
9Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 6.96Q1 | 14.44 2.04 up from 2021 | 1,615 | 41% | $3,490 | ||
10International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 6.83Q1 | 7.62 0.83 up from 2021 | 151 | 60% | $3,550 | ||
| 6.66Q1 | 14.92 4.00 down from 2021 | 93 | 27% | $2,900 | |||
12Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 6.65Q1 | 9.58 1.00 down from 2021 | 109 | 16% | — | ||
13Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.63Q1 | 9.16 2.65 up from 2021 | 88 | 53% | — | ||
14Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 6.31Q1 | 11.35 0.28 up from 2021 | 1,267 | 26% | $3,730 | ||
15Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 6.10Q1 | 10.29 1.35 up from 2021 | 181 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.06Q1 | 6.97 0.90 down from 2021 | 573 | 27% | $4,740 | ||
17Research in GlobalizationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.88Q1 | 11.61 2.17 down from 2021 | 73 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
18International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 5.82Q1 | 9.69 1.21 up from 2021 | 535 | 34% | $3,770 | ||
19Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 5.59Q1 | 5.77 1.94 down from 2021 | 425 | 35% | $4,028 | ||
20Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.51Q1 | 14.36 4.35 up from 2021 | 350 | 43% | $4,250 | ||
21Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.51Q1 | 8.53 0.88 down from 2021 | 507 | 67% | $4,280 | ||
22Journal of Air Transport ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.47Q1 | 8.82 1.34 up from 2021 | 377 | 39% | $3,250 | ||
23Energy RESEARCH LETTERSOAAustralia | 5.33Q1 | 12.08 42.72 down from 2021 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
24Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.31Q1 | 7.67 1.61 up from 2021 | 166 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
25Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.30Q1 | 8.99 0.93 up from 2021 | 519 | 31% | $3,820 | ||
26Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.18Q1 | 10.28 0.82 down from 2021 | 145 | 57% | $5,098 | ||
27China Finance Review InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.18Q1 | 10.14 6.91 up from 2021 | 90 | 17% | — | ||
28American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.08Q1 | 6.86 2.43 down from 2021 | 140 | 29% | — | ||
29Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.07Q1 | 10.44 0.95 down from 2021 | 92 | 56% | $3,920 | ||
30American Economic Review InsightsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.86Q1 | 8.89 1.33 up from 2021 | 89 | 32% | — | ||
31New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 4.95 0.77 down from 2021 | 185 | 66% | — | ||
32Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.53Q1 | 4.36 0.48 down from 2021 | 253 | 44% | $4,300 | ||
33The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 4.30Q1 | 5.17 0.87 down from 2021 | 285 | 42% | $4,430 | ||
34Resources PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 11.48 2.57 up from 2021 | 1,085 | 20% | $3,810 | ||
35Asian Economics LettersOAAustralia | 4.19Q1 | 7.27 30.58 down from 2021 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
36American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.17Q1 | 5.02 1.42 down from 2021 | 133 | 32% | — | ||
37China Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.17Q1 | 6.58 1.17 up from 2021 | 350 | 23% | $4,380 | ||
38Global Finance JournalElsevier BV · United States | 4.14Q1 | 6.83 3.46 up from 2021 | 152 | 27% | $2,860 | ||
39Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 6.01 1.88 up from 2021 | 189 | 25% | $3,060 | ||
40Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 8.73 1.48 up from 2021 | 355 | 57% | $4,330 | ||
41Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.06Q1 | 4.39 0.90 down from 2021 | 95 | 59% | $4,494 | ||
42Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative ScienceOAEmerald Publishing Limited · Peru | 4.04Q1 | 4.18 1.98 down from 2021 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
43International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.03Q1 | 5.12 0.47 up from 2021 | 150 | 51% | $3,660 | ||
44Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.00Q1 | 4.40 1.92 down from 2021 | 265 | 27% | — | ||
45Journal of Asian Business and Economic StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 6.04 0.02 down from 2021 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 3.99Q1 | 3.93 1.11 down from 2021 | 73 | 35% | $3,960 | ||
47Structural Change and Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 6.48 0.23 up from 2021 | 363 | 32% | $3,880 | ||
48Energy EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.91Q1 | 12.73 2.99 up from 2021 | 1,277 | 29% | $4,280 | ||
49Economic Analysis and PolicyElsevier BV · Australia | 3.90Q1 | 8.11 2.10 up from 2021 | 384 | 36% | $2,890 | ||
50American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 3.88Q1 | 5.43 2.34 down from 2021 | 160 | 30% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
225 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 865
- Window papers (baseline)
- 359,376 +25.0% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.95 -10.5% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 42Comparison-group list (42)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.