Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2023
711 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 711 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The top three are Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, American Economic Review, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
711 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 12.53Q1 | 22.06 3.86 down from 2022 | 157 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
2American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.80Q1 | 11.97 0.53 down from 2022 | 356 | 36% | — | ||
3The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 8.65Q1 | 7.90 5.38 down from 2022 | 137 | 32% | $7,619 | ||
4The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.61Q1 | 9.80 1.60 down from 2022 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
5Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 7.29Q1 | 16.86 2.42 up from 2022 | 2,005 | 46% | $3,490 | ||
6International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 7.00Q1 | 7.62no change | 145 | 61% | $3,550 | ||
7JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.00Q1 | 12.79 8.40 down from 2022 | 3,738 | 29% | — | ||
8Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.69Q1 | 10.14 2.46 up from 2022 | 228 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
9Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 5.61Q1 | 8.59 2.76 down from 2022 | 1,667 | 20% | $3,730 | ||
10Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.55Q1 | 9.96 0.38 up from 2022 | 116 | 7% | — | ||
11Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.53Q1 | 11.59 2.77 down from 2022 | 428 | 63% | $4,250 | ||
12International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 5.47Q1 | 9.10 0.59 down from 2022 | 789 | 32% | $3,770 | ||
13Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.46Q1 | 6.54 2.62 down from 2022 | 94 | 59% | — | ||
14Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.43Q1 | 10.48 0.19 up from 2022 | 232 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
15China Finance Review InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 11.15 1.01 up from 2022 | 80 | 16% | — | ||
16Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.36Q1 | 4.42 9.51 down from 2022 | 419 | 54% | $4,510 | ||
17Economic Analysis and PolicyElsevier BV · Australia | 5.07Q1 | 10.78 2.66 up from 2022 | 544 | 24% | $2,890 | ||
18Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.06Q1 | 9.41 0.88 up from 2022 | 516 | 66% | $4,280 | ||
19Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.84Q1 | 8.54 0.45 down from 2022 | 573 | 36% | $3,820 | ||
20American Economic Review InsightsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.68Q1 | 7.31 1.58 down from 2022 | 98 | 24% | — | ||
21Future Business JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 4.56Q1 | 7.63 1.23 up from 2022 | 169 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
22Fiscal StudiesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 3.78 6.65 down from 2022 | 85 | 80% | $3,920 | ||
| 4.43Q1 | 3.35 11.57 down from 2022 | 91 | 76% | $2,900 | |||
24International Journal of ManpowerEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 7.38 0.67 up from 2022 | 243 | 36% | — | ||
25Resources PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 13.38 1.90 up from 2022 | 1,501 | 17% | $3,810 | ||
26Research in GlobalizationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 6.13 5.48 down from 2022 | 93 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
27Global Finance JournalElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 7.87 1.04 up from 2022 | 180 | 23% | $2,860 | ||
28Energy EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.23Q1 | 15.08 2.34 up from 2022 | 1,476 | 34% | $4,280 | ||
29Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 3.07 7.21 down from 2022 | 152 | 42% | $5,098 | ||
30American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.00Q1 | 5.90 0.96 down from 2022 | 156 | 22% | — | ||
31Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 7.89 0.84 down from 2022 | 374 | 70% | $4,330 | ||
32China Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.81Q1 | 5.99 0.59 down from 2022 | 354 | 16% | $4,380 | ||
33Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.76Q1 | 11.45 2.61 up from 2022 | 539 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
34Journal of Asian Business and Economic StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 4.95 1.10 down from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
35Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.46 0.32 up from 2022 | 167 | 75% | $3,870 | ||
36Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 5.83 1.45 up from 2022 | 116 | 65% | $4,494 | ||
37Structural Change and Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 6.16 0.32 down from 2022 | 398 | 42% | $3,880 | ||
38Journal of Sustainable Finance & InvestmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 6.09 0.19 up from 2022 | 243 | 56% | — | ||
39Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and ManagementImperial College Press · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 7.94 2.09 up from 2022 | 41 | 5% | — | ||
40EconometricaWiley · United States | 3.54Q1 | 5.55 0.85 down from 2022 | 289 | 63% | $5,290 | ||
41The Journal of Risk FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 8.16 4.85 up from 2022 | 95 | 12% | — | ||
42Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 6.14 1.15 up from 2022 | 176 | 77% | $4,250 | ||
43Journal of Economic GeographyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 3.64 0.29 up from 2022 | 114 | 74% | $4,638 | ||
44Journal of Economic StructuresOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.44Q1 | 3.06 3.43 down from 2022 | 116 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
45Journal of Urban EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 3.38Q1 | 5.44 1.83 down from 2022 | 162 | 66% | $5,080 | ||
46Economic Research-Ekonomska IstraživanjaTaylor & Francis · Croatia | 3.37Q1 | 6.60 0.15 up from 2022 | 980 | 100% | $944 | ||
47World Development SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 6.51no 2022 value | 37 | 100% | $1,400 | — | |
48International Review of Economics & FinanceOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.36Q1 | 6.16 0.41 up from 2022 | 758 | 22% | $1,930 | ||
49American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 3.35Q1 | 4.92 0.10 down from 2022 | 150 | 33% | — | ||
50The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 5.48 0.34 up from 2022 | 277 | 45% | $6,530 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
188 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 711
- Window papers (baseline)
- 269,566 +28.5% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.94 -9.9% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.