Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Economics, Econometrics and Finance journal rankings 2023
854 ranked journals · Field in Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance has 854 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. 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 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 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 | ||
7Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.32Q1 | 10.16 3.19 up from 2022 | 513 | 64% | $4,740 | ||
8JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 6.00Q1 | 12.79 8.40 down from 2022 | 3,738 | 29% | — | ||
9The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.92Q1 | 2.06 13.24 down from 2022 | 74 | 50% | $4,028 | ||
10Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.69Q1 | 10.14 2.46 up from 2022 | 228 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
11Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 5.61Q1 | 8.59 2.76 down from 2022 | 1,667 | 20% | $3,730 | ||
12Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.55Q1 | 9.96 0.38 up from 2022 | 116 | 7% | — | ||
13Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 5.53Q1 | 11.59 2.77 down from 2022 | 428 | 63% | $4,250 | ||
14International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 5.47Q1 | 9.10 0.59 down from 2022 | 789 | 32% | $3,770 | ||
15Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.46Q1 | 6.54 2.62 down from 2022 | 94 | 59% | — | ||
16Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 5.43Q1 | 10.48 0.19 up from 2022 | 232 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
17China Finance Review InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 11.15 1.01 up from 2022 | 80 | 16% | — | ||
18Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.36Q1 | 4.42 9.51 down from 2022 | 419 | 54% | $4,510 | ||
19Economic Analysis and PolicyElsevier BV · Australia | 5.07Q1 | 10.78 2.66 up from 2022 | 544 | 24% | $2,890 | ||
20Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.06Q1 | 9.41 0.88 up from 2022 | 516 | 66% | $4,280 | ||
21Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.84Q1 | 8.54 0.45 down from 2022 | 573 | 36% | $3,820 | ||
22European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 4.79Q1 | 7.16 2.65 up from 2022 | 149 | 73% | $5,071 | ||
23American Economic Review InsightsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.68Q1 | 7.31 1.58 down from 2022 | 98 | 24% | — | ||
24Future Business JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 4.56Q1 | 7.63 1.23 up from 2022 | 169 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Fiscal 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 | |||
27International Journal of ManpowerEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 7.38 0.67 up from 2022 | 243 | 36% | — | ||
28Resources PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 13.38 1.90 up from 2022 | 1,501 | 17% | $3,810 | ||
29Journal of Air Transport ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 5.64 3.18 down from 2022 | 399 | 33% | $3,250 | ||
30Research in GlobalizationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 6.13 5.48 down from 2022 | 93 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
31New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 6.27 1.32 up from 2022 | 179 | 72% | — | ||
32Global Finance JournalElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 7.87 1.04 up from 2022 | 180 | 23% | $2,860 | ||
33Energy EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.23Q1 | 15.08 2.34 up from 2022 | 1,476 | 34% | $4,280 | ||
34Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 4.18Q1 | 5.30 0.47 down from 2022 | 378 | 36% | $4,028 | ||
35Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 3.07 7.21 down from 2022 | 152 | 42% | $5,098 | ||
36The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 4.01Q1 | 5.14 0.04 down from 2022 | 277 | 64% | $4,430 | ||
37American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 4.00Q1 | 5.90 0.96 down from 2022 | 156 | 22% | — | ||
38Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 3.99Q1 | 6.43 1.10 up from 2022 | 372 | 49% | $2,930 | ||
39Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 7.89 0.84 down from 2022 | 374 | 70% | $4,330 | ||
40China Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.81Q1 | 5.99 0.59 down from 2022 | 354 | 16% | $4,380 | ||
41Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 4.52 1.40 down from 2022 | 97 | 73% | $3,650 | ||
42Departmental PaperOAInternational Monetary Fund | 3.78Q1 | 6.06 1.75 up from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
43Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.76Q1 | 6.24 0.22 up from 2022 | 213 | 28% | $3,060 | ||
44Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.76Q1 | 11.45 2.61 up from 2022 | 539 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
45Journal of Asian Business and Economic StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 4.95 1.10 down from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
46Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.46 0.32 up from 2022 | 167 | 75% | $3,870 | ||
47Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 7.07 1.31 up from 2022 | 217 | 51% | $3,470 | ||
48Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 5.83 1.45 up from 2022 | 116 | 65% | $4,494 | ||
49Structural Change and Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 6.16 0.32 down from 2022 | 398 | 42% | $3,880 | ||
50Journal of International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 4.13 0.23 down from 2022 | 279 | 46% | $4,300 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, compared.
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.
229 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 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
- 854
- Window papers (baseline)
- 375,644 +25.4% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.945 -9.8% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 42Comparison-group list (42)
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 | 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.