Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Economics and Econometrics journal rankings 2025
710 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics has 710 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Journal of Innovation & Knowledge and Technological Forecasting and Social Change: each is likely ranked within the top 8.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
710 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #5 of 710Journal of Innovation & KnowledgeOAElsevier BV · Spain | 8.81Q1 | 17.08 4.38 down from 2024 | 474 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #9 of 710The Quarterly Journal of EconomicsOxford University Press · United States | 8.67Q1 | 15.16 5.49 up from 2024 | 143 | 40% | $7,619 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #10 of 710American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Association · United States | 8.60Q1 | 9.28 3.41 down from 2024 | 325 | 16% | — | ||
Rank 4; likely between #1 and #9 of 710Innovation and Green DevelopmentOAElsevier BV | 8.08Q1 | 17.79 0.68 down from 2024 | 118 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #1 and #11 of 710The Journal of Economic PerspectivesOAAmerican Economic Association · United States | 7.80Q1 | 11.06 0.71 up from 2024 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 6; likely between #3 and #8 of 710Technological Forecasting and Social ChangeElsevier BV · United States | 7.46Q1 | 16.05 0.37 down from 2024 | 2,121 | 44% | $3,490 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 7; likely between #3 and #9 of 710International Review of Financial AnalysisElsevier BV · United States | 7.32Q1 | 11.28 0.22 down from 2024 | 1,637 | 18% | $3,770 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #3 and #17 of 710China Finance Review InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.30Q1 | 11.61 2.69 up from 2024 | 92 | 8% | — | ||
Rank 9; likely between #2 and #31 of 710Economic GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.12Q1 | 7.40 1.53 up from 2024 | 75 | 42% | — | ||
Rank 10; likely between #8 and #15 of 710Research PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.94Q1 | 9.54 0.01 down from 2024 | 465 | 76% | $4,280 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #9 and #16 of 710Research in International Business and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.55Q1 | 8.68 0.52 down from 2024 | 965 | 24% | $3,820 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #3 and #38 of 710The Review of Economic StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 9.82 3.35 up from 2024 | 303 | 48% | $6,530 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 13; likely between #8 and #32 of 710Journal of Economic LiteratureAmerican Economic Association · United States | 5.30Q1 | 7.41 0.51 up from 2024 | 182 | 11% | — | ||
Rank 14; likely between #8 and #29 of 710Borsa Istanbul ReviewOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.11Q1 | 6.16 3.34 down from 2024 | 306 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #11 and #22 of 710Economic Analysis and PolicyElsevier BV · Australia | 5.08Q1 | 9.55 1.02 down from 2024 | 955 | 17% | $2,890 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #22 of 710International Review of Economics & FinanceOAElsevier BV · United States | 5.03Q1 | 8.43 1.72 up from 2024 | 1,420 | 100% | $1,930 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 17; likely between #11 and #25 of 710Financial InnovationOASpringer Nature · Germany | 4.95Q1 | 8.47 1.47 down from 2024 | 359 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 18; likely between #12 and #23 of 710JAMAAmerican Medical Association · United States | 4.94Q1 | 11.82 1.00 up from 2024 | 3,439 | 19% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 19; likely between #13 and #23 of 710Energy EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.90Q1 | 14.40 1.43 down from 2024 | 1,997 | 38% | $4,280 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 20; likely between #9 and #37 of 710Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 7.91 1.44 up from 2024 | 174 | 54% | $4,250 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 21; likely between #17 and #25 of 710Finance research lettersElsevier BV · United States | 4.65Q1 | 7.57 0.59 down from 2024 | 3,566 | 14% | $3,730 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #37 of 710Global Finance JournalElsevier BV · United States | 4.32Q1 | 6.40 0.51 up from 2024 | 256 | 27% | $2,860 | ||
Rank 23; likely between #9 and #73 of 710International OrganizationUniversity of Cambridge · United States | 4.23Q1 | 4.68 0.53 up from 2024 | 97 | 96% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #9 and #71 of 710Journal of Economy and TechnologyOAElsevier BV | 4.21Q1 | 11.88 1.69 up from 2024 | 57 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 25; likely between #21 and #34 of 710Sustainable DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 10.80 1.12 up from 2024 | 1,012 | 56% | $4,250 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #17 and #42 of 710Research in GlobalizationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 7.24 0.59 up from 2024 | 179 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #20 and #38 of 710China Economic ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.12Q1 | 6.13 0.06 up from 2024 | 447 | 10% | $4,380 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #16 and #50 of 710EconometricaWiley · United States | 3.98Q1 | 6.12 0.13 down from 2024 | 255 | 53% | $5,290 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #9 and #95 of 710American Economic Review InsightsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 3.91Q1 | 4.13 3.04 down from 2024 | 103 | 24% | — | ||
Rank 30; likely between #26 and #37 of 710Resources PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 8.62 3.28 down from 2024 | 2,597 | 42% | $3,810 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #21 and #45 of 710Structural Change and Economic DynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.90Q1 | 6.76 0.09 up from 2024 | 484 | 35% | $3,880 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #25 and #39 of 710Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.87Q1 | 12.92 0.54 up from 2024 | 908 | 33% | $3,900 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 33; likely between #24 and #46 of 710Regional StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 5.20 0.65 up from 2024 | 506 | 60% | — | ||
Rank 34; likely between #19 and #78 of 710Journal of Multinational Financial ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 5.43 0.08 up from 2024 | 67 | 8% | $3,080 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #30 and #51 of 710Future Business JournalOASpringer Science+Business Media · Egypt | 3.50Q1 | 5.93 0.82 up from 2024 | 298 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 36; likely between #23 and #65 of 710Journal of Sustainable Finance & InvestmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 4.67 1.84 down from 2024 | 113 | 44% | — | ||
Rank 37; likely between #22 and #72 of 710Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.99 1.25 up from 2024 | 136 | 67% | $4,494 | ||
Rank 38; likely between #27 and #61 of 710Journal of Political EconomyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.46Q1 | 4.38 0.01 up from 2024 | 334 | 30% | — | ||
Rank 39; likely between #30 and #53 of 710Economic ModellingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.96 0.29 up from 2024 | 946 | 27% | $3,660 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #18 and #78 of 710American Economic Journal MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 3.44Q1 | 5.59 0.08 down from 2024 | 161 | 21% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #26 and #64 of 710American Economic Journal Economic PolicyAmerican Economic Association · United States | 3.41Q1 | 4.37 1.46 down from 2024 | 193 | 23% | — | ||
Rank 42; likely between #23 and #85 of 710Journal of Climate FinanceElsevier BV | 3.37Q1 | 5.63 0.37 down from 2024 | 55 | 50% | $2,470 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #30 and #60 of 710Energy Strategy ReviewsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.34Q1 | 13.87 1.16 up from 2024 | 704 | 100% | $4,180 | ||
Rank 44; likely between #33 and #58 of 710Food PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 7.32 0.40 up from 2024 | 363 | 59% | $4,330 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #29 and #70 of 710The Journal of Risk FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.16 2.44 down from 2024 | 117 | 15% | — | ||
Rank 46; likely between #30 and #63 of 710American Economic Journal Applied EconomicsAmerican Economic Association · United States | 3.29Q1 | 5.04 0.83 down from 2024 | 183 | 15% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 47; likely between #31 and #65 of 710International Journal of Sustainable Development & World EcologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 7.91 1.50 down from 2024 | 195 | 27% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 48; likely between #24 and #88 of 710Development and ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 4.09 0.13 up from 2024 | 145 | 70% | $3,870 | ||
Rank 49; likely between #38 and #58 of 710Journal of the Knowledge EconomySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.22Q1 | 5.31 0.04 up from 2024 | 1,520 | 54% | $3,390 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #37 and #63 of 710Sustainable FuturesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 8.48 0.63 up from 2024 | 356 | 100% | $2,340 |
34 Economics and Econometrics journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Oxford Economic PapersOxford University Press · United Kingdom+136% vs groupOJR 0.89 → 2.00range +66% to +235%
- 2Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States+104% vs groupOJR 0.59 → 1.16range +61% to +158%
- 3JAMA Health ForumOAAmerican Medical Association · United States+95% vs groupOJR 1.26 → 2.33range +54% to +146%
- 4Chinese Journal of Population Resources and EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom+121% vs groupOJR 0.96 → 2.04range +52% to +221%
- 5IMF Working PaperOAInternational Monetary Fund+78% vs groupOJR 0.93 → 1.57range +47% to +115%
- 6Trends in Endocrinology and MetabolismElsevier BV · Netherlands+65% vs groupOJR 1.12 → 1.77range +29% to +113%
- 7International Review of Economics & FinanceOAElsevier BV · United States+48% vs groupOJR 3.56 → 5.03range +26% to +74%
- 8Journal of Economic SurveysWiley · United Kingdom+76% vs groupOJR 2.83 → 4.76range +22% to +154%
- 9Economics of Transition and Institutional ChangeWiley · United States+80% vs groupOJR 0.75 → 1.29range +22% to +167%
- 10International Journal of Finance & EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom+44% vs groupOJR 1.98 → 2.73range +22% to +71%
- 11Pharmaceutical MedicineAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland+104% vs groupOJR 0.81 → 1.57range +19% to +251%
- 12The Annals of Regional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+56% vs groupOJR 1.16 → 1.73range +19% to +104%
- 13Energy EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands+31% vs groupOJR 3.91 → 4.90range +17% to +48%
- 14Journal of Financial Economic PolicyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+57% vs groupOJR 1.29 → 1.93range +13% to +116%
- 15Studies in Business and EconomicsOADeGruyter Open · Romania+62% vs groupOJR 0.75 → 1.15range +13% to +131%
- 16Environmental Impact Assessment ReviewElsevier BV · United States+33% vs groupOJR 3.06 → 3.87range +13% to +56%
- 17Macroeconomic DynamicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom+58% vs groupOJR 0.41 → 0.61range +11% to +123%
- 18Economic Analysis and PolicyElsevier BV · Australia+37% vs groupOJR 3.90 → 5.08range +11% to +68%
- 19PharmacoEconomicsAdis, Springer Healthcare · Switzerland+48% vs groupOJR 1.33 → 1.88range +9.8% to +99%
- 20African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom+43% vs groupOJR 0.81 → 1.10range +9.4% to +87%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -73% to +274% (ratio scale)
44 Economics and Econometrics journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Business EconomicsPalgrave Macmillan · United States-83% vs groupOJR 1.25 → 0.20range -92% to -63%
- 2Oxford Review of Economic PolicyOxford University Press · United Kingdom-69% vs groupOJR 5.18 → 1.54range -80% to -52%
- 3AEA Papers and ProceedingsAmerican Economic Association · United States-69% vs groupOJR 3.36 → 1.00range -82% to -47%
- 4Journal of Entrepreneurship and Sustainability IssuesOALithuania-56% vs groupOJR 1.73 → 0.73range -64% to -45%
- 5Journal of Public EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands-59% vs groupOJR 7.02 → 2.77range -71% to -41%
- 6InnovarOANational University of Colombia · Colombia-61% vs groupOJR 1.09 → 0.40range -76% to -37%
- 7WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENTOAPublisher not listed-50% vs groupOJR 0.73 → 0.35range -64% to -30%
- 8AfricaCambridge University Press · United Kingdom-55% vs groupOJR 1.28 → 0.55range -72% to -28%
- 9Technological and Economic Development of EconomyOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania-38% vs groupOJR 3.16 → 1.87range -52% to -21%
- 10Economic Research-Ekonomska IstraživanjaTaylor & Francis · Croatia-32% vs groupOJR 3.25 → 2.12range -42% to -20%
- 11International Journal of Services Economics and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom-61% vs groupOJR 0.33 → 0.12range -81% to -19%
- 12International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom-59% vs groupOJR 0.39 → 0.15range -79% to -18%
- 13The Journal of developing areasWestern Illinois University · United States-42% vs groupOJR 0.72 → 0.40range -59% to -18%
- 14Post-Communist EconomiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-42% vs groupOJR 2.08 → 1.15range -60% to -18%
- 15Theory and DecisionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands-50% vs groupOJR 0.51 → 0.24range -70% to -17%
- 16International EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands-39% vs groupOJR 4.03 → 2.35range -55% to -16%
- 17Decision Science LettersOAGrowing Science · Canada-41% vs groupOJR 1.04 → 0.58range -59% to -16%
- 18Vision The Journal of Business PerspectiveSAGE Publishing · India-34% vs groupOJR 1.58 → 0.99range -50% to -14%
- 19The journal of wealth managementEuromoney Institutional Investor · United States-60% vs groupOJR 0.29 → 0.11range -81% to -13%
- 20Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom-37% vs groupOJR 1.91 → 1.15range -54% to -12%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -92% to +1,100% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Economics and Econometrics highlighted.
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
120 additional Economics and Econometrics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 710
- Window papers (baseline)
- 284,770 +12.8% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.92 -0.2% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 34
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.