Rising Economics, Econometrics and Finance journals compared with their field
These are the Economics, Econometrics and Finance journals whose OJR rose faster than the median journal of their field between 2022 and 2025, by +10% or more relative to that median and by at least 2 standard errors. 42 journals qualify.
Between indicator years 2022 and 2025, the median OJR change among 343 eligible Economics, Econometrics and Finance journals was about -5%, taking the median on a log scale (the group ratio below).
Ordered by the lower bound of the relative-change range at two standard errors, highest first, then higher z (the signed difference in standard errors), then title. How trajectory is calculated (traj-v1)
| Journal | OJR 2022 → 2025 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. | Change relative to Economics, Econometrics and Finance median (2 SE range) | z (standard errors) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Economic Papers | 0.89 → 2.00 | +136.1% (+66.3% to +235.2%) | 4.9 |
| Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science | 0.59 → 1.16 | +104.2% (+61.4% to +158.3%) | 6.1 |
| JAMA Health Forum | 1.26 → 2.33 | +94.7% (+54.1% to +145.9%) | 5.7 |
| Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment | 0.96 → 2.04 | +121.1% (+52.1% to +221.4%) | 4.2 |
| IMF Working Paper | 0.93 → 1.57 | +77.5% (+46.6% to +115.1%) | 6.0 |
| SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics | 0.48 → 0.90 | +94.8% (+31.3% to +189.1%) | 3.4 |
| Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism | 1.12 → 1.77 | +65.3% (+28.5% to +112.7%) | 4.0 |
| International Review of Economics & Finance | 3.56 → 5.03 | +48.1% (+26.1% to +74.0%) | 4.9 |
| Journal of Economic Surveys | 2.83 → 4.76 | +76.4% (+22.4% to +154.1%) | 3.1 |
| Economics of Transition and Institutional Change | 0.75 → 1.29 | +80.3% (+21.6% to +167.3%) | 3.0 |
| International Journal of Finance & Economics | 1.98 → 2.73 | +44.2% (+21.5% to +71.3%) | 4.3 |
| Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance | 1.16 → 2.00 | +81.1% (+18.8% to +176.1%) | 2.8 |
| Pharmaceutical Medicine | 0.81 → 1.57 | +104.2% (+18.7% to +251.2%) | 2.6 |
| The Annals of Regional Science | 1.16 → 1.73 | +55.5% (+18.5% to +104.1%) | 3.2 |
| Energy Economics | 3.91 → 4.90 | +31.2% (+16.5% to +47.8%) | 4.6 |
| Health Economics Review | 1.21 → 1.77 | +53.9% (+15.0% to +105.9%) | 3.0 |
| Journal of Financial Economic Policy | 1.29 → 1.93 | +56.6% (+13.4% to +116.3%) | 2.8 |
| Studies in Business and Economics | 0.75 → 1.15 | +61.8% (+13.2% to +131.2%) | 2.7 |
| Environmental Impact Assessment Review | 3.06 → 3.87 | +32.6% (+13.1% to +55.5%) | 3.5 |
| Management Science | 2.77 → 3.47 | +31.2% (+12.7% to +52.8%) | 3.6 |
| Journal of International Money and Finance | 2.31 → 3.11 | +41.0% (+12.0% to +77.5%) | 3.0 |
| Macroeconomic Dynamics | 0.41 → 0.61 | +57.6% (+11.3% to +123.1%) | 2.6 |
| Economic Analysis and Policy | 3.90 → 5.08 | +36.5% (+11.2% to +67.6%) | 3.0 |
| European Finance Review | 3.39 → 8.64 | +167.5% (+10.5% to +547.4%) | 2.2 |
| PharmacoEconomics | 1.33 → 1.88 | +47.8% (+9.8% to +98.9%) | 2.6 |
| The Journal of Finance | 4.30 → 6.64 | +61.8% (+9.5% to +139.0%) | 2.5 |
| African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and Development | 0.81 → 1.10 | +43.0% (+9.4% to +87.0%) | 2.7 |
| Journal of Theoretical Probability | 0.36 → 0.52 | +50.8% (+9.2% to +108.0%) | 2.5 |
| International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology | 2.27 → 3.26 | +50.1% (+9.1% to +106.5%) | 2.5 |
| International Journal of Energy Sector Management | 1.03 → 1.43 | +46.0% (+7.0% to +99.3%) | 2.4 |
| Managerial and Decision Economics | 1.25 → 1.59 | +33.9% (+6.9% to +67.7%) | 2.6 |
| The Review of Economic Studies | 3.33 → 5.54 | +74.3% (+4.3% to +191.2%) | 2.2 |
| International Journal of Technology Policy and Management | 0.15 → 0.29 | +105.9% (+3.6% to +309.1%) | 2.1 |
| PharmacoEconomics - Open | 0.74 → 0.97 | +37.4% (+3.0% to +83.2%) | 2.2 |
| Quantitative Economics | 1.21 → 1.62 | +40.6% (+2.7% to +92.6%) | 2.2 |
| Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research | 0.70 → 0.98 | +46.5% (+2.6% to +109.1%) | 2.1 |
| Health Economics | 1.32 → 1.60 | +27.3% (+1.9% to +59.0%) | 2.2 |
| Papers of the Regional Science Association | 1.90 → 2.50 | +38.3% (+1.7% to +87.9%) | 2.1 |
| Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 6.96 → 7.46 | +12.3% (+1.5% to +24.2%) | 2.3 |
| International Journal of Business and Globalisation | 0.17 → 0.27 | +64.8% (+1.1% to +168.4%) | 2.0 |
| ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research | 0.82 → 1.15 | +46.5% (+1.0% to +112.6%) | 2.1 |
| International Journal of Social Economics | 1.56 → 1.90 | +28.0% (+0.9% to +62.2%) | 2.1 |
How to read this list
Relative change = journal OJR ratio ÷ median group ratio − 1. The journal ratio is its OJR in 2025 divided by its OJR in 2022. The group ratio is the median of those ratios among eligible journals of the field, taken on a log scale: with an even number of journals, it is the geometric mean of the two middle ratios rather than their average.
Indicator year 2022 counts citations to papers published 2019–2021; indicator year 2025 counts citations to papers published 2022–2024. The two publication cohorts do not overlap.
A journal is listed when it is ranked, its relative change is +10% or more, and the change is at least 2 standard errors above zero (z ≥ 2), so the low end of its two-standard-error range is zero or above.
Large relative changes often start from low scores: the top journal’s OJR rose from 0.89 to 2.00, now above the world average of 1.00. Relative to the median journal of its field, its change was +136.1%.