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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.9), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. Published by American Economic Association.
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ISSN 1945-7782Verify ISSN ↗1945-7790Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Economic Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 4 / 289 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.9.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 4 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 11.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 9.427, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is published by American Economic Association. Its print ISSN is 1945-7782 and its online ISSN is 1945-7790.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics has an h-index of 154 and a 2-year mean of 7.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 70. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (51.2%), United Kingdom (8.5%) and Germany (4.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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