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Asian Economic and Financial Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9), formerly ABDC C. Published by Asian Economic and Social Society.
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ISSN 2222-6737Verify ISSN ↗2305-2147Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asian Economic and Social Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 129 / 289 | 55th | Q2 |
| Development | 185 / 314 | 41st | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 150 / 235 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Asian Economic and Financial Review is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 129 of 289), Q3 in Development (rank 185 of 314) and Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 150 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Economic and Financial Review is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.226, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
Asian Economic and Financial Review is published by Asian Economic and Social Society. Its print ISSN is 2222-6737 and its online ISSN is 2305-2147.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated C in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Economic and Financial Review has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Asian Economic and Financial Review published 121 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (13.9%), Saudi Arabia (11%) and Indonesia (10.8%).
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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