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Asian Economic Papers is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 1535-3516Verify ISSN ↗1536-0083Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 270 / 745 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Finance | 196 / 342 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 438 / 755 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Asian Economic Papers is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 270 of 745), Q3 in Finance (rank 196 of 342) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 438 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Economic Papers 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.380, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Asian Economic Papers is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 1535-3516 and its online ISSN is 1536-0083.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 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.
Asian Economic Papers has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #334 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Asian Economic Papers published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 96. 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 57 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (23.4%), Japan (11.4%) and United States (9.6%).
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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