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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Brookings Institutions.
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ISSN 0007-2303Verify ISSN ↗1533-4465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brookings Institutions
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 60 / 755 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 26 / 235 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992, 1990), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 60 of 755) and Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 26 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 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 9.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.451, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 104.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity is published by Brookings Institutions. Its print ISSN is 0007-2303 and its online ISSN is 1533-4465.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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 3 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.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity has an h-index of 183 and a 2-year mean of 2.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #193 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 43. 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.
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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