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CESifo Economic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1610-241XVerify ISSN ↗1612-7501Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,583 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 457 / 876 | 47th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 469 / 755 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
CESifo Economic Studies is Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 457 of 876) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 469 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
CESifo Economic Studies 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.256, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,583 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
CESifo Economic Studies is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1610-241X and its online ISSN is 1612-7501.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 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.
CESifo Economic Studies has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
CESifo Economic Studies published 30 papers in 2024. 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 64 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Germany (14.8%), Italy (10.2%) and Spain (9.1%).
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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