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CESifo Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Ifo institute for Economic Research e.V..
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ISSN 1615-245XVerify ISSN ↗2190-717XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ifo institute for Economic Research e.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 580 / 755 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
CESifo Forum is Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 580 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
CESifo Forum 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 1.2, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.275, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
CESifo Forum is published by Ifo institute for Economic Research e.V. Its print ISSN is 1615-245X and its online ISSN is 2190-717X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
CESifo Forum has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #693 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
CESifo Forum published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 6. 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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