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Economies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by MDPI.
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ISSN 2227-7099Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MDPI
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 48 / 283 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Development | 64 / 314 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Economies is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 48 of 283) and Q1 in Development (rank 64 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Economies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.537, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,172 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.
Economies is published by MDPI. Its ISSN is 2227-7099.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C 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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Economies has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 3.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Economies published 373 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Kazakhstan (9.2%), South Africa (7.5%) and Spain (5.6%).
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 2 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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