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IMF Economic Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2041-4161Verify ISSN ↗2041-417XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 52 / 289 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 88 / 235 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
IMF Economic Review is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 52 of 289) and Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 88 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
IMF Economic Review 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.433, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 88.
IMF Economic Review is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2041-4161 and its online ISSN is 2041-417X.
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.
IMF Economic Review has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
IMF Economic Review published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.4%), United Kingdom (7.5%) and Germany (7.1%).
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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