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Indian Economic Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Delhi, School of Economics.
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ISSN 0019-4670Verify ISSN ↗2520-1778Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Delhi, School of Economics
Cost to publish: About US$2,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 159 / 283 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 531 / 755 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Indian Economic Review is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 159 of 283) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 531 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Economic Review 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.309, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
Indian Economic Review is published by University of Delhi, School of Economics. Its print ISSN is 0019-4670 and its online ISSN is 2520-1778.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Economic Review has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #186 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Indian Economic Review published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 52. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (63.7%), United States (15.1%) and United Kingdom (5.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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