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Journal of Economic Issues is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0021-3624Verify ISSN ↗1946-326XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 490 / 755 | 35th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 155 / 235 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1990–1992, 1988, 1985, 1982), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Economic Issues is Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 490 of 755) and Q3 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 155 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Economic Issues 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.365, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 61.
Journal of Economic Issues is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0021-3624 and its online ISSN is 1946-326X.
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 B 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.
Journal of Economic Issues has an h-index of 121 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #473 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Journal of Economic Issues published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 106. 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 13 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.5%), Brazil (11.5%) and Mexico (7.7%).
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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