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Journal of Economic Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.9), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. Published by American Economic Association.
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ISSN 0002-0515Verify ISSN ↗0022-0515Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Economic Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 5 / 755 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1986, 1984, 1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.9.
Journal of Economic Literature is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 5 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Economic Literature 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 21.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 16.872, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
Journal of Economic Literature is published by American Economic Association. Its print ISSN is 0002-0515 and its online ISSN is 0022-0515.
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 4 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 Literature has an h-index of 251 and a 2-year mean of 11.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Journal of Economic Literature published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 88. 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 77 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (78.5%), United Kingdom (5.6%) and Canada (1.7%). 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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