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Journal of Economic Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. Published by American Economic Association.
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ISSN 0895-3309Verify ISSN ↗1944-7965Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Economic Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 22 / 755 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992–1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.4.
Journal of Economic Perspectives is Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 22 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Economic Perspectives 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 15.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 8.181, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 253.
Journal of Economic Perspectives is published by American Economic Association. Its print ISSN is 0895-3309 and its online ISSN is 1944-7965.
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 Perspectives has an h-index of 377 and a 2-year mean of 8.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Journal of Economic Perspectives published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 53. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (85.5%), Germany (3.5%) and United Kingdom (3.1%). 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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