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Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Malaysian Economic Association.
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ISSN 1511-4554Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Malaysian Economic Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 157 / 289 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 157 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 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 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies is published by Malaysian Economic Association. Its ISSN is 1511-4554.
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.
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 22. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (63.9%), Vietnam (11.8%) and United States (5.9%). 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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