Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Portuguese Economic Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1617-982XVerify ISSN ↗1617-9838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 49 / 289 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 203 / 755 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Portuguese Economic Journal is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 49 of 289) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 203 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Portuguese Economic Journal 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.588, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Portuguese Economic Journal is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1617-982X and its online ISSN is 1617-9838.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 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.
Portuguese Economic Journal has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 1.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Portuguese Economic Journal published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 28. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Portugal (24.7%), China (13.8%) and Spain (6.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.