American Economic Review: impact and ranking
American Economic Review has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.6 in OpenAlex, which ranks #111 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 616. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 16.6 #111 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 616 #38 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.8M #146 of 18,122
- Works
- 10k 181.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of American Economic Review?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for American Economic Review: 16.6, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks American Economic Review #111 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.6%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of American Economic Review?
OpenAlex gives American Economic Review an h-index of 616: 616 of its papers have each been cited at least 616 times. That ranks #38 of 18,122 journals.
How much does American Economic Review publish?
OpenAlex records 10,015 works in American Economic Review from 1911 to 2026, cited 1,821,615 times in all, 181.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #146 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-8282
- In OpenAlex
- 1911 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list American Economic Review as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.aeaweb.org/aer
- OpenAlex record
- S23254222
Journals ranked near American Economic Review
The journals with a page that stand just above and below American Economic Review on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 17.2 | 522 |
| 106 | Nature Cell Biology | 16.9 | 485 |
| 109 | The Journal of Finance | 16.8 | 672 |
| 112 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | 16.6 | 397 |
| 119 | Physics Reports | 16.2 | 462 |
| 122 | Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews | 16.1 | 434 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.