Journal of Political Economy: impact and ranking
Journal of Political Economy has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.06 in OpenAlex, which ranks #859 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 519. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.06 #859 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 519 #77 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #241 of 18,122
- Works
- 16k 84.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Political Economy?
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 Journal of Political Economy: 7.06, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Political Economy #859 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Political Economy?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Political Economy an h-index of 519: 519 of its papers have each been cited at least 519 times. That ranks #77 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Political Economy publish?
OpenAlex records 15,913 works in Journal of Political Economy from 1892 to 2026, cited 1,344,438 times in all, 84.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #241 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-3808
- In OpenAlex
- 1892 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Political Economy as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S95323914
Journals ranked near Journal of Political Economy
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Political Economy on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 825 | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 7.18 | 328 |
| 835 | Bioresource Technology | 7.16 | 437 |
| 849 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 7.12 | 331 |
| 867 | Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry | 7.02 | 337 |
| 876 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 6.99 | 424 |
| 878 | Energy & Fuels | 6.98 | 260 |
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.