The Economic Journal: impact and ranking
The Economic Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.19 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,423 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 435. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.19 #2,423 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 435 #152 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #315 of 18,122
- Works
- 20k 56.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Economic Journal?
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 The Economic Journal: 4.19, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Economic Journal #2,423 of 18,122 journals, in the top 13%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Economic Journal?
OpenAlex gives The Economic Journal an h-index of 435: 435 of its papers have each been cited at least 435 times. That ranks #152 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Economic Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 19,912 works in The Economic Journal from 1891 to 2026, cited 1,117,660 times in all, 56.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #315 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Economic Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0013-0133
- In OpenAlex
- 1891 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Economic Journal as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,463.
- Website
- academic.oup.com/ej
- OpenAlex record
- S45992627
Journals ranked near The Economic Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Economic Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,395 | World Journal of Gastroenterology | 4.22 | 262 |
| 2,398 | Poultry Science | 4.22 | 229 |
| 2,404 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 4.22 | 398 |
| 2,424 | Physics of Fluids | 4.19 | 248 |
| 2,425 | Journal of Computational Physics | 4.19 | 420 |
| 2,458 | Applied Sciences | 4.16 | 228 |
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.