The Quarterly Journal of Economics: impact and ranking
The Quarterly Journal of Economics has a 2-year mean citedness of 23.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #47 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 570. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 23.3 #47 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 570 #51 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #252 of 18,122
- Works
- 6.7k 193.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Quarterly Journal of Economics?
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 Quarterly Journal of Economics: 23.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Quarterly Journal of Economics #47 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Quarterly Journal of Economics?
OpenAlex gives The Quarterly Journal of Economics an h-index of 570: 570 of its papers have each been cited at least 570 times. That ranks #51 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Quarterly Journal of Economics publish?
OpenAlex records 6,696 works in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from 1886 to 2026, cited 1,296,331 times in all, 193.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #252 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0033-5533
- In OpenAlex
- 1886 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Quarterly Journal of Economics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$7,619.
- Website
- qje.oxfordjournals.org
- OpenAlex record
- S203860005
Journals ranked near The Quarterly Journal of Economics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Quarterly Journal of Economics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | Physiological Reviews | 24.1 | 561 |
| 43 | Nature Materials | 23.7 | 653 |
| 46 | Advanced Materials | 23.3 | 747 |
| 53 | Science | 21.5 | 1,752 |
| 55 | Accounts of Chemical Research | 21.1 | 562 |
| 57 | The Lancet | 21.0 | 1,203 |
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.