Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal

Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal is published by Kiel Institute for the World Economy and is in Zone 4 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Economic theories and models and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, together about 26.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal Economics aims to cover all the main areas of economics. Inevitably, articles in different areas of economics are addressed at different audiences. Many of the articles submitted to the journal are standard technical pieces, addressed to a purely academic audience. Others concern economic policy and thus are addressed both to economists and policy makers with some economic background. Yet others are surveys and overviews, often interdisciplinary, addressed to a nontechnical audience. Economics is a new type of academic journal in economics. By involving a large research community in an innovative open peer review process, the journal aims to provide fast access to top-quality papers. Publishing is seen as a cooperative enterprise between authors, editors, referees, and readers. Economics takes the form of an e-journal, i.e., submission, evaluation, and publication are electronic. Economics embodies the following principles: Open Access: Following the principle that knowledge is a public good, all articles are free to read, download, and copy for all users. Open Assessment: The traditional peer review process is substantially supplemented by a public peer review process in which the community of active researchers from all over the world has a hand in the evaluation process. Due to interactive peer review and public discussion, Economics provides fast and efficient quality assurance. Speed: Submitted papers that have been identified as sufficiently promising for a referee process are made immediately available on the journal’s homepage as discussion papers. Thus, the time for new ideas to find their way into the scientific community is substantially reduced. SectionsMicroeconomics welcomes submissions in any area concerning individual behaviour in the economy. This includes pieces focussing on microeconomic theory, international economics, development economics, the economics of input or output markets and regulation of those markets, the economics of organizations, and other areas of microeconomic analysis. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions are all potentially appropriate. Writing should be accessible to a broad readership, so technical aspects should be well-explained in the text with details relegated to appendices. Macroeconomics welcomes submissions in any area concerning aggregate flows and fluctuations in the economy. This includes pieces focussing on macroeconomic theory or the macroeconomic implications of

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): ECONOMICS

Editor-in-chief Katharine RockettPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Current ContentsPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor

1.55LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

1.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

2.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.36LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

45OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

252OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.97OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

48LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 30 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 37 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Open peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Country or region

Germany

Language

English

ISSN

1864-6042

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
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