Economy and Society

Economy and Society is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Military Technology and Strategies, together about 31.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Founded in 1972, this interdisciplinary and radical journal of social theory and research continues to be one of the most influential resources in the social sciences worldwide. Economy and Society advances contemporary conceptual debates and promotes novel empirical analyses of economic and cultural relations, states and governance. It seeks to provide a forum for the social sciences in the broadest sense, and welcomes innovative articles that address a readership across sociology, anthrolopology, political economy, geography, philosophy, and political and legal theory, as well as scholars who research between disciplines. In regular issues and through thematic special issues and special sections, the journal publishes original and progressive work from across the globe that critically engages with aspects of the present and speaks beyond disciplinary specialisms. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions from early-career social scientists. Peer Review Policy: All articles published in this journal have undergone internal Editorial Board scrutiny as well as anonymous peer review. Reviews are solicited under a double-anonymized system of review, and Editorial Board members are actively involved in the reviewing and decision-making process, both reading papers sent for review and considering the referees’ reports received. Editorial Board meetings are held throughout the year at which Board members discuss the papers and referees’ reports in detail, before coming to a decision on each submission. Proposals for special issues and special sections are also received and considered by the Editorial Board, and the Board will appoint one of its members to oversee the development of a special issue/section. Judgements communicated to authors are the decision of the Editorial Board, and combine feedback from referee reports, Board Members and the Managing Editor. Publications appear in the Latest Articles section of the journal’s website, ahead of print in a specific issue of the journal.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 5 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIECurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: OCLC, Alternative Press Index, Australian Citizenship Database, CSA Human Population and Natural Resource Management, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Educational Research Abstracts Online, Expanded Academic Index, Geobase, Geographical Abstracts, H.W Wilson, INIST Database, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Political Science Abstracts, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), Periodicals Index Online, Research Alert, Social SciSearch, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Sociology of Education Abstracts, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

3.56LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

6.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

1.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.19Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

2.07LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

2.07Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

136OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

886OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.51OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

40%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

289,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Acceptance to publication

59 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0308-5147

Electronic ISSN

1469-5766

Latest issue on the website

Volume 55, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website