Journal profile · ECONOMICS
Manchester School
ISSN 1463-6786 · eISSN 1467-9957 · Wiley-Blackwell
Manchester School: CAS Zone 4 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.88; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,350; median 195 days to acceptance (89 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 22% (journal website); 51 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Manchester School is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Theory and Policy and Economic theories and models, together about 31.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Manchester School was first published more than ninety years ago and has become a distinguished, internationally recognised, general economics journal. The journal publishes high-quality research covering all areas of the economics discipline, although the editors particularly encourage original contributions, or authoritative surveys, in the fields of microeconomics (including industrial organisation and game theory), macroeconomics, econometrics (both theory and applied) and labour economics. Consistent with the strategic aim of enhancing the international standing of the journal to a general economics readership, we will only consider publishing manuscripts that make a significant contribution from either a theoretical or empirical perspective, in terms of originality, rigour and reach. In particular, we do not wish to publish manuscripts which replicate existing results and/or are limited in scope/applicability and thus more suitable to regional and/or specialised field journals. Keywords economics, monetary, macroeconomics, microeconomics, labour, econometrics, markets, economic, strategic, policy, finance, money, macro, corporate, inflation, stochastic, stock, European, union, interest, rates, journal, analysis, research, review, book Abstracting and Indexing Information ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) Business Premium Collection (ProQuest) Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) Current Index to Statistics (ASA/IMS) EconLit (AEA) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) IBR & IBZ: International Bibliographies of Periodical Literature (KG Saur) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson) ProQuest Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Central K-391 ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest) RePEc: Research Papers in Economics Research Library (ProQuest) Research Library Prep (ProQuest) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social science Database (ProQuest) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ECONOMICS
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Monetary Policy and Economic ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance12.5%
- Economic Theory and PolicyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance10.5%
- Economic theories and modelsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.2%
- Fiscal Policy and Economic GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.8%
- Economic Theory and InstitutionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.8%
- Global Financial Crisis and PoliciesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Merger and Competition AnalysisEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.5%
- Economic Growth and ProductivityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EconLitCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, RePEc
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.88LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.68LetPub ·
- h-index
- 80OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 866OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.99OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 34.26%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 39LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 39Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 49,396Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,348 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 48 | 21 | 8 |
| 2025 | 51 | 26 | 57 |
| 2024 | 48 | 29 | 80 |
| 2023 | 44 | 26 | 111 |
| 2022 | 41 | 17 | 174 |
| 2021 | 45 | 19 | 175 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
195 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 109 days – 266 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 209 days
- Sample
- 89 articles with submission and acceptance dates (100 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 22%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 22%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 219 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 14 daysPublisher 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,350 / EUR 2,780 / GBP 2,220 | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1463-6786
- Electronic ISSN
- 1467-9957
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 94, Issue 5 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Manchester School
What CAS zone is Manchester School in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Manchester School is in Zone 4 of Economics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Economics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Manchester School?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.88; CiteScore 1.8, h-index 80.
How long does peer review take at Manchester School?
Based on the dates recorded on 89 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 195 days (interquartile range 109–266 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 22% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Manchester School?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Manchester School?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Manchester School is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EconLit and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Manchester School open access, and what is the APC?
Manchester School is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,350.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .