Journal profile · Statistics & Probability
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
ISSN 0305-9049 · eISSN 1468-0084 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1973
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics: CAS Zone 4 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.08; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,840; median 413 days to acceptance (85 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 85 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd 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, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality, together about 34.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Contributions on topical issues of economic policy and the testing of currently controversial economic theories are encouraged, as well as empirical research on both developed and developing countries. We also publish papers on formal econometric techniques, including theoretical analysis, developing new techniques in estimation and testing, and simulation studies. Smaller practical contributions can be considered for the Practitioners’ Corner section of the journal.Abstracting and Indexing Information ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI) Business ASAP (GALE Cengage) Business Premium Collection (ProQuest) CAB Abstracts® (CABI) CompuMath Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing) Criminal Justice Collection (GALE Cengage) Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) Current Index to Statistics (ASA/IMS) Dairy Science Abstracts (CABI) EconLit (AEA) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) Global Health (CABI) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts (CABI) Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews Series A: Human & Experimental (CABI) Periodical Index Online (ProQuest) ProQuest Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest) RePEc: Research Papers in Economics Rural Development Abstracts (CABI) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Soils & Fertilizers Abstracts (CABI) Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI) World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Statistics & Probability
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 5, Denmark 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Monetary Policy and Economic ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance19.8%
- Fiscal Policy and Economic GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.9%
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequalityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6%
- Market Dynamics and VolatilityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.8%
- Economic Growth and ProductivityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.3%
- Economic theories and modelsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.9%
- Housing Market and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.9%
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.6%
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 | Statistics & Probability | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods | 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 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Statistics & Probability | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CAB AbstractsEconLitCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, 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
- 2.08LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.97LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 64LetPub ·
- h-index
- 144OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,264OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.45OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 56.18%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 72LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 72Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 175,003Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,469 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 107 | 70 | 28 |
| 2025 | 85 | 63 | 91 |
| 2024 | 65 | 46 | 253 |
| 2023 | 64 | 47 | 471 |
| 2022 | 60 | 37 | 621 |
| 2021 | 71 | 38 | 624 |
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
413 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 252 days – 606 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 26 days (88 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 448 days
- Sample
- 85 articles with submission and acceptance dates (189 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
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 13%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 13%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 387 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 28 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
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 3,840 / EUR 3,220 / GBP 2,560 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 100 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 12,500 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright
- Authorship
No submission fees Model summary
This journal does not charge submission fees.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 6. License agreements
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.For authors signing the copyright transfer agreementIf the open access option is not selecte…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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 Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1973
- ISSN
- 0305-9049
- Electronic ISSN
- 1468-0084
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 88, Issue 5 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
What CAS zone is Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics is in Zone 4 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Statistics & Probability / Economics / Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods. 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 Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.08; CiteScore 2.9, h-index 144.
How long does peer review take at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics?
Based on the dates recorded on 85 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 413 days (interquartile range 252–606 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 13% (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 Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 100 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 12,500 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics based?
Of the 6 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (5) and Denmark (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists CAB Abstracts, EconLit and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics open access, and what is the APC?
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,840.
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: .