World Review of Political Economy

World Review of Political Economy is published by Pluto Journals 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 Political Economy and Marxism, Economic Theory and Policy and Economic Theory and Institutions, together about 45.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

World Review of Political Economy (WRPE) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Marxist Political Economy, which aims to promote the innovative research into Marxist economic theories and their practical applications to world economy, developed and undeveloped economies, capitalist and socialist economies and so on, and to benefit the development of the world and well-beings of its people. WRPE welcomes submissions in normative and empirical research including, but not limited to:State Capitalism, Monopoly Capitalism, Financial Capitalism, Neoliberal Capitalism, Imperialism, and Capitalist Development History;Economic Globalization, Internationalization of Capital, Global Value Chain, Underdevelopment, Unequal Exchange, Colonialism, and Capitalist System;Exploitation, Profit Squeeze, Living Wage, Income Inequality, and Relationship between Capital and Labour;Business Cycle, Capital Accumulation, Under-Consumption, Over-Investment, Financial Crisis, and Theory of Economic Crisis;Organic Composition of Capital, Technical Change, Labour Process, Digital Economy, Platform Economy, Productive Automation, and Theory of Falling Profit Rate;Productive and Unproductive Labour, Surplus Value, Value Composition of Capital, Value and Price, Value Formation and Transformation, and Labour Theory of Value;Labour-Managed Firms, Participatory Planning, Market Socialism, Eco-Socialism, Feasible Socialism, and Socialist Development History. Editorial Board EditorEnfu Cheng (China), Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social SciencesCo-editorsDavid M. Kotz (US), Professor at University of Massachusetts AmherstHiroshi Onishi (Japan), Professor at Keio UniversityJean-Claude Delaunay (France), Honorary Professor at Universities of Lille and Paris East-Marne la ValléeManaging EditorZhongbao Wang (China ), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social SciencesAssistant EditorsDongyun Han (China), Assistant Professor at Chinese Academy of Social SciencesZhen Wang (China), Assistant Professor at Chinese Academy of Social SciencesEditorial BoardNiemeyer Almeida Filho (Brazil), Professor at Federal University of UberlandiaJosef Baum (Austria), Researcher at University of ViennaRiccardo Bellofiore (Italy), Professor at University of BergamoEnfu Cheng (China), Professor and Member of Chinese Academy of Social SciencesJean-Claude Delaunay (France), Honorary Professor at Universities of Lille 1 and Paris East-Marne la ValléeRadhika Desai (Canada), Professor at University of Manitob

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): ECONOMICS

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Web of SciencePublisher website

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.46LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.76OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

79.03%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

21LetPub · 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 36 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 36 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Pluto Journals

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2042-891X

Electronic ISSN

2042-8928

Society / sponsor

World Association for Political Economy

Official links

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