Post-Communist Economies is a refereed journal whose aim is to advance our understanding of the economic institutions, policies and performance of the ex-communist countries. The journal’s focus is primarily on European post-communist economies, including all the countries of the former Soviet Union, but we also consider papers on Mongolia, China and Vietnam. The emphasis is on papers that convey the findings of original research. ‘Think-pieces’ and survey articles, however, are not excluded, provided they are of high quality. The journal’s focus is chiefly on applied economics and political economy but papers that are of a primarily theoretical nature will be considered if the authors demonstrate their relevance to our core themes.
Those themes include reform policies, institutional change and economic performance at micro-, meso- and macro-economic levels; cross-country comparative analysis and international economic relations are also strongly featured in papers published in the journal.
Post-Communist Economies publishes research articles and data notes.
Peer Review Statement
All submitted research articles are subject to a rigorous peer review process, based on initial editor screening and double anonymous refereeing by a minimum of two external specialist referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
56K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
4.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.031 (2023) SNIP
0.557 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
36 days avg. from submission to first
decision
170 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
20 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
19% acceptance rate
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
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nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
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journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
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Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Tjorbjorn Becker - Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics, Sweden
László Csaba - Central European University, Hungary
Adnan Efendic - University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Magnus Feldmann - University of Bristol, UK
Qi Guo - Nankai University, China
Igor Gurkov - Department of General and Strategic Management, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia
Philip Hanson, OBE - CREES, University of Birmingham, UK
Canfei He - Peking University, China
James Henderson - Oxford Energy Institute, UK
Christopher A Hartwell - Associate Professor, Bournemouth University, UK and Professor, Kozminski University, Poland
Toan Luu Duc Huynh - School of Banking, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Alexander Libman - Free University of Berlin, Germany
Tomasz Mickiewicz - Aston Business School, University of Aston, UK
Alexandru Minea - University of Auvergne, France
Anastassia Obydenkova - Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain
Mariusz Próchniak - Department of Economics II, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Magdolna Sass - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Bruno Schönfelder - Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Karsten Staer - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
William Tompson - OECD, France
Stephen K. Wegren - Southern Methodist University, USA
Andrei Yakovlev - Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia
Shengjun Zhu - Peking University, China
Abstracting and indexing
Post-Communist Economies is indexed in:
Current Contents®/ Behavioral Sciences
Sage Human Resources Abstracts
Sage Public Administration Abstracts
Scopus
Social SciSearch®
Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI)
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