About this journal
Aims and scope
The Review of Political Economy is a double anonymized peer-reviewed journal welcoming constructive and critical contributions in all areas of political economy, including Behavioural economics, Ecological economics, Feminist economics, Institutional economics, Kaleckian economics, Marxian economics, Polanyian economics, Post-Keynesian economics, Schumpeterian economics, Sraffian economics, as well as in the tradition of the theory of the Monetary Circuit. ROPE also encourages submissions in Agent-based modelling and the Stock-flow consistent approach. The Review publishes both theoretical and empirical research, and is also open to submissions in methodology, economic history and the history of economic thought that cast light on issues of contemporary relevance in political economy. Comments on articles published in the Review are encouraged.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by two anonymous referees.
Symposiums
The Review of Political Economy welcomes submissions of Symposium ideas that fall within the scope of the journal (see above). Symposium proposals can be sent to either Sylvio Kappes, Maria Cristina Barbieri Goes or Louis-Philippe Rochon, and they must conform to the following rules:
- All Symposiums must have an open Call for Papers. This call can be open only to scholars presenting at a specific conference/workshop, for instance, or addressed to the larger community. If the latter, call for papers will be published on the journal's webpage and must be promoted on social media websites to attract the greatest number of submissions;
- All papers must be submitted through the ScholarOne system, and they will follow the standard double-blind peer-review process;
- Decisions on individual papers will be made only when referees reports on all submitted papers have been received;
- Submission of a paper to a Symposium is not a guarantee of publication. After receiving all reviews, papers should be ranked, and a certain percentage of submissions might be rejected, following ROPE's standard processes. It is expected that a 50% rejection rate (including desk rejections) could apply.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 121K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 2.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.202 (2023) SNIP
- 0.613 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 7 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 74 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 28 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 27% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the 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 Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-chief
- Louis-Philippe Rochon - Laurentian University, Canada
Co-editors
- Sylvio Kappes - Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
- Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes - University of Bergamo, Italy
Book Reviews Editor
- Sylvio Kappes - Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Associate Editors
- Steve Pressman - Colorado State University, USA
- Antonella Stirati - University Roma Tre, Italy
- Simone Silva de Deos - University of Campinas, Brazil
Editor Emeritus
- John Pheby (1989-1995)
- Gary Mongiovi (1995-2014)
- Lynne Chester (2013-2019)
- Steve Pressman (1995-2020)
Board of Advisors
- Riccardo Bellofiore - University of Bergamo, Italy
- Amit Bhaduri - Pavia University, Italy
- Robert A. Blecker - American University, USA
- Hassan Bougrine - Laurentian University, Canada
- Anna Carabelli - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
- Sergio Cesaratto - University of Siena, Italy
- Marcella Corsi - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
- Robert Dimand - Brock University, Canada
- Sheila Dow - University of Stirling, UK; University of Victoria, Canada
- Amitava Krishna Dutt - University of Notre Dame, USA
- Gary Dymski - University of Leeds, UK
- Ben Fine - SOAS University of London, UK
- James K. Galbraith - University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Ilene Grabel - University of Denver, USA
- Stephany Griffith-Jones - Columbia University, USA
- Stephanie Kelton - Stony Brook University, USA
- John E. King - La Trobe University, Australia
- Marc Lavoie - University of Ottawa, Canada; Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (CEPN), France
- Enrico Sergio Levrero - Roma Tre University, Italy
- Maria Cristina Marcuzzo - Sapienza, Università di Roma; Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, Italy
- Deirdre McCloskey - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Thomas Michl - Colgate University, USA
- Gary Mongiovi - St. John’s University, USA
- Edward Nell - New School for Social Research, USA
- Rod O’Donnell - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Antonella Palumbo - Rome Tre University, Italy
- Daniela Magalhaes Prates - University of Campinas, Brazil and UNCTAD, Switzerland
- Sergio Rossi - University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Claudio Sardoni - University of Rome, Italy
- Malcolm Sawyer - University of Leeds, UK
- Stephanie Seguino - University of Vermont, USA
- Mario Seccareccia - University of Ottawa, Canada
- Sunanda Sen - Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
- Mark Setterfield - New School for Social Research, USA
- Jan Toporowski - SOAS University of London, UK
- Anna Maria Variato - University of Bergamo, Italy
- Brenda Spotton Visano - York University, Canada
Board of Editors
- Joana David Avritzer - Connecticut College, USA
- Natalia Bracarense - North Central College, USA
- Clara Brenck - New School for Social Research, USA
- Lidia Brochier - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Sébastien Charles - University Paris 8 - Saint-Denis, France
- Leila Davis - University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
- Matteo Deleidi - University of Bari, Italy
- Stefano Di Bucchianico - University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
- Carlo D’Ippoliti - Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
- Peter Docherty - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Ilhan Dögüs - Independent Economist
- Santiago José Gahn - University of Bari, Italy
- Ettore Gallo - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
- Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan - St. John’s University, USA
- Matheus Grasselli - McMaster University, Canada
- Eckhard Hein - Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
- Annina Kaltenbrunner - University of Leeds, UK
- Joëlle J. Leclaire - State University of New York, Buffalo State, USA
- Noemi Levy-Orlik - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
- Melanie Long - The College of Wooster, USA
- Nathalie Marins - Boston University, USA
- Wesley C. Marshall - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa, Mexico
- Clara Mattei - New School for Social Research, USA
- Andrew Mearman - University of Leeds, UK
- Maria Nikolaidi - University of Greenwich, UK
- Salewa Olawoye-Mann - York University, Canada
- Lilian N. Rolim - University of Campinas, Brazil
- Luigi Salvati - Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Ricardo Summa - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Yuki Tada - Fondation France Japon de l’EHESS, France
- Daniele Tavani - Colorado State University, USA
- Domenica Tropeano - University of Macerata, Italy
- Guillaume Vallet - Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Ramaa Vasudevan - Colorado State University, USA
- Isabella Weber - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
In Memoriam
- Eugenia Correa
- Geoffrey C. Harcourt
- Alain Parguez
- Anthony Thirlwall
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
Review of Political Economy is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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