offers new perspectives into some of the most critical economic policy issues of modern time. The Journal invites research from diverse backgrounds, including economics, political economy, development and planning, and the social sciences in general. Journal of Economic Policy Reform publishes research on topics such as:
Policy issues involving, but not limited to, economic growth, social change, environmental protection, planning and development, or poverty
Theoretical and empirical approaches to policy reform
Macroeconomic and microeconomic policy reform
Economic reform by governments as well as global organizations
The advantages and consequences of specific policies
Inclusive growth and its relationship to gender, knowledge, employment, poverty, and other socioeconomic factors
Policy analysis, economic data collection, and measurement
Journal of Economic Policy Reform encourages research that contributes to evolving policy development. The Journal also welcomes scholarship that supports progress towards the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(UN SDGs):
8
- Decent Work and Economic Growth
9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
10 - Reduced Inequalities
All research in Journal of Economic Policy Reform is validated with a double anonymized peer review process. Learn more about preparing your manuscript by visiting the Instructions for Authors.
You will benefit from publishing in Journal of Economic Policy Reform by:
Gaining recognition from an international audience
Increasing your opportunities for future collaboration
Receiving guidance throughout the submissions process from the experienced members of our Editorial Board
Receiving 50 free e-prints & tips on promoting your article courtesy of Author Services
Immediately seeing the impact your research has made in the community by tracking downloads, citations, and the Altmetric Score of your article on My Authored Works
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Journal metrics
Usage
65K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
3.3 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
6.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.397 (2023) SNIP
0.809 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
8 days avg. from submission to first
decision
84 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
14 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
8% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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.
Associate Editors: Arnab Basu - Cornell University, USA Germà Bel - University of Barcelona, Spain Daniel Díaz-Fuentes - University of Cantabria, Spain Massimo Florio - University of Milan, Italy Raymond Gradus - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam David Howarth - University of Luxembourg Helen Kavvadia - ESSCA School of Management, France Keun Lee - Seoul National University, South Korea Andreas Nolke - Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany M. Ramesh - National University of Singapore, Singapore Mildred Warner - University of Cornell, USA
International Editorial Board: José M. Alonso - University of Cantabria, Spain Caner Bakir - Koç University, Turkey Jagdish Bhagwati - Columbia University, USA Graham Bird - University of Surrey, UK Rafael Chaves - University of Valencia, Spain Michael Connolly - University of Miami, Florida, USA José Cuesta - World Bank, USA Chiara Del Bo - University of Milan, Italy Barry Eichengreen - University of California, Berkeley, USA Gerardo Esquivel - El Colegio de México, México Valpy Fitzgerald - University of Oxford, UK Rick Geddes - Cornell University, USA Andrea Goldstein - OECD, France Raymond Gradus - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Mia Gray – University of Cambridge, UK Yu-HungHong- MIT, USA Anne Krueger - John Hopkins University, USA Erika Kraemer-Mbula - Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Justin Yifu Lin - Peking University, China Mariana Mazzucato - University College London (UCL), UK Philip Molyneux - Bangor Business School, Wales and University of Sharjah, UAE Robert Mundell - Columbia University, USA Maurice Obstfeld - University of California, Berkeley, USA Leslie Pal - Carleton University, Canada Arvind Panagariya - Columbia University, USA Alison Post - University of California, Berkeley, USA Lucia Quaglia - University of York, UK Dani Rodrik - Harvard University, USA Jeffrey Sachs - Columbia University, USA Araz Taeihagh - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wenjin Tang - Changsha University of Science and Technology, China Mark Thatcher - London School of Economics, UK Edward Tower - Duke University, USA Steven Van de Walle - Erasmus University, Netherlands Amy Verdun - Univeristy of Victoria, BC, Canada Mira Wilkins - Florida International University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Economic Policy Reform is currently noted in OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, EBSCO (Business Source Corporate, TOC Premier), IBSS, Crrent Contents and RePEc and Thomson Reuters Social Science Index.
Open access
Journal of Economic Policy Reform 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.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
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
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
Journal of Economic Policy Reform
(2007 - current)
Formerly known as
The Journal of Policy Reform
(1996 - 2006)
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