About this journal
Aims and scope
Cogent Economics & Finance is a multidisciplinary open access journal publishing high-quality peer-reviewed research by authors from across the globe. Our inclusive nature ensures we cover the entire scope of economics and finance research – from financial economics to economic philosophy and everything in between, including replication studies – and we make sure this research is visible to everyone, anywhere, any time. The journal welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions.
The journal is headed up by an expert team of Senior Editors who, in keeping with our vision of inclusivity and sharing, evaluate submissions on scholarly merit and research integrity. Manuscripts are never rejected purely on the grounds of perceived importance or impact on the research community.
Cogent Economics & Finance aims to take an objective and constructive approach to peer review, with editors seeking work that displays sound research methods and reasoning, relevance to the journal’s audience, and clear and coherent language. Article-level metrics allow the research to be assessed on its own merit.
Cogent Economics & Finance considers original research and review articles in the following sections and broad topical areas:
Development Economics
Welcomes novel and interesting applied research that makes a valuable contribution to the field of Economics across all aspects of development economics including, but not limited to: fiscal policy, monetary policy, health policy, regulatory policy, political economy, underdevelopment, agriculture, poverty, inequality, globalisation and trade, sustainable development, energy and environment.
This section welcomes research which employs an interdisciplinary approach and addresses questions in development economics, that are of interest to the general readers of the journal, comprising both academia and practitioners. It also welcomes research in development economics at the macro, micro and meso level.
Econometrics and Data Analytics
Aims to publish high-quality papers in macroeconometrics, microeconometrics and financial econometrics. The journal encourages submissions of research outcomes from all areas of econometric research including applied, methodological and theoretical studies. Considering Data Analytics, this section also looks at publishing high-quality research outcomes from data-rich studies in the broad area of economics and finance. It focuses on fundamental and applied research outcomes in data analytics theories and methodologies. Additionally, it promotes data-rich application studies and encourages multidisciplinary research. It aims to bring together academic researchers, industry data experts, and potential end users of data science and analytical technologies. This section welcomes challenges spanning data capture, storage, analysis, visualization, and various modelling techniques.
Energy Economics
The Energy Economics section is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the complex interplay between energy systems and economic activities. This section aims to explore the geographical dimensions of energy, examining how energy resources are distributed and utilized across different regions and how this influences economic development and policy-making. This section is particularly interested in research that delves into the financial networks within the energy sector, analyzing the mechanisms and instruments that drive investment and risk management in energy markets.
This section also encompasses the critical area of supply chain finance within the energy industry, seeking to understand how financial flows and credit arrangements impact the efficiency and sustainability of energy supply chains. We welcome submissions that explore innovative financing models, such as those that support the transition to low-carbon energy systems. Furthermore, this section is committed to examining the burgeoning field of carbon finance, including the development and impact of carbon trading markets, the pricing of carbon emissions, and the role of carbon credits in promoting environmental sustainability. We are eager to publish research that provides insights into the economic implications of climate change and the ways in which energy markets are adapting to these global challenges.
This section is a platform for interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical applications, with a focus on the economic aspects of energy geography, financial networks, supply chain finance, carbon finance, and climate-economic dynamics. This section encourages submissions that offer innovative perspectives and robust empirical evidence to contribute to the growing body of knowledge in these areas.
Environmental Economics and Sustainability
Publishes papers across a range of environmental and natural resource economics topics including, but not limited to, sustainability, climate change, natural resource use, environmental justice, energy use, land use, pollution and associated externalities, environmental health policy, regulation, and environmental valuation.
The journal welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers, including the use of traditional as well as novel methodological techniques. Our audience is both international and inter-disciplinary and includes academics, researchers, regulators, and policy makers.
Financial Economics
The Financial Economics section of Cogent Economics and Finance seeks to publish high quality articles from across the full range of the finance and financial economics discipline. This includes and extends from, but is not limited to, areas of corporate finance and firm behaviour (such as capital structure and dividend policy), the behaviour of financial institutions (such as bank profitability, risk and efficiency as well as issues in microfinance and financial inclusion), international finance, risk management, behavioural finance, asset pricing and behaviour across and between asset types (such as stock, bond, commodity, real estate and other markets), towards the boundary between finance and macroeconomics, and examining the interaction between the real economy and financial markets.
This section has notable interest in two of the main developing trends within financial economics. First, in regard of ESG (environmental, social and governance). This captures work around green finance, including the pricing of green assets and the building of green portfolios, as well as key issue in social and governance (such as how finance can be used to improve the functioning of firms for all stakeholders). Second, in how advances in analytics, big data and fintech now interact with market dynamics and help provide new answers and insights to current questions. The scope of this section addresses all of the major questions in financial economics, from how firms raise, spend and distribute capital, to how financial institutions try to manage the risks involved in trading assets, and understanding why asset prices change and how that impacts the economic environment.
General & Applied Economics
Considers a broad range of applied analyses, covering both microeconomics and macroeconomics subject areas such as, but not restricted to: labour, education, industrial organisation, trade, behavioural, monetary, health and agricultural economics. While some theoretical papers are published, many submissions are empirical in nature, encompassing both econometic analyses and the results of experimental research. The editors are also interested in receiving papers on economics teaching, learning and assessment, where authors can provide evidence on the impact of innovations adopted. This section also welcomes submissions on Economic Methodology, Philosophy and History.
Cogent Economics & Finance considers original research articles, reviews and letters in any area of the following areas of economics and finance:
- Development Economics
- Econometrics
- Financial Economics
- General & Applied Economics (including Economic Methodology, Philosophy & History
What can you expect if you publish in Cogent Economics & Finance?
- Retention of the full copyright in your work
- Immediate, free access to your article for anyone anywhere in the world
- Rigorous peer review featuring constructive dialogue with experts
- Fast publication on a state-of-the-art platform
- Innovative article-level performance metrics
- Global marketing and high production values
- Extensive indexing and archiving of your work
Journal metrics
Usage
- 1.7M annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.974 (2023) SNIP
- 0.426 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 35 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 55 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 19 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 24% 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
Caroline Elliott (University of Warwick, UK)
Jump to section
Cogent Economics & Finance publishes across five areas of economics and finance. Each section is led by a Senior Editor and is supported by an Editorial Board, as listed below.
- Development Economics
- Energy Economics
- General and Applied Economics
- Financial Economics
- Econometrics and Data Analytics
- Environmental Economics and Sustainability
Development Economics
Senior Editor
Goodness Aye (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Energy Economics
Senior Editor
Jiachao Peng (Wuhan Institute of Technology, China)
General and Applied Economics
Senior Editor
Chris Jones (Aston University, UK)
Financial Economics
Senior Editor
David Mcmillan (University of Stirling, UK)
Econometrics and Data Analytics
Senior Editor
Xibin Zhang (Monash University, Australia)
Environmental Economics and Sustainability
Senior Editor
Lea-Rachel Kosnik (University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA)
Associate Editors:
Muneer M. Alshater (Philadelphia University, Jordan)
Ranjan Aneja (Central University of Haryana, India)
Hugo Benitez-Silva (Stony Brook University, USA)
Antonella Francesca Cicchiello (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza, Italy)
Ernest Gyapong (Alfaisal University, College of Business, Saudi Arabia)
Jorge Miguel Lopo Gonçalves Andraz (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)
Burcu Berke Omer Halisdemir (University, Turkey)
Lanouar Charfeddine (Qatar University, Qatar)
Jerry Coakley (University of Essex, UK)
María Del Mar Miralles Quirós (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Justin Doran (University College Cork, Ireland)
Mohammed Elgammal (Qatar University, Qatar)
Salvatore Ercolano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Tor Ericksson (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Rosa Fernandez Martin (University of Warwick, UK)
John Fry (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Konstantinos Gkillas (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece)
Rohail Hassan (Northern University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
David Hendry (University of Oxford, UK)
Atif Jahanger (Hainan University, China)
Evan Lau (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak , Malaysia)
Abdul Majeed (Huanggang Normal University, China)
Cesario Mateus (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Walid Mensi (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia / Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Saudi Arabia)
Louis Murray (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Christian Nsiah (Baldwin Wallace University, USA)
Samuel Obeng (University of Warwick, UK)
Stephanos Papadamou (University of Thessaly, Greece)
Vassilios Papavassiliou (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Robert Read (Lancaster University, UK)
Sergio Rossi (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Bo Sandelin (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Juan Sapena (University of Valencia, Spain)
Bertram Schefold (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Yudhvir Seetharam (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Muhammad Shafiullah (University of Nottingham, Malaysia)
Nádia Simões (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
Rosanna Spanò (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Francesco Tajani (University of Bari, Italy)
Henry Thompson (Auburn University, USA)
Sarah Tione (Norweigan University of Life Sciences, Norway)
Aviral Tiwari (Rajagiri Business School, India)
Damir Tokic (International University of Monaco, Monaco)
Jasman Bin Tuyon (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)
Numan Ulku (University of South Australia, Australia)
Andrew Vivian (Loughborough University, UK)
Miao Grace Wang (Marquette University, USA)
Wing-Keung Wong (Asia University, Taiwan)
Zhaojun Yang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Raoul Fani Djomo Choumbou (University of Buea, Cameroon)
Erinc Yeldan (Yasar University, Turkey)
Junhuan Zhang (Beihang University, China)
Abstracting and indexing
Cogent Economics & Finance is indexed in:
Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Scopus
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List (B rating)
2018 ABS Journal Quality Guide. Rating: 1 (Economics, Econometrics and Statistics)
EconBiz
RePEc
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
Business Source Corporate Plus (EBSCO)
ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)
CNKI Scholar
British Library
Cabell’s International
Finnish Publication Forum
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
E-Lib Bremen
Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL)
DTU Library
Ulrich’s
J-Gate Portal
Primo Central Index - Ex libris
WorldCat Discovery Services - OCLC
Google Scholar
CrossRef
Taylor & Francis Online
Taylor & Francis is working with all major indexers to include Cogent Economics & Finance as soon as possible once it becomes eligible.
Open access
Cogent Economics & Finance is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. 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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- 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
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Continuous publication
Currently known as:
- Cogent Economics & Finance (2014 - current)
Formerly known as
- Economics & Finance Research: An Open Access Journal (2013 - 2013)
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