About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Applied Economics is a peer-reviewed open access journal covering applied issues in micro and macroeconomics, including:
- Political Economy
- Law and Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Innovation Economics
- Health Economics
- Gender Economics
- International Trade & Development
- Industrial Organization
- International Economics
- Labor Economics
- Finance
- Money and Banking
- Green Growth
Applied Economics as a field must deal directly with current issues and affairs that affect both the global economy and economic agents, namely, firms, consumers, governmental and non-governmental organisations. As such, the journal’s aim is to provide original research on empirical economics and applied theory, in any of its fields. Papers based on a meaningful and well-motivated research problem that make a concrete contribution to the literature are encouraged, but special consideration would be made to new research dealing with topics related to new technologies and applied economic methods with a focus on gender differences, sustainability impact and social cohesion, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Authors are required to present their scientific findings in a clear manner and contextualize them within the broad academic debate around the subject explored within the paper.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. The primary criteria for selecting papers are quality and importance for the field.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 196K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.4 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.740 (2023) SNIP
- 0.437 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 20 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 77 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 9 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 9% 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
Inmaculada Martínez Zarzoso, University of Göttingen
Email: [email protected]
Section Editors
Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor , Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Switzerland
Gabriel Montes-Rojas , Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina
Alberto Posso , Griffith University, Australia
Camilla Turcu , University of Orleans, France
Celia Lopez , University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Chahir Zachi , American University of Cairo, Egypt
Cristina Badarau , University of Bordeaux, France
Ernesto Rodriguez Crespo , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Rajius Idzalika , University of Goettingen, Germany
Editorial Board
Monica Achim , Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
George Akerlof , Georgetown University, USA
Maite Aguacil Marí, University Jaume I, Spain
Daniel Aromí , University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leila Baghdadi , Tunis University, Tunis
S. Brock Blomberg , Ursinus College, USA
Marco Bonomo , INSPER (Instituto de Ensino e de Pesquisa), Brazil
Federico Carril Caccia, University of Granada
Guillermo Calvo , Columbia University, USA
Özcan Ceylan , Özyegin University, Turkey
Vittorio Corbo , Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Allan Drazen , University of Maryland, USA
Sebastian Edwards , UCLA, USA
Ignacio Amate Fortes , Universidad de Almería, Spain
Javier García-Cicco , Banco Central de la República Argentina
Pablo Garofalo , New Jersey City University, USA
George McCandless , Banco Central de la República Argentina and Universidad del CEMA, Argentina
Juan Pablo Montero , Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile and MIT, USA
Robert Alexander Mundell , Columbia University, USA
Thais Nunez Rocha , University of Orleans, France
Adriana Peluffo , Universida de la Republica, Uruguay
Jordi Ripolles Piqueras , University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Florencia Roca , Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
Carlos Alfredo Rodríguez , Universidad del CEMA, Argentina
Bojan Shimbov , University Jaume I, Spain
Pablo Spiller , University of California, Berkeley, USA
Gabriele Tedeschi , University Jaume I, Spain
Maria Cristina Terra , ESSEC Business School, France
Danilo Trupkin , Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Thomas Ziesemer , Maastricht University, Netherlands
Chahir Zaki , American University of Cairo, Egypt
Yunzhi Zhang , Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
Abstracting and indexing
The Journal of Applied Economics is currently abstracted and indexed in ISI (Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)), Scopus, GEOBASE, EBSCO (Advanced Placement Source, Business Source Alumni Edition, Business Source Complete, Business Source Corporate, Business Source Corporate Plus, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Business Source Ultimate, Finance Source, NSA Collection, TOC Premier), E conomic Literature Database and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Open access
Journal of Applied Economics 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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