About this journal
Aims and scope
The Review of International Political Economy ( RIPE ) has successfully established itself as a leading international journal dedicated to the systematic exploration of the international political economy from a plurality of perspectives.
The journal encourages a global and interdisciplinary approach across issues and fields of inquiry. It seeks to act as a point of convergence for political economists, international relations scholars, geographers, and sociologists, and is committed to the publication of work that explores such issues as international trade and finance, production and consumption, and global governance and regulation, in conjunction with issues of culture, identity, gender, and ecology.
The journal eschews monolithic perspectives and seeks to publish excellent innovative work that is pluralist in its orientation, engages with the broad literatures of IPE, and combines the very best of both theoretical and empirical new insights.
Peer Review
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by editors and subsequent double anonymized refereeing by multiple reviewers.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 577K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 5.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 9.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 3.106 (2023) SNIP
- 2.256 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 7 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 106 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 17 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 13% 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
Editors:
Juanita Elias, University of Warwick, UK
Aida A. Hozić (Co-Lead Editor), University of Florida, USA
Alison Johnston (Co-Lead Editor), Oregon State University, USA
Seçkin Köstem, Bilkent University, Turkey
Manuela Moschella, University of Bologna, Italy
Stefano Ponte, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Hongying Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada
Kevin L. Young, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
International Advisory Board:
Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School, USA
John Agnew, UCLA, USA
Jennifer Bair, University of Virginia, USA
Walden Bello, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mark Blyth, Brown University, USA
Dorothee Bohle, University of Vienna, Austria
Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Brian Burgoon, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Daniela Campello, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
Phillip Cerny, Rutgers University, USA
Gregory Chin, York University, Canada
Gordon Clark, Oxford University, UK
Benjamin Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Claire Cutler, University of Victoria, Canada
Florence Dafe, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Gisella Datz, Virginia Tech, USA
Rachel Epstein, University of Denver, USA
Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University, USA
Daniela Gabor, UWE Bristol, UK
Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, USA
Rodney Bruce Hall,Montana State University, USA
Natasha Hamilton-Hart, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo, Canada
Kristen Hopewell, University of British Columbia, Canada
Juliet Johnson, McGill University, Canada
Saori N. Katada, University of Southern California, USA
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA
Amy King, Australian National University, Australia
Jonathan Kirshner, Boston College, USA
Genevieve LeBaron, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Erin Lockwood, University of California Irvine, USA
Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, UK
Helen Milner, Princeton University, USA
Daniel Mügge, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Natalya Naqvi, London School of Economics, UK
Helen E. S. Nesadurai, Monash University Malaysia
Abe Newman, Georgetown University, USA
Thomas Oatley, Tulane University, USA
Erica Owen, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Louis Pauly, University of Toronto, Canada
Susan Park, University of Sydney, Australia
Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, Canada
Elisabeth Prügl, The Graduate Institute, Switzerland
Sigrid Quack, Max Planck Institute, Germany
John Ravenhill, University of Waterloo, Canada
Lena Rethel, University of Warwick, UK
Vivien Schmidt, Boston University, USA
Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia, USA
Leonard Seabrooke, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
J. P. Singh, George Mason University, USA
Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics, UK
Eleni Tsingou, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Thando Vilakazi, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
WANG Yong, Peking University, China
Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Catherine Weaver, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Updated 14-05-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: ISI: Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Scisearch, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences; Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts; International Bibliography of Social Sciences; International Political Science Abstracts; British Humanities Index; International Bibliographies; Social Sciences Index; Sociological Abstracts.
Open access
Review of International 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
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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