Japan is an important laboratory for developing and debating ideas about capitalism and its dynamics. The Japanese Political Economyapproaches the study of political economy and Japanese economy and its international relations. The journal is a resource for scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners who seek to better understand the contemporary and historical, transnational and internal processes of change in the Japanese and wider Asian economy. It publishes a broad range of scholarship that draws from multiple theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives.
The Japanese Political Economy covers theory, history, and regional study.
Broader economic theories (including Political economy, Heterodox, Keynesian, Evolutionary, Institutional, and Feminist Economics).
Historical analysis of capitalism (including periodizing stages of capitalist development, analysis of capitalist world system change).
Theoretical and empirical exploration of current political-economic issues, and regional study (crisis, financial instability, socialism, gender, environment and climate change, poverty and income inequality, unemployment, an ageing population, industrialisation of Asia).
The Japanese Political Economy continues Japanese Economic Studies, a leading journal published continuously since 1972. From 1997 to 2013, the journal was known as Japanese Economy.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-chief and/or relevant co-editor and, if found suitable for further consideration, will be sent out for peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single-anonymized, and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Journal metrics
Usage
19K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.426 (2023) SNIP
0.485 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
56% acceptance rate
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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
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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.
Editor-in-Chief Nobuharu Yokokawa Musashi University Tokyo, Japan
Patrons
Makoto Itoh - The University of Tokyo, emeritus, Japan Bob Rowthorn - Cambridge University, emeritus, United Kingdom Robert Boyer - Institut des Ameriques, France Geoffrey Hodgson - University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Co-Editors
Jayati Ghosh - JNU, India Richard Westra - Nagoya University, Japan Costas Lapavitsas - SOAS, United Kingdom Kiichiro Yagi - Setsunan University, Japan Kang-Kook Lee - Ritsumeikan University, Japan Andong Zhu - Tsinghua University, China
Editorial Board
Ha-Joon Chang - Cambridge University, United Kingdom Pasuk Phongpaichichit - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Gary Dymski - Leads University, United Kingdom Jan Kregel - Levy Economics Institute, United States Hugh Whittaker - Oxford University, United Kingdom C.P. Chandrasekhar - JNU, India Pascal Petit- CEPN Centre d’économie de Paris Nord, France Michael Landesmann - wiiw, Austria Alan Freeman - University of Manitoba, Canada Takahiro Fujimoto - The University of Tokyo, Japan Yoshinori Shiozawa - Osaka City University, emeritus Francesca Bettio - University of Siena, Italy Hiroyasu Uemura - Yokohama National University, Japan Hiroyuki Uni - Kyoto University, Japan Makoto Nishibe - Senshu University, Japan Mariko Adachi - Ochanomizu University, Japan Michiaki Obata - The University of Tokyo, emeritus Radhika Desai - University of Manitoba, Canada Sebastien Lechevalier - EHESS, France Tomoo Marukawa - The University of Tokyo, Japan Toshio Yamada - Nagoya University, emeritus Diane Elson - University of Essex, emeritus, United Kingdom Chizuko Ueno - The University of Tokyo, emeritus, Japan Alicia Girón - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Junji Tokunaga - Dokkyo University, Japan Takashi Sato - Ritsumeikan University, Japan Takeo Hidai - Wako University, Japan Kei Ehara - Oita University, Japan Will Brehm - University College London, United Kingdom
Advisory Board
David Harvey - City University of New York, United States Erik Reinert - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Robert Pollin - University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States Thomas Palley - AFL-CIO, United States Ugo Pagano - University of Siena, Italy Kaoru Sugihara - RIHN, Japan Tetsuji Kawamura - Hosei University, Japan Akinori Isoagai - Kyushu University, Japan Hideaki Tanaka - Shiga University, Japan Masao Ishikura - Hitotsubashi University, Japan Masashi Shimizu - Senshu University, Japan Naoki Nabeshima - Nagoya University, Japan Naoki Yoshihara - University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States Susumu Takenaga - Daito University, Japan Yoshikazu Sato - Hosei University, Japan
Abstracting and indexing
The Japanese Political Economy
is abstracted/indexed in:
De Gruyter Saur
IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EBSCOhost
Current Abstracts
TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
National Library of Medicine
Pubmed
Ovid
EconLit
ProQuest
ABI/INFORM Collection
ABI/INFORM Global (American Business Information)
Asian & European Business Collection
Business Premium Collection
Professional ABI/INFORM Complete
Professional ProQuest Central
ProQuest 5000
ProQuest 5000 International
ProQuest Asian Business
ProQuest Central
Scopus
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