The European Competition Journal publishes outstanding scholarly articles relating to European competition law and economics. Its mission is to help foster learning and debate about how European competition law and policy can continue to develop in an economically rational way. Articles published in the Journal are subject to rigorous peer review by leading experts from around Europe. Topics include:
Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers
Enlargement of the Union - the ramifications for Competition Policy
Unilateral and Coordinated Effects in Merger Control
Modernisation of European Competition law
Cartels and Leniency
'A valuable forum for practitioners and academics in the field of European competition law and economics, and a rare opportunity to view competition policy from a holistic perspective.' Philip Lowe, Formerly Directorate General for Competition, European Commission
'The European Competition Journal is valuable and important because it brings together law and economics, as is now essential, with practical and detailed papers on a wide variety of subjects.' John Temple Lang, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP
'The quality is consistently high, managing to ground economic policy discussion in the specifics of current EC doctrine.' Josh Holmes, World Competition
Journal metrics
Usage
69K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.203 (2023) SNIP
0.223 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
30 days avg. from submission to first
decision
9 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
73% acceptance rate
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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.
Philip Marsden -College of Europe, Bruges. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority, Payment Systems Regulator and OFGEM, London
Simon Bishop -Partner, RBB Economics
Advisory Board
Bernard Amory(Belgium) Amedeo Arena(Italy) Ulf Bernitz(Sweden and UK) Luis Ortiz Blanco(Spain) Philippe Chappatte(UK) Sir David Edward QC(UK) John Fingleton(UK) Judge Nicholas Forwood(Luxembourg) Gerwin van Gerven(UK and Belgium) F Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz(Belgium) Norbert Gugerbauer(Austria) Francis JacobsQC(UK) Abel Mateus(Portugal)
Editorial Board
Matthew Bennett(UK) Vincent Brophy(Belgium) Cristina Caffarra(UK and Belgium) Mark Clough QC(Belgium) Philip Collins(Belgium) Mark Furse(UK) Yannis Katsoulacos(Greece) Janet McDavid(US) Ali Nikpay(UK) Oke Odudu(UK) Alberto Pera (Italy) Michael L. Polemis(Greece) Tom Sharpe QC(UK) François Souty(France) Christoph Stadler(Belgium and Germany) Simonetta Vezzoso(Italy) Mike Walker(UK)
Abstracting and indexing
European Competition Journal is currently abstracted/indexed in: J-Gate, Hein On-Line.
Open access
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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