The Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 · American Economic Association · United States · active 1987–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
7.7
SJR
8.181
h-index
375

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

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Scope

fiscalpolicyeconomicgrowtheconomicseconometricsfinancetheoriesinstitutionsmonetaryimpactglobal

Frequently asked

Is The Journal of Economic Perspectives a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag The Journal of Economic Perspectives. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is The Journal of Economic Perspectives indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, The Journal of Economic Perspectives appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of The Journal of Economic Perspectives?

Papers in The Journal of Economic Perspectives are cited about 7.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 375. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is The Journal of Economic Perspectives (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

Scimago places The Journal of Economic Perspectives in Q1 for its subject category. Quartiles split the journals in a field into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; The Journal of Economic Perspectives is cited about 7.7 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 375. A journal is ranked per subject category, so one spanning several fields can sit in different quartiles depending on the category.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of The Journal of Economic Perspectives?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for The Journal of Economic Perspectives. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q1, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is The Journal of Economic Perspectives open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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