Overview
The Journal of Economic Growth serves as the principal outlet for research in the fields of economic growth and comparative economic development. The journal publishes high quality research that explores the growth process in the contemporary period as well as over the entire course of human history. In particular, the journal encourages the submission of research that explores the role of income distribution, the demographic transition, human capital formation, technological change, and structural transformation in the growth process, as well as the role deeply-rooted geographical, cultural, institutional and human characteristics in the comparative economic development.
The Journal of Economic Growth is currently ranked 3rd (Web of Science) and 5th (RePEc) among all economic journals, based on impact factor.
Submission related to the field of population economics, that will be not found by the editorial board suitable for publications in the Journal of Economic Growth, may be transferred by the Editor, with referee reports, for further consideration in the Journal of Population Economics.
Officially cited as: J Econ Growth
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- Oded Galor
- Journal Impact Factor
- 2.3 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 3.8 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 15 days
- Downloads
- 214,617 (2023)
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Journal updates
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Supporting the Sustainable Developmental Goals
We are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2023 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-7020
- Print ISSN
- 1381-4338
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide
- AGRICOLA
- ANVUR
- Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
- BFI List
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- ECONIS
- EconLit
- FNEGE
- Google Scholar
- JSTOR
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
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