# | Journal Name | Accept % | Desk Reject % | Avg. Time | Median Time | 25th Percent. (Months) | 75th Percent. (Months) | N = |
1 | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1% | 61% | 0.59 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 82 |
80 | Journal of Economic Geography | 0% | 80% | 0.67 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
12 | Journal of the European Economic Association | 3% | 58% | 1.16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
81 | Kyklos | 8% | 33% | 1.33 | 1 | 0.5 | 2 | 12 |
94 | Economics and Human Biology | 43% | 43% | 1.50 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
74 | Management Science | 18% | 45% | 1.55 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 22 |
15 | Review of Financial Studies | 11% | 37% | 1.59 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 27 |
78 | Demography | 0% | 80% | 1.60 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
14 | Journal of Human Resources | 15% | 54% | 1.60 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 46 |
31 | European Economic Review | 28% | 44% | 1.72 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 50 |
6 | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 8% | 37% | 1.76 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 49 |
13 | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | 8% | 36% | 1.83 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 36 |
100 | China Economic Review | 67% | 33% | 1.83 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 9 |
7 | Journal of Finance | 0% | 33% | 2.05 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 21 |
19 | Journal of Financial Economics | 24% | 18% | 2.06 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
27 | Journal of Financial Intermediation | 14% | 29% | 2.14 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
9 | American Economic Review | 7% | 47% | 2.16 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 91 |
46 | Econometrics Journal | 0% | 50% | 2.17 | 0.5 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
55 | Review of Income and Wealth | 17% | 67% | 2.17 | 0.5 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
38 | Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | 29% | 6% | 2.18 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
37 | Journal of Population Economics | 22% | 44% | 2.22 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
76 | Explorations in Economic History | 56% | 11% | 2.22 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
32 | Theoretical Economics | 8% | 0% | 2.23 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
90 | Economics Letters | 45% | 25% | 2.24 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 114 |
42 | Review of Finance | 0% | 8% | 2.25 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 3 | 12 |
16 | Economic Journal | 16% | 45% | 2.26 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 56 |
34 | Journal of Health Economics | 13% | 55% | 2.32 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 31 |
5 | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | 13% | 21% | 2.33 | 2 | 1.5 | 3 | 24 |
62 | Regional Science and Urban Economics | 52% | 14% | 2.35 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 21 |
65 | International Journal of Industrial Organization | 7% | 20% | 2.47 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
91 | Public Choice | 14% | 48% | 2.48 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 29 |
35 | Labour Economics | 9% | 27% | 2.55 | 2.5 | 2 | 3 | 22 |
41 | Journal of Law and Economics | 0% | 43% | 2.57 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 |
61 | Journal of Comparative Economics | 27% | 33% | 2.63 | 2 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 15 |
71 | European Journal of Political Economy | 38% | 23% | 2.69 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
58 | B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy | 33% | 7% | 2.71 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
26 | Journal of Urban Economics | 22% | 17% | 2.72 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 18 |
30 | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | 19% | 25% | 2.74 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
4 | Econometrica | 6% | 23% | 2.77 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 35 |
24 | Journal of Applied Econometrics | 9% | 35% | 2.78 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 23 |
57 | Industrial and Labor Relations Review | 27% | 36% | 2.82 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
64 | The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization | 18% | 27% | 2.82 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
85 | Energy Journal | 38% | 0% | 2.88 | 3 | 2 | 3.5 | 8 |
36 | World Bank Economic Review | 8% | 31% | 2.92 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
11 | Journal of Labor Economics | 0% | 32% | 3.00 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 19 |
21 | Journal of Public Economics | 12% | 27% | 3.10 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 60 |
83 | American Journal of Health Economics | 43% | 0% | 3.14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
3 | Review of Economic Studies | 4% | 34% | 3.16 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 73 |
23 | Journal of Development Economics | 17% | 41% | 3.16 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 54 |
63 | Oxford Economic Papers | 17% | 42% | 3.23 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
67 | Journal of Banking and Finance | 18% | 18% | 3.25 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 28 |
87 | Southern Economic Journal | 14% | 14% | 3.29 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
99 | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 23% | 0% | 3.31 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
82 | Journal of Macroeconomics | 31% | 25% | 3.31 | 3 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 16 |
69 | Economics and Politics | 40% | 0% | 3.33 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
89 | Journal of Economic History | 17% | 0% | 3.33 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
93 | Review of Economics of the Household | 20% | 10% | 3.46 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
17 | Journal of Economic Growth | 0% | 0% | 3.50 | 2.5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
92 | Small Business Economics | 25% | 25% | 3.50 | 3 | 1.5 | 5 | 8 |
10 | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2% | 48% | 3.51 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 65 |
56 | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | 30% | 27% | 3.67 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 33 |
25 | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | 20% | 10% | 3.70 | 2.5 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
49 | Canadian Journal of Economics | 28% | 6% | 3.72 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
53 | Economics of Education Review | 50% | 7% | 3.79 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
51 | Journal of Industrial Economics | 13% | 33% | 3.81 | 4 | 1.5 | 5.5 | 15 |
88 | World Development | 39% | 37% | 3.92 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 49 |
33 | Journal of Economic Theory (Elsevier) | 21% | 18% | 3.94 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 33 |
22 | RAND Journal of Economics | 6% | 21% | 3.97 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 34 |
68 | Macroeconomics Dynamics (Cambridge) | 57% | 21% | 4.07 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 |
28 | Experimental Economics | 38% | 8% | 4.08 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
40 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 24% | 8% | 4.15 | 3.5 | 2 | 5 | 25 |
45 | Econometric Theory | 0% | 40% | 4.20 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
84 | Health Economics | 8% | 50% | 4.21 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
44 | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | 50% | 14% | 4.22 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 22 |
54 | Journal of Economics and Management Strategy | 54% | 8% | 4.23 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
66 | International Tax and Public Finance | 14% | 14% | 4.29 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
60 | B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics | 63% | 0% | 4.33 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
75 | Economic Theory | 23% | 27% | 4.35 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 22 |
95 | Energy Economics | 55% | 0% | 4.42 | 4 | 3.5 | 6 | 11 |
98 | Economics of Transition | 71% | 14% | 4.50 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 6 | 7 |
47 | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics | 29% | 36% | 4.64 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
72 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 27% | 47% | 4.69 | 4 | 2.5 | 6.5 | 15 |
18 | Journal of International Economics | 18% | 6% | 4.71 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
43 | Journal of International Money and Finance | 40% | 5% | 4.75 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 20 |
97 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 14% | 14% | 4.75 | 3.5 | 3 | 6.5 | 7 |
73 | Review of International Economics | 30% | 10% | 4.91 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
52 | Games and Economic Behavior | 18% | 18% | 4.94 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 50 |
59 | Economic Development and Cultural Change | 27% | 20% | 5.00 | 4.5 | 3 | 6.5 | 15 |
48 | Economic Inquiry | 25% | 25% | 5.18 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 36 |
39 | Journal of Economic Surveys | 0% | 40% | 5.20 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
2 | Journal of Political Economy | 0% | 50% | 5.34 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 32 |
96 | Empirical Economics | 44% | 13% | 5.56 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 6 | 16 |
50 | Economica | 11% | 53% | 5.57 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 19 |
20 | Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking | 13% | 13% | 5.72 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 9 | 30 |
77 | Journal of Public Economic Theory | 27% | 18% | 5.86 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 11 |
79 | The World Economy | 40% | 0% | 6.25 | 5 | 3.5 | 8.5 | 5 |
70 | Econometric Reviews | 33% | 0% | 6.86 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 |
29 | Journal of Econometrics | 10% | 10% | 6.90 | 6.5 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
86 | Journal of Empirical Finance | 38% | 0% | 8.22 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 8 |
8 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 21% | 11% | 9.12 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 19 |