Journal of Economic Theory

Not to be confused with "Journal of Economics Theory"( ISSN   1994-8212),published by Medwell Journals.

Journal of Economic Theory

Discipline	Economics
Language	English
Edited by	Alessandro Pavan, Ricardo Lagos, Karl Shell, Marciano Siniscalchi, Xavier Vives
Publication details
History	1969–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.458 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Econ. Theory
MathSciNet	J. Econom. Theory
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0022-0531
LCCN	72009216
OCLC  no.	644497676
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The Journal of Economic Theory is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of economic theory. Karl Shell has served as editor-in-chief of the journal since it was established in 1968. Since 2000, he has shared the editorship with Jess Benhabib, Alessandro Lizzeri, Christian Hellwig, and more recently with Alessandro Pavan, Ricardo Lagos, Marciano Siniscalchi, and Xavier Vives. The journal is published by Elsevier. In 2020, Tilman Börgers was chief editor of the journal. ^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.458. ^[2]

According to Scopus the journal had a citiscore of 2.6 in 2025 [3]

2.6

48% 374/731 Economics and Econometrics

1,415

535

63

See also

• List of economics journals

References

1. "Journal of Economic Theory". Elsevier.
2. "Journal of Economic Theory". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
3. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Journal of Economic Theory". www.scopus.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2025-12-15.

External links

• Official website