We are pleased to inform you that the number of new submissions to the
Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ) exceeded 200 in 2018, almost tripling the average for the 2008-17 period. The average waiting time for a first decision is now under 30 days, a decrease of 75% compared to the 2008-17 average. The rejection rate for new submissions is now around 90%, around 10 percentage points above the historical average.
At the moment, the journal generates almost 60 new references ("citations") per year in the database
web of sciencedouble the average for the period 2008-17. The impact factor (at two years) more than doubled to 0.4 between 2017 and 2018.
PEJ is currently in the top 10% of the
IDEAS/RePEc Aggregate Rankings for Journals and is classified in category 3 (selective journals with a demanding and transparent peer-review process) as a generalist economics journal on the prestigious list of the French CNRS, alongside national journals with a long tradition such as the
Australian Economic Papers,
German Economic Review,
Japanese Economic Review or
SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association.
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