Basic Income Studies

Aims & Scope

Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement.

Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years.

In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups.

Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa.

As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably.

In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing.

Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.380

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14303

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	48

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Limits of a Basic Income: Means and Ends of Workplace Democracy

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Alex

• Basic Income in the Capitalist Economy: The Mirage of “Exit” from Employment

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Simon, Jurgen

• Good and Bad Times of Social Innovations: The Case of Universal Basic Income in Finland

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Pertti, Johanna

• The Basic Income Grant Pilot Project in Namibia: A Critical Assessment

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Rigmar

• More than Welfare: The Experiences of Employed and Unemployed Ontario Basic Income Recipients

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Mohammad, Tom

• Feasibility of Financing a Basic Income

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Jordi, Daniel, Lluís

• Basic Income and Social Sustainability in Post-Growth Economies

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Mikael, Eva, Simon

• Why Basic Income’s Emancipatory Value Exceeds Its Monetary Value

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Guy

• Basic Income and Negative Income Tax: A Comparison with a Simulation Model

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Pertti

• Basic Income and Labour Supply: The German Case

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Bernard Michael, Anastasia, Mark

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