Economic Systems

Aims & Scope

Economic Systems is a refereed journal for the analysis of causes and consequences of the significant institutional variety prevailing among all developed, developing, emerging, and transition economies, as well as attempts at and proposals for their reform.

The journal is open to micro and macro contributions, theoretical as well as empirical, the latter to analyze related topics against the background of country or region-specific experiences.

This is to reflect the respective new orientation within the field of comparative economics: decades of development and transition experience in many countries have clearly demonstrated the importance of institutions and institutional change for the functioning of markets and the ways in which policies influence economic activity in general and economic growth in particular.

However, we believe that institutional development is only one of the important factors in affecting domestic and global economies.

Hence, Economic Systems strongly encourages submissions from all other fields, covering, but not limited to, a variety of aspects of financial and economic systems and development, including private and state banking; goods and services and financial markets; macro and micro policies and their effects; and global trade issues and exchange rate systems in all developed, developing, emerging, and transition economies.

We are particularly interested in empirical papers with significant policy implications.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.3

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.842

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	58

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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.

• Geopolitical risks and stock market dynamics of the BRICS

  Citation: 329

  Authors: Mehmet, Matteo, Riza, Rangan

• The relationship between trade, FDI and economic growth in Tunisia: An application of the autoregressive distributed lag model

  Citation: 242

  Authors: Mounir

• Agriculture and development: A brief review of the literature

  Citation: 231

  Authors: Jean-Jacques, Alexandra

• Globalization and the environmental impact of sectoral FDI

  Citation: 209

  Authors: Nadia, Merih

• Economic policy uncertainty and capital structure choice: Evidence from China

  Citation: 207

  Authors: Guangli, Jianlei, Zheyao, Haozhi

• Determinants of bank interest margins in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparison with the West

  Citation: 198

  Authors: Sophie, Rudi

• The role of FDI, R&D accumulation and trade in transferring technology to transition countries: evidence from firm panel data for eight transition countries

  Citation: 179

  Authors: Jože P., Mark, Boris, Matija

• Bank competition, concentration and financial stability in the Turkish banking industry

  Citation: 160

  Authors: Saadet, Adnan

• Public–private partnerships: lessons from the British approach

  Citation: 152

  Authors: Michael

• Environmental regulation, pollution reduction and green innovation: The case of the Chinese Water Ecological Civilization City Pilot policy

  Citation: 151

  Authors: Qiuyue, Da, Deyong, Yi

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