Journal of Economic Methodology

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Economic Methodology is a peer-reviewed research journal in economic methodology and philosophy of economics as well as cognate areas of inquiry related to these fields.

The Journal distinguishes between methodology (which concerns the relationship between economics and broad questions about scientific knowledge) and methods (which involve particular techniques relevant to practitioners in a specific field of economics) and reserves the pages of the Journal for authors and readers with broader epistemic interests.

The scope of The Journal of Economic Methodology covers economic methodology and philosophy of economics, but within this scope it encourages diversity in approach and in topic.

The Journal considers research from a number of different perspectives, including historical and sociological, and publishes work from any area of economic inquiry as long as it contains a significant epistemological or methodological component.

The Journal carries articles on traditional topics within economic methodology and philosophy of economics but also encompasses various subjects from the philosophy of natural or social science to areas of philosophical inquiry such as ethics, as long as they have a direct bearing on debates within the two primary fields of inquiry.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	1.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.847

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	44

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6240

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	137

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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.

• Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics

  Citation: 278

  Authors: Robert

• Meanings of methodological individualism

  Citation: 225

  Authors: Geoffrey M.

• Artificiality: The tension between internal and external validity in economic experiments

  Citation: 182

  Authors: Arthur

• Preference purification and the inner rational agent: a critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics

  Citation: 148

  Authors: Gerardo, Guilhem, Robert

• Some varieties of robustness

  Citation: 143

  Authors: Jim

• Models, stories and the economic world

  Citation: 143

  Authors: Mary S.

• Models are experiments, experiments are models

  Citation: 134

  Authors: Uskali

• Fallibility, reflexivity, and the human uncertainty principle

  Citation: 131

  Authors: George

• Monetary incentives, what are they good for?

  Citation: 123

  Authors: Daniel

• Experiments versus models: New phenomena, inference and surprise

  Citation: 121

  Authors: Mary S.

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