World Trade Review

Aims & Scope

The World Trade Review was established at the initiative of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in close cooperation with Cambridge University Press.

It is an independent journal - the Editor and all but one member of the Editorial Board are drawn from university faculties - that includes articles written from economic, legal, political and inter-disciplinary perspectives on issues of relevance to the multilateral trading system.

Priority is given to papers that, along with being academically rigorous, are also accessible to government policy officials and the wider public.

The journal also includes shorter articles seeking to rebut or challenge published papers.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.3
2024	2.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.554

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10498

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	238

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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 and Social Sciences, 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 relationship between exchange rates and international trade: a literature review

  Citation: 111

  Authors: MARC, MICHELE

• Does legal capacity matter? A survey of WTO Members

  Citation: 101

  Authors: MARC L., ERIC, GREGORY

• Trade Costs in the Developing World: 1996–2010

  Citation: 91

  Authors: JEAN-FRANÇOIS, YANN, BEN, CHORTHIP, ANASUYA

• Measuring distortions to agricultural incentives, revisited*

  Citation: 82

  Authors: KYM, MARIANNE, WILL, DAMIANO, ERNESTO

• Governing Digital Trade

  Citation: 81

  Authors: JOSHUA P.

• The Content of Preferential Trade Agreements

  Citation: 75

  Authors: CLAUDIA, ALBERTO, MICHELE

• ‘Currency manipulation’ and world trade

  Citation: 70

  Authors: ROBERT W., ALAN O.

• The World Trade Organization's legitimacy crisis

  Citation: 64

  Authors: DANIEL C.

• Services liberalization in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs): how much further than the GATS?

  Citation: 61

  Authors: MARTIN, JUAN, HOE

• The safeguards mess: a critique of WTO jurisprudence

  Citation: 60

  Authors: ALAN O.

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