The Journal of Economic History
Last updated ISSN 0022-0507
The Journal of Economic History is published by Cambridge University Press in economics, econometrics and finance. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Economic History concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- American Environmental and Regional History
- American History and Culture
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-0507, 1471-6372 |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 14,044 |
| Publishing since | 1941 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JEH |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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