The Quarterly Journal of Economics


The Quarterly Journal of Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva.
WWW qje.oxfordjournals.org

History

It is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language, and second-oldest in any language after the. It covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro-theory to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics.
EditorPeriod
anonymous1886-1947
Edward H. Chamberlin1948-1957
Arthur Smithies1958-1965
Gottfried Haberler1966-1970
Richard A. Musgrave1971-1975
Robert Dorfman1976-1984
Jerry Green1978-1980
Olivier J. Blanchard1980-1998
David Hartman1980-1984
Joseph P. Kalt1980-1984
Malcolm Gillis1980-1980
Richard B. Freeman1980-1980
Michael Roemer1981-1984
David A. Wise1982-1984
Lawrence H. Summers1985-1990
Eric S. Maskin1985-1989
Andrei Shleifer1989-1998, 2013-
Lawrence F. Katz1991-
Edward L. Glaeser1999-2008
Alberto Alesina1999-2003
Robert J. Barro2004-
Elhanan Helpman2009-2014
Jeremy C. Stein2012-2012
Pol Antràs2015-2021
Stefanie Stantcheva2020-
Nathan Nunn 2021-

Reception

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 6.662, ranking it first out of 347 journals in the category "Economics". It is generally regarded as one of the top 5 journals in economics, together with the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and The Review of Economic Studies.

Notable papers

Some of the most influential and well-read papers in economics have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics including: