Publishing with CESifo Economic Studies

CESifo Economic Studies is a high-quality journal published by Oxford University Press in partnership with CESifo. The journal provides provocative papers in economics, with a particular focus on policy issues. While combining theory and empirical research in a style accessible to economists across all specialisations.

The journal connects your ideas and findings with the widest audience, including those in government, business, and academia, to give your research the greatest possible impact.

Read on to learn why CESifo Economic Studies is the perfect home for your research.

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Excellent Author Experience

By publishing with CESifo Economic Studies, your paper will benefit from support and expertise from diverse and experienced academics on the editorial board, which will maximize the international reach of your article. Additionally, the simple, online submissions portal via ScholarOne makes it easy to submit your work.

Prestige and Reputation

When submitting a manuscript to CESifo Economic Studies, you can be confident that the support of the editorial team and rigorous peer review process will ensure that your research findings are published at their best.

CESifo Economic Studies has an Impact Factor of 1.3 and is ranked 271/380 in the SSI Economics category (2023). An Impact Factor is seen as an indicator of the quality of a journal and therefore publishing your work in a journal with a high Impact Factor in turn reflects the high quality of your work.

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Rapid and Transparent Editorial Process

CESifo Economic Studies practices anonymised peer review, which provides your research with honest and genuine reviews by anonymous reviewers. Moreover, the Editors will guide your manuscript through the process with care and efficiency, helping you get your research published as quickly as possible.

Global Readership

CESifo Economic Studies connects your powerful ideas with the widest audience to give your research the greatest possible impact. Its articles are available in several abstracting and indexing services, attracting a diverse range of authors and readers.

The journal also offers by browse-by-subject using Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes. Providing the relevant JEL code when submitting your paper increases discoverability of your research within journals and OUP’s wider audience.

Content from CESifo Economic Studies may also be featured on our dedicated Twitter channels: @OUPEconomics, @OxfordJournals and @CESifoNetwork.

Range of Content

CESifo Economic Studies publishes four issues per year. Comprising a wide range of article types, namely research articles, advance articles and review articles. This way the author can choose the format they find most appropriate to communicating their findings.

Advance access publishing means your content will be available online as soon as possible. Once a paper is accepted, the pre-proofed, pre-copyedited accepted manuscript will typically be published online within one week. It will be replaced by a copyedited, proofed version of the paper in an issue.

The journal covers a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Public Economics

• Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

• International Economics

• Health, Education and Welfare

By publishing in CESifo Economic Studies, your work could be included in these, or in other thematic content collections across OUP’s products.

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Open Access

CESifo Economic Studies offers the option of publishing under an open access license, authors may choose to pay an open access fee to make their accepted manuscript freely available online. Learn more about OA and other licensing agreements here.

Article Metrics

Article-level metrics, including usage, citations, and Altmetric scores are available for all articles published in the journal, allowing you to understand the reach of your research, and the attention it is receiving online.

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