Abbreviated title (ISO 4) World Econ. Edited by David Greenaway Publication history 1977-present | Language English Publisher Wiley-Blackwell | |
Discipline Economics, international relations | ||
The World Economy is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics and international relations, specifically trade policy, open economy issues, and developing economies. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell and the current editor-in-chief is David Greenaway (University of Nottingham).
Since 2008, with the Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham, the journal co-hosts The World Economy Asia Lectures, The World Economy Annual Lectures, and The World Economy Annual China Lectures. The journal produces an annual special issue on global trade policy, which is subsequently available as a book in the Global Trade Policy series.
Abstracting and indexing
The World Economy is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, ProQuest, EconLit, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, and Research Papers in Economics. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.759, ranking it 47th out of 86 journals in the category "International Relations", 6th out of 194 journals in the category "Business Finance" and 183rd out of 344 journals in the category "Economics".