Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Title	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Abbreviation	JEBO
Discipline	Economics
Publisher	Elsevier
Country	Netherlands
Frequency	Monthly
History	1980–present
Impact	2.6
Impact-year	2024
Issn	0167-2681

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in the study of decision-making, organization, and behavior within markets and institutions. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research that intersects with fields represented by institutions such as Stanford University, London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, and Harvard University. Contributions frequently engage with topics associated with figures and works linked to Herbert A. Simon, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Amartya Sen, and Elinor Ostrom.

History

The journal was established in 1980 amid developments in approaches championed by scholars at Cowles Commission, RAND Corporation, Brookings Institution, University of Rochester, and University of California, Berkeley. Early editorial leadership drew on networks tied to Kenneth Arrow, Paul Samuelson, Ronald Coase, Gunnar Myrdal, and Tullock, Gordon Tullock-related public choice debates. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the journal featured work responding to research agendas from Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates such as Gary Becker, James M. Buchanan, Friedrich Hayek, Leonid Kantorovich, and David Gale. In the 21st century editorial shifts reflected influences from centers including Centre for Economic Policy Research, National Bureau of Economic Research, European Central Bank, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.

The journal’s remit covers microeconomic behavior and organizational studies in the tradition of research conducted at Bell Laboratories, CERN-linked interdisciplinary projects, Stockholm School of Economics, and Max Planck Institute. It seeks submissions that engage with theories advanced by John Nash, Leonid Hurwicz, Amartya Sen, and Kenneth Arrow as well as empirical work associated with data sets produced by Panel Study of Income Dynamics, General Social Survey, and surveys run by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The aims emphasize cross-disciplinary dialogue with scholarship from Société d'Economie Politique, Royal Economic Society, American Economic Association, European Economic Association, and policy bodies such as United Nations task forces.

The editorial board has historically included editors and advisors affiliated with Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Los Angeles. Board members often have research links to prize committees such as the Nobel Committee for Economics and editorial experience with journals like American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies. The peer-review process is structured along standards common to publishers including Elsevier, with anonymous refereeing practices echoing procedures at Nature, Science (journal), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Lancet for methodological rigor and ethical oversight.

Published by Elsevier out of the Netherlands, the journal issues monthly volumes and participates in distribution networks involving ScienceDirect, academic libraries at British Library, Library of Congress, Bodleian Libraries, and consortia such as JSTOR and Project MUSE for archival access. Access models reflect subscription arrangements negotiated with institutions including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Australian National University, University of Toronto, and Tsinghua University. Special issues have been coordinated with conferences hosted by European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Society for Economic Dynamics, and Games and Economic Behavior workshops.

The journal is indexed in major services run by organizations such as Clarivate, Scopus (Elsevier), EBSCO, ProQuest, and RePEc. Abstracting appears in databases maintained by Web of Science, Google Scholar, SSRNet, and bibliographies curated by research centers like NBER, CEPR, and IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Inclusion in these indices places it alongside journals cataloged by CrossRef, DOAJ, PubMed Central (for interdisciplinary overlap), and subject lists at national libraries including Bibliothèque nationale de France and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.

The journal’s impact factor and citation metrics have been tracked by Journal Citation Reports and used in evaluations by university ranking organizations such as Times Higher Education, QS World University Rankings, and ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Its contributions have influenced policy debates involving bodies like European Commission, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and think tanks such as Brookings Institution, Heritage Foundation, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Reception among scholars is often compared with that of Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Economics Letters, and specialty outlets tied to game theory research centers including Santa Fe Institute.

The journal has published influential articles that build on theoretical frameworks connected to John Nash, Robert Aumann, Thomas Schelling, Robert J. Shiller, and George Akerlof, and empirical studies using methodologies associated with Angus Deaton, Daniel Kahneman, Vernon Smith, Elinor Ostrom, and Eric S. Maskin. Notable contributions have informed debates on behavioral approaches advanced in works like Prospect Theory-related research, experimental programs inspired by Milgram experiment-adjacent ethics discussions, and institutional analyses comparable to studies from Transaction cost economics scholars. The journal’s corpus is frequently cited in monographs published by presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, and in doctoral training at programs affiliated with Institute for Advanced Study and major research universities.

Category:Academic journals