Numbers of Submissions and Acceptance Rates for Core Economics Journals, 2008 and 2013

1. Sample: economics journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information, for the years of 2008 and 20132. We surveyed the journal editors to obtain the numbers of submissions.3. Acceptance rate = Number of articles published/Number of submission, a rough approximation for the real acceptance rate4. Other information such as impact factor is from the JCR