Bishnupriya Gupta is now in her second year editing the Eurasian submissions. Eric Hilt is entering his fourth year editing the non-Eurasian submissions. Next year, Carolyn Moehling of Rutgers University will succeed Eric Hilt as co-editor. John Parman is the book review editor for the Americas. Juan Flores Zendejas is the book review editor for the rest of the world. The Journal is fortunate in having Lily Welch continue as the Journal’s Editorial Assistant and Sally Sztrecska as its Production Editor.
The Journal has benefited greatly from the expert guidance and advice of our Editorial Board and more than 288 referees who contributed their time and expertise to maintaining and enhancing the Journal’s quality. Editorial Board members typically serve three-year terms. Those departing from the Board this year are Jared Rubin, Leticia Arroyo Abad, Carl Kitchens, Mohamed Saleh, Erik Hornung, and Laura Salisbury. We have seven new board members, Cihan Artunç, Thor Berger, Mark Dincecco, Shari Eli, Michela Giorcelli, Walker Hanlon, and Laura Panza. We also recognize and appreciate numerous scholars’ contributions to the Journal’s book reviews. The editorial office is grateful to all who have worked on behalf of the Journal over this past year.
Over the past five years, Journal’s impact factor, which is a measure of the frequency with which its articles are cited, has been rising. In 2018, the five-year impact factor was 1.9; in 2022, it was 2.8. Table 1 displays these data. This is a reflection of the quality of the articles published in the Journal, and may also reflect growing scholarly interest in the field of economic history.
Table 1 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR
The impact factor is calculated as the number of citations to the Journal within a given year of papers published in the previous five years divided by the number of “citable items” from the previous five years.
The number of new submissions to the Journal in recent years is shown in Table 2. From 2013 to 2018, the average number of submissions per year was approximately 160, but there was a noticeable jump in the number of submissions to 195, 209, and 206 in 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2022, submissions fell somewhat to 186, and in 2023, they fell somewhat again to 167. The Journal published 31 articles in total in 2023, not counting Ann Carlos’ presidential address.
Table 2 SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION RATES
The “published” count includes refereed articles and notes. It does not include the presidential address, which is published in June, nor “reviews and reflections” articles.
The publication ratio displayed in Table 2 is the number of refereed papers and notes published in the current year divided by the number of new manuscripts submitted in the previous year. In 2023, the publication ratio was 0.17 (31/186), slightly higher than it was in 2022.
Table 3 reports the response-time statistics for the corresponding submissions. To place the numbers into context, our goal is to have a decision back to the author within 90 days. In 2023, the median response time for all submissions (including revised manuscripts) was 66 days, and for new submissions, the median response time was 74 days. These times are very similar to those of 2022. We make every effort to handle submissions efficiently, taking into consideration that we are primarily focused on the quality of editorial decisions, rather than their speed.
Table 3 RESPONSE TIME STATISTICS
The distributions of submissions are documented in subsequent tables. We show the data for eras in Table 4 and for topics in Table 5. The data on regions is shown in Table 6. Each of these tables presents data for 2017 through 2023, the period for which we have consistent data.
Table 4 DISTRIBUTION OF SUBMISSIONS BY ERA, MULTIPLE SELECTIONS PER SUBMISSION POSSIBLE
Table 5 DISTRIBUTION OF SUBMISSIONS BY TOPIC, MULTIPLE SELECTIONS PER SUBMISSION POSSIBLE
Table 6 DISTRIBUTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
The Journal’s coverage remains broad. Table 4 shows that the distribution of submissions over eras has been fairly steady in recent years, with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries accounting for the bulk of submissions. Table 5 shows that submissions in political economy, labor, and demography have been particularly strong. Growth, finance, and agriculture have also been important topics. Table 6 shows that manuscripts on Western Europe and the United States are most common, but Asia has been an increasingly common focus.
Book reviews are an important component of the Journal, and we sincerely thank the many reviewers. We also remind our membership to have their press send a copy of any new books to the relevant book review editor. In recent years, the Journal has also sought occasional “reviews and reflections” synthetic articles, extended book reviews, and roundtable book reviews when appropriate. In 2023, the Journal did not publish a “reviews and reflections” article.
Readers will recall that at the 2013 meetings, the EHA board of trustees approved a policy to make publication conditional on archiving the data sufficient to replicate the results in accepted articles. The authors of all new submissions from 1 January 2016 onward that were accepted for publication have been required to post data and replication files to maintain and advance the Journal’s efforts to ensure transparency and scholarly integrity. A branded page can be found with openICPSR, and depositors can submit files into openICPSR per the instructions available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/openICPSR/JEH-deposit-instructions.pdf. The editorial office and ICPSR continue to work to enhance the interface.
Referees for 2022–2023 were:
Brian A’Hearn
Leticia Abad
Christopher Absell
Olivier Accominotti
Arun Advani
Philipp Ager
Toke Aidt
Thilo Albers
Felipe Aldunate
Guido Alfani
Luz Marina Arias
Vellore Arthi
Elliot Ash
Jeremy Atack
Liang Bai
Ying Bai
Charlotte Bartels
Brian Beach
Sascha O. Becker
Erik Bengtsson
Jeanette Bentzen
Thor Berger
Concha Betran
Apurav Bhatiya
Anna Bindler
Howard Bodenhorn
Dan Bogart
Karol Borowiecki
Corinne Boter
Fabio Braggion
Elizabeth Brainerd
Gabriel Brea Martinez
Stephen Broadberry
John Brown
Liam Brunt
Alex Bryson
Kasey Buckles
Jean-Laurent Cadorel
Sarah Cameron
Cameron Campbell
Mariana Candido
Davide Cantoni
Yiming Cao
Gabriele Cappelli
Ann Carlos
Alexandra Cermeño
David Chambers
Cédric Chambru
Eric Chaney
Jonathan Chapman
Latika Chaudhary
Joy Chen
Shuang Chen
Zhiwu Chen
David Chilosi
Francesco Cinnirella
Gregory Clark
Karen Clay
Eva Coll-Martinez
William J. Collins
Christopher Colvin
Dylan Connor
Gustavo Cortes
Pier Paolo Creanza
Neil Cummins
Matthew Curtis
Bryan Cutsinger
Guillaume Daudin
Romola Davenport
Alan de Bromhead
David de la Croix
Pim de Zwart
Hanzhi Deng
Tracy K. Dennison
Stephen Devereaux
Alfonso Díez-Minguela
Kara Dimitruk
Mark Dincecco
Jordi Domenech
Mirko Draca
Mauricio Drelichman
Xavier Duran
Alan Dye
Jari Eloranta
Emily Erikson
Katherine Eriksson
Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez
Rui Esteves
James Feigenbaum
Donna Feir
James Fenske
Daniel Fetter
Ignacio Flores
Vicky Fouka
Johan Fourie
Dustin Frye
Giacomo Gabbuti
Leigh Gardner
Victoria Gierok
Felipe Gonzalez
Yadira Gonzalez de Lara
Amanda Gregg
Hanhui Guan
Christopher Hanes
Walker Hanlon
Yu Hao
Mark Harrison
Timothy Hatton
Joshua Hausman
Leander Heldring
Christopher Hoag
Philip Hoffman
Julian Hoppit
Richard Hornbeck
Erik Hornung
Sijie Hu
Michael Huberman
Thilo Huning
Douglas Irwin
Lakshmi Iyer
Adam Izdebski
David Jacks
Pawel Janas
Matthew Jaremski
Noel Johnson
Paul Johnson
Maggie Jones
Ezra Karger
Tobias Karlsson
Wolfgang Keller
Duol Kim
Carl Kitchens
Alexander Klein
Peter Koudijs
Mark Koyama
Jacob Krimmel
James Kung
Sumner La Croix
Alvaro La Parra-Perez
Jessica LaVoice
Marc Law
Conor Lennon
Bryan Leonard
Joshua Lewis
Jianan Li
Volker Lindenthal
Cong Liu
Jason Long
Ernesto López Losa
Paul Lovejoy
Stephan Luck
Ivan Luzardo-Luna
Chicheng Ma
Jakob Madsen
Pushkar Maitra
Paolo Malanima
Viktor Malein
Mikołaj Malinowski
Anandi Mani
Robert Margo
Andrei Markevich
Stephan Maurer
Tamara McGavock
Eoin McGuirk
Sandra Mcnally
Ralf Meisenzahl
Eric Melander
Todd Messer
Meng Miao
Luka Miladinovic
Melinda Miller
Stephen Miller
Chris Minns
Rinchan Ali Mirza
David Mitch
Omer Moav
Carolyn Moehling
Jon Moen
A. R. Shariq Mohammed
Lyndon Moore
Javier Moreno-Lazaro
Chiaki Moriguchi
Sharon Murphy
Aldo Musacchio
Steven Nafziger
Suresh Naidu
Natalya Naumenko
Eugenia Nazrullaeva
Tom Nicholas
Esteban Nicolini
Greg Niemesh
Dennis Novy
Alessandro Nuvolari
Sheilagh Ogilvie
Mats Olsson
Ola Olsson
Kim Oosterlinck
Christopher Paik
Nuno Palma
Craig Palsson
Sevket Pamuk
John Parman
Sahar Parsa
Santiago Perez
Ennio Piano
Florian Ploeckl
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Nancy Qian
Didac Queralt
Sarah Quincy
Tapio Raunio
Angela Redish
Claudia Rei
Paul Rhode
Kilian Rieder
Albrecht Ritschl
Evan Roberts
Hugh Rockoff
Klas Rönnbäck
Jonathan Rose
Joshua Rosenbloom
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Mauro Rota
Louis Rouanet
Jared Rubin
Mar Rubio
Martin Saavedra
Osamu Saito
Seyhun Sakalli
Mohamed Saleh
Laura Salisbury
Carlos Sanz
Felix Schaff
Max-Stephan Schulze
Andrew Seltzer
Jerome Sgard
Allison Shertzer
Carol Shiue
Andrew Sinclair
M. Sinkinson
Tuan-Hwee Sng
Kenneth A. Snowden
James Snyder
Yannay Spitzer
Mara Squicciarini
Michael Stamm
David Stasavage
Judy Stephenson
Espen Storli
Pavithra Suryanarayan
Masanori Takashima
Hui Ren Tan
Melissa Thomasson
Rohit Ticku
Kenichi Tomobe
Gaspare Tortorici
Alex Trew
Stefano Ugolini
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Jessica Vechbanyongratana
Francois Velde
Gertjan Verdickt
Chris Vickers
Jordi Vidal-Robert
Dietrich Vollrath
Zaki Wahaj
Daniel Waldenstrom
Randall Walsh
Tianyi Wang
Simone Wegge
Jinlin Wei
Marc Weidenmier
Jacob Weisdorf
Colin Weiss
Eugene White
Max Winkler
Nikolaus Wolf
Gavin Wright
Lingwei Wu
Heyu Xiong
Melanie Xue
Cheng Yang
Kuo-chun Yeh
Song Yuan
Noam Yuchtman
Yifan Zhang
Nicolas Ziebarth
Ariell Zimran
