Eric Hilt has finished his term as co-editor. Carolyn Moehling of Rutgers University is the new editor for submissions on the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. Bishnupriya Gupta is now in her third year as co-editor for Eurasian submissions. John Parman finished his term as book review editor. Matthew Jaremski is the new book review editor for the Americas. Juan Flores Zendejas is the book review editor for the rest of the world. The Journal is fortunate have Lily Welch continue as the Journal’s Assistant Editor and Sally Sztrecska as its Production Editor.

The Journal has benefited greatly from the expert guidance and advice of our Editorial Board and 347 referees who contributed their time and expertise to maintaining and enhancing the Journal’s quality. The Editorial Board of the Journal consists of 18 members. The members typically serve three-year terms. Those departing from the Board this year are Matthew Jaremski, Allison Shertzer, and Jacob Weisdorf. We thank them for their contribution. We have three new board members who are replacing them: Gary Richardson, Zhiwu Chen, and Eric Monnet. The editorial office is grateful to all who have worked on behalf of the Journal over this past year. We also recognize and appreciate the contributions of many scholars to the Journal’s book reviews.

Over the past five years, Journal’s impact factor, which measures of the frequency with which its articles are cited, has been rising. In 2018, the five-year impact factor was 1.9. In 2020, it rose to 3.4, but it fell to 2.8 in 2022. In 2023, the number stands at 3.1. Table 1 displays the 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 2013–14 to 2017–18, 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 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21. The number of submissions then fell in 2021–22 and 2022–23, but rebounded this past year to 201.There has been a rise in the number of submissions on Asia. The Journal published 30 articles in total in 2023–24, not counting the presidential address by Jane Humphries.

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 2023–24, the publication ratio is 0.15 (30/201), well within the range seen since 2015–16.

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. Response times for all submissions, as well as for new submissions, are lower this year in comparison to the last few years. In 2023–24, the median response time for all submissions (including revised manuscripts) was 53 days, and for new submissions, the median response time was 64 days. 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. These tables present data for 2018–2019 to 2023–2024.

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 this year, manuscripts on Asia have been as numerous as those on Western Europe and the United States. Manuscripts from all of Europe, including Eastern and Western Europe and Great Britain, have the largest share in all submissions.

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” based articles, extended book reviews, and roundtable book reviews when appropriate. In 2023–24, the Journal did not publish a “reviews and reflections” article.

In 2023, Claudia Goldin, a former editor of the Journal, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. The editorial team celebrated this momentous occasion for our community by publishing a virtual special issue consisting of the nine papers in the JEH she had authored or co-authored. We thank Kerry Boyles and the staff of Cambridge University Press for their support in making this happen. The virtual issue is available on the Journal website.

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 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 were:

Brian A’Hearn

Daniel Aaronson

Leticia Abad

Christopher Absell

Philipp Ager

Ashish Aggarwal

Toke Aidt

Monica Alexander

Guido Alfani

Eduard Josep Alvarez Palau

Desmond Ang

Belinda Archibong

Mary Arends Kuennings

Vellore Arthi

Cihan Artunç

Elliot Ash

Jeremy Atack

Ying Bai

Katherine Barbieri

Jean-Pascal Bassino

Joerg Baten

Stefano Battilossi

Jerome Baudry

Brian Beach

Sascha O. Becker

Andrea Bernini

Asaf Bernstein

Nicola Bianchi

Vincent Bignon

Hoyt Bleakley

Matthias Blum

Nina Boberg-Fazlic

Howard Bodenhorn

Dan Bogart

Roberto Bonfatti

Michael Bordo

Karol Borowiecki

Fabio Braggion

Loren Brandt

Gabriel Brea Martinez

Bjorn Brey

Stephen Broadberry

Gillian Brunet

Liam Brunt

Kasey Buckles

Joyce Burnette

Rossella Calvi

Cameron Campbell

Mariana Candido

Davide Cantoni

Gabriele Cappelli

Celeste Carruthers

Pinar Ceylan

David Chambers

Cédric Chambru

Jeff Chan

Eric Chaney

Jonathan Chapman

Latika Chaudhary

Joy Chen

Mengyuan Chen

Qiang Chen

Shuo Chen

Yao Chen

Zhiwu Chen

David Chilosi

Carlo Ciccarelli

Francesco Cinnirella

Denis Cogneau

Eva Coll-Martinez

Christopher Colvin

Gustavo Cortes

Metin Cosgel

Neil Cummins

Matthew Curtis

Shatanjaya Dasgupta

Guillaume Daudin

Romola Davenport

Alan de Bromhead

Michiel De Haas

David de la Croix

Pim de Zwart

Hanzhi Deng

Tracy K. Dennison

Jon Denton-Schneider

Ashwini Deshpande

Mark Dincecco

Jordi Domenech

Mauricio Drelichman

Martin Dribe

Federico Droller

Yannick Dupraz

Alan Dye

Shari Eli

Martin Ellison

Katherine Eriksson

David Escamilla-Guerrero

Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez

Rui Esteves

Giovanni Federico

James Fenske

Andy Ferrara

Martin Fiszbein

Marc Flandreau

Mattia Fochesato

Peter Foldvari

Vicky Fouka

Johan Fourie

Raphael Franck

Ewout Frankema

Dustin Frye

Pierre Fuller

Gregori Galofré-Vilà

Roberto Ganau

Pei Gao

Leigh Gardner

Victor Gay

Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier

Michela Giorcelli

Marc Goni

Rowena Gray

Amanda Gregg

Anna Grodecka-Messi

Richard Grossman

Ola Grytten

Hanhui Guan

Timothy Guinnane

Christopher Hanes

Walker Hanlon

Casper Hansen

Yu Hao

Mark Harrison

Timothy Hatton

Joshua Hausman

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

Philip Hoffman

Jean Hong

Julian Hoppit

Richard Hornbeck

Erik Hornung

Sara Horrell

Sijie Hu

Michael Huberman

Elise Huillery

Thilo Huning

Tatsuki Inoue

Lakshmi Iyer

Sriya Iyer

David Jacks

Tarun Jain

Pawel Janas

Matthew Jaremski

Taylor Jaworski

Peter Jensen

Saumitra Jha

Noel Johnson

Maggie Jones

Ezra Karger

Tobias Karlsson

Ian Keay

Wolfgang Keller

Iris Kesternich

Konstantin Kholodilin

Duol Kim

Carl Kitchens

Alexander Klein

Marc Klemp

Jane Knodell

Christoph Koenig

Mizuki Komura

Edward Kosack

Esra Kose

Mark Koyama

Elira Kuka

Leonard Kukić

Amrita Kulka

James Kung

Nippe Lagerlof

Amartya Lahiri

Markus Lampe

Sophia Lazaretou

Chulhee Lee

Conor Lennon

Bryan Leonard

Joshua Lewis

Peter Lindert

Cong Liu

Kevin Liu

Ziang Liu

Jason Long

Paul Lovejoy

Moritz Lubczyk

Ronan Lyons

Chicheng Ma

Richard Macve

Jakob Madsen

Pushkar Maitra

Stefania Marcassa

Gianni Marciante

Andrei Markevich

Benjamin Marx

Noel Maurer

Stephan Maurer

Tamara McGavock

Eoin McGuirk

Felix Meier zu Selhausen

Ralf Meisenzahl

Javier Mejia

Eric Melander

Melinda Miller

Benjamin Milner

Martina Miotto

Rinchan Ali Mirza

Kris Mitchener

Carolyn Moehling

Jon Moen

Joel Mokyr

Eric Monnet

Alexander Moradi

Javier Moreno-Lazaro

Chiaki Moriguchi

Matthias Morys

Jacob Moscona

Sharon Murphy

Aldo Musacchio

Steven Nafziger

Suresh Naidu

Tommaso Nannicini

Natalya Naumenko

Eugenia Nazrullaeva

Esteban Nicolini

Greg Niemesh

Stefan Nikolic

Pilar Nogues-Marco

Alessandro Nuvolari

Kota Ogasawara

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Mats Olsson

Kim Oosterlinck

Sebastian Ottinger

Omer Ozak

Maria Padillo-Romo

Nuno Palma

Craig Palsson

Sevket Pamuk

Laura Panza

John Parman

Sahar Parsa

Luigi Pascali

Robin Pearson

Santiago Perez

Faustine Perrin

Alexander Persaud

Ulrich Pfister

Ennio Piano

Bogdan Popescu

Claus Portner

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

Sarah Quincy

Stephen Quinn

Ferdinand Rauch

Itzchak Raz

Angela Redish

Claudia Rei

Alice Reid

Paul Rhode

Gary Richardson

Kilian Rieder

Hugh Rockoff

Jonathan Rose

Caitlin Rosenthal

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Mauro Rota

Martin Rotemberg

Jared Rubin

Valeria Rueda

Gianluca Russo

Wouter Ryckbosch

Martin Saavedra

Mohamed Saleh

Laura Salisbury

Veronica Santa Rosa

Carlos Santiago-Caballero

Matti Sarvimaki

Sonia Schifano

Max-Stephan Schulze

Edson Severnini

Allison Shertzer

Carol Shiue

Masato Shizume

Andrew Sinclair

James Siodla

Cory Smith

Tuan-Hwee Sng

Kenneth A. Snowden

Yannay Spitzer

Richard Steckel

Claudia Steinwender

Judy Stephenson

James Stewart

Jochen Streb

Nathan Sussman

Josef Taalbi

Federico Tadei

Masanori Takashima

Hui Ren Tan

John Tang

Sharon Tennyson

Rohit Ticku

George Tridimas

Federico Trionfetti

Felipe Valencia Caicedo

Pierre van der Eng

Bas van Leeuwen

Michelangelo Vasta

Francois Velde

Chris Vickers

Daniela Vidart

Richard Von Glahn

Hans-Joachim Voth

Hendrik Wagenaar

Zaki Wahaj

Midori Wakabayashi

Tianyi Wang

Zachary Ward

Warren Weber

Simone Wegge

Jinlin Wei

Marc Weidenmier

Jacob Weisdorf

Colin Weiss

Wyatt Wells

David Wheelock

Nikolaus Wolf

Gavin Wright

Lingwei Wu

Jian Xie

Melanie Xue

Cheng Yang

Xu Yi

Song Yuan

Noam Yuchtman

Paolo Zacchia

Nicolas Ziebarth

Ariell Zimran

Yanos Zylberberg