Aims and scope
Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe is a quarterly open-access journal published in cooperation with the University of Lodz.
Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe publishes theoretical and empirical research on macroeconomic and microeconomic issues.
In general, the journal:
- Focuses on comparative economic policy
- Covers monetary and real dynamics in open economies
- Includes topics related to international economics like: international trade and finance, globalization, regional integration, migration
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Innovation and competitiveness
- Development economics
- Monetary policy
- Fiscal sustainability
- Labour market and demographic changes
- Financial market development
- Sustainable finance and investment
We invite submission of high-quality original research papers that study the above topics not only in the context of Central and Eastern Europe but from a broader perspective as well. Articles in other sub-disciplines of economics are also welcome if they contain international or global economic prospects. The papers can be empirical or theoretical in method and can be either positive or normative in nature.
The journal is indexed in the following databases:
- Arianta
- Baidu Scholar
- BazEkon
- Cabell's Directory
- CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities)
- Celdes
- Central and Eastern European Online Library
- CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
- CNPIEC
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
- EBSCO (relevant databases)
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EconBiz
- EconLit
- ECONIS
- ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Genamics JournalSeek
- Google Scholar
- Index Copernicus
- J-Gate
- Journal Guide
- JournalTOCs
- KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
- Microsoft Academic
- Naviga (Softweco)
- POL-index
- Primo Central (ExLibris)
- ProQuest (relevant databases)
- Publons
- ReadCube
- Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
- ResearchGate
- SCImago (SJR)
- SCOPUS (Elsevier)
- Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest)
- TDOne (TDNet)
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
- WanFang Data
- Web of Science – Emerging Sources Citation Index
- WorldCat (OCLC)
All articles are published in Open Access and use open license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution – Non-Commercial – No Derivative Works).
Statistics
Number of articles reported in 2025 – 154
Number of scientific articles published in 2025 – 33
Number of requests for review – 219
Number of reviews received – 140
Acceptance rate – 21%
Average time from submission to publication – 300 days
Number of articles reported in 2024 – 69
Number of scientific articles published in 2024 – 36
Number of requests for review – 219
Number of reviews received – 85
Acceptance rate – 52%
Average time from submission to publication – 330 days
Number of articles reported in 2023 – 103
Number of requests for review – 94
Number of reviews received – 82
Acceptance rate – 36%
Average time from submission to publication – 300 days
Number of articles reported in 2022 – 86
Number of requests for review – 92
Number of reviews received – 85
Acceptance rate – 46%
Average time from submission to publication – 250 days
Number of articles reported in 2021 – 71
Number of requests for review – 86
Number of reviews received – 80
Acceptance rate – 52%
Average time from submission to publication – 9 months