Publishing with the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization (JLEO) seeks to promote an understanding of complex phenomena by examining such matters from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective (or a two-way combination thereof).

There are many reasons to submit your work to the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, including its prestigious reputation for publishing top-quality research, its commitment to fair and inclusive peer review, its annual article prize and the discoverability benefits from the Oxford Academic platform.

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Prestige and Reputation

Publishing with the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, your paper will benefit from support and expertise from an experienced and diverse editorial board, which will maximize the international reach of your article.

When submitting a manuscript to JLEO, you can be confident that the support of the editorial team and the rigorous, double-anonymized peer review process will ensure that your research findings are published at their best.

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization has an Impact Factor of 1.3 and is ranked 323/597 in the SSCI Economics category (2023) and 80/421 in the SSCI Law category (2023). In the IDEAS/RePEc Aggregate Rankings for Journals, JLEO is ranked 63rd out of 3,168 journals. Moreover, the journal has a quick turnaround time for new submissions – in 2021 it was, on average, 47 days.

Browse some of the highly cited research that has contributed to our continued success here.

Global Readership

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization connects your powerful ideas with the widest audience to give your research the greatest possible impact. Its articles are available in several abstracting and indexing services, attracting a diverse range of authors and readers.

The journal also offers by browse-by-subject using Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes. Providing the relevant JEL code when submitting your paper increases discoverability of your research within journals and OUP’s wider audience.

Content from JLEO may also be featured on our dedicated Twitter channels: @OxfordJournals, @OUPEconomics, and @OUPLaw.

Range of Content

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization publishes three issues per year. By publishing in JLEO, your work could be included in these, or in other thematic content collections across OUP’s products.

Topics that the journal covers, includes, but is not limited to:

• Microeconomics

• Law and Economics

• Industrial Organization

• Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

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Open Access

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization offers authors the opportunity to publish their work open access – find out more about our open access options. Find out if you can publish open access in the journal for free as part of your institution’s inclusion in a read and publish agreement with Oxford University Press.

Article Metrics

Article-level metrics, including usage, citations, and Altmetric scores are available for all articles published in the journal, allowing you to understand the reach of your research, and the attention it is receiving online.

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