Publishing with The World Bank Economic Review

The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) is a high-quality journal published by Oxford University Press in partnership with The World Bank. The journal seeks to publish and disseminate innovative theoretical and empirical research that identifies, analyzes, measures, and evaluates the macro and micro-economic forces that promote or impede economic development with a view towards providing the knowledge necessary for designing, implementing, and sustaining effective development policies in low and middle income countries.

There are many reasons to submit your work to The World Bank Economic Review, including a fuss-free submissions process, commitment to fair and inclusive peer review, advance access, and social media/marketing for your work.

Read more reasons to publish in WBER below.

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Prestige and Reputation

By publishing with The World Bank Economic Review, your paper will benefit from support and expertise from diverse and experienced academics on the editorial board, which will maximize the international reach of your article. Additionally, the simple online submissions portal makes it easy to submit your work.

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

Global Readership

The World Bank Economic Review 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 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 WBER may also be featured on our dedicated social and behavioural sciences channel @OUPSocSci.

Range of Content

The World Bank Economic Review publishes four issues per year. Comprising of research articles, advance articles, and review articles. This way you can choose the format you find most appropriate to communicate your findings.

Advance access publishing means your content will be available online as soon as possible. Once a paper is accepted, the pre-proofed, pre-copyedited accepted manuscript will typically be published online within one week. It will be replaced by a copyedited, proofed version of the paper in an issue.

The journal covers a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change and Growth
• Health, Education, and Welfare
• Microeconomics
• Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

By publishing in WBER, your work could be included in these, or in other thematic content collections across OUP’s products.

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Community

The World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award is given annually to the referees used in the previous year who, in the views of the Editors, have made an outstanding contribution to the journal.

See the latest winners here.

Open Access

The World Bank Economic Review offers you the opportunity to publish your work open access – find out more about 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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