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