Last year, Carolyn Moehling of Rutgers University took over from Eric Hilt as the co-editor for submissions on the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. Bishnupriya Gupta is now in her fourth year as co-editor for Eurasian submissions. Matthew Jaremski is the book review editor for the Americas, and Juan Flores Zendejas is the book review editor for the rest of the world. The Journal is fortunate in to have Lily Welch as the Journal’s Assistant Editor and Sally Sztrecska as the Production Editor.

The Journal has benefited greatly from the expert guidance and advice of our Editorial Board and more than 400 referees who contributed their time and expertise to maintain and enhance 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 Sascha Becker, Katherine Eriksson, Greg Niemesh, and Sheilagh Ogilvie. We thank them for their contributions. We have four new board members replacing them: Sebastian Braun (University of Bayreuth), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure), Rowena Gray (University of California, Merced), and Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado). The editorial office is grateful to all who have worked on behalf of the Journal over the past year. We also recognize and appreciate the contributions of many scholars to the Journal’s book reviews.

Over the past five years, the Journal’s impact factor, which is a measure of the frequency with which its articles are cited, has remained 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.

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 in 2018–19, 209, and 206 in 2019–20 and 2020–21. This year the submissions were 198 compared to 201 from last year. There has been a general rise in the number of submissions on Asia over the last few years. However, Western Europe recorded the biggest increase in submissions last year. The Journal published 31 articles in total in 2024–25, not counting the presidential address by Douglas Irwin.

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, well within the range seen since 2015–16. The quality of the accepted papers remains high.

Table 3 reports the response-time statistics for the corresponding submissions. To place the numbers in 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 this year, in comparison to last year, have risen. 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. This year’s numbers are 72 and 81, respectively. We need to keep an eye on this and make sure reminders reach the referees. 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.

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 2024–2025.

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 have been particularly strong. Labor, growth, and demography are other important topics. Table 6 shows that this year, submissions from Western Europe account for 26 percent of all submissions. The regions of North America (United States and Canada) and Asia, excluding the Middle East, are the two other large components of total 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 and extended book reviews, when appropriate. In 2024–25, the Journal did not publish a “reviews and reflections” article.

Manuscript Central (editorial system) has undergone some changes. We thank Kerry Boyles and the staff of Cambridge University Press for their support in helping us through the process. We have returned to announcing published papers for each issue on EH.Net, which we hope will increase the visibility of the papers.

In 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. Replication files for Online Appendices/supplement materials must also be included since these results usually offer additional support for the conclusions of the article.

A branded page can be found with openICPSR, and depositors can submit files to 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.

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.

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.

Table 3

RESPONSE TIME STATISTICS

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

Referees for 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 were:

Leticia Abad

Christopher Absell

Olivier Accominotti

Philipp Ager

Ashwini Agrawal

Brian A’Hearn

Guido Alfani

Omer Ali

Robert Allen

Jaime Alonso-Carrera

Eric Alston

Lee Alston

Lukas Althoff

Eduard Josep Alvarez Palau

D. Mark Anderson

Haelim Anderson

Gunnar Andersson

Lars Andersson

Belinda Archibong

Madison Arnsbarger

Benjamin Arold

Yasin Arslantaş

Vellore Arthi

Miriam Artiles

Cihan Artunç

Elliot Ash

Liang Bai

Ying Bai

Katherine Barbieri

Alan Barreca

Sergio Barrera

Emily Battaglia

Stefano Battilossi

Stefan Bauernschuster

Guillaume Bazot

Brian Beach

Jessica Bean

Anne Beck Knudsen

Andriana Bellou

Francisco Beltrán Tapia

Luca Benati

Felipe Benguria Depassier

Thor Berger

Asaf Bernstein

Mattia Bertazzini

Graziella Bertocchi

Christine Binzel

Guillaume Blanc

Arthur Blouin

Matthias Blum

Howard Bodenhorn

Lars Boerner

Dan Bogart

Roberto Bonfatti

Oana Borcan

Michael Bordo

Karol Borowiecki

Feler Bose

Fabio Braggion

Sebastian Braun

Stephen Broadberry

John Brown

Markus Brückner

Christa Brunnschweiler

Liam Brunt

Joyce Burnette

Brian Cadena

Rossella Calvi

Cameron Campbell

Davide Cantoni

Yiming Cao

Gabriele Cappelli

Bruno Caprettini

Art Carden

Ann Carlos

Mark A. Carlson

Celeste Carruthers

Ellizabeth Cascio

Guilhem Cassan

Traviss Cassidy

David Chambers

Cédric Chambru

Jeff Chan

Jonathan Chapman

Latika Chaudhary

Joy Chen

Qiang Chen

Shuo Chen

Yi Chen

Zhiwu Chen

Apicha Chutipongpisit

Carlo Ciccarelli

Denis Cogneau

William J. Collins

Gustavo Cortes

Kerem Cosar

Metin Cosgel

Pier Paolo Creanza

Neil Cummins

Guillaume Daudin

Romola Davenport

Alan de Bromhead

Herman de Jong

Pim de Zwart

Marc Deloof

Hanzhi Deng

Tracy K. Dennison

Ellora Derenoncourt

Arnaud Deseau

Lukas Diebold

Arcangelo Dimico

Mark Dincecco

Milena Djourelova

Rafael Dobado-González

Jordi Domenech

Martin Dribe

Federico Droller

Yannick Dupraz

Xavier Duran

Alan Dye

Fabian Eckert

Eric Edwards

Martin Ellison

Paul Erdkamp

Katherine Eriksson

Yasar Ersan

David Escamilla-Guerrero

Irina España-Eljaiek

Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez

Elena Esposito

Rui Esteves

Federico Etro

Giovanni Facchini

Xinyu Fan

Sherajum Monira Farin

James Feigenbaum

Emanuele Felice

James Fenske

Alan Fernihough

Andy Ferrara

Daniel Fetter

Martin Fiszbein

Dennis Flynn

Johan Fourie

Raphael Franck

Ewout Frankema

Carola Frydman

Dustin Frye

Roberto Ganau

Pei Gao

Victor Gay

Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Michela Giorcelli

Sun Go

Paula Gobbi

Jack Goldstone

Victor Gomez-Blanco

Guan Gong

Marc Goni

Felipe González

Jesus Gorrin

Rowena Gray

Matthew Gregg

Jan Greyling

Hanhui Guan

Eleonora Guarnieri

Timothy Guinnane

Melanie Guldi

Piotr Guzowski

J. David Hacker

Nicholas Hagerty

Walker Hanlon

Casper Hansen

Yu Hao

Mark Harrison

Timothy Hatton

Joshua Hausman

Gautam Hazarika

Stephan Heblich

Leander Heldring

Thomas Helgerman

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

Matthew Hill

Eric Hilt

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

Philip Hoffman

Nick Holtkamp

Mallory Hope

Richard Hornbeck

Erik Hornung

Sara Horrell

Michael Huberman

Elise Huillery

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland

Thilo Huning

Mark Hup

Jared Hutchins

Robert Inklaar

Martin Ivanov

Lakshmi Iyer

David Jacks

Andrew Jalil

Pawel Janas

Matthew Jaremski

Taylor Jaworski

Saumitra Jha

Enrique Jorge-Sotelo

Reka Juhasz

Dácil Juif

Yeonha Jung

M. Erdem Kabadayi

Ezra Karger

Tobias Karlsson

Wolfgang Keller

Felix Kersting

Iris Kesternich

Konstantin Kholodilin

Duol Kim

Carl Kitchens

Alexander Klein

Dmitrii Kofanov

Sebastian Kohl

Trevor Kollmann

Elena Korchmina

Matthijs Korevaar

Esra Kose

Peter Koudijs

Mark Koyama

Nicole Kreisberg

Leonard Kukić

Amrita Kulka

Yuzuru Kumon

James Kung

Timur Kuran

Joanna Lahey

Markus Lampe

Christian Langer

Jessica LaVoice

Marc Law

Chulhee Lee

Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

Jason Lennard

Conor Lennon

Bryan Leonard

Joshua Lewis

Dan Li

Mingxi Li

Nan Li

Yuexin Li

Yuchen Lin

Siona Listokin-Smith

Cong Liu

Trevon Logan

Jason Long

Henry Lovejoy

Yi Lu

Moritz Lubczyk

Ronan Lyons

Chicheng Ma

Sen Ma

Jakob Madsen

Viktor Malein

Mikołaj Malinowski

Stefania Marcassa

Gianni Marciante

Vitantonio Mariella

Franco Mariuzzo

Andrei Markevich

Pablo Martinelli

Julio Martinez-Galarraga

Joseph R. Mason

Andrea Matranga

Stephan Maurer

Anne E. C. McCants

Eoin McGuirk

Eric Melander

Anil Menon

Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Todd Messer

Meng Miao

Luka Miladinovic

Melinda Miller

Martina Miotto

Anna Missiaia

David Mitch

Kris Mitchener

Omer Moav

Jon Moen

Eric Monnet

Alexander Moradi

Matthias Morys

Anirban Mukherjee

Aldo Musacchio

Steven Nafziger

Suresh Naidu

Timur Natkhov

Natalya Naumenko

Tom Nicholas

Greg Niemesh

Stefan Nikolic

Johannes Norling

Dennis Novy

Alessandro Nuvolari

Kevin O’Rourke

Kota Ogasawara

Tetsuji Okazaki

Lars Øksendal

Ola Olsson

Arianna Ornaghi

Sebastian Ottinger

Omer Ozak

Nuno Palma

Craig Palsson

Sevket Pamuk

Laura Panza

Andrea Papadia

Giuliana Pardelli

Sangyoon Park

John Parman

Santiago Perez

Dwight H. Perkins

Faustine Perrin

Alexander Persaud

Steven Pfaff

Ennio Piano

Andrew Pickering

Florian Ploeckl

Bogdan Popescu

Max Posch

Erik Prawitz

Jonathan Pritchett

Didac Queralt

Sarah Quincy

William Quinn

Valerie Ramey

Hillel Rapoport

Ferdinand Rauch

Angela Redish

Clyde Reed

Alice Reid

Diego Restuccia

Gary Richardson

Albrecht Ritschl

Evan Roberts

Luke Rodgers

Klas Rönnbäck

Evan Rose

Jonathan Rose

Joshua Rosenbloom

Federico Rossi

Martin Rotemberg

Lea Rouanet

Jared Rubin

Gianluca Russo

Devesh Rustagi

Martin Saavedra

Marcela Sabaté

Mohamed Saleh

Laura Salisbury

Carlos Sanz

Yu Sasaki

Felix Schaff

Sonia Schifano

Ethan Schmick

Eric Schneider

Michael Schneider

Max-Stephan Schulze

Andrew Seltzer

Edson Severnini

Martin Shanahan

Paul Sharp

Allison Shertzer

Katharine Shester

Carol Shiue

Masato Shizume

Simon Smith

Steven Smith

Tuan-Hwee Sng

Peter Solar

Emil Sorensen

Christophe Spaenjers

Yannay Spitzer

Mara Squicciarini

Maria Stanfors

David Stasavage

Luke Stein

Herdis Steingrimsdottir

Claudia Steinwender

Mark Stelzner

James Stewart

Megan Stewart

Jochen Streb

Eric Strobl

William A. Sundstrom

Nathan Sussman

Anand Swamy

Federico Tadei

Masanori Takashima

Hui Ren Tan

John Tang

Taco Terpstra

Patrick Testa

Federico Trombetta

Ali Coşkun Tunçer

John Turner

Felipe Valencia Caicedo

Pierre van der Eng

Patrick Van Horn

Marlous van Waijenburg

Jan Luiten van Zanden

Michelangelo Vasta

Jessica Vechbanyongratana

Chris Vickers

Daniela Vidart

Simon Ville

Nico Voigtlaender

Tamas Vonyo

Hans-Joachim Voth

Hendrik Wagenaar

Fabian Wahl

Midori Wakabayashi

Daniel Waldenstrom

Maria Waldinger

John Wallis

Randall Walsh

Leone Walters

Tianyi Wang

Yuhua Wang

Zachary Ward

Anders Wastfelt

Marc Weidenmier

Colin Weiss

Warren Whatley

David Wheelock

Eugene White

Jennifer Withrow

Nikolaus Wolf

Cheongyeon Won

Abigail Wozniak

Lingwei Wu

Jian Xie

Heyu Xiong

Chenzi Xu

Jinhai Xu

Melanie Xue

Se Yan

Weinan Yan

Kuo-chun Yeh

Noam Yuchtman

John Zaborney

Rami Zalfou

Runzhuo Zhai

Guochang Zhao

Yiling Zhao

Nicolas Ziebarth

Ariell Zimran

Yanos Zylberberg