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Annual Review of Economics (annual-review-of-economics)
Journal positioning
Annual Review of Economics publishes authoritative, invited review articles that synthesize the state of an economics subfield for a broad professional audience. It is part of the Annual Reviews series; its value is a comprehensive, balanced, expert synthesis — not new empirical results or a new model. A great article gives a reader the intellectual map of a literature: the key questions, what is settled, what is contested, and where the field is heading. The readership is economists wanting an expert orientation outside their own specialty, plus graduate students.
This venue is solicited / invited. Articles are commissioned by the Editorial Committee, which plans each volume's topics and authors. Unsolicited full manuscripts are generally not the route in. The path is to be invited, or to suggest a topic/author to the editors for the Committee's consideration. Treat this skill as a fit check for a proposed review and a guide to the synthesis standard.
This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before proposing or writing, re-check the live author instructions and topic-suggestion process on the Annual Reviews site.
When to trigger
- The author has been invited (or hopes to be invited) to write an Annual Review of Economics article.
- A senior author wants to propose a review topic to the Editorial Committee and needs to gauge fit and framing.
- A manuscript is really a literature synthesis rather than an original-results paper and the author is considering review outlets.
- The author needs this venue's expectations and a credible alternative-review-venue list.