Journal Profile

International Studies of Economics (formerly Frontiers of Economics in China) is a general interest journal in economics published by Wiley on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. It was previously published by Higher Education Press under the title Frontiers of Economics in China, which was ranked as one of “The Highest International Impact Academic Journals of China” in 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Issued quarterly, the journal is indexed in more than 10 databases including EBSCO-BSU, EconLit, ESCI, Gale, ProQuest, RePEc and SCOPUS.

The ISE welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from all fields of economics, particularly those with an emphasis on the Chinese economy and other emerging, developing or transition economies. While the journal is primarily interested in original research papers, it also welcomes submissions of opinion articles, literature surveys, and book reviews. It is designed to provide a platform to facilitate the communications between the scholars in China and those in the rest of the world.