Revue Économique
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The Revue économique is a peer-reviewed
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 published six times per year. It covers formal economics and other social sciences including history and sociology. Articles are in French or English.

The Revue économique is published by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques , or FNSP, was created by ordinance of Charles de Gaulle in 1945 to manage the transition of École Libre des Sciences Politiques into Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris or IEP Paris The mission of the FNSP was then and is today the management of the...

 (FNSP), with the support of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...

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Each May's issue draws from presentations at the annual congress of the Association française de science économique (French Society of Economic Science).

The impact factor
Impact factor
The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

 of the Revue économique has been estimated to be .272. The estimate did not specify a year to which it applies.

History

The first issue of the Revue économique came out in May, 1950. Founders included economic historian Fernand Braudel
Fernand Braudel
Fernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...

 and Albert Aftalion
Albert Aftalion
Albert Abram Aftalion was a French Jewish economist.He taught at the Paris University . He co-founded the academic journal Revue économique in 1950 and presided over its board of directors....

 who presided over the journal's board of directors ("comité de direction").
Through 1977, the journal was published by Librarie Armand Colin, and since 1978 by the Presses de Sciences Po.

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