About the Journal


The Lahore Journal of Economics is a biannual, peer-reviewed open-access academic journal, put out by the Lahore School of Economics. The LJE publishes original scholarship across the social sciences on issues that are critical to development particularly in South Asia but also across the Global South. In addition to our biannual issues, the LJE also publishes a Special Edition which contains the papers and proceedings of the annual conference held at the Lahore School of Economics that focuses on current and relevant issues affecting Pakistan.
ISSN (E): 1811-5446
ISSN (P):1811-5438


Articles published by the LJE have been cited in prestigious journals, such as:


World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Studies, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, BMC Public Health, Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, Water Policy, Environment Development and Sustainability, and the International Journal of Educational Development, among others.


The LJE is recognized as one of the leading social science journals in Pakistan, consistently receiving high ratings by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan since 2003. The journal is listed in the Library of Congress, the British Library, Journal of Economic Literature, EBSCO, and Proquest databases, and is consistently ranked by the prestigious Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC).


Open Access Policy

The LJE follows an open-access policy to make scholarly research accessible to everyone. This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. The full text of all content is available to everyone without an embargo period and registration on the website.



Publishing schedule

The Lahore Journal of Economics is a biannual journal that publishes one volume per the following publication schedule:
1st Issue: January - June
2nd Issue: July - December