Focus and Scope

The Journal of Economicate Studies (JoES) is a scholarly journal dedicated to advancing economic knowledge through theoretical, empirical, methodological, and policy-oriented research. The journal views economics not merely as the study of production, consumption, distribution, and exchange, but also as an inquiry into how individuals, households, firms, governments, financial institutions, social organizations, and religious institutions make decisions under resource constraints, institutional change, uncertainty, and competing objectives related to welfare, efficiency, sustainability, and justice.

The term Economicate Studies serves as an interdisciplinary umbrella for economic scholarship that connects economic theory with social, business, financial, institutional, ethical, religious, and public-policy issues. Although JoES welcomes diverse perspectives and analytical traditions, every submitted article must address a clearly defined economic problem, apply an appropriate theoretical or conceptual framework, use a scientifically accountable method, and provide a demonstrable theoretical, empirical, methodological, managerial, or policy contribution.

JoES welcomes research in microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomic studies may examine consumer and producer behaviour, demand and supply, market structures, pricing, competition, efficiency, household economics, the economics of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, information asymmetry, behavioural economics, and decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Macroeconomic studies may address economic growth, inflation, unemployment, aggregate consumption, savings, investment, productivity, business cycles, international trade, balance of payments, exchange-rate dynamics, economic stability, and the response of economies to domestic and external shocks.

In the field of managerial economics, JoES publishes research on how firms and organizations allocate resources, determine prices, manage costs, improve productivity, undertake investment, respond to market competition, manage risk, and enhance economic performance. Articles in this area should demonstrate a clear economic dimension. General management studies that do not address resource allocation, efficiency, cost, productivity, market behaviour, financial performance, or welfare implications fall outside the journal’s primary scope.

JoES also gives substantial attention to monetary economics, financial economics, banking, and capital markets. Relevant topics include monetary policy, interest rates, money supply, exchange rates, inflation transmission, credit allocation, financial intermediation, banking performance, financial stability, capital-market development, investment behaviour, financial inclusion, financial technology, systemic risk, and financial regulation. Studies may examine conventional, Islamic, ethical, or values-based financial systems, provided that the research is grounded in economic reasoning and supported by appropriate evidence.

In the areas of fiscal policy and public-sector economics, the journal welcomes research on taxation, government revenue, public expenditure, subsidies, budget deficits, public debt, fiscal transfers, decentralization, regional finance, public-service delivery, public-sector efficiency, public procurement, and the evaluation of government programmes. Research should move beyond the description of public policies by analysing their economic mechanisms, implementation, distributional consequences, efficiency, effectiveness, or welfare implications.

The journal’s scope also covers development economics, including poverty, inequality, inclusive growth, human development, regional development, rural transformation, structural change, industrialization, urbanization, migration, food security, sustainable development, green economic transition, digital transformation, and disparities between regions or social groups. JoES encourages studies that examine not only whether development occurs, but also how its benefits and costs are distributed across populations, sectors, and territories.

Within the economics of education, JoES welcomes research on educational financing, human-capital investment, educational access, returns to education, inequalities in learning opportunities, labour-market outcomes, educational productivity, institutional efficiency, and the economic consequences of educational policy. Education studies that do not contain a clear economic question, analytical framework, or economic implication are not considered central to the journal’s scope.

Research in health economics may address healthcare financing, health insurance, access to services, healthcare expenditure, hospital efficiency, pharmaceutical economics, health inequalities, public-health programmes, and the relationship between health, productivity, labour participation, and household welfare. Purely clinical or medical studies without an identifiable economic dimension are outside the journal’s primary focus.

JoES also publishes research in labour economics, including employment and unemployment, wage determination, labour productivity, workforce participation, informal employment, human capital, migration, occupational mobility, wage inequality, labour-market discrimination, industrial relations, technological change, and the effects of automation or digitalization on employment structures.

The journal recognizes the increasing importance of philanthropy, social finance, and community-based economic institutions. It therefore welcomes research on charitable giving, social funds, impact investment, zakat, infaq, sadaqah, waqf, religious donations, productive philanthropy, poverty alleviation, community empowerment, and the economic effectiveness of social-distribution programmes. Studies in this area should analyse economic dimensions such as resource mobilization, allocation efficiency, distributive impact, welfare improvement, institutional governance, sustainability, or poverty reduction.

JoES further provides a platform for scholarship on religion-based economics and finance. This area may include Islamic economics, Islamic banking, Islamic capital markets, sukuk, takaful, sharia-compliant investment, Islamic commercial contracts, halal consumption, zakat and waqf institutions, religiously informed economic behaviour, and comparative studies of faith-based economic systems. However, the mere use of religious terminology or the examination of a religious institution does not automatically establish relevance to the journal. Such articles must still formulate a clear economic problem, employ an appropriate theoretical or conceptual framework, use credible evidence, and offer a substantive academic contribution.

The journal also welcomes studies of ethical, institutional, and governance issues in economics. Topics may include accountability, corruption, market integrity, corporate governance, regulatory quality, consumer protection, opportunistic behaviour, sustainability, social responsibility, institutional trust, economic justice, and the ethical consequences of economic decisions. Ethical discussions should be connected to economic behaviour, institutional performance, resource allocation, market outcomes, public welfare, or policy design rather than remaining exclusively normative or philosophical.

JoES is open to research conducted at the individual, household, organizational, industry, regional, national, and international levels. The journal accepts studies based on primary or secondary data and welcomes quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, experimental, comparative, historical, and systematic-review approaches. Quantitative submissions may employ time-series, cross-sectional, panel-data, structural-equation, experimental, quasi-experimental, or other appropriate analytical techniques. Qualitative studies should demonstrate transparent data collection, systematic analysis, adequate evidentiary support, and a clear connection between empirical findings and theoretical interpretation.

Regardless of the method employed, manuscripts must explain their research design sufficiently to permit scholarly evaluation and, where relevant, replication. Authors are expected to justify their sampling procedures, data sources, variable measurements, analytical techniques, model specifications, validity procedures, and interpretive decisions. The use of sophisticated statistical software or advanced analytical terminology does not substitute for sound research design, appropriate theory, or credible data.

JoES prioritizes manuscripts that present a clearly articulated state of the art, substantive research gap, originality, and contribution. A research gap should not be based solely on the claim that a topic has not previously been examined in a particular location, that a theory has not been applied to a certain object, or that no study has used the same title. Stronger research gaps may arise from inconsistent findings, inadequate measurements, unresolved theoretical mechanisms, neglected institutional conditions, weak identification strategies, unexplored heterogeneity, methodological limitations, or insufficient attention to short-term and long-term dynamics.

The journal encourages authors to use recent, relevant, and predominantly primary academic sources. Seminal and foundational works may be cited when theoretically necessary, but the literature review should adequately represent contemporary developments in the field. Institutional reports, official statistics, regulations, and policy documents may be used as data or contextual sources, but they should not replace engagement with peer-reviewed academic literature.

JoES expects the discussion section of each article to extend beyond the repetition of statistical or descriptive findings. Authors should interpret the meaning of their results, explain the mechanisms underlying the findings, compare them critically with previous studies, identify theoretical implications, and discuss practical, managerial, social, or policy relevance. Unsupported claims, excessive generalization, fabricated references, unverifiable data, and conclusions that exceed the capacity of the research design are not acceptable.

The journal does not prioritize manuscripts that merely describe an institution, programme, regulation, region, or dataset without a clear research question and analytical contribution. Purely normative legal analysis, exclusively theological discussion, general management commentary, clinical research, or descriptive statistical reports fall outside the journal’s central scope unless they are explicitly connected to an economic problem, economic theory, and measurable or interpretable economic consequences.

Through this scope, the Journal of Economicate Studies seeks to develop a coherent yet inclusive platform for economic scholarship. The journal aims to bridge economic theory and real-world problems, promote interdisciplinary dialogue, strengthen evidence-based decision-making, and contribute to more efficient, equitable, ethical, resilient, and sustainable economic systems.