About to submit a paper to an economics journal?
Econ Journal Matchmaker
Upload your paper and find economics journal editors whose research is most closely related to your work. This tool ranks research fit only; it does not assess whether you should submit to a top-five or less selective journal.
Top Matches
Matches are ranked by research similarity, not journal selectivity or acceptance probability.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who made this?
This tool was made by UCLA's Professor Ricardo Perez-Truglia. You can click here to visit my website, and click here to see other tools I've created for academic economists.
How does it work?
Behind the scenes, the tool created embeddings for the title, publication details, and abstract of each editor paper in the database. When you upload a PDF or paste your title, abstract, and introduction, the app embeds that text with the same model, compares it to editor papers using cosine similarity, and ranks editor-journal pairs based on the closest related papers.
Which journals are included?
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
- American Economic Review
- American Economic Review: Insights
- Econometric Theory
- Econometrica
- Economic Journal
- European Economic Review
- Experimental Economics
- Games and Economic Behavior
- International Economic Review
- Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
- Journal of Development Economics
- Journal of Econometrics
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Journal of Economic Growth
- Journal of Economic Theory
- Journal of Finance
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Journal of Health Economics
- Journal of Human Resources
- Journal of International Economics
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Journal of Law and Economics
- Journal of Monetary Economics
- Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
- Journal of Political Economy
- Journal of Public Economics
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Journal of Urban Economics
- Quantitative Economics
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Review of Economic Dynamics
- Review of Economic Studies
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- The Econometrics Journal
- The Review of Financial Studies
- Theoretical Economics
More journals to be included in a future version.
How current is the database?
Database last updated: May 24, 2026. Editorial boards change over time, so please verify editor roles on the journal website before submitting.
Data Privacy
This tool does not store uploaded papers, pasted text, recommendations, or user-identifying information. Uploaded PDFs and pasted text are used only to generate recommendations during the current request. The site keeps a simple aggregate counter of how many papers have been analyzed, and the optional feedback form records anonymous feedback submitted by users.
Feedback
Do you have any comments or suggestions? Journals that you'd like to be added? Did you see an editor who is no longer an editor and should be updated? Please share your feedback with the creator of the tool.