''Post-Communist Economies'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering
economics
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in
post-communist
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countries. It was established in 1989 as ''Communist Economies'' and renamed as ''Communist Economies and Economic Transformation'' in 1991, before obtaining its current name in 1999. It covers
economic institution
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s,
policies
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, and performance of ex-communist countries. The geographic focus of the journal is mainly on European post-communist economies, including countries of the
former Soviet Union
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, but papers on
Mongolia
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,
China
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, and
Vietnam
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are also published.
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'', the journal has a 2014 impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 0.492.
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