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Economic Research was a North Korean quarterly academic journal of economics established in 1956 and published by the Science and Encyclopedia Publishing House.

History
Economic Research was first published in 1956. The journal was discontinued in 1968, but was re-issued beginning in 1984. Economic Research and three other humanities journals were discontinued starting in 2021.

Format
Papers published in the journal lack biographical information like institutional affiliation and most do not disclose academic titles or degrees. In contrast to Western academic journals, titles for articles published in Economic Research employ literal descriptions of the article's contents.

After Kim Jong Un assumed office in December 2011, the journal published an increasing number of papers covering a wider range of topics. While issues published between 2007 and 2011 rarely contained more than 30 articles, issues published since 2012 included up to 48 articles. Concurrently, the average size of each article shrunk from an average of 700 to 1,200 words per article to an average of 600 to 700 words per article.

Issues of Economic Research published since 2006 include a section called "Common Knowledge" that provides a short exposition on a key economic concept. These sections, which include explanations of concepts like "foreign exchange markets", "balance of payments" and "variable costs", lack the ideological content found in other articles published in the journal.

Keywords were included at the end of each article since 2017.

Research
The journal was published quarterly on the 30th of each January, April, July and October.

Under Kim Jong Un, an increasing number of papers utilized econometric models requiring specialized knowledge, such as factors that affect hedge accounting for derivatives transactions, exchange rate forecasting and the management of statistics, methods to create a national foreign exchange balance of payments, or methods to determine expected patient tax returns.

The last article published in Economic Research to use the term "communism" was in 2001—which was followed by the removal of all mentions of communism from the North Korean constitution in 2009.

Domestic
According to North Korea's Great Korean Encyclopedia, the journal's target audience comprised economists, academics and those involved in economic management.