About
Aims and Scope
Applied Economics Education & Extension (AEEE) (formerly Applied Economics Teaching Resources or AETR) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). The journal will continue to offer and expand the content offered by AETR as well as build upon the legacy of Choices. AEEE aims to support and advance education, extension, and outreach in the agricultural and applied economics, and agribusiness economics and management professions, including the communication of key issues to stakeholders and the general public.
AEEE provides an inclusive outlet for original research in education economics and extension; scholarship pertaining to teaching, learning, and extension; authoritative articles on applied economic issues in extension, education, and industry; teaching and extension methods; case studies; and informative commentaries. The journal seeks to publish articles that are diverse in both scope and authorship.
All articles are archived on the journal website and through AgEcon Search. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed and held to the highest standards of the agricultural and applied economics and agribusiness economics and management professions.
AEEE seeks the following types of contributions:
- Original Research Articles: Articles that provide new knowledge, findings, or evidence derived from formal and rigorous methods and analysis in the areas of teaching and Extension education scholarship, education economics, general extension, and outreach
- Applied Economic Features: Authoritative and nontechnical shorter overviews; reviews and analyses of emerging and relevant national and international applied economics issues; and topics suitable for use in teaching, extension, outreach and industry settings
- Case Studies in all areas of applied & agricultural economics, and agribusiness economics & management for use in the classroom, Extension education, and industry training
- Education and Extension Methods: Method innovations in the classroom, curricula, field and industry (e.g., classroom games, online teaching and simulation tools, experiential learning activities, curricula, pedagogy, and other teaching and learning innovations, Extension applications, industry applications, decision aids, industry training)
- Commentaries: Education and Extension commentaries (e.g., notes on pedagogy, teaching, and Extension program assessments, curriculum development, educational and Extension methodology, innovative methods, industry training tools)
All articles accepted by AEEE are published open access under creative commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International). For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
The journal editors are Jason Bergtold (Kansas State University; bergtold@ksu.edu) and Na Zuo (University of Arizona; nazuo@arizona.edu), who are supported by an editorial board. AEEE is distributed and archived through its website and on AgEconSearch and indexed in Google Scholar, RePEc, EconLit, and the Database of Open Access Journals. Authors are able to track impacts through both anonymous, open-access downloads on AgEconSearch and controlled access to instructor downloads of teaching notes and supplementary materials. Authors with requestable teaching notes and supplemental materials will receive an annual report detailing requests, downloads, and the number of students the material was used to teach and engage in December each year.
Journal Stats
- Journal indexing: AgEcon Search, Google Scholar, Database of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Econlit, and RePEc
- Impact factor: 0.104 (RePEc)
- Average time to first decision (including first peer review): 82 days
- Average number of downloads and views on AgEcon Search and the journal website: 150 per article. Article downloads totaled 27,283 in 2025.
- Journal H-Index: 7
- Number of undergraduate students at national and international institutions of higher education reached:
- 2019: 150 students
- 2020: 990 students
- 2021: 1,900 students
- 2022: 2,655 students
- 2023: 2,873 students
- 2024: 1,965 students
- 2025: 2,570 students
Editors
Jason Bergtold (2018-2030)
Kansas State University
aetr.editor@gmail.com
bergtold@ksu.edu
Na Zuo (2024-2028)
University of Arizona
nazuo@arizona.edu
Editorial Board
| James Sterns Oregon State University jasterns@oregonstate.edu |
Sierra Howry University of Wisconsin – River Falls Sierra.howry@uwrf.edu |
| Kenrett Jefferson-Moore North Carolina A & T University jykenret@ncat.edu |
Rodney Jones Oklahoma State University Rodney.jones@okstate.edu |
| Hernan Tejeda University of Idaho htejeda@uidaho.edu |
Kate Brooks University of Nebraska-Lincoln kbrooks4@unl.edu |
Publisher
The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics.
Members of the AAEA are employed by academic or government institutions, as well as in industry and not-for-profit organizations, and engage in a variety of teaching, research, and extension/outreach activities. Their work addresses a broad range of topics such as the economics of agriculture, international and rural development, resources and the environment, food and consumer issues, and agribusiness.
If you have any questions please send an email to info@aaea.org.
