Cliometrica is an academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 about economic history

Economic history

Economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...

. It follows the quantitative or formal approaches that have been called cliometrics

Cliometrics

Cliometrics, sometimes called new economic history, or econometric history, is the systematic application of economic theory, econometric techniques, and other formal or mathematical methods to the study of history . It is a quantitative approach to economic history...

 or the new economic history, applied to any place and time. These formal approaches apply mathematical economic theory, model building, and statistical estimation.

The journal's first issues came out in 2007. It is published by Springer

Springer Science+Business Media

- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

. Since its founding its managing editor has been Claude Diebolt.

Articles from the earliest issues can be downloaded through econpapers.repec.org.