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Declining annual numbers of publications may be interpreted as missing progress in field-specific knowledge.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this paper, we present empirical results on dynamics of progress in economic fields (defined by <jats:italic>Journal of Economic Literature<\/jats:italic> (JEL), codes) based on a methodological approach introduced by Bornmann and Haunschild (2022). We focused on publications that have been published between 2012 and 2021 and identified those fields in economics with the highest dynamics (largest rates of change in paper counts).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>We found that the field with the largest paper output across the years is \u201cEconomic Development\u201d. The results reveal that the field-specific rates of changes are mostly similar. However, the two fields \u201cProduction and Organizations\u201d and \u201cHealth\u201d show point estimators which are clearly higher than the estimators for the other fields. We investigated the publications in \u201cProduction and Organizations\u201d and \u201cHealth\u201d in more detail.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>Understanding how a discipline evolves over time is interesting both from a historical and a recent perspective. 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