Economics & Business: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	124
2	Expert Systems With Applications	116
3	Sustainability	112
4	Energy Economics	108
5	Journal of Business Research	106
6	Resources Policy	95
7	Finance Research Letters	87
8	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	84
-	Nature Sustainability	84
10	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	83
-	Business Strategy and the Environment	83
12	Global Change Biology	82
13	Nature Climate Change	81
14	Energy Policy	80
15	Journal of Medical Internet Research	79
16	International Review of Financial Analysis	77
17	Sustainable Production and Consumption	74
-	Journal of Financial Economics	74
19	European Journal of Operational Research	73
20	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	72
21	npj Digital Medicine	71
22	Management Science	70
23	International Journal of Production Economics	67
24	Environmental Impact Assessment Review	66
25	Journal of Innovation & Knowledge	63
26	American Economic Review	62
27	Land Use Policy	61
-	International Journal of Production Research	61
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	61
30	International Review of Economics & Finance	60
-	Energy Research & Social Science	60
32	Technovation	58
-	Healthcare	58
-	International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management	58
35	Tourism Management	57
-	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	57
-	Cities	57
-	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	57
39	One Earth	56
-	Economic Analysis and Policy	56
41	Landscape and Urban Planning	55
42	Research in International Business and Finance	54
-	IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management	54
-	Sustainable Development	54
-	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	54
-	Journal of Finance	54
47	IEEE Systems Journal	52
-	Research Policy	52
-	Ecological Informatics	52
-	ISME Journal	52

-	Journal of Personalized Medicine	52
52	Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment	51
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	51
-	Safety Science	51
55	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	50
-	Land	50
57	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	49
-	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	49
-	Psychology & Marketing	49
-	Annals of Operations Research	49
-	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	49
62	BMC Health Services Research	48
-	Ecological Economics	48
-	Ecology Letters	48
-	Accident Analysis and Prevention	48
66	Industrial Marketing Management	47
-	Journal of Business Ethics	47
-	Transport Policy	47
69	Review of Financial Studies	46
-	JMIR mHealth and uHealth	46
71	Information & Management	45
-	Production and Operations Management	45
73	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	44
-	Journal of Rural Studies	44
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
76	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
-	Forests	43
-	Journal of Applied Psychology	43
-	World Development	43
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	43
-	Journal of Political Economy	43
-	Journal of Healthcare Engineering	43
83	Marine Policy	42
-	Quarterly Journal of Economics	42
-	Forest Ecology and Management	42
-	Economic Modelling	42
-	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	42
-	International Journal of Systems Science	42
-	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	42
-	Health Affairs	42
-	Journal of Corporate Finance	42
-	Habitat International	42
93	Global Ecology and Biogeography	41
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	41
-	Econometrica	41
96	Review of Economic Studies	40
-	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	Journal of Environmental Psychology	40
-	Biological Conservation	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
-	Academy of Management Journal	40
-	Telecommunications Policy	40
-	Journal of Transport Geography	40
104	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
-	BMC Medical Research Methodology	39
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	39
-	Journal of Knowledge Management	39
-	Journal of General Internal Medicine	39
109	Ecological Engineering	38
-	International Journal of Consumer Studies	38
-	International Journal of Medical Informatics	38
-	Information Systems Research	38
-	International Journal of Forecasting	38
114	Review of Economics and Statistics	37
-	Business Horizons	37
-	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	37
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	37
-	Journal of Economic Literature	37
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	37
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	37
121	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	36
-	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research	36
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	36
-	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution	36
-	Molecular Ecology	36
126	Journal of Development Economics	35
-	Academy of Management Review	35
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	35
-	European Journal of Innovation Management	35
-	Financial Innovation	35
-	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	35
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	35
-	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	35
-	Management Decision	35
-	China Economic Review	35
-	European Management Journal	35
-	Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific	35
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	35
-	Journal of Management	35
140	New Media & Society	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Food Policy	34
-	Human Resource Management Review	34
-	Journal of Business Venturing	34
-	International Journal of Operations & Production Management	34
-	Electronic Markets	34
-	Energy & Environment	34
-	Journal of International Business Studies	34
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	34
-	Journal of Marketing	34
-	Review of Managerial Science	34
-	Academic Medicine	34
-	Ecosystem Services	34
-	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications	34
-	Applied Geography	34
-	Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics	34
-	Value in Health	34
158	Marketing Science	33
-	MIS Quarterly	33
-	Functional Ecology	33
-	Journal of Accounting Research	33
-	Global Finance Journal	33
-	Journal of Management Studies	33
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	33
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	33
-	Leadership Quarterly	33
-	Organization Science	33
-	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	33
-	British Food Journal	33
-	Digital Health	33
-	Tourism Management Perspectives	33
-	Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour	33
-	Travel Behaviour and Society	33
-	Journal of Econometrics	33
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	33

176	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	32
-	Conservation Biology	32
-	Implementation Science	32
-	International Journal of Bank Marketing	32
-	Strategic Management Journal	32
-	Journal of International Economics	32
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
-	Review of Finance	32
-	Ecology and Evolution	32
-	Internet Research	32
-	International Journal of Logistics Management	32
-	International Journal of Management Education	32
-	Climate Policy	32
-	Journal of Ecology	32
-	Journal of Safety Research	32
191	Ecography	31
-	Ecology	31
-	Journal of Consumer Behaviour	31
-	Annual Review of Economics	31
-	Small Business Economics	31
-	Internet Interventions-The Application of Information Technology in Mental and Behavioural Health	31
-	Journal of Enterprise Information Management	31
-	Production Planning & Control	31
-	International Journal of Project Management	31
-	International Journal of Research in Marketing	31

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