Economics: 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Energy Economics	108
2	Energy Policy	72
3	Economic Analysis and Policy	67
4	Journal of Financial Economics	65
-	International Review of Economics & Finance	65
6	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	62
7	American Economic Review	58
8	Journal of Finance	55
9	Ecological Economics	49
10	Economic Modelling	47
11	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	46
-	Transport Policy	46
13	Review of Financial Studies	44
14	Quarterly Journal of Economics	43
15	Journal of Political Economy	42
-	World Development	42
-	Journal of Transport Geography	42
-	Review of Economic Studies	42
19	Review of Economics and Statistics	41
20	China Economic Review	39
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	39
22	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	38
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	38
24	Journal of Economic Literature	37
-	International Journal of Forecasting	37
-	Annual Review of Economics	37
27	Journal of Banking & Finance	36
-	Journal of Econometrics	36
-	Small Business Economics	36
-	Food Policy	36
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	36
32	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	35
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	35
34	Econometrica	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Journal of Development Economics	34
-	Value in Health	34
38	Journal of Economic Perspectives	33
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	33
40	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	32
41	Oeconomia Copernicana	31
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	31
-	Economics Letters	31
-	Journal of International Economics	31
45	Emerging Markets Review	30
-	Regional Studies	30
-	Review of Finance	30
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Applied Economics	30
50	Pharmacoeconomics	29

-	Forest Policy and Economics	29
-	Economic Change and Restructuring	29
53	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	28
-	Journal of Public Economics	28
-	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	28
-	Journal of Economic Surveys	28
-	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade	28
-	Journal of Financial Stability	28
-	International Journal of Emerging Markets	28
60	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	27
-	Managerial and Decision Economics	27
-	European Economic Review	27
-	Futures	27
64	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	26
-	Journal of Asian Economics	26
66	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	25
-	Research in Transportation Economics	25
-	Annual Review of Resource Economics	25
69	Labour Economics	23
-	Journal of the European Economic Association	23
-	World Economy	23
72	Economic Journal	22
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	22
-	Journal of Health Economics	22
-	Journal of Labor Economics	22
-	Industry and Innovation	22
-	Journal of Comparative Economics	22
-	Review of International Political Economy	22
79	Journal of Urban Economics	21
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	21
-	Economic Systems	21
-	Journal of Forecasting	21
-	Agricultural and Food Economics	21
-	Computational Economics	21
-	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	21
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	21
-	Technological and Economic Development of Economy	21
-	Health Economics	21
89	New Political Economy	20
-	European Research on Management and Business Economics	20
-	Applied Economics Letters	20
-	Health Economics Review	20
-	Work Employment and Society	20
-	Review of Development Economics	20
-	Agricultural Economics	20
-	American Economic Journal-Applied Economics	20
-	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	20
98	Review of Economic Dynamics	19
-	European Journal of Political Economy	19
-	China Agricultural Economic Review	19
-	Tourism Economics	19
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	19
103	Journal of Agricultural Economics	18
-	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	18
-	Regional Science and Urban Economics	18
-	Economy and Society	18
-	Empirical Economics	18
-	European Journal of Health Economics	18
-	American Economic Journal-Economic Policy	18
-	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	18
-	Journal of Applied Econometrics	18
-	American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics	18
-	Journal of Policy Modeling	18
-	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	18
115	Journal of Consumer Affairs	17
-	Economics of Education Review	17
-	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	17
-	Review of International Organizations	17
-	Energy Journal	17
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	17
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	17
-	Papers in Regional Science	17
-	Resource and Energy Economics	17
-	Agribusiness	17
125	Economics & Human Biology	16
-	Socio-Economic Review	16
-	Journal of Regional Science	16
-	Quantitative Finance	16
-	Journal of Economic Geography	16
-	Journal of Population Economics	16
-	Journal of the Economics of Ageing	16
132	Mathematical Finance	15
-	Quantitative Economics	15
-	Journal of Economic Psychology	15
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	IMF Economic Review	15
-	China & World Economy	15
-	Journal of Business Economics and Management	15
-	Economic Geography	15
-	European Review of Agricultural Economics	15
-	Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics	15
-	Industrial and Corporate Change	15
143	Competition & Change	14
-	Journal of Applied Economics	14
-	Economica	14
-	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	14
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	14
-	Journal of Development Studies	14
-	Journal of Economic History	14
-	Rand Journal of Economics	14
-	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	14
-	Eurasian Business Review	14
-	American Economic Review-Insights	14
-	Experimental Economics	14
-	Amfiteatru Economic	14
-	Annals of Regional Science	14
-	Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics	14
-	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	14
-	Cambridge Journal of Economics	14
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	14
-	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	14
-	International Journal of Industrial Organization	14
163	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	13
-	Public Choice	13
-	Journal of Economic Theory	13
-	Games and Economic Behavior	13
-	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	13
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	13
-	Journal of Agrarian Change	13
-	Journal of Choice Modelling	13
-	Oxford Economic Papers-New Series	13
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	13
-	Review of International Economics	13
-	Journal of Housing Economics	13
-	Journal of Macroeconomics	13

-	International Economic Review	13
-	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	13
178	International Tax and Public Finance	12
-	Economics & Politics	12
-	Journal of Institutional Economics	12
-	Feminist Economics	12
-	Spatial Economic Analysis	12
-	Defence and Peace Economics	12
-	Economic Inquiry	12
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	12
-	Journal of Economic Inequality	12
-	Real Estate Economics	12
-	Economics of Innovation and New Technology	12
-	Journal of Evolutionary Economics	12
-	Environment and Development Economics	12
-	Asian Economic Policy Review	12
-	World Bank Economic Review	12
193	Inzinerine Ekonomika-Engineering Economics	11
-	Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis	11
-	Economic Policy	11
-	Review of Economics of the Household	11
-	American Economic Journal-Microeconomics	11
-	Singapore Economic Review	11
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	11
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	11
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	11
-	International Labour Review	11
-	Kyklos	11
-	Econometrics Journal	11
-	Journal of Competitiveness	11
-	Economics of Transportation	11
-	Review of Income and Wealth	11
-	Explorations in Economic History	11
-	American Journal of Health Economics	11
-	Journal of Law & Economics	11
-	Journal of Productivity Analysis	11
-	Information Economics and Policy	11
-	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy	11
-	Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Economique	11
215	Japan and the World Economy	10
-	Journal of African Economies	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Journal of Cultural Economics	10
-	Economics of Transition and Institutional Change	10
-	Economic Theory	10
-	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	10
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	10
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	10
-	Theoretical Economics	10
-	Asian Journal of Technology Innovation	10
-	Australian Economic Papers	10
-	World Trade Review	10
-	Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Agroeconomie	10
-	Journal of Economic Policy Reform	10
-	Empirica	10
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	10
-	Scandinavian Journal of Economics	10
-	Journal of Human Resources	10
-	Europe-Asia Studies	10
-	South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences	10
-	Southern Economic Journal	10
-	ASTIN Bulletin-The Journal of the International Actuarial Association	10
-	Water Resources and Economics	10
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	10
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	10
241	Contemporary Economic Policy	9
-	Economic History Review	9
-	Review of World Economics	9
-	Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika	9
-	Scottish Journal of Political Economy	9
-	Water Economics and Policy	9
-	Journal of Sports Economics	9
-	Bulletin of Economic Research	9
-	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	9
-	Journal of Wine Economics	9
-	Jahrbucher fuer Nationalokonomie und Statistik	9
-	Land Economics	9
-	Eastern European Economics	9
-	Economia Politica	9
-	Post-Communist Economies	9
-	QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics	9
-	Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal	9
-	Economic Systems Research	9
-	Education Finance and Policy	9
-	International Review of Economics Education	9
261	Climate Change Economics	8
-	Macroeconomic Dynamics	8
-	Economic and Labour Relations Review	8
-	Journal of Economic Education	8
-	E & M Ekonomie A Management	8
-	Review of Industrial Organization	8
-	European Review of Economic History	8
-	South African Journal of Economics	8
-	Fiscal Studies	8
-	Journal of Law Economics & Organization	8
-	Journal of Post Keynesian Economics	8
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	8
-	International Review of Law and Economics	8
-	Marine Resource Economics	8
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
-	Open Economies Review	8
-	Journal of Economic Issues	8
-	Review of Radical Political Economics	8
-	European Journal of Law and Economics	8
-	International Finance	8
-	Australian Economic Review	8
282	Journal of World Trade	7
-	Manchester School	7
-	Econometric Reviews	7
-	Econometric Theory	7
-	Economic Development Quarterly	7
-	Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination	7
-	Review of Keynesian Economics	7
-	Social Choice and Welfare	7
-	Journal of Mathematical Economics	7
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	7
-	Metroeconomica	7
-	Politicka Ekonomie	7
-	Prague Economic Papers	7
-	Economic Record	7
-	Economics and Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Economic Methodology	7
-	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought	7
-	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	7
-	History of Political Economy	7
-	Journal of Public Economic Theory	7
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
303	CESifo Economic Studies	6
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	6
-	Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research	6
-	Journal of Competition Law & Economics	6
-	Panoeconomicus	6
-	Journal of Demographic Economics	6
-	Economics of Governance	6
-	Acta Oeconomica	6
-	Journal of Human Capital	6
-	Asian Economic Papers	6
-	Japanese Economic Review	6
-	Cliometrica	6
-	Mathematical Social Sciences	6
-	NBER Macroeconomics Annual	6
-	Pacific Economic Review	6
-	Journal of Economics	6
-	Applied Economic Analysis	6
-	German Economic Review	6
-	Theory and Decision	6
-	Asian Economic Journal	6
-	Asian-Pacific Economic Literature	6
-	Journal of Regulatory Economics	6
325	Developing Economies	5
-	Portuguese Economic Journal	5
-	Global Economic Review	5
-	Argumenta Oeconomica	5
-	Trimestre Economico	5
-	International Journal of Economic Theory	5
-	Investigacion Economica	5
-	Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy	5
-	Economist-Netherlands	5
-	Revue d'Economie Politique	5
-	International Journal of Game Theory	5
336	Review of Derivatives Research	4
-	Revista de Historia Economica	4
-	CEPAL Review	4
-	Revista de Economia Mundial	4
-	Series-Journal of the Spanish Economic Association	4
-	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Staatswissenschaft	4
342	Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics	3
-	Journal of Forest Economics	3
-	Finanzarchiv	3
345	Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest	2