Economics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Journal of Financial Economics	47.540
2	Quarterly Journal of Economics	33.478
3	American Economic Review	30.332
4	Annual Review of Economics	26.483
5	Journal of Finance	26.334
6	Review of Finance	25.594
7	Energy Economics	22.663
8	Journal of Econometrics	22.459
9	Review of Financial Studies	21.223
10	Energy Policy	20.378
11	Journal of Economic Perspectives	19.325
12	Oeconomia Copernicana	17.027
13	Review of Economic Studies	16.101
14	Annual Review of Resource Economics	15.724
15	International Journal of Forecasting	15.556
16	Econometrica	14.885
17	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	14.567
18	European Research on Management and Business Economics	13.967
19	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	13.447
20	Borsa Istanbul Review	13.048
21	Journal of Economic Literature	12.911
22	Journal of Political Economy	12.726
23	Ecological Economics	12.563
24	Economic Analysis and Policy	12.474
25	Journal of Accounting & Economics	11.796
26	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	11.308
27	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	11.073
28	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	11.007
29	Economic Geography	10.886
30	Food Policy	10.872
31	Review of Economics and Statistics	10.739
32	World Development	10.460
33	Econometrics Journal	10.281
34	Transport Policy	10.175
35	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	10.163
36	Journal of Banking & Finance	10.032
37	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	10.000
38	Journal of Transport Geography	9.917
39	Journal of Monetary Economics	9.850
40	China Economic Review	9.579
41	International Review of Economics & Finance	9.289
42	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	9.188
43	Journal of Urban Economics	9.127
44	Small Business Economics	9.072
45	Economic Modelling	9.043
46	Journal of Financial Stability	8.997
47	Journal of Development Economics	8.992
48	Journal of Labor Economics	8.938
49	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	8.822
50	Journal of the European Economic Association	8.795

51	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	8.494
52	Journal of International Economics	8.095
53	Journal of Economic Surveys	8.024
54	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	7.950
55	Emerging Markets Review	7.889
56	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	7.801
57	Journal of Health Economics	7.449
58	International Journal of Emerging Markets	7.424
59	Information Economics and Policy	7.313
60	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	7.296
61	Futures	7.228
62	Research in Transportation Economics	7.220
63	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	7.216
64	Forest Policy and Economics	7.191
65	American Economic Review-Insights	7.176
66	Economic Journal	7.105
67	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	7.098
68	Regional Science and Urban Economics	7.074
69	American Economic Journal-Economic Policy	7.066
70	Pharmacoeconomics	7.009
71	American Economic Journal-Applied Economics	6.964
72	Technological and Economic Development of Economy	6.948
73	Regional Studies	6.865
74	Industry and Innovation	6.804
75	Journal of Public Economics	6.704
76	China Agricultural Economic Review	6.681
77	New Political Economy	6.644
78	Economic Change and Restructuring	6.636
79	American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics	6.563
80	Journal of Comparative Economics	6.496
81	Journal of Commodity Markets	6.443
82	Economy and Society	6.357
83	Rand Journal of Economics	6.342
84	Eurasian Business Review	6.339
85	Agricultural and Food Economics	6.338
86	Environmental & Resource Economics	6.332
87	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	6.234
88	Resource and Energy Economics	6.120
89	Quantitative Economics	6.056
90	Journal of Agricultural Economics	6.015
91	Review of International Political Economy	5.955
92	Review of Economic Dynamics	5.927
93	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	5.863
94	Journal of Business Economics and Management	5.812
95	Journal of Choice Modelling	5.808
96	Economic Systems	5.798
97	European Review of Agricultural Economics	5.743
98	European Economic Review	5.496
99	Journal of Applied Econometrics	5.480
100	Journal of Consumer Affairs	5.468
101	Journal of Asian Economics	5.391
102	Tourism Economics	5.380
103	Work Employment and Society	5.298
104	Labour Economics	5.258
105	Journal of Empirical Finance	5.246
106	China & World Economy	5.230
107	QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics	5.169
108	Post-Soviet Affairs	5.152
109	European Journal of Health Economics	5.136
110	Journal of Economic Psychology	5.111
111	Journal of Economic Geography	5.101
112	Water Resources and Economics	5.089
113	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	5.072
114	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	5.053
115	Review of International Organizations	4.922
116	Journal of Policy Modeling	4.915
117	NBER Macroeconomics Annual	4.880
118	Health Economics Review	4.860
119	Agricultural Economics	4.851
120	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	4.830
121	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	4.790
122	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	4.762
123	International Labour Review	4.742
124	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade	4.713
125	Experimental Economics	4.689
126	Journal of Economic Policy Reform	4.662
127	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	4.656
128	Papers in Regional Science	4.640
129	European Journal of Political Economy	4.619
130	Economic Policy	4.615
131	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	4.608
132	Inzinerine Ekonomika-Engineering Economics	4.544
133	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	4.539
134	Managerial and Decision Economics	4.535
135	Journal of Population Economics	4.520
136	Climate Change Economics	4.508
137	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	4.433
138	Competition & Change	4.421
139	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	4.361
140	Energy Journal	4.353
141	Health Economics	4.302
142	IMF Economic Review	4.271
143	Journal of the Economics of Ageing	4.247
144	Economics of Education Review	4.239
145	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	4.229
146	Feminist Economics	4.216
147	Economics & Human Biology	4.199
148	World Economy	4.180
149	Empirica	4.176
150	Industrial and Corporate Change	4.133
151	Mathematical Finance	4.121
152	Journal of Applied Economics	4.098
153	Cambridge Journal of Economics	4.055
154	Journal of Financial Econometrics	4.050
155	Asian Economic Policy Review	3.994
156	Journal of Law & Economics	3.973
157	Journal of Competitiveness	3.964
158	Socio-Economic Review	3.921
159	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	3.879
160	Journal of Forecasting	3.866
161	American Journal of Health Economics	3.855
162	Annals of Regional Science	3.837
163	Journal of Housing Economics	3.787
164	Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics	3.732
165	Portuguese Economic Journal	3.680
166	Journal of Agrarian Change	3.679
167	Journal of Regional Science	3.668
168	Economics Letters	3.651
169	Review of Development Economics	3.617
170	Economic Inquiry	3.565
171	Economic Systems Research	3.538
172	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	3.518
-	Economics of Innovation and New Technology	3.518
174	World Bank Economic Review	3.500
175	Economic Development and Cultural Change	3.490

176	Real Estate Economics	3.488
177	Economica	3.478
178	Journal of Macroeconomics	3.469
179	ASTIN Bulletin-The Journal of the International Actuarial Association	3.442
180	Economics of Transportation	3.418
181	Applied Economic Analysis	3.405
-	Journal of Economic Inequality	3.405
183	Economic and Labour Relations Review	3.350
184	Education Finance and Policy	3.340
185	Journal of Productivity Analysis	3.296
186	Empirical Economics	3.277
187	Journal of Risk and Insurance	3.261
188	International Journal of Industrial Organization	3.238
189	Theoretical Economics	3.192
190	Applied Economics	3.156
191	Economia Politica	3.133
192	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	3.116
193	Marine Resource Economics	3.109
194	Journal of Sports Economics	3.098
195	Quantitative Finance	3.093
196	Amfiteatru Economic	3.069
197	Journal of Evolutionary Economics	3.048
198	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	3.028
199	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	3.009
200	Scandinavian Journal of Economics	3.006
201	American Economic Journal-Microeconomics	2.989
202	Review of Economics of the Household	2.977
203	Asian Journal of Technology Innovation	2.967
204	Journal of Economic History	2.959
205	Spatial Economic Analysis	2.922
206	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	2.888
207	Oxford Economic Papers-New Series	2.883
208	Agribusiness	2.876
209	Review of Income and Wealth	2.854
210	Defence and Peace Economics	2.830
211	Journal of Institutional Economics	2.798
212	Journal of Cultural Economy	2.796
213	Journal of Industrial Economics	2.772
214	International Economic Review	2.771
215	Land Economics	2.754
216	Public Choice	2.746
217	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	2.739
218	Journal of Law Economics & Organization	2.738
219	Contemporary Economic Policy	2.728
220	Journal of Cultural Economics	2.718
221	Games and Economic Behavior	2.710
222	Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Economique	2.694
223	Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics	2.667
224	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	2.655
225	Journal of Human Resources	2.637
226	Review of Keynesian Economics	2.620
227	Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Agroeconomie	2.582
228	Open Economies Review	2.581
229	Environment and Development Economics	2.579
230	Japan and the World Economy	2.576
231	Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis	2.566
232	Journal of Real Estate Research	2.544
233	Journal of Economic Methodology	2.538
234	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	2.528
235	Post-Communist Economies	2.467
236	Computational Economics	2.438
237	National Tax Journal	2.426
238	International Finance	2.417
239	South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences	2.413
240	International Tax and Public Finance	2.400
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	2.400
242	Review of International Economics	2.396
243	Journal of Regulatory Economics	2.390
244	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	2.387
245	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy	2.384
246	Review of World Economics	2.357
247	Eastern European Economics	2.346
248	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	2.336
249	Journal of African Economies	2.321
250	Journal of Economic Theory	2.292
251	Journal of Development Studies	2.276
252	Economics & Politics	2.263
253	European Journal of Law and Economics	2.245
254	Economic Development Quarterly	2.237
255	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	2.216
256	Kyklos	2.155
-	International Review of Economics Education	2.155
258	Bulletin of Economic Research	2.143
259	Economic Theory	2.117
260	German Economic Review	2.115
261	European Review of Economic History	2.090
262	Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika	2.087
263	Journal of Economic Education	1.932
264	Journal of Behavioral Finance	1.922
265	Journal of Human Capital	1.907
266	International Review of Law and Economics	1.898
267	Southern Economic Journal	1.886
268	Economics of Governance	1.882
269	Fiscal Studies	1.877
270	Economics of Transition and Institutional Change	1.866
271	Singapore Economic Review	1.850
272	Journal of Post Keynesian Economics	1.846
273	Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal	1.815
274	Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination	1.811
275	Australian Economic Papers	1.797
-	Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy	1.797
277	Global Economic Review	1.786
278	Mathematics and Financial Economics	1.785
279	South African Journal of Economics	1.775
280	Applied Economics Letters	1.763
281	Journal of Competition Law & Economics	1.742
282	Jahrbucher fuer Nationalokonomie und Statistik	1.663
283	Prague Economic Papers	1.657
284	Australian Economic History Review	1.655
285	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	1.637
286	World Trade Review	1.624
287	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	1.623
288	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	1.622
289	E & M Ekonomie A Management	1.617
290	CESifo Economic Studies	1.596
291	Journal of Public Economic Theory	1.592
292	Economist-Netherlands	1.571
293	Journal of Mathematical Economics	1.555
294	Review of Industrial Organization	1.553
295	Argumenta Oeconomica	1.547
296	Acta Oeconomica	1.500
297	Cliometrica	1.481
298	Water Economics and Policy	1.480
299	Series-Journal of the Spanish Economic Association	1.467
300	Social Choice and Welfare	1.427
301	Australian Economic Review	1.405
302	Metroeconomica	1.399
303	Review of Derivatives Research	1.382
304	Journal of Economic Issues	1.370
305	Economics and Philosophy	1.352
306	Journal of Wine Economics	1.349
307	Econometric Theory	1.347
308	Macroeconomic Dynamics	1.313
309	Mathematical Social Sciences	1.280
310	Econometric Reviews	1.265
311	Economic History Review	1.237
312	Journal of Demographic Economics	1.233
313	Panoeconomicus	1.229
314	Trimestre Economico	1.222
315	Explorations in Economic History	1.205
316	Manchester School	1.196
317	Politicka Ekonomie	1.193
318	Pacific Economic Review	1.178
319	Scottish Journal of Political Economy	1.119
320	Asian Economic Papers	1.038
321	Journal of World Trade	1.029
322	Asian Economic Journal	1.024
323	Review of Radical Political Economics	0.976
-	International Journal of Economic Theory	0.976
325	Journal of Economics	0.969
326	Asian-Pacific Economic Literature	0.937
327	Europe-Asia Studies	0.931
328	History of Political Economy	0.899
329	Theory and Decision	0.897
330	Japanese Economic Review	0.889
331	International Journal of Game Theory	0.864
332	Finanzarchiv	0.857
333	Investigacion Economica	0.829
334	Journal of Forest Economics	0.807
335	Economic Record	0.773
336	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought	0.756
337	Revista de Historia Economica	0.722
338	Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research	0.714
339	Revue d'Economie Politique	0.695
340	Value in Health	0.535
341	Developing Economies	0.497
342	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Staatswissenschaft	0.477
343	Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics	0.409
344	Revista de Economia Mundial	0.353
345	CEPAL Review	0.329
346	Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest	0.092