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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Energy Economics	112
2	Energy Policy	77
3	Journal of Financial Economics	72
4	International Review of Economics & Finance	62
5	Economic Analysis and Policy	61
6	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	60
-	American Economic Review	60
8	Journal of Finance	55
9	Ecological Economics	48
10	Review of Financial Studies	46
-	Transport Policy	46
12	Econometrica	45
-	Economic Modelling	45
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	45
15	Quarterly Journal of Economics	43
16	World Development	42
17	Journal of Political Economy	41
18	Review of Economic Studies	40
-	Journal of Transport Geography	40
-	International Journal of Forecasting	40
21	Review of Economics and Statistics	39
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
23	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	38
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	38
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	38
-	China Economic Review	38
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	38
29	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	37
30	Food Policy	36
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	36
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	36
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	36
34	Journal of Development Economics	35
-	Journal of Economic Literature	35
36	Journal of Econometrics	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Value in Health	34
-	Annual Review of Economics	34
40	Small Business Economics	33
41	Journal of Accounting & Economics	31
-	Economics Letters	31
-	Regional Studies	31
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	31
45	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	29
-	Review of Finance	29
-	Forest Policy and Economics	29
-	Applied Economics	29
49	Oeconomia Copernicana	28
-	Journal of Public Economics	28

-	Futures	28
-	International Journal of Emerging Markets	28
-	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	28
-	Journal of International Economics	28
-	Emerging Markets Review	28
56	Pharmacoeconomics	27
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	27
-	Journal of Urban Economics	27
-	Economic Change and Restructuring	27
-	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade	27
-	Managerial and Decision Economics	27
-	Journal of Financial Stability	27
63	Journal of Health Economics	26
-	Journal of Economic Surveys	26
65	Journal of Labor Economics	25
-	European Economic Review	25
-	Journal of Asian Economics	25
68	Research in Transportation Economics	24
-	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	24
-	European Research on Management and Business Economics	24
-	Economic Journal	24
72	Journal of the European Economic Association	23
-	World Economy	23
-	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	23
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	23
76	Labour Economics	22
-	American Economic Journal-Economic Policy	22
-	Annual Review of Resource Economics	22
-	American Economic Journal-Applied Economics	22
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	22
81	Regional Science and Urban Economics	21
-	Journal of Forecasting	21
-	Health Economics	21
-	Journal of Comparative Economics	21
-	Economic Geography	21
-	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	21
-	Technological and Economic Development of Economy	21
-	Agricultural Economics	21
-	Industry and Innovation	21
90	Agricultural and Food Economics	20
-	China Agricultural Economic Review	20
-	Computational Economics	20
-	Review of Development Economics	20
-	Journal of Policy Modeling	20
-	European Journal of Political Economy	20
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	20
97	Quantitative Economics	19
-	Review of Economic Dynamics	19
-	Work Employment and Society	19
-	Applied Economics Letters	19
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	19
-	Journal of Applied Econometrics	19
-	Review of International Political Economy	19
-	Tourism Economics	19
-	European Journal of Health Economics	19
-	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	19
-	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	19
-	Health Economics Review	19
-	Economic Systems	19
-	Empirical Economics	19
111	New Political Economy	18
-	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	18
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	18
-	Resource and Energy Economics	18
-	Energy Journal	18
116	Journal of Business Economics and Management	17
-	Journal of Population Economics	17
-	Eurasian Business Review	17
-	American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics	17
-	Journal of Agricultural Economics	17
-	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	17
-	Economic Policy	17
123	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	16
-	Socio-Economic Review	16
-	Annals of Regional Science	16
-	China & World Economy	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Quantitative Finance	16
-	Experimental Economics	16
-	Journal of Consumer Affairs	16
-	Economics & Human Biology	16
-	Economy and Society	16
133	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	15
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	15
-	Journal of Regional Science	15
-	Industrial and Corporate Change	15
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	15
-	Journal of Economic Geography	15
-	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	15
-	Games and Economic Behavior	15
-	Journal of Development Studies	15
-	Economics of Education Review	15
-	Agribusiness	15
145	Mathematical Finance	14
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	14
-	Rand Journal of Economics	14
-	Review of Economics of the Household	14
-	Review of International Organizations	14
-	European Review of Agricultural Economics	14
-	American Economic Review-Insights	14
-	Amfiteatru Economic	14
-	International Economic Review	14
-	Journal of Choice Modelling	14
-	Journal of the Economics of Ageing	14
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	14
-	Cambridge Journal of Economics	14
-	International Labour Review	14
-	Journal of Applied Economics	14
-	Journal of Economic Psychology	14
161	Public Choice	13
-	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	13
-	International Journal of Industrial Organization	13
-	Journal of Agrarian Change	13
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	13
-	Economic Inquiry	13
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	13
-	Journal of Economic Inequality	13
-	Real Estate Economics	13
-	Journal of Housing Economics	13
-	World Bank Economic Review	13
-	Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics	13
-	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	13
-	Competition & Change	13
-	Economica	13

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