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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Energy Economics	110
2	Energy Policy	78
3	Journal of Financial Economics	69
4	American Economic Review	59
5	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	58
6	International Review of Economics & Finance	54
-	Economic Analysis and Policy	54
8	Journal of Finance	52
9	Review of Financial Studies	48
-	Ecological Economics	48
11	Transport Policy	47
12	World Development	45
13	Journal of Political Economy	44
14	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	43
15	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	41
16	Quarterly Journal of Economics	40
17	Economic Modelling	39
-	Journal of Transport Geography	39
19	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	38
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
-	Food Policy	38
22	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	37
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	37
-	Review of Economic Studies	37
-	International Journal of Forecasting	37
26	Review of Economics and Statistics	36
27	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	35
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	35
-	Journal of Financial Stability	35
30	Econometrica	34
-	Journal of Development Economics	34
32	Journal of Economic Literature	33
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	33
-	Small Business Economics	33
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	33
-	China Economic Review	33
-	Journal of Econometrics	33
38	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	32
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	32
40	Value in Health	31
41	Economics Letters	30
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Review of Finance	30
-	Annual Review of Economics	30
45	Applied Economics	29
-	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	29
-	Regional Studies	29
48	Research in Transportation Economics	28
-	International Journal of Emerging Markets	28
-	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade	28

-	European Economic Review	28
52	Journal of International Economics	27
-	Forest Policy and Economics	27
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	27
-	Emerging Markets Review	27
56	Journal of Urban Economics	26
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	26
-	Futures	26
59	Journal of Public Economics	25
-	Oeconomia Copernicana	25
61	Pharmacoeconomics	24
-	Managerial and Decision Economics	24
-	Economic Journal	24
-	Journal of Economic Surveys	24
65	Technological and Economic Development of Economy	23
-	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	23
-	Economic Change and Restructuring	23
-	Journal of Asian Economics	23
69	Journal of the European Economic Association	22
-	Journal of Health Economics	22
-	Journal of Labor Economics	22
-	Agricultural Economics	22
73	Journal of Comparative Economics	21
-	European Journal of Health Economics	21
75	Tourism Economics	20
-	World Economy	20
-	Labour Economics	20
-	Regional Science and Urban Economics	20
-	Economic Geography	20
-	Journal of Forecasting	20
-	American Economic Journal-Economic Policy	20
-	Annual Review of Resource Economics	20
-	Journal of Policy Modeling	20
-	Health Economics	20
-	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	20
-	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	20
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	20
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	20
89	Journal of Population Economics	19
-	Review of International Political Economy	19
-	Applied Economics Letters	19
92	Review of Economic Dynamics	18
-	China Agricultural Economic Review	18
-	China & World Economy	18
-	Journal of Consumer Affairs	18
-	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	18
-	Industry and Innovation	18
-	Journal of Applied Econometrics	18
-	Empirical Economics	18
-	European Journal of Political Economy	18
-	American Economic Journal-Applied Economics	18
102	New Political Economy	17
-	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	17
-	Industrial and Corporate Change	17
-	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	17
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	17
-	Computational Economics	17
-	Journal of Business Economics and Management	17
-	Work Employment and Society	17
-	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	17
111	Journal of Regional Science	16
-	Rand Journal of Economics	16
-	Annals of Regional Science	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Resource and Energy Economics	16
-	Review of Development Economics	16
-	Economics & Human Biology	16
-	Economics of Education Review	16
-	Economic Systems	16
-	American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics	16
121	Socio-Economic Review	15
-	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	15
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	15
-	Journal of Agricultural Economics	15
-	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	15
-	Experimental Economics	15
-	Journal of Competitiveness	15
-	Journal of Economic Inequality	15
-	Energy Journal	15
131	Journal of Development Studies	14
-	Economic Inquiry	14
-	Journal of Economic Theory	14
-	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	14
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	Economic Policy	14
-	Economy and Society	14
-	Eurasian Business Review	14
140	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	13
-	Quantitative Economics	13
-	Review of International Organizations	13
-	Asian Economic Policy Review	13
-	Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics	13
-	Inzinerine Ekonomika-Engineering Economics	13
-	Journal of Choice Modelling	13
-	Economia Politica	13
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	13
-	Journal of Economic Psychology	13
-	Post-Communist Economies	13
-	Quantitative Finance	13
-	Cambridge Journal of Economics	13
-	Journal of Agrarian Change	13
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	13
-	European Review of Agricultural Economics	13
156	World Bank Economic Review	12
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	12
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	12
-	Mathematical Finance	12
-	Review of Economics of the Household	12
-	International Economic Review	12
-	International Labour Review	12
-	Econometrics Journal	12
-	Agribusiness	12
-	Amfiteatru Economic	12
-	Games and Economic Behavior	12
-	Journal of Macroeconomics	12
-	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy	12
-	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	12
-	Review of Income and Wealth	12
-	International Journal of Industrial Organization	12
-	Economica	12
173	Review of World Economics	11
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	11
-	Information Economics and Policy	11

-	Journal of Economic History	11
-	Empirica	11
-	American Economic Journal-Microeconomics	11
-	Fiscal Studies	11
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	11
-	Real Estate Economics	11
-	IMF Economic Review	11
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	11
-	Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Agroeconomie	11
-	Competition & Change	11
-	Economic Theory	11
-	Journal of Human Resources	11
-	Europe-Asia Studies	11
-	Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics	11
190	Singapore Economic Review	10
-	Southern Economic Journal	10
-	Journal of Law & Economics	10
-	Journal of Sports Economics	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	10
-	Public Choice	10
-	ASTIN Bulletin-The Journal of the International Actuarial Association	10
-	Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Economique	10
-	Journal of Applied Economics	10
-	Defence and Peace Economics	10
-	Journal of Cultural Economics	10
-	Economics of Innovation and New Technology	10
-	Feminist Economics	10
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	10
-	Journal of Public Economic Theory	10
-	NBER Macroeconomics Annual	10
-	Japanese Economic Review	10
-	Climate Change Economics	10
-	Economic History Review	10
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	10
-	Journal of Housing Economics	10
-	Explorations in Economic History	10
213	International Tax and Public Finance	9
-	Eastern European Economics	9
-	Environment and Development Economics	9
-	European Journal of Law and Economics	9
-	Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika	9
-	Scandinavian Journal of Economics	9
-	Journal of Institutional Economics	9
-	Spatial Economic Analysis	9
-	Theoretical Economics	9
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	9
-	Journal of Productivity Analysis	9
-	Kyklos	9
-	Land Economics	9
-	Marine Resource Economics	9
-	Open Economies Review	9
-	Oxford Economic Papers-New Series	9
-	Review of International Economics	9
-	Asian Journal of Technology Innovation	9
-	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	9
-	Contemporary Economic Policy	9
-	Economic and Labour Relations Review	9
-	Journal of Evolutionary Economics	9
235	Journal of Mathematical Economics	8
-	Review of Keynesian Economics	8
-	Australian Economic Papers	8
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	8
-	Japan and the World Economy	8
-	Journal of African Economies	8
-	Journal of Economic Education	8
-	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	8
-	Economic Systems Research	8
-	Education Finance and Policy	8
-	Review of Radical Political Economics	8
-	World Trade Review	8
-	Metroeconomica	8
-	QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics	8
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	8
-	International Review of Economics Education	8
-	Bulletin of Economic Research	8
-	International Review of Law and Economics	8
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
-	Econometric Reviews	8
-	Economic Development Quarterly	8
-	Journal of Economic Issues	8
-	Economics & Politics	8
-	E & M Ekonomie A Management	8
259	Social Choice and Welfare	7
-	Theory and Decision	7
-	Macroeconomic Dynamics	7
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	7
-	Review of Industrial Organization	7
-	History of Political Economy	7
-	International Finance	7
-	Journal of Competition Law & Economics	7
-	Economic Record	7
-	Journal of Human Capital	7
-	European Review of Economic History	7
-	Series-Journal of the Spanish Economic Association	7
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
-	Journal of Regulatory Economics	7
-	Mathematical Social Sciences	7
-	Pacific Economic Review	7
-	Prague Economic Papers	7
-	Australian Economic Review	7
-	Jahrbucher fuer Nationalokonomie und Statistik	7
-	Econometric Theory	7
-	Journal of Economic Methodology	7
280	Journal of World Trade	6
-	Manchester School	6
-	Asian-Pacific Economic Literature	6
-	Economics and Philosophy	6
-	Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy	6
-	Economist-Netherlands	6
-	South African Journal of Economics	6
-	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	6
-	Journal of Wine Economics	6
-	Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research	6
-	Journal of Economic Policy Reform	6
-	Journal of Economics	6
-	Economics of Governance	6
-	Acta Oeconomica	6
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	6
-	German Economic Review	6
296	Scottish Journal of Political Economy	5
-	Journal of Post Keynesian Economics	5
-	Panoeconomicus	5
-	Portuguese Economic Journal	5
-	Review of Derivatives Research	5
-	Asian Economic Journal	5
-	Cliometrica	5
-	Journal of Demographic Economics	5
-	Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination	5
-	Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal	5
-	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought	5
-	Revue d'Economie Politique	5
-	Trimestre Economico	5
-	Politicka Ekonomie	5
-	Asian Economic Papers	5
-	International Journal of Economic Theory	5
312	International Journal of Game Theory	4
-	Global Economic Review	4
-	Australian Economic History Review	4
-	Investigacion Economica	4
-	CESifo Economic Studies	4
-	Developing Economies	4
318	Revista de Historia Economica	3
-	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Staatswissenschaft	3
-	CEPAL Review	3
-	Revista de Economia Mundial	3
-	Argumenta Oeconomica	3
-	Journal of Forest Economics	3
-	Finanzarchiv	3
325	Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics	2
326	Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest	1