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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Energy Economics	109
2	Energy Policy	79
3	Journal of Financial Economics	72
4	American Economic Review	60
5	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	57
6	Economic Analysis and Policy	56
-	International Review of Economics & Finance	56
8	Journal of Finance	50
9	Transport Policy	49
10	Ecological Economics	48
11	Review of Financial Studies	47
12	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
13	Journal of Political Economy	43
14	World Development	41
-	Economic Modelling	41
16	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	40
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	40
18	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	39
-	Journal of Transport Geography	39
-	Quarterly Journal of Economics	39
21	Review of Economic Studies	38
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
23	International Journal of Forecasting	37
-	Econometrica	37
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	37
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	37
27	Review of Economics and Statistics	36
28	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	35
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	35
30	Journal of Economic Literature	34
-	Food Policy	34
-	China Economic Review	34
-	Journal of Financial Stability	34
34	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	33
-	Value in Health	33
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	33
-	Journal of Development Economics	33
38	Economics Letters	32
-	Journal of Econometrics	32
-	Annual Review of Economics	32
41	Small Business Economics	31
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	31
-	Review of Finance	31
44	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Applied Economics	30
-	Regional Studies	30
47	Emerging Markets Review	29
-	Journal of International Economics	29
-	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	29
-	International Journal of Emerging Markets	29

51	Research in Transportation Economics	28
-	Forest Policy and Economics	28
53	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	27
-	European Economic Review	27
55	Journal of Accounting & Economics	26
-	Futures	26
-	Journal of Public Economics	26
-	Journal of Urban Economics	26
-	Journal of Economic Surveys	26
60	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	25
61	Managerial and Decision Economics	24
-	Pharmacoeconomics	24
-	Journal of Asian Economics	24
-	Journal of Health Economics	24
-	Journal of the European Economic Association	24
-	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade	24
67	Journal of Labor Economics	23
-	Journal of Comparative Economics	23
-	Economic Change and Restructuring	23
-	Economic Journal	23
71	European Journal of Health Economics	22
-	Annual Review of Resource Economics	22
-	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	22
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	22
-	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	22
76	Economic Geography	21
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	21
-	Health Economics	21
-	Technological and Economic Development of Economy	21
-	World Economy	21
-	Labour Economics	21
-	Applied Economics Letters	21
83	Journal of Policy Modeling	20
-	Regional Science and Urban Economics	20
-	Journal of Forecasting	20
-	European Journal of Political Economy	20
-	American Economic Journal-Economic Policy	20
-	Tourism Economics	20
-	Review of International Political Economy	20
-	Journal of Consumer Affairs	20
-	Agricultural Economics	20
-	American Economic Journal-Applied Economics	20
93	Industry and Innovation	19
-	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	19
-	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	19
96	Journal of Population Economics	18
-	Work Employment and Society	18
-	Review of Economic Dynamics	18
-	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	18
-	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	18
-	China Agricultural Economic Review	18
-	China & World Economy	18
-	Journal of Applied Econometrics	18
-	Review of Development Economics	18
-	Journal of Business Economics and Management	18
106	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	17
-	Computational Economics	17
-	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	17
-	Economic Systems	17
-	Empirical Economics	17
-	Economics of Education Review	17
112	Rand Journal of Economics	16
-	Journal of Competitiveness	16
-	Annals of Regional Science	16
-	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	16
-	Journal of Regional Science	16
-	New Political Economy	16
-	Resource and Energy Economics	16
-	Economics & Human Biology	16
-	Experimental Economics	16
-	Industrial and Corporate Change	16
122	Quantitative Economics	15
-	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	15
-	Journal of Development Studies	15
-	Economic Inquiry	15
-	Journal of Economic Psychology	15
-	Energy Journal	15
-	Eurasian Business Review	15
-	Socio-Economic Review	15
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Papers in Regional Science	15
-	Journal of Economic Geography	15
-	Journal of Economic Inequality	15
-	American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics	15
135	Review of International Organizations	14
-	Asian Economic Policy Review	14
-	Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics	14
-	Journal of Agrarian Change	14
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	14
-	Journal of Economic Theory	14
-	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	14
-	European Review of Agricultural Economics	14
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	14
-	Quantitative Finance	14
-	International Economic Review	14
-	International Labour Review	14
-	Cambridge Journal of Economics	14
-	Journal of Agricultural Economics	14
-	Journal of Choice Modelling	14
-	Economic Policy	14
151	Journal of Macroeconomics	13
-	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	13
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	13
-	Review of Economics of the Household	13
-	International Journal of Industrial Organization	13
-	Economia Politica	13
-	Economy and Society	13
-	Agribusiness	13
-	Amfiteatru Economic	13
-	IMF Economic Review	13
-	Post-Communist Economies	13
-	Inzinerine Ekonomika-Engineering Economics	13
-	Games and Economic Behavior	13
-	Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics	13
165	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy	12
-	Public Choice	12
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	12
-	Econometrics Journal	12
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	12
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	12
-	World Bank Economic Review	12
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	12
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	12
-	Mathematical Finance	12
-	Review of World Economics	12

-	Information Economics and Policy	12
-	Journal of Applied Economics	12
-	Competition & Change	12
-	Journal of Housing Economics	12
-	Journal of Human Resources	12
-	Fiscal Studies	12
182	Journal of Institutional Economics	11
-	Spatial Economic Analysis	11
-	Theoretical Economics	11
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	11
-	Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Economique	11
-	Defence and Peace Economics	11
-	Journal of Economic History	11
-	Economic Theory	11
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	11
-	Europe-Asia Studies	11
-	American Economic Journal-Microeconomics	11
-	Southern Economic Journal	11
-	National Tax Journal	11
-	Oxford Economic Papers-New Series	11
-	Real Estate Economics	11
-	Review of Income and Wealth	11
-	Economica	11
-	Economic History Review	11
-	Feminist Economics	11
201	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	10
-	Journal of Productivity Analysis	10
-	Journal of Public Economic Theory	10
-	Kyklos	10
-	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	10
-	Scandinavian Journal of Economics	10
-	ASTIN Bulletin-The Journal of the International Actuarial Association	10
-	Japanese Economic Review	10
-	Explorations in Economic History	10
-	Journal of Law & Economics	10
-	Journal of Sports Economics	10
-	Review of International Economics	10
-	Singapore Economic Review	10
-	Asian Journal of Technology Innovation	10
-	Bulletin of Economic Research	10
-	International Tax and Public Finance	10
-	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	10
-	Econometric Reviews	10
-	Economics of Innovation and New Technology	10
-	Journal of Evolutionary Economics	10
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	10
-	Empirica	10
223	World Trade Review	9
-	Land Economics	9
-	Marine Resource Economics	9
-	Australian Economic Papers	9
-	International Review of Economics Education	9
-	International Review of Law and Economics	9
-	Eastern European Economics	9
-	Economics & Politics	9
-	E & M Ekonomie A Management	9
-	Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika	9
-	Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Agroeconomie	9
-	Japan and the World Economy	9
-	Climate Change Economics	9
-	Contemporary Economic Policy	9
-	Journal of Cultural Economics	9
-	Economic and Labour Relations Review	9
-	Economic Development Quarterly	9
-	Journal of Economic Issues	9
-	Economic Systems Research	9
-	Education Finance and Policy	9
-	Environment and Development Economics	9
-	European Journal of Law and Economics	9
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	9
246	Journal of Regulatory Economics	8
-	NBER Macroeconomics Annual	8
-	Review of Industrial Organization	8
-	Review of Radical Political Economics	8
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	8
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
-	Journal of Economic Education	8
-	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	8
-	Journal of Mathematical Economics	8
-	Open Economies Review	8
-	QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics	8
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	8
-	Australian Economic Review	8
-	Journal of African Economies	8
-	Journal of Economic Methodology	8
261	South African Journal of Economics	7
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
-	Journal of Wine Economics	7
-	Mathematical Social Sciences	7
-	Metroeconomica	7
-	Series-Journal of the Spanish Economic Association	7
-	Asian-Pacific Economic Literature	7
-	Jahrbucher fuer Nationalokonomie und Statistik	7
-	Economic Record	7
-	Economics and Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Human Capital	7
-	German Economic Review	7
-	Social Choice and Welfare	7
-	Theory and Decision	7
-	Macroeconomic Dynamics	7
-	Manchester School	7
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	7
-	Pacific Economic Review	7
-	Prague Economic Papers	7
-	International Finance	7
-	Journal of Competition Law & Economics	7
-	Econometric Theory	7
-	Journal of Economic Policy Reform	7
-	Economist-Netherlands	7
-	Acta Oeconomica	7
-	European Review of Economic History	7
-	History of Political Economy	7
288	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	6
-	Portuguese Economic Journal	6
-	Asian Economic Journal	6
-	Economics of Governance	6
-	Journal of Post Keynesian Economics	6
-	Journal of World Trade	6
-	Scottish Journal of Political Economy	6
-	Asian Economic Papers	6
-	Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research	6
-	Economics-The Open Access Open-Assessment E-Journal	6
298	Trimestre Economico	5
-	Panoeconomicus	5
-	Review of Derivatives Research	5
-	Revue d'Economie Politique	5
-	International Journal of Economic Theory	5
-	Cliometrica	5
-	Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination	5
-	Politicka Ekonomie	5
-	CESifo Economic Studies	5
-	Journal of Economics	5
-	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought	5
-	Global Economic Review	5
310	Investigacion Economica	4
-	Finanzarchiv	4
-	Revista de Historia Economica	4
-	Argumenta Oeconomica	4
-	International Journal of Game Theory	4
-	Australian Economic History Review	4
-	Developing Economies	4
317	Revista de Economia Mundial	3
-	CEPAL Review	3
-	Journal of Forest Economics	3
-	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Staatswissenschaft	3
321	Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics	2
322	Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest	1