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	International Review of Economics & Finance	54
-	Economic Analysis and Policy	54
7	Journal of Finance	52
8	Ecological Economics	48
-	Review of Financial Studies	48
10	Transport Policy	47
11	World Development	45
12	Journal of Political Economy	44
13	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	43
14	Quarterly Journal of Economics	40
15	Economic Modelling	39
-	Journal of Transport Geography	39
17	Food Policy	38
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	38
20	Review of Economic Studies	37
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	37
-	International Journal of Forecasting	37
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	37
24	Review of Economics and Statistics	36
25	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	35
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	35
27	Journal of Development Economics	34
-	Econometrica	34
29	Journal of Econometrics	33
-	Journal of Economic Literature	33
-	Small Business Economics	33
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	33
-	China Economic Review	33
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	33
35	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	32
36	Economics Letters	30
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
38	Regional Studies	29
-	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	29
-	Applied Economics	29
41	Research in Transportation Economics	28
-	European Economic Review	28
43	Journal of Accounting & Economics	27
-	Journal of International Economics	27
45	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	26
-	Journal of Urban Economics	26
-	Futures	26
48	Journal of Public Economics	25
49	Journal of Economic Surveys	24
-	Economic Journal	24

-	Managerial and Decision Economics	24
52	Journal of Asian Economics	23
-	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	23
54	Agricultural Economics	22
-	Journal of Health Economics	22
-	Journal of Labor Economics	22
57	Journal of Comparative Economics	21
58	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	20
-	Journal of Forecasting	20
-	Journal of Policy Modeling	20
-	Economic Geography	20
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	20
-	Regional Science and Urban Economics	20
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	20
-	Labour Economics	20
-	Health Economics	20
-	World Economy	20
68	Journal of Population Economics	19
-	Review of International Political Economy	19
70	Journal of Consumer Affairs	18
-	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	18
-	Empirical Economics	18
-	Journal of Applied Econometrics	18
-	European Journal of Political Economy	18
75	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	17
-	Work Employment and Society	17
-	Industrial and Corporate Change	17
-	Computational Economics	17
79	Resource and Energy Economics	16
-	Annals of Regional Science	16
-	Journal of Regional Science	16
-	Economic Systems	16
-	Economics of Education Review	16
-	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Rand Journal of Economics	16
86	Journal of Agricultural Economics	15
-	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	15
-	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	15
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Energy Journal	15
-	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	15
92	Journal of Economic Theory	14
-	Economic Inquiry	14
-	Economy and Society	14
-	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	14
-	Journal of Development Studies	14
-	Economic Policy	14
98	Journal of Economic Psychology	13
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	13
-	Cambridge Journal of Economics	13
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	13
-	European Review of Agricultural Economics	13
103	International Economic Review	12
-	Review of Income and Wealth	12
-	International Labour Review	12
-	Agribusiness	12
-	Economica	12
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	12
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	12
-	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	12
-	Games and Economic Behavior	12
-	International Journal of Industrial Organization	12
-	Journal of Macroeconomics	12
-	Mathematical Finance	12
-	World Bank Economic Review	12
116	Real Estate Economics	11
-	Information Economics and Policy	11
-	Journal of Economic History	11
-	Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Agroeconomie	11
-	Competition & Change	11
-	Economic Theory	11
-	Europe-Asia Studies	11
-	Journal of Human Resources	11
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	11
-	Empirica	11
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	11
-	Fiscal Studies	11
128	Singapore Economic Review	10
-	Journal of Housing Economics	10
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	10
-	Journal of Law & Economics	10
-	Economics of Innovation and New Technology	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	10
-	Public Choice	10
-	Southern Economic Journal	10
-	Journal of Cultural Economics	10
-	ASTIN Bulletin-The Journal of the International Actuarial Association	10
-	Canadian Journal of Economics-Revue Canadienne d'Economique	10
-	Defence and Peace Economics	10
-	Economic History Review	10
-	NBER Macroeconomics Annual	10
-	Explorations in Economic History	10
144	Review of International Economics	9
-	Scandinavian Journal of Economics	9
-	Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika	9
-	Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques	9
-	Contemporary Economic Policy	9
-	Economic and Labour Relations Review	9
-	Journal of Productivity Analysis	9
-	Kyklos	9
-	Land Economics	9
-	Marine Resource Economics	9
-	European Journal of Law and Economics	9
-	International Tax and Public Finance	9
-	Journal of Evolutionary Economics	9
-	Eastern European Economics	9
-	Open Economies Review	9
-	Oxford Economic Papers-New Series	9
-	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie	9
161	International Review of Law and Economics	8
-	Review of Radical Political Economics	8
-	Japan and the World Economy	8
-	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	8
-	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies	8
-	Econometric Reviews	8
-	Journal of Mathematical Economics	8
-	Journal of African Economies	8
-	Journal of Economic Education	8
-	Journal of Economic Issues	8
-	Australian Economic Papers	8
-	Bulletin of Economic Research	8
-	Economic Development Quarterly	8
-	Economics & Politics	8
-	Economic Systems Research	8

-	Metroeconomica	8
177	History of Political Economy	7
-	Social Choice and Welfare	7
-	Australian Economic Review	7
-	Economic Record	7
-	Mathematical Social Sciences	7
-	Theory and Decision	7
-	Review of Industrial Organization	7
-	Jahrbucher fuer Nationalokonomie und Statistik	7
-	Econometric Theory	7
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
-	Journal of Regulatory Economics	7
188	South African Journal of Economics	6
-	Asian-Pacific Economic Literature	6
-	Acta Oeconomica	6
-	American Journal of Economics and Sociology	6
-	Journal of Economics	6
-	Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research	6
-	Economics and Philosophy	6
-	Journal of World Trade	6
-	Economist-Netherlands	6
197	Revue d'Economie Politique	5
-	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought	5
-	Politicka Ekonomie	5
-	Scottish Journal of Political Economy	5
-	Journal of Post Keynesian Economics	5
-	Trimestre Economico	5
203	International Journal of Game Theory	4
-	Investigacion Economica	4
-	Australian Economic History Review	4
-	Developing Economies	4
207	Finanzarchiv	3
-	Revista de Historia Economica	3
-	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fuer die gesamte Staatswissenschaft	3
210	Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics	2
211	Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest	1