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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Energy Economics	108
2	Energy Policy	80
3	Journal of Financial Economics	74
4	American Economic Review	62
5	International Review of Economics & Finance	60
6	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	57
7	Economic Analysis and Policy	56
8	Journal of Finance	54
9	Ecological Economics	48
10	Transport Policy	47
11	Review of Financial Studies	46
12	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
13	World Development	43
-	Journal of Political Economy	43
15	Economic Modelling	42
-	Quarterly Journal of Economics	42
17	Econometrica	41
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	41
19	Journal of Transport Geography	40
-	Review of Economic Studies	40
21	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	39
23	International Journal of Forecasting	38
24	Review of Economics and Statistics	37
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	37
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	37
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	37
-	Journal of Economic Literature	37
29	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	36
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	36
31	Journal of Development Economics	35
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	35
-	China Economic Review	35
34	Value in Health	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Food Policy	34
37	Journal of Monetary Economics	33
-	Journal of Econometrics	33
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	33
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	33
41	Review of Finance	32
-	Journal of International Economics	32
43	Small Business Economics	31
-	Annual Review of Economics	31
45	Regional Studies	30
-	International Journal of Emerging Markets	30
-	Economics Letters	30
48	Journal of Accounting & Economics	29
-	Applied Economics	29
50	Journal of Urban Economics	28

-	Research in Transportation Economics	28
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	28
-	Forest Policy and Economics	28
54	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	27
-	Journal of Financial Stability	27
-	Futures	27
-	Emerging Markets Review	27
58	Journal of Public Economics	26
-	Oeconomia Copernicana	26
-	JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies	26
61	Managerial and Decision Economics	25
-	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade	25
-	European Economic Review	25
-	Pharmacoeconomics	25
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	25
-	Economic Journal	25
67	Economic Change and Restructuring	24
-	Annual Review of Resource Economics	24
-	Journal of the European Economic Association	24
-	Journal of Health Economics	24
-	Journal of Labor Economics	24
72	World Economy	23
-	Journal of Asian Economics	23
-	Journal of Economic Surveys	23
-	European Research on Management and Business Economics	23
76	Technological and Economic Development of Economy	22
-	Journal of Policy Modeling	22
-	Economic Geography	22
-	American Economic Journal-Economic Policy	22
-	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy	22
-	Health Economics	22
82	Journal of Comparative Economics	21
-	Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control	21
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	21
-	Labour Economics	21
-	Regional Science and Urban Economics	21
-	Environmental & Resource Economics	21
-	American Economic Journal-Applied Economics	21
89	Tourism Economics	20
-	European Journal of Political Economy	20
-	Industry and Innovation	20
92	Review of Development Economics	19
-	Review of International Political Economy	19
-	China Agricultural Economic Review	19
-	Journal of Applied Econometrics	19
-	Journal of Forecasting	19
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	19
-	Journal of Consumer Affairs	19
-	Agricultural Economics	19
-	European Journal of Health Economics	19
-	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	19
102	Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society	18
-	China & World Economy	18
-	Agricultural and Food Economics	18
-	Applied Economics Letters	18
-	Applied Health Economics and Health Policy	18
107	Resource and Energy Economics	17
-	Computational Economics	17
-	Journal of Business Economics and Management	17
-	American Economic Review-Insights	17
-	Annals of Regional Science	17
-	Work Employment and Society	17
-	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	17
-	Review of Economic Dynamics	17
-	Economics & Human Biology	17
-	Economic Systems	17
-	Health Economics Review	17
118	Papers in Regional Science	16
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	16
-	New Political Economy	16
-	Quantitative Economics	16
-	Review of Environmental Economics and Policy	16
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	16
-	Journal of Policy Analysis and Management	16
-	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	16
-	Journal of Development Studies	16
-	Empirical Economics	16
-	Energy Journal	16
-	American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics	16
130	Quantitative Finance	15
-	Journal of Population Economics	15
-	Journal of Agrarian Change	15
-	Economic Inquiry	15
-	Industrial and Corporate Change	15
-	Journal of Family and Economic Issues	15
-	Socio-Economic Review	15
-	International Labour Review	15
-	Journal of Agricultural Economics	15
-	Economic Policy	15
-	Economics of Education Review	15
-	Journal of Economic Psychology	15
-	Economy and Society	15
-	Eurasian Business Review	15
-	Experimental Economics	15
-	Games and Economic Behavior	15
146	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	14
-	Journal of Choice Modelling	14
-	Journal of Competitiveness	14
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	14
-	Journal of Economic Geography	14
-	International Economic Review	14
-	Journal of Regional Science	14
-	Rand Journal of Economics	14
-	Journal of Economic Theory	14
-	Insurance Mathematics & Economics	14
156	Journal of the Economics of Ageing	13
-	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	13
-	Journal of Macroeconomics	13
-	International Journal of Industrial Organization	13
-	Economic Development and Cultural Change	13
-	Journal of Cultural Economy	13
-	European Review of Agricultural Economics	13
-	Amfiteatru Economic	13
-	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	13
-	Post-Soviet Affairs	13
-	Review of Economics of the Household	13
-	Review of International Organizations	13
-	Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics	13
-	Cambridge Journal of Economics	13
-	Inzinerine Ekonomika-Engineering Economics	13
-	Competition & Change	13
-	Economica	13
-	Journal of Economic History	13
-	Agribusiness	13
-	International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics	13

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