New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Review of Economics and Statistics42
2 Financial Innovation41
3 Econometrica36
4 Journal of Econometrics35
5 Risk Analysis25
6 Empirical Economics19
- EPJ Data Science19
8 Journal of Applied Econometrics18
9 Quantitative Finance17
- Structural Equation Modeling-A Multidisciplinary Journal17
- Journal of Business & Economic Statistics17
12 Psychometrika16
- Sociological Methods & Research16
14 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics in Society15
- Mathematical Finance15
- Multivariate Behavioral Research15
- Stata Journal15
18 SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics14
- System Dynamics Review14
20 Insurance Mathematics & Economics12
- Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics12
22 Finance and Stochastics11
- Journal of Mathematical Psychology11
- Journal of Productivity Analysis11
- Scandinavian Actuarial Journal11
26 ASTIN Bulletin-The Journal of the International Actuarial Association10
- Journal of Management Analytics10
- Applied Psychological Measurement10
- Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics10
30 Econometrics Journal9
- Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology9
32 IMA Journal of Management Mathematics8
- Econometric Reviews8
- Econometric Theory8
- Jahrbucher fuer Nationalokonomie und Statistik8
- Journal of Mathematical Economics8
- QME-Quantitative Marketing and Economics8
- Social Choice and Welfare8
39 Mathematical Social Sciences7
40 Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory6
- Mathematics and Financial Economics6
- Theory and Decision6
43 International Journal of Game Theory5
- Mathematical Population Studies5
45 Journal of Mathematical Sociology4
46 Law Probability & Risk3
- Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics3
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