Economics & Business: 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	126
2	Sustainability	120
-	Expert Systems With Applications	120
4	Energy Economics	112
5	Journal of Business Research	108
6	Finance Research Letters	91
7	Resources Policy	90
8	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	88
9	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	87
10	Business Strategy and the Environment	86
11	Global Change Biology	85
-	Nature Sustainability	85
13	Journal of Medical Internet Research	81
-	International Review of Financial Analysis	81
15	Nature Climate Change	80
16	Energy Policy	77
-	npj Digital Medicine	77
18	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	76
-	Sustainable Production and Consumption	76
20	European Journal of Operational Research	72
-	Journal of Financial Economics	72
-	Management Science	72
23	Environmental Impact Assessment Review	71
24	Journal of Innovation & Knowledge	70
25	International Journal of Production Economics	67
26	Healthcare	65
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	65
28	Technovation	64
29	International Review of Economics & Finance	62
30	Cities	61
-	International Journal of Production Research	61
-	Tourism Management	61
-	Energy Research & Social Science	61
-	Economic Analysis and Policy	61
35	American Economic Review	60
-	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	60
37	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	59
38	Land Use Policy	58
-	International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management	58
-	IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management	58
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	58
42	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	57
43	Sustainable Development	56
-	One Earth	56
45	ISME Journal	55
-	Research in International Business and Finance	55
-	Journal of Finance	55
-	Journal of Personalized Medicine	55
49	Ecological Informatics	54
50	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	53

-	Land	53
52	Journal of Business Ethics	52
-	Research Policy	52
-	Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment	52
55	BMC Health Services Research	51
-	IEEE Systems Journal	51
57	Psychology & Marketing	50
-	Safety Science	50
59	Annals of Operations Research	49
-	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	49
61	Ecological Economics	48
-	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	48
-	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	48
-	Industrial Marketing Management	48
65	Ecology Letters	47
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	47
67	Accident Analysis and Prevention	46
-	Review of Financial Studies	46
-	Journal of Rural Studies	46
-	Forests	46
-	Production and Operations Management	46
-	Transport Policy	46
73	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	45
-	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	45
-	Economic Modelling	45
-	Econometrica	45
77	Journal of Environmental Psychology	44
-	Information & Management	44
79	Quarterly Journal of Economics	43
-	Health Affairs	43
-	Habitat International	43
-	JMIR mHealth and uHealth	43
-	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	43
84	Marine Policy	42
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	42
-	World Development	42
-	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	42
-	Forest Ecology and Management	42
-	International Journal of Medical Informatics	42
90	Biological Conservation	41
-	Decision Support Systems	41
-	Journal of General Internal Medicine	41
-	Management Decision	41
-	Journal of Knowledge Management	41
-	Journal of Political Economy	41
-	International Journal of Consumer Studies	41
97	Academy of Management Journal	40
-	Review of Economic Studies	40
-	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	40
-	Journal of Healthcare Engineering	40
-	International Journal of Forecasting	40
-	Journal of Transport Geography	40
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	40
-	International Journal of Systems Science	40
-	Journal of Corporate Finance	40
106	Review of Economics and Statistics	39
-	BMC Medical Research Methodology	39
-	Digital Health	39
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
-	Telecommunications Policy	39
-	Financial Innovation	39
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	39
-	Journal of Management	39
-	Computers & Operations Research	39
-	Journal of Applied Psychology	39
116	Borsa Istanbul Review	38
-	China Economic Review	38
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	38
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	38
-	European Journal of Innovation Management	38
-	Review of Managerial Science	38
-	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	38
-	Ecological Engineering	38
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	38
-	International Journal of Operations & Production Management	38
127	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	37
-	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution	37
-	Information Systems Research	37
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	37
-	Molecular Ecology	37
132	Applied Geography	36
-	British Food Journal	36
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	36
-	Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour	36
-	Electronic Markets	36
-	Energy & Environment	36
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	36
-	Business Horizons	36
-	Food Policy	36
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	36
-	European Management Journal	36
143	Marketing Science	35
-	Academy of Management Annals	35
-	Journal of International Business Studies	35
-	Journal of Management Studies	35
-	Journal of Economic Literature	35
-	Ecosystem Services	35
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	35
-	Travel Behaviour and Society	35
-	Journal of Development Economics	35
-	Journal of Accounting Research	35
-	Academy of Management Review	35
-	Organization Science	35
-	Implementation Science	35
-	Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific	35
157	Value in Health	34
-	New Media & Society	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Academic Medicine	34
-	Journal of Ecology	34
-	Journal of Consumer Behaviour	34
-	Annual Review of Economics	34
-	Leadership Quarterly	34
-	Ecology	34
-	Strategic Management Journal	34
-	International Journal of Bank Marketing	34
-	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications	34
-	Journal of Econometrics	34
-	Internet Research	34
171	Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics	33
-	Utilities Policy	33
-	Journal of Business Venturing	33
-	International Journal of Logistics Management	33
-	International Journal of Management Education	33

-	Functional Ecology	33
-	Journal of World Business	33
-	Diversity-Basel	33
-	Small Business Economics	33
-	Global Finance Journal	33
-	Human Resource Management Review	33
182	Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior	32
-	Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research	32
-	Ecology and Evolution	32
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	32
-	Tourism Management Perspectives	32
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	32
-	Conservation Biology	32
-	Journal of Nursing Management	32
-	Journal of Operations Management	32
192	MIS Quarterly	31
-	Business Process Management Journal	31
-	Regional Studies	31
-	Climate Policy	31
-	Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management	31
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	31
-	Operations Research	31
-	People and Nature	31
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	31

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