Social sciences: 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Sustainability	126
2	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	118
3	Energy Economics	110
4	Resources Policy	94
5	Nature Sustainability	91
6	npj Digital Medicine	86
7	Journal of Medical Internet Research	84
8	Business Strategy and the Environment	83
9	Nature Climate Change	82
10	Technology in Society	77
11	Education and Information Technologies	75
12	Sustainable Production and Consumption	73
-	Energy Policy	73
-	Environmental Impact Assessment Review	73
15	Journal of Financial Economics	68
-	Healthcare	68
17	Economic Analysis and Policy	66
18	Cities	65
19	Energy Research & Social Science	64
20	International Review of Economics & Finance	63
-	Tourism Management	63
22	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	62
-	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	62
24	Landscape and Urban Planning	60
-	Computers & Education	60
-	Sustainable Development	60
27	American Economic Review	58
28	One Earth	57
29	International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management	56
-	British Journal of Sports Medicine	56
31	BMC Medical Education	55
-	Journal of Finance	55
-	International Journal of Hospitality Management	55
34	Journal of Personalized Medicine	54
-	Land Use Policy	54
36	Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment	53
-	Sports Medicine	53
-	Land	53
-	BMC Health Services Research	53
40	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	52
41	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	51
-	Ecological Economics	51
43	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	49
-	BMC Geriatrics	49
-	International Journal of Nursing Studies	49
46	Accident Analysis and Prevention	48
47	Systems	47
-	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	47
-	Economic Modelling	47
-	Journal of Rural Studies	47

51	Journal of Business Ethics	46
-	Social Science & Medicine	46
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	46
54	Transport Policy	45
-	British Journal of Educational Technology	45
-	Habitat International	45
-	BMC Nursing	45
58	System	44
-	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	44
-	Review of Financial Studies	44
61	Nurse Education Today	43
-	International Journal of Medical Informatics	43
-	Pragmatics	43
-	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	43
65	World Development	42
-	Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy	42
-	Review of Economic Studies	42
-	Journal of Environmental Psychology	42
-	Journal of Political Economy	42
-	Quarterly Journal of Economics	42
71	Thinking Skills and Creativity	41
-	Review of Economics and Statistics	41
-	Applied Geography	41
74	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	40
-	Journal of Sport and Health Science	40
-	Journal of Transport Geography	40
-	Financial Innovation	40
-	Annals of Tourism Research	40
-	Marine Policy	40
-	American Journal of Sports Medicine	40
81	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	39
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	39
-	Teaching and Teacher Education	39
-	Telecommunications Policy	39
-	BMC Medical Research Methodology	39
-	Tourism Review	39
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	39
-	Health Affairs	39
89	Child Abuse & Neglect	38
-	Interactive Learning Environments	38
-	JMIR mHealth and uHealth	38
-	China Economic Review	38
-	Digital Health	38
94	Journal of Banking & Finance	37
-	Journal of General Internal Medicine	37
-	SAGE Open	37
-	Addictive Behaviors	37
-	New Media & Society	37
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	37
-	Trauma Violence & Abuse	37
-	Journal of Computer Assisted Learning	37
-	Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific	37
-	Educational Research Review	37
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	37
-	International Journal of Forecasting	37
-	Journal of Advanced Nursing	37
107	Current Issues in Tourism	36
-	Journal of Development Economics	36
-	Journal of Economic Literature	36
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	36
-	Journal of Travel Research	36
-	Annual Review of Economics	36
-	International Journal of Management Education	36
-	Patient Education and Counseling	36
-	Food Policy	36
116	Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour	35
-	Small Business Economics	35
-	IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies	35
-	Arthroscopy-The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery	35
-	Travel Behaviour and Society	35
-	Journal of Econometrics	35
-	Nurse Education in Practice	35
-	Addiction	35
-	International Journal of Stem Education	35
125	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	34
-	Tourism Management Perspectives	34
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	34
-	Academic Medicine	34
-	Ecosystem Services	34
-	Energy & Environment	34
-	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society	34
132	Utilities Policy	33
-	Journal of European Public Policy	33
-	Value in Health	33
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	33
-	Implementation Science	33
-	Econometrica	33
-	Studies in Higher Education	33
-	Medical Teacher	33
-	Journal of Chemical Education	33
-	Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery	33
-	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	33
-	International Journal of Drug Policy	33
-	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	33
145	Journal of Clinical Nursing	32
-	Journal of Nursing Management	32
-	European Journal of Education	32
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	32
-	Journal of International Economics	32
-	American Political Science Review	32
-	Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	32
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	32
-	Economics Letters	32
-	Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing	32
-	Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance	32
-	Social Media + Society	32
-	Health Policy	32
158	ETR&D-Educational Technology Research and Development	31
-	Journal of Safety Research	31
-	Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education	31
-	Big Data & Society	31
-	Regional Studies	31
-	Review of Finance	31
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
-	Learning and Instruction	31
-	Health Expectations	31
-	Journals of Gerontology Series A-Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences	31
168	Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology	30
-	Emerging Markets Review	30
-	Computer Assisted Language Learning	30
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	30
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	30
-	Public Administration Review	30
-	Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics	30
-	Political Geography	30

-	Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare	30
-	Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management	30
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Applied Economics	30
-	Higher Education	30
-	Oeconomia Copernicana	30
-	JMIR Serious Games	30
183	Journal of Educational Computing Research	29
-	Journal of Air Transport Management	29
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	29
-	Pharmacoeconomics	29
-	Forest Policy and Economics	29
-	Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development	29
-	Annual Review of Sociology	29
-	International Journal of Qualitative Methods	29
-	Journal of Applied Physiology	29
-	Climate Policy	29
-	Economic Change and Restructuring	29
-	Transportation Science	29
-	Transport Reviews	29
-	Nursing Open	29
197	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	28
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	28
-	Journal of Pain and Symptom Management	28
-	Sports Medicine-Open	28

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