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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Sustainability	130
2	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	116
3	Energy Economics	99
4	Resources Policy	93
5	Nature Sustainability	92
6	npj Digital Medicine	91
7	Journal of Medical Internet Research	89
8	Business Strategy and the Environment	81
-	Nature Climate Change	81
10	Technology in Society	79
11	Education and Information Technologies	78
12	Environmental Impact Assessment Review	73
13	Sustainable Production and Consumption	71
-	Healthcare	71
15	Energy Policy	68
16	Cities	66
17	Energy Research & Social Science	65
18	Journal of Financial Economics	64
19	Sustainable Development	63
-	Economic Analysis and Policy	63
-	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	63
-	Tourism Management	63
-	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	63
24	Landscape and Urban Planning	62
25	Computers & Education	58
26	One Earth	57
-	BMC Medical Education	57
-	American Economic Review	57
29	International Journal of Hospitality Management	56
-	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	56
-	Journal of Personalized Medicine	56
-	British Journal of Sports Medicine	56
33	International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management	55
34	BMC Health Services Research	54
35	Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment	53
-	Journal of Finance	53
-	Land	53
38	Land Use Policy	52
39	Sports Medicine	51
40	Ecological Economics	50
-	BMC Nursing	50
-	BMC Geriatrics	50
-	Urban Forestry & Urban Greening	50
44	Systems	49
-	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	49
-	Journal of Rural Studies	49
47	Economic Modelling	48
-	British Journal of Educational Technology	48
49	System	46
-	Journal of Clinical Epidemiology	46

-	Accident Analysis and Prevention	46
52	Transport Policy	45
-	Journal of Business Ethics	45
-	International Journal of Nursing Studies	45
-	Nurse Education Today	45
-	Social Science & Medicine	45
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	45
-	International Journal of Medical Informatics	45
59	Habitat International	44
60	World Development	43
-	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association	43
-	Pragmatics	43
-	Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy	43
-	Review of Financial Studies	43
-	Applied Geography	43
66	Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions	42
-	Journal of Political Economy	42
-	SAGE Open	42
-	Journal of Transport Geography	42
70	Journal of Environmental Psychology	41
-	Journal of Sport and Health Science	41
72	Thinking Skills and Creativity	40
-	Computers Environment and Urban Systems	40
-	Digital Health	40
-	American Journal of Sports Medicine	40
-	Teaching and Teacher Education	40
-	Marine Policy	40
-	BMC Medical Research Methodology	40
-	Health Affairs	40
-	Financial Innovation	40
81	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	39
-	International Journal of Management Education	39
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	39
-	Tourism Review	39
-	China Economic Review	39
-	Review of Economic Studies	39
87	IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies	38
-	New Media & Society	38
-	Journal of Computer Assisted Learning	38
-	Annual Review of Economics	38
-	International Journal of Forecasting	38
-	Review of Economics and Statistics	38
-	Annals of Tourism Research	38
-	Journal of Travel Research	38
95	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	37
-	Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour	37
-	Interactive Learning Environments	37
-	Nurse Education in Practice	37
-	Small Business Economics	37
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	37
-	Trauma Violence & Abuse	37
-	Arthroscopy-The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery	37
-	Food Policy	37
-	Educational Research Review	37
105	Telecommunications Policy	36
-	Journal of General Internal Medicine	36
-	Patient Education and Counseling	36
-	Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific	36
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	36
-	Journal of Economic Literature	36
-	Social Media + Society	36
-	Addiction	36
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	36
-	Travel Behaviour and Society	36
-	Current Issues in Tourism	36
-	Journal of Econometrics	36
-	Journal of Advanced Nursing	36
-	JMIR mHealth and uHealth	36
119	Tourism Management Perspectives	35
-	Studies in Higher Education	35
-	Econometrica	35
-	Value in Health	35
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	35
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	35
-	International Journal of Stem Education	35
-	European Journal of Education	35
-	Journal of Sustainable Tourism	35
-	Journal of European Public Policy	35
-	Implementation Science	35
-	Energy & Environment	35
-	Ecosystem Services	35
132	Journal of Clinical Nursing	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Journal of Development Economics	34
-	Journal of Chemical Education	34
-	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	34
-	International Journal of Drug Policy	34
-	Addictive Behaviors	34
139	Utilities Policy	33
-	Medical Teacher	33
-	Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing	33
-	Learning and Instruction	33
-	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society	33
-	Academic Medicine	33
-	Big Data & Society	33
146	International Journal of Qualitative Methods	32
-	Economics Letters	32
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	32
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	32
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
-	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	32
-	Oeconomia Copernicana	32
-	Journal of Air Transport Management	32
-	Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics	32
-	Journals of Gerontology Series A-Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences	32
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	32
157	Nursing Open	31
-	Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management	31
-	JMIR Serious Games	31
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	31
-	Higher Education	31
-	Journal of Nursing Management	31
-	Applied Economics	31
-	Journal of International Economics	31
165	Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare	30
-	Forest Policy and Economics	30
-	ETR&D-Educational Technology Research and Development	30
-	American Political Science Review	30
-	Annual Review of Sociology	30
-	Journal of Safety Research	30
-	Transport Reviews	30
-	Climate Policy	30
-	Pharmacoeconomics	30
-	Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology	30
175	Economic Change and Restructuring	29

-	International Journal of Geographical Information Science	29
-	Journal of Educational Computing Research	29
-	Review of Finance	29
-	Futures	29
-	Transportation Science	29
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	29
-	Journal of Cultural Heritage	29
-	Journal of Destination Marketing & Management	29
-	Health Policy	29
-	Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education	29
-	Journal of Public Economics	29
187	Harm Reduction Journal	28
-	Political Geography	28
-	American Journal of Bioethics	28
-	Urban Studies	28
-	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	28
-	Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine	28
-	Quality of Life Research	28
-	Journal of Pain and Symptom Management	28
-	Public Administration Review	28
-	Medical Education Online	28
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	28
-	Journal of Economic Surveys	28
-	Journal of Applied Physiology	28
-	Geriatric Nursing	28

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