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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Energy Economics	110
2	Energy Policy	77
3	Journal of Financial Economics	76
4	American Economic Review	61
-	International Review of Economics & Finance	61
6	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	59
7	Economic Analysis and Policy	57
8	Journal of Finance	56
9	Ecological Economics	49
10	Review of Financial Studies	46
11	Economic Modelling	44
-	Journal of Political Economy	44
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
14	World Development	43
-	Transport Policy	43
16	Quarterly Journal of Economics	42
17	Econometrica	41
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	41
-	Journal of Transport Geography	41
20	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja	40
-	Review of Economic Studies	40
22	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
23	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	38
-	Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice	38
-	International Journal of Forecasting	38
26	Borsa Istanbul Review	37
-	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	37
-	Review of Economics and Statistics	37
29	China Economic Review	36
-	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	36
31	Food Policy	35
-	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	35
-	Journal of Economic Perspectives	35
34	Journal of Development Economics	34
-	Journal of Economic Literature	34
-	Value in Health	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
38	Journal of Econometrics	33
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	33
40	Review of Finance	32
41	Economics Letters	31
-	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	31
-	Annual Review of Economics	31
-	Small Business Economics	31
-	Journal of International Economics	31
46	International Journal of Emerging Markets	30
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	30
48	Forest Policy and Economics	29
-	Regional Studies	29
50	Futures	28

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

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