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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	124
2	Expert Systems With Applications	118
3	Sustainability	114
4	Energy Economics	110
5	Journal of Business Research	106
6	Resources Policy	98
7	Finance Research Letters	90
8	Nature Sustainability	87
9	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	85
-	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	85
11	Business Strategy and the Environment	84
12	Nature Climate Change	82
-	Global Change Biology	82
14	International Review of Financial Analysis	79
15	Energy Policy	77
-	Journal of Medical Internet Research	77
-	Sustainable Production and Consumption	77
18	Journal of Financial Economics	76
19	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	75
20	European Journal of Operational Research	73
21	npj Digital Medicine	72
22	Management Science	69
-	International Journal of Production Economics	69
24	Environmental Impact Assessment Review	67
25	Journal of Innovation & Knowledge	66
26	International Journal of Production Research	62
27	International Review of Economics & Finance	61
-	American Economic Review	61
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	61
30	International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management	60
-	Land Use Policy	60
-	Energy Research & Social Science	60
-	Technovation	60
34	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	59
-	Tourism Management	59
-	Cities	59
-	Healthcare	59
38	Economic Analysis and Policy	57
-	One Earth	57
40	IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management	56
-	Landscape and Urban Planning	56
-	Journal of Finance	56
-	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	56
44	Research in International Business and Finance	55
-	Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management	55
46	Sustainable Development	54
47	Journal of Personalized Medicine	52
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	52
49	Safety Science	51
-	ISME Journal	51

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

-	Journal of International Business Studies	33
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	33
-	Ecology and Evolution	33
179	Utilities Policy	32
-	International Journal of Logistics Management	32
-	British Journal of Management	32
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	32
-	Journal of World Business	32
-	Diversity-Basel	32
-	Review of Finance	32
-	Electronic Commerce Research and Applications	32
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	32
-	Production Planning & Control	32
189	Long Range Planning	31
-	Marketing Science	31
-	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	31
-	International Journal of Project Management	31
-	MIS Quarterly	31
-	Internet Research	31
-	Economics Letters	31
-	International Business Review	31
-	Journal of Operations Management	31
-	Annual Review of Economics	31
-	Journal of Safety Research	31
-	Journal of Nursing Management	31

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