Resources Policy

2 papers in the last 7 days · category: Economics · publisher: Elsevier BV · ISSN 0301-4207

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Key findings#

Resources Policy has a 2-year mean citedness of 10.70 and an h-index of 182 in OpenAlex, #2 of 120 tracked economics journals by citedness.
In 2025 it published 283 papers, and its papers received 39,233 citations.
Resources Policy published 16 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #52 of 400 journals.
Leading institutions: United Arab Emirates University (2), The University of Melbourne (1) and Fundação Dom Cabral (1).
Countries: United Arab Emirates (3), Australia (2) and Brazil (2).
21% of the papers Resources Policy published in 2023–2025 are open access in OpenAlex (hybrid 13%, bronze 1% and green 7%), #119 of 123 tracked economics journals by open-access share.
From Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, Resources Policy published 1,569 papers (44 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
Its most frequent keywords over that period were “sustainable development” (229), “China” (214) and “economic growth” (210).

Citation metrics# Economics journals →

20162025

Citation metrics (OpenAlex)
Metric	Value
2-year mean citedness	10.70
h-index	182
i10-index	4,131
Papers in OpenAlex	6,683
Citations in OpenAlex	228,412
Rank among tracked economics journals	#2 of 120

Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)
Year	Papers	Citations received
2026 (so far)	186	24,915
2025	283	39,233
2024	767	44,734
2023	1,194	36,048
2022	673	22,536
2021	515	14,055
2020	350	9,747
2019	247	6,449
2018	198	5,277
2017	160	4,058
2016	129	3,286

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

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The last 36 months#

Oct 23Sep 26

Papers by publication date, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
Oct 23–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	36 months
1,020	319	230	1,569

Most frequent keywords, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	sustainable development	229
2	China	214
3	economic growth	210
4	resource curse	192
5	CO2 emissions	183
6	environmental sustainability	140
7	fintech	131
8	natural resource rents	127
9	natural resources	119
10	renewable energy	101

Open access# Economics journals →

Papers per year by open-access status (OpenAlex)
Year	Papers	Open access	Diamond	Gold	Hybrid	Bronze	Green	Closed
2017	160	23%	0%	0%	8%	2%	13%	77%
2018	198	25%	0%	0%	7%	5%	14%	75%
2019	246	26%	0%	0%	6%	2%	18%	74%
2020	350	22%	0%	0%	5%	2%	15%	78%
2021	514	26%	0%	0%	8%	4%	14%	74%
2022	673	27%	0%	0%	6%	2%	19%	73%
2023	1,194	18%	0%	0%	8%	2%	8%	82%
2024	766	17%	0%	0%	11%	1%	5%	83%
2025	278	48%	0%	0%	38%	0%	10%	52%
2026 (so far)	186	48%	0%	0%	37%	2%	10%	52%

Open-access status as OpenAlex reports it for each paper (diamond: published in an open-access journal that charges authors no fee; gold: published in an open-access journal; hybrid: open under a licence in a subscription journal; bronze: free to read on the publisher's site without an open licence; green: only a free copy in a repository; closed: no free copy found). Papers count by publication year; the share is of the papers whose status is known.

Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-28	Relevant disruptions in critical mineral supply chain sustainability: A systematic literature review	Resources Policy	Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Wen Li et al.	The University of Melbourne; Universidad de Jaén; Fundação Dom Cabral
2026-10-26	Forecasting lithium price returns: Evidence from dimension-reduction techniques and policy implications	Resources Policy	Sang Baum Kang, Yao Xie, Jialin Zhao	Illinois Institute of Technology; St. Mary's University, Texas
2026-10-24	Human rights impact assessment in Sápmi: a methodological framework	Resources Policy	Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Carl Österlin, Johanna Westeson et al.	Stockholm Environment Institute
2026-10-22	The gap between law and practice: CSR decoupling in Tanzania's mining sector post-regulatory mandate	Resources Policy	Peter Dastan Mshana, Jianling Wang, Gloria Robert Nguve et al.	Xi'an Jiaotong University; Tanzania Institute of Accountancy
2026-10-14	A blockchain and geospatial AI-enabled governance system for illegal gold mining detection and supply chain traceability	Resources Policy	Pratyush Kumar Patro, Adolf Akwei Acquaye, Malick NDIAYE et al.	Khalifa University of Science and Technology; American University of Sharjah; Imperial College London
2026-10-14	The dissent of decarbonization: Sociotechnical controversies in lithium extraction in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, Brazil	Resources Policy	Paula Ferreira Ribeiro, Valderí de Castro Alcântara	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2026-10-11	The role of remoteness and competition on Australian mining costs	Resources Policy	Stuart D.C. Walsh, Marcus W. Haynes	Monash University; Geoscience Australia
2026-10-09	Public stockpiling, offtake, and the value of domestic rare earth midstream capacity: A calibrated policy valuation for South Korea	Resources Policy	Hyun-Bock Lee, Dong‐Kil Lee, Bongchul Yoo	Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
2026-10-08	Phosphate fertilizer trade policy scenarios and their implications using the partial equilibrium Global Simulation Analysis Model (GSIM)	Resources Policy	Eihab Fathelrahman, Raeda Osman, Stephen Davies et al.	United Arab Emirates University; International Food Policy Research Institute; Colorado State University; …
2026-10-07	Supply chain security and global dependencies in the trade of phosphorus-related products	Resources Policy	Peter Hirner, Matthias Raddant, Johann Fellner	TU Wien; The University of Tokyo; Keio University; …
2026-10-07	The lithium bubble in the aftermath of COVID and the energy transition hype	Resources Policy	Pablo Agnese, Francisco Ríos Muñoz	United Arab Emirates University; Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación
2026-10-05	Socio-economic changes following coal extraction termination: A spatial analysis of the Lower Silesian Coal Basin (Poland)	Resources Policy	Tymoteusz Bucała, Katarzyna Pactwa	Wrocław University of Science and Technology
2026-10-05	Extraterritorial ESG regulation and mining governance in Peru: Risks of a legislative disconnect	Resources Policy	Luis-Felipe Arizmendi, Elke Schrader	Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2026-10-05	Cost-as-signal: A chemically grounded framework for detecting stress in global precursor-material systems	Resources Policy	Kari Hiltunen	National Defence University
2026-10-03	Uncertainty-driven connectedness in global gold-mining equities: A Time–Frequency and quantile approach	Resources Policy	Rim M. El Khoury, Oğuzhan Özçelebi, Zhuhua Jiang et al.	Istanbul University; Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Pusan National University
2026-10-02	Conceptualising corruption in the extractive industries: Evidence from a systematic review	Resources Policy	Gian Marco Moisé

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Resources Policy. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy

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