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Economics journal rankings by citations

The 117 tracked economics journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 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. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

  • Among the 117 tracked economics journals, Energy Economics has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (13.86), followed by Research Policy (8.93) and Energy Policy (8.53).
  • By h-index, Research Policy leads with 409.
  • Energy Economics published the most papers in 2025 (848).
Tracked economics journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex); the last 3, with fewer than 30 papers in the two previous years, are not ranked
#Journal2-year citednessh-indexi10-indexPapers 2025Citations 2025Publisher
1Energy Economics13.862956,31784870,258Elsevier BV
2Research Policy8.934093,91217149,104Elsevier BV
3Energy Policy8.5335812,80747684,651Elsevier BV
4Journal of Economic Structures7.6146205261,386Springer Nature
5Economic Analysis and Policy7.541091,36752214,616Elsevier BV
6Maritime Economics & Logistics7.4475485312,225Palgrave Macmillan
7Journal of International Economics7.422852,87811917,229Elsevier BV
8Ecological Economics6.743366,32131745,601Elsevier BV
9Food Policy6.541972,37618015,679Elsevier BV
10Structural Change and Economic Dynamics6.371101,1801827,536Elsevier BV
11China Economic Review6.321411,69324612,155Elsevier BV
12Small Business Economics6.052482,40916321,763Springer Science+Business Media
13Journal of Environmental Economics and Management6.042342,21713015,386Elsevier BV
14Telecommunications Policy6.011301,7151517,851Elsevier BV
15Journal of Monetary Economics6.002962,6239219,004Elsevier BV
16Journal of Urban Economics5.992092,064549,652Elsevier BV
17World Development5.963557,04232146,181Elsevier BV
18Agricultural and Food Economics5.6252279992,117Springer Nature
19Eurasian economic review :5.0257363952,325Springer Nature
20Economic Change and Restructuring4.94574681103,229Springer Science+Business Media
21Mineral Economics4.5044211971,818Springer Science+Business Media
22Environmental and Resource Economics4.501622,1301048,475Springer Science+Business Media
23Journal of Development Economics4.503033,15422823,606Elsevier BV
24European Journal of Political Economy4.471511,5741167,141Elsevier BV
25International Journal of Forecasting4.321912,0958315,865Elsevier BV
26Utilities Policy4.31901,1252155,159Elsevier BV
27Journal of Public Economics4.263083,86818424,388Elsevier BV
28Journal of Choice Modelling4.1252257281,918Elsevier BV
29Economic Modelling4.111643,86539721,429Elsevier BV
30Journal of Asian Economics3.95921,0271993,574Elsevier BV
31The Journal of Economic Asymmetries3.8241209501,316Elsevier BV
32IMF Economic Review3.7377268262,056Palgrave Macmillan
33Environmental Economics and Policy Studies3.6948285291,126Springer Science+Business Media
34Review of Evolutionary Political Economy3.69185327374Springer Science+Business Media
35European Economic Review3.672583,64122116,028Elsevier BV
36Journal of Population Economics3.561411,163884,878Springer Science+Business Media
37Information Economics and Policy3.5089585211,667Elsevier BV
38Journal of Econometrics3.493424,31417043,972Elsevier BV
39Economic Systems3.4284665642,585Elsevier BV
40International Economics3.2658353762,085Elsevier BV
41World Development Perspectives3.21412531001,594Elsevier BV
42Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences3.142912530507Springer Nature
43Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization3.122274,48743421,450Elsevier BV
44Regional Science and Urban Economics3.071551,721636,423Elsevier BV
45Empirical Economics3.061101,8091457,275Springer Science+Business Media
46Research in Transportation Economics2.99879371474,777Elsevier BV
47Review of Economic Dynamics2.97129913314,181Elsevier BV
48Journal of Policy Modeling2.961111,459904,254Elsevier BV
49Journal of Economic Psychology2.931851,774468,091Elsevier BV
50Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science2.892812140741Springer Science+Business Media
51Journal of Industry Competition and Trade2.875122427720Springer Science+Business Media
52Resource and Energy Economics2.83112744412,938Elsevier BV
53Journal of Comparative Economics2.801601,527646,670Elsevier BV
54European Journal of Law and Economics2.7859509361,169Springer Science+Business Media
55International Journal of Industrial Organization2.781531,672734,322Elsevier BV
56Journal of Family and Economic Issues2.7788915463,473Springer Science+Business Media
57Computational Economics2.75738773934,031Springer Science+Business Media
58Labour Economics2.731481,5431297,307Elsevier BV
59Comparative Economic Studies2.7370533171,001Palgrave Macmillan
60Economics of Disasters and Climate Change2.72329523638Springer Science+Business Media
61Journal of Evolutionary Economics2.67111748352,629Springer Science+Business Media
62Journal of Housing Economics2.6692595492,045Elsevier BV
63Journal for Labour Market Research2.634217932674Springer Nature
64Review of World Economics2.621201,075512,279Springer Science+Business Media
65The Annals of Regional Science2.531061,1571083,715Springer Science+Business Media
66Economics Letters2.512036,18656619,711Elsevier BV
67Economics of Education Review2.411732,006957,074Elsevier BV
68The Journal of Economic Inequality2.3879394581,904Springer Science+Business Media
69Journal of Risk and Uncertainty2.35130772234,018Springer Science+Business Media
70International Tax and Public Finance2.3492792672,444Springer Science+Business Media
71Journal of Productivity Analysis2.28126835463,333Springer Science+Business Media
72Journal of the Japanese and International Economies2.2388669281,514Elsevier BV
73Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control2.201742,7561388,348Elsevier BV
74Public Choice2.191662,8161097,545Springer Science+Business Media
75Empirica2.1956449301,045Springer Science+Business Media
76Japan and the World Economy2.166650927983Elsevier BV
77Economic Theory2.151091,612673,212Springer Science+Business Media
78International Review of Economics2.153616834624Springer Science+Business Media
79Journal of Macroeconomics2.121311,581533,609Elsevier BV
80Research in Economics2.115734951965Elsevier BV
81Explorations in Economic History2.0699964602,013Elsevier BV
82Experimental Economics2.01107614613,357Springer Science+Business Media
83Journal of Cultural Economics1.9881584421,578Springer Science+Business Media
84Italian Economic Journal1.95269354636Springer Science+Business Media
85SERIEs1.893412524333Springer Nature
86Review of Industrial Organization1.8893803391,555Springer Science+Business Media
87International Economics and Economic Policy1.884927160859Springer Science+Business Media
88International Review of Law and Economics1.8486749411,536Elsevier BV
89Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics1.83574671352,677Elsevier BV
90Economia Politica1.793216935741Springer Science+Business Media
91Open Economies Review1.7466506491,202Springer Science+Business Media
92Indian Journal of Labour Economics1.733213860854Springer Science+Business Media
93Journal of Economic Theory1.712573,90512213,190Elsevier BV
94Japanese Economic Review1.654530745608Springer Science+Business Media
95Journal of Economics1.645953826910Springer Science+Business Media
96Journal of Quantitative Economics1.59279358488Springer Science+Business Media
97Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination1.583616134535Springer Science+Business Media
98Games and Economic Behavior1.551692,2891527,682Elsevier BV
99Review of Economics of the Household1.5474520652,103Springer Science+Business Media
100Portuguese Economic Journal1.493610014522Springer Science+Business Media
101Journal of Economics Race and Policy1.47193317267Springer International Publishing
102Review of Economic Design1.444118519256Springer Science+Business Media
103Journal of Mathematical Economics1.41951,224822,207Elsevier BV
104Journal of Regulatory Economics1.3885641181,003Springer Science+Business Media
105Social Choice and Welfare1.26951,167712,194Springer Science+Business Media
106Economics of Governance1.195219323725Springer Science+Business Media
107International Journal of Game Theory1.1898886491,803Springer Science+Business Media
108International Advances in Economic Research1.175033218665Springer Science+Business Media
109Constitutional Political Economy1.025332039755Springer Science+Business Media
110Mathematical Social Sciences0.9883905711,599Elsevier BV
111Economic Theory Bulletin0.86143322132Springer Science+Business Media
112Theory and Decision0.8485890851,794Springer Science+Business Media
113Indian Economic Review0.802710020302Springer Science+Business Media
114The Review of Austrian Economics0.765934945725Springer Science+Business Media
115Eastern Economic Journal0.694120925609Palgrave Macmillan
116Business Economics0.454216055782Palgrave Macmillan
117Atlantic Economic Journal0.365041527556Springer Science+Business Media
–Journal of Business Cycle Research42.21152512170Springer Science+Business Media
–Journal of Economic Growth3.56139358135,016Springer Science+Business Media
–Journal of Labor Research1.11636507691Springer Science+Business Media
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