Data Source:
- The NUS ranking is based on this post.
- Ambition ranking is from Engemann, K. M., & Wall, H. J. (2009). A journal ranking for the ambitious economist. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 91(3), 127-139.
- CL-index is from Combes, P. P., & Linnemer, L. (2010). Inferring missing citations: A quantitative multi-criteria ranking of all journals in economics.
- Ritzberger is from Ritzberger, K. (2008). A ranking of journals in economics and related fields. German Economic Review, 9(4), 402-430.
- IDEAs is from IDEAS/RePEc Simple Impact Factors for Journals accessed on Dec 2017.
| Journal Name | NUS Ranking(2016) | Ambition Ranking(2009) | CL-Index(2010) | Ritzberger(2008) | IDEAS(2017) | SHUFE (2017) | SWUFE (2013) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1 | 1 | 1 | A+ | 1 | 1 | A |
| Econometrica | 2 | 3 | 4 | A+ | 4 | 1 | A |
| Journal of Political Economy | 3 | 2 | 3 | A+ | 3 | 1 | A |
| Review of Economic Studies | 4 | 5 | 5 | A+ | 7 | 1 | A |
| American Economic Review | 5 | 4 | 2 | A+ | 10 | 1 | A |
| Journal of Economic Growth (1999) | 6 | 7 | 31 | A | 5 | 3 | A |
| Journal of Monetary Economics | 7 | 12 | 7 | A+ | 14 | 2 | A |
| Journal of Labor Economics | 8 | 6 | 18 | A | 16 | 2 | A |
| Rand Journal of Economics | 9 | 13 | 13 | A | 19 | 2 | A |
| Journal of Economic Theory | 10 | 16 | 9 | A+ | 39 | 2 | A |
| Review of Economics and Statistics | 11 | 8 | 8 | A | 21 | 2 | A |
| Review of Economic Dynamics | 12 | 18 | 35 | B+ | 38 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Finance | 13 | 20 | 10 | A+ | 8 | - | A |
| International Economic Review | 14 | 11 | 19 | A | 42 | 2 | A |
| American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings | 15 | 10 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Experimental Economics (2003) | 16 | - | 85 | - | 37 | 3 | B |
| Journal of International Economics | 17 | 14 | 15 | A | 24 | 2 | A |
| Economic Journal | 18 | 9 | 12 | A | 20 | 2 | A |
| Journal of Public Economics | 19 | 17 | 14 | A | 30 | 2 | A |
| Journal of Human Resources | 20 | 28 | 25 | B+ | 29 | 3 | B |
| Review of Financial Studies | 21 | 24 | 21 | A | 11 | - | A |
| Games and Economic Behavior | 22 | 21 | 20 | A+ | 79 | 2 | A |
| Journal of Econometrics | 23 | 22 | 11 | A+ | 17 | 2 | A |
| Journal of Financial Economics | 24 | 25 | 6 | A | 6 | - | A |
| Journal of Industrial Economics | 25 | 26 | 42 | B | 66 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Development Economics | 26 | 30 | 24 | B | 35 | 2 | B |
| Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | 27 | 37 | 47 | B+ | 46 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Business & Economic Statistics | 28 | 19 | 22 | A | 26 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Law & Economics | 29 | 15 | 27 | B | 41 | 3 | B |
| Econometric Theory | 30 | 42 | 38 | A | 88 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Applied Econometrics | 31 | 27 | 36 | B+ | 22 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Economics & Management Strategy | 32 | - | 53 | C+ | 81 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Urban Economics | 33 | 32 | 29 | B | 58 | 3 | B |
| Economic Theory | 34 | 41 | 37 | A | 128 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Law, Economics & Organization | 35 | 29 | 39 | B | 52 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Money, Credit and Banking | 36 | 43 | 26 | B+ | 47 | 3 | B |
| Scandinavian Journal of Economics | 37 | 33 | 48 | B | 75 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Economic History | 38 | 47 | 44 | C+ | 556 | 2 | B |
| European Economic Review | 39 | 23 | 17 | B+ | 44 | 3 | B |
| International Journal of Industrial Org | 40 | 50 | 43 | B | 78 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 41 | 35 | 33 | B+ | 94 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Health Economics | 42 | 48 | 23 | C+ | 59 | 3 | B |
| Economica | 43 | 36 | 58 | B | 91 | 4 | B |
| Oxford Economic Papers-New Series | 44 | 34 | 55 | B | 80 | 4 | B |
| Labour Economics | 45 | - | 70 | C+ | 65 | 4 | B |
| Economic Inquiry | 46 | 40 | 67 | B | 114 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control | 47 | 49 | 32 | A | 73 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 48 | 57 | 30 | B | 34 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Economic Geography | 49 | 45 | 92 | B+ | 83 | - | B |
| National Tax Journal | 50 | 58 | 77 | B | 154 | 4 | B |
| Regional Science and Urban Economics | 51 | 53 | 69 | C+ | 120 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Mathematical Economics | 52 | 55 | 51 | A | 173 | 3 | C |
| Explorations in Economic History | 53 | - | 78 | B | 263 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Population Economics | 54 | - | 81 | B | 72 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Comparative Economics | 55 | - | 71 | B | 151 | 3 | B |
| Macroeconomic Dynamics (1998) | 56 | 39 | 64 | B+ | 142 | 3 | B |
| Social Choice and Welfare | 57 | - | 80 | B+ | 249 | 3 | B |
| Economics Letters | 58 | 54 | 46 | B | 172 | 4 | B |
| Public Choice | 59 | 59 | 59 | C+ | 192 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Accounting & Economics | 60 | - | 28 | C+ | 43 | - | A |
| Canadian Journal of Economics | 61 | 44 | 62 | B | 124 | 3 | B |
| American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 62 | - | 41 | C+ | 195 | 3 | B |
| Health Economics | 63 | - | 40 | C | 178 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Banking & Finance | 64 | 64 | 61 | C+ | 74 | - | B |
| World Development | 65 | - | 34 | C+ | 129 | 4 | B |
| Ecological Economics | 66 | - | 50 | C | 144 | - | B |
| Journal of the European Economic Association (2005) | - | 31 | 16 | - | 33 | 2 | B |
| Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics | - | 38 | 76 | B | 53 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Business | - | 46 | 52 | B | 27 | - | - |
| Journal of International Money & Finance | - | 51 | 73 | C | 55 | - | - |
| Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis | - | 52 | 49 | B | 63 | - | B |
| Journal of Policy Analysis & Management | - | 56 | - | - | 378 | - | B |
| Journal of Regional Science | - | 60 | - | - | 166 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Macroeconomics | - | 61 | - | C | 199 | 4 | B |
| Papers in Regional Science | - | 62 | - | - | 188 | - | B |
| Southern Economic Journal | - | 63 | 94 | C | 168 | 4 | B |
| Economic History Review | - | 65 | 99 | C+ | 709 | 3 | B |
| Annals of Regional Science | - | 66 | - | - | 277 | - | - |
| Contemporary Economic Policy | - | 67 | - | C | 275 | 4 | B |
| Applied Economics | - | 68 | 102 | C | 247 | 4 | C |
| Journal of Forecasting | - | 69 | - | C | 206 | - | - |
| Marketing Science | - | - | - | B+ | 105 | - | - |
| Accounting Review | - | - | - | B+ | - | - | - |
| Review of Accounting Studies | - | - | - | B+ | 1751 | - | - |
| Journal of Accounting Research | - | - | - | B+ | 107 | - | - |
| Journal of Financial Intermediation | - | - | 89 | B+ | 32 | - | - |
| Journal of Financial Markets | - | - | - | B+ | 60 | - | - |
| Journal of Consumer Research | - | - | - | B+ | 111 | - | - |
| Journal of Marketing Research | - | - | - | B+ | - | - | - |
| Journal of Time Series Analysis | - | - | - | B+ | 319 | - | - |
| World Bank Economic Review | - | - | 115 | B+ | 28 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Marketing | - | - | - | B | - | - | - |
| Accounting, Organizations & Society | - | - | - | B | 182 | - | - |
| Financial Management | - | - | - | B | 96 | - | - |
| Management Science | - | - | - | B | 92 | - | - |
| International Journal of Forecasting | - | - | - | B | 186 | - | B |
| Journal of Corporate Finance | - | - | - | B | 134 | - | - |
| Industrial Relations | - | - | - | B | - | 4 | - |
| Contemporary Accounting Research | - | - | - | B | - | - | - |
| Journal of the American Statistical Association | - | - | 56 | B | 212 | - | - |
| IMF Staff Papers | - | - | - | B | 54 | - | B |
| Economics & Philosophy | - | - | - | C+ | 463 | 4 | B |
| Academic Management Review | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| Administrative Science Quarterly | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| Mathematical Finance | - | - | 57 | C+ | 49 | - | B |
| Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | - | - | - | C+ | 529 | - | - |
| Industrial & Labor Relations Review | - | - | 96 | C+ | - | 4 | - |
| Auditing: A Journal of Practise & Theory | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| Resource & Energy Economics | - | - | 100 | C+ | 98 | 4 | B |
| Strategic Management Journal | - | - | - | C+ | 626 | - | - |
| Finance & Stochastics | - | - | - | C+ | 104 | - | - |
| Economic Development & Cultural Change | - | - | 75 | C+ | 133 | 4 | B |
| Financial Analysts Journal | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| World Bank Research Observer | - | - | - | C+ | 45 | - | B |
| International Tax & Public Finance | - | - | 93 | C+ | 95 | 4 | B |
| Energy Journal | - | - | 84 | C+ | 113 | 4 | B |
| Population & Development Review | - | - | - | C+ | 220 | - | - |
| Research-Technology Management | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| Academy of Management Journal | - | - | - | C+ | - | - | - |
| Review of Income & Wealth | - | - | 87 | C+ | 147 | 4 | B |
| Information Economics & Policy | - | - | - | C+ | 238 | - | - |
| Journal of the Japanese & International Economies | - | - | - | C+ | 119 | - | C |
| Land Economics | - | - | 65 | C+ | 108 | 4 | B |
| International Journal of Game Theory | - | - | 74 | C+ | 189 | 4 | B |
| Oxford Review of Economic Policy | - | - | - | C+ | 76 | 4 | B |
| The World Economy | - | - | 95 | C+ | 161 | 4 | B |
| Scottish Journal of Political Economy | - | - | - | C+ | 221 | 4 | C |
| Review of Industrial Organization | - | - | - | C+ | 205 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics | - | - | - | C+ | 365 | 4 | C |
| Journal of Productivity Analysis | - | - | 86 | C | 121 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Regulatory Economics | - | - | 88 | C | 126 | 3 | B |
| British Journal of Industrial Relations | - | - | - | C | 430 | - | - |
| Monthly Labor Review | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Journal of Evolutionary Economics | - | - | - | C | 148 | - | B |
| Journal of Portfolio Management | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Insurance: Mathematics & Economics | - | - | 72 | C | 393 | - | B |
| Journal of Management Studies | - | - | - | C | 130 | - | - |
| Economics of Education Review | - | - | 82 | C | 201 | 4 | B |
| Feminist Economics | - | - | - | C | 349 | - | B |
| Economic Policy | - | - | - | C | 12 | 4 | B |
| Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| International Review of Law & Economics | - | - | - | C | 311 | - | C |
| Journal of Public Policy & Marketing | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Journal of Economic Surveys | - | - | - | C | 36 | - | B |
| Industrial & Corporate Change | - | - | 66 | C | 86 | - | B |
| International Journal of Research in Marketing | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Economics of Transition | - | - | 113 | C | 116 | 4 | B |
| Environmental & Resource Economics | - | - | 79 | C | 97 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Risk & Insurance | - | - | 101 | C | 218 | - | A |
| Business Ethics Quarterly | - | - | - | C | 337 | - | - |
| Journal of International Business Studies | - | - | - | C | 50 | - | - |
| Manchester School | - | - | - | C | 241 | - | C |
| Real Estate Economics | - | - | 120 | C | 149 | - | B |
| Business History Review | - | - | - | C | 1411 | - | - |
| Journal of Management | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics | - | - | 91 | C | 190 | 3 | B |
| Communications in Statistics - Part A: Theory & Methods | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Fiscal Studies | - | - | - | C | 180 | - | B |
| Economic Modelling | - | - | - | C | 266 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Journal of Business Venturing | - | - | - | C | 61 | - | - |
| Regional Studies | - | - | - | C | 157 | - | - |
| Journal of Labor Research | - | - | - | C | 402 | - | - |
| China Economic Review | - | - | 105 | C | 179 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Economics | - | - | - | C | 367 | 4 | B |
| California Management Review | - | - | - | C | - | - | - |
| Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics | - | - | - | C | 181 | - | C |
| Journal of Economic Psychology | - | - | 98 | C | 196 | - | B |
| Theory & Decision | - | - | - | C | 344 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Agricultural Economics | - | - | - | C | 146 | 4 | B |
| European Review of Agricultural Economics | - | - | - | C | 239 | - | B |
| Small Business Economics | - | - | - | C | 101 | - | B |
| Cambridge Journal of Economics | - | - | - | C | 167 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Housing Economics | - | - | - | C | 174 | - | B |
| Japan and the World Economy | - | - | - | C | 259 | - | C |
| Kyklos | - | - | - | C | 163 | - | B |
| Journal of Policy Modeling | - | - | - | C | 197 | - | B |
| Open Economies Review | - | - | - | C | 214 | - | C |
| Food Policy | - | - | 109 | C | 288 | - | B |
| Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics | - | - | - | C | 185 | - | - |
| Journal of Economic Issues | - | - | - | C | 625 | - | C |
| Quantitative Economics | - | - | - | - | 102 | 2 | - |
| Theoretical Economics | - | - | - | - | 117 | 2 | A |
| American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | - | - | - | - | 25 | 2 | A |
| American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | - | - | - | - | 56 | 2 | B |
| American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | - | - | - | - | 18 | 2 | A |
| American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | - | - | - | - | 125 | 2 | B |
| Brookings Papers on Economic Activity | - | - | 97 | - | 13 | 3 | B |
| Journal of Economic Education | - | - | - | - | 459 | 3 | C |
| Journal of Economic Literature | - | - | 54 | - | 2 | 3 | A |
| Journal of Economic Perspectives | - | - | 45 | - | 9 | 3 | A |
| History of Political Economy | - | - | - | - | 636 | 3 | C |
| Econometrics Journal | - | - | 112 | - | 57 | 4 | B |
| Econometric Reviews | - | - | 90 | - | 77 | 4 | B |
| Economic Record | - | - | - | - | 295 | 4 | C |
| Empirical Economics | - | - | - | - | 169 | 4 | B |
| Europe-Asia Studies | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | B |
| Frontiers of Economics in China | - | - | - | - | 691 | 4 | - |
| International Monetary Fund Economic Review | - | - | - | - | 54 | 4 | B |
| Journal of Transport Economics & Policy | - | - | 119 | - | 141 | 4 | B |
| Mathematical Social Sciences | - | - | - | - | 343 | 4 | - |
| Review of Economic Design | - | - | - | - | 261 | 4 | B |
| The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Policy | - | - | - | - | 187 | 4 | B |
| The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics | - | - | - | - | 106 | 4 | B |
| The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Research Articles) | - | - | - | - | 287 | 4 | B |
| American Political Science Review | - | - | 60 | - | 646 | - | - |
| Journal of Common Market Studies | - | - | 63 | - | 503 | - | - |
| Economy & Society | - | - | 68 | - | - | - | B |
| Water Resources Research | - | - | 83 | - | - | - | - |
| Agricultural Economics | - | - | 103 | - | 135 | - | B |
| Review of Finance | - | - | 104 | - | 118 | - | B |
| International Organization | - | - | 106 | - | 234 | - | - |
| Energy Economics | - | - | 107 | - | 85 | - | B |
| Review of International Economics | - | - | 108 | - | 132 | - | B |
| Journal of Public Economic Theory | - | - | 110 | - | 203 | - | C |
| Economic Geography | - | - | 111 | - | 255 | - | B |
| European Journal of Political Economy | - | - | 114 | - | 103 | - | B |
| Journal of Legal Studies | - | - | 116 | - | 139 | - | - |
| American Law & Economics Review | - | - | 117 | - | 194 | - | B |
| Journal of Empirical Finance | - | - | 118 | - | 69 | - | B |