Top 20 Journals in Social Sciences Ranked by h5-index (2024)

List of Top Journals in Social Sciences Ranked by h5-index (2024)

Publication h5-index h5-median
1 Computers & Education 147 223
2 Journal of Business Ethics 136 192
3 Nature Human Behaviour 114 196
4 Business Strategy and the Environment 105 154
5 Social Science & Medicine 105 144
6 New Media & Society 103 169
7 Land Use Policy 103 130
8 Energy Research & Social Science 102 151
9 Research Policy 101 152
10 American Journal of Public Health 95 151
11 Current Issues in Tourism 94 143
12 Cities 93 121
13 Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 92 144
14 Education and Information Technologies 91 125
15 Global Environmental Change 90 132
16 Resources Policy 89 124
17 Teaching and Teacher Education 88 142
18 Health Affairs 87 142
19 British Journal of Educational Technology 86 110
20 Annals of Tourism Research 85 133

What is h5-index?

The h5-index is a bibliometric indicator created by Google Scholar that measures the number of articles published in the last five years that have at least h citations each. The h is the largest number of articles that have each been cited h times. For example, an h5-index of 60 means that a journal has published 60 articles in the past five years that have 60 or more citations each.

You can find the h5-index on scholar.google.com.

The h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

Journal Impact in Google Scholar

  • h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.
  • h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6.
  • h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For example, the h-median of the publication above is 9. The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.

What are h5-index and h5-median

  • h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. For example, h5-index for 2023 is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2018-2022 have at least h citations each.

          For example,

For 2023, h5-index  for Nature of 365 means that 365 articles published in Nature in 2018-2022 have received at least 365 citations each.

  • h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index

Both the H5-index and H5-median are available in Google Scholar Metrics. Journals can be browsed by discipline (more information about disciplines is available in Journal Rankings) or searched by keyword.



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