Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Finance journal rankings 2003
73 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 73 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR fell 0.22 on 2002 to 1.13, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.70. The top three are Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance (3)
73 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.29Q1 | 5.89 0.88 up from 2002 | 193 | 7% | $4,740 | ||
2The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.81Q1 | 6.47 1.62 up from 2002 | 351 | 22% | $4,430 | ||
3Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 7.38Q1 | 5.06 1.41 up from 2002 | 136 | 9% | $4,028 | ||
4Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.03Q1 | 1.89 1.90 down from 2002 | 122 | 4% | — | ||
5Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.05Q1 | 2.60 0.55 up from 2002 | 457 | 6% | — | ||
6The Journal of BusinessUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.75Q1 | 2.11 0.22 up from 2002 | 83 | 12% | — | ||
7Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 1.97 0.75 down from 2002 | 99 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
8IMF Staff PapersSpringer Nature · United States | 4.48Q1 | 2.20 0.35 up from 2002 | 81 | 18% | — | ||
9New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.19Q1 | 1.91 0.56 up from 2002 | 97 | 7% | — | ||
10Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 3.90Q1 | 1.90 0.19 up from 2002 | 157 | 23% | $3,800 | ||
11Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.81Q1 | 2.25 0.29 up from 2002 | 326 | 10% | $3,340 | ||
12European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 1.04 0.37 down from 2002 | 82 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
13Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 2.05 0.50 up from 2002 | 139 | 15% | $3,130 | ||
14Finance and StochasticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.29Q1 | 2.50 0.06 up from 2002 | 76 | 7% | $2,090 | ||
15Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.14Q1 | 1.82 0.31 down from 2002 | 60 | 15% | $2,950 | ||
16Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 3.02Q1 | 1.43 0.02 up from 2002 | 67 | 5% | $3,960 | ||
17Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 3.00Q1 | 1.77 0.18 up from 2002 | 69 | 17% | $2,850 | ||
18Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 1.24 0.23 down from 2002 | 71 | 8% | $2,940 | ||
19Mathematical FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 1.21 0.90 down from 2002 | 79 | 31% | $3,840 | ||
20Brookings-Wharton papers on financial servicesBrookings Institution Press · United States | 2.37Q2 | 1.46 0.08 up from 2002 | 52 | 22% | — | ||
21Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.19Q2 | 1.24 0.08 up from 2002 | 149 | 7% | — | ||
22The Journal of RiskUnited Kingdom | 2.16Q2 | 1.29 0.16 down from 2002 | 52 | 12% | — | ||
23Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q2 | 1.11 0.24 down from 2002 | 168 | 5% | — | ||
24Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q2 | 1.21 0.26 up from 2002 | 198 | 13% | — | ||
25Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.77Q2 | 1.37 0.55 up from 2002 | 90 | 23% | $3,090 | ||
26European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 1.74Q2 | 0.82 0.45 up from 2002 | 46 | 21% | $5,071 | ||
27Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 1.73Q2 | 0.61 0.18 down from 2002 | 98 | 14% | $2,640 | ||
28Applied Mathematics & OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.69Q2 | 1.04 0.38 down from 2002 | 105 | 4% | $3,890 | ||
29The Journal of Financial ResearchWiley · United States | 1.56Q2 | 1.07 0.19 up from 2002 | 99 | 10% | $3,470 | ||
30Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 0.48 0.31 down from 2002 | 42 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
31Stochastic Processes and their ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q2 | 1.18 0.29 up from 2002 | 302 | 95% | $3,520 | ||
32The Journal of Portfolio ManagementEuromoney Institutional Investor · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.09 0.18 up from 2002 | 133 | 2% | — | ||
33The Journal of DerivativesUnited States | 1.32Q2 | 0.59 0.18 down from 2002 | 79 | 13% | — | ||
34Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 0.58 0.10 down from 2002 | 56 | 14% | $3,060 | ||
35Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 1.24Q2 | 0.69 0.10 up from 2002 | 76 | 2% | $2,930 | ||
36International Journal of Theoretical and Applied FinanceWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.23Q2 | 0.71 0.05 up from 2002 | 179 | 17% | — | ||
37Journal of Time Series AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.86 0.23 down from 2002 | 115 | 22% | $3,510 | ||
38Applied Mathematical FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q3 | 0.34 0.32 down from 2002 | 43 | 24% | — | ||
39Multinational Finance JournalCyprus | 1.06Q3 | 0.57 0.24 up from 2002 | 33 | 64% | — | ||
40ExtremesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q3 | 0.67 0.22 down from 2002 | 56 | 0% | $2,290 | ||
41Journal of Futures MarketsWiley · United States | 1.03Q3 | 0.85 0.22 up from 2002 | 188 | 8% | $3,240 | ||
42The Journal of Fixed IncomeEuromoney Institutional Investor · United States | 1.02Q3 | 0.48 0.15 down from 2002 | 96 | 3% | — | ||
43Stochastics and DynamicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.91Q3 | 0.75 0.15 up from 2002 | 56 | 25% | — | ||
44Journal of Theoretical ProbabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.87Q3 | 0.54 0.08 up from 2002 | 138 | 2% | $3,290 | ||
45Stochastics and stochastics reportsNetherlands | 0.84Q3 | 0.55 0.14 down from 2002 | 83 | 9% | — | ||
46ESAIM Probability and StatisticsEDP Sciences · France | 0.73Q3 | 0.58 0.04 down from 2002 | 39 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
47The Engineering EconomistTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q3 | 0.51 0.18 down from 2002 | 59 | 8% | — | ||
48Decisions in Economics and FinanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.70Q3 | 0.36 0.22 down from 2002 | 30 | 11% | $3,290 | ||
49Applied Financial EconomicsChapman and Hall London · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.35no change | 234 | 5% | — | ||
50Statistical Inference for Stochastic ProcessesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.61Q3 | 0.41 0.10 down from 2002 | 57 | 0% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 73
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,477 +24.2% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 1.130 -3.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 58 | 60 | 64 | 73 | 76 | 74 | 80 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 96 | 94 | 96 | 103 | 105 | 106 | 109 | 110 | 110 | 104 | 106 | 104 | 100 | 102 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,873 | 16,127 | 17,063 | 18,477 | 19,957 | 21,578 | 22,968 | 24,559 | 26,399 | 28,443 | 31,442 | 34,341 | 38,022 | 40,267 | 42,599 | 44,163 | 45,475 | 45,495 | 44,400 | 43,351 | 43,275 | 44,572 | 45,347 | 44,439 | 43,606 | 45,261 | |
| Median OJR | 1.17 | 1.24 | 1.35 | 1.130 | 1.07 | 1.195 | 1.133 | 1.27 | 1.36 | 1.31 | 1.252 | 1.198 | 1.26 | 1.33 | 1.23 | 1.18 | 1.06 | 1.020 | 1.254 | 1.017 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 1.03 | 1.11 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.