Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Finance journal rankings 2012
96 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 96 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2011 to 1.26, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.83. The top three are The Journal of Finance, IMF Economic Review, and Journal of Financial Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
96 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 11.32Q1 | 5.79 0.16 down from 2011 | 243 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
2IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 11.31Q1 | 6.00 1.56 down from 2011 | 41 | 36% | — | ||
3Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.41Q1 | 4.36 0.37 down from 2011 | 417 | 24% | $4,740 | ||
4Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 9.21Q1 | 4.28 0.85 down from 2011 | 331 | 12% | $4,028 | ||
5IMF Staff PapersSpringer Nature · United States | 6.24Q1 | —no 2011 value | 43 | — | — | ||
6European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 2.44 0.09 down from 2011 | 88 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
7IMF Staff Position NoteInternational Monetary Fund | 4.82Q1 | 5.37 0.59 up from 2011 | 49 | — | — | ||
8Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 1.13no change | 204 | 7% | — | ||
9Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 4.56Q1 | 2.07 0.45 down from 2011 | 144 | 21% | $2,850 | ||
10Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 4.20Q1 | 1.94 0.09 down from 2011 | 265 | 32% | $3,800 | ||
11Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 3.95Q1 | 1.22 0.79 down from 2011 | 78 | 15% | $3,960 | ||
12New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 2.55 0.84 up from 2011 | 123 | 26% | — | ||
13Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.83Q1 | 1.94 0.07 down from 2011 | 264 | 23% | $3,130 | ||
14Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 2.78 0.47 down from 2011 | 76 | 33% | $3,470 | ||
15OECD Journal Financial Market TrendsOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development | 3.73Q1 | 2.11 0.06 down from 2011 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
16Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 2.24 0.19 up from 2011 | 224 | 57% | $3,550 | ||
17Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.54Q1 | 2.36 0.01 down from 2011 | 749 | 15% | $3,340 | ||
18European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 2.14 0.66 up from 2011 | 88 | 39% | $5,071 | ||
19SIAM Journal on Financial MathematicsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.26Q1 | 2.18 0.12 up from 2011 | 72 | 32% | — | ||
20Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.17Q1 | 2.18 0.21 up from 2011 | 669 | 13% | — | ||
21Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 2.02 0.73 up from 2011 | 70 | 17% | — | ||
22Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.96Q1 | 2.36 0.57 down from 2011 | 75 | 20% | $3,060 | ||
23Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 1.54 0.52 up from 2011 | 304 | 9% | — | ||
24Finance and StochasticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.83Q1 | 2.10 0.08 down from 2011 | 79 | 44% | $2,090 | ||
25Mathematical FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q2 | 1.76 0.13 down from 2011 | 131 | 33% | $3,840 | ||
26Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.56Q2 | 1.50 0.27 down from 2011 | 68 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
27Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q2 | 1.85 0.42 up from 2011 | 76 | 7% | $2,950 | ||
28Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q2 | 1.62 0.30 up from 2011 | 164 | 11% | $2,940 | ||
29Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.36Q2 | 1.66 0.51 up from 2011 | 78 | 20% | $4,851 | ||
30International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.03Q2 | 1.24 0.31 up from 2011 | 72 | 5% | — | ||
31Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.03Q2 | 0.91 0.68 down from 2011 | 56 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
32Applied Mathematics & OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.75Q2 | 1.17no change | 92 | 16% | $3,890 | ||
33Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 1.71Q2 | 0.96 0.25 up from 2011 | 92 | 3% | $2,640 | ||
34European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 0.88 0.07 up from 2011 | 162 | 15% | — | ||
35Journal of Time Series AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.10 0.75 down from 2011 | 157 | 17% | $3,510 | ||
36ExtremesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 1.66 0.06 up from 2011 | 60 | 24% | $2,290 | ||
37Mathematics and Financial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.60Q2 | 1.08 0.30 down from 2011 | 44 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
38Applied Mathematical FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 1.24 0.20 up from 2011 | 71 | 26% | — | ||
39Financial Markets Institutions and InstrumentsWiley · United States | 1.56Q2 | 1.00 0.11 up from 2011 | 52 | 0% | $2,900 | ||
40Annual Review of Financial EconomicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.55Q2 | 2.51 0.11 down from 2011 | 56 | 20% | — | ||
41Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 1.51Q2 | 0.96 0.18 down from 2011 | 148 | 19% | $2,930 | ||
42The Journal of Portfolio ManagementEuromoney Institutional Investor · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.16 0.17 up from 2011 | 205 | 6% | — | ||
43Stochastic Processes and their ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 1.32 0.06 down from 2011 | 372 | 98% | $3,520 | ||
44Journal of Financial Regulation and ComplianceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 0.72 0.01 up from 2011 | 89 | 8% | — | ||
45Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 1.01 0.01 up from 2011 | 429 | 27% | — | ||
46Journal of Time Series EconometricsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.40Q2 | 0.67 0.08 down from 2011 | 38 | 22% | $2,712 | ||
47Journal of Futures MarketsWiley · United States | 1.35Q2 | 0.98 0.16 up from 2011 | 192 | 14% | $3,240 | ||
48Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.09no change | 178 | 9% | — | ||
49The Journal of DerivativesUnited States | 1.20Q3 | 0.85 0.28 down from 2011 | 84 | 3% | — | ||
50Annals of FinanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q3 | 0.83 0.02 down from 2011 | 73 | 20% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 96
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,022 +33.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.26 -3.8% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 |
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| 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.