Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Finance journal rankings 2015
103 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 103 ranked journals in 2015. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.18 against 1.00, down 0.05 on 2014. A journal needs OJR 2.61 to reach Q1. The top three are The Journal of Finance, IMF Economic Review, and Journal of Financial Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
103 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 10.90Q1 | 6.74 0.60 up from 2014 | 283 | 24% | $4,430 | ||
2IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 9.34Q1 | 6.11 1.04 up from 2014 | 67 | 26% | — | ||
3Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.04Q1 | 4.67 0.19 up from 2014 | 445 | 24% | $4,740 | ||
4Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 7.42Q1 | 3.83no change | 348 | 20% | $4,028 | ||
5Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 5.46Q1 | 3.52 0.07 down from 2014 | 87 | 30% | $3,960 | ||
6Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.29Q1 | 2.58 0.55 down from 2014 | 120 | 26% | $3,060 | ||
7European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 1.93 0.09 up from 2014 | 155 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
8Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.62Q1 | 4.00 0.02 down from 2014 | 83 | 11% | $2,950 | ||
9Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.28Q1 | 2.28 0.57 down from 2014 | 380 | 22% | $3,130 | ||
10Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 4.27Q1 | 2.53 0.17 up from 2014 | 251 | 32% | $3,800 | ||
11Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 4.18Q1 | 2.90 0.43 up from 2014 | 738 | 20% | — | ||
12European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 4.16Q1 | 2.51 0.40 up from 2014 | 164 | 54% | $5,071 | ||
13The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.14Q1 | 1.58 1.92 down from 2014 | 32 | 20% | $4,028 | ||
14New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 2.38 0.08 up from 2014 | 127 | 39% | — | ||
15Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.01Q1 | 2.56 0.06 up from 2014 | 938 | 26% | $3,340 | ||
16Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 2.58 0.44 up from 2014 | 195 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
17Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 2.59 1.00 up from 2014 | 66 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
18Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.60Q1 | 2.55 0.30 down from 2014 | 151 | 19% | $3,470 | ||
19Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 3.38Q1 | 2.01 0.12 down from 2014 | 271 | 35% | $2,930 | ||
20OECD Journal Financial Market TrendsOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development | 3.07Q1 | 3.00 0.42 up from 2014 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
21Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 3.04Q1 | 1.48 0.08 up from 2014 | 133 | 24% | $2,850 | ||
22Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 2.77Q1 | 1.42 0.21 up from 2014 | 101 | 27% | $2,640 | ||
23SIAM Journal on Financial MathematicsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.74Q1 | 1.78 0.22 down from 2014 | 88 | 51% | — | ||
24Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 1.57 0.19 up from 2014 | 74 | 24% | — | ||
25Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 1.22 0.09 up from 2014 | 166 | 56% | — | ||
26Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 1.58 0.05 up from 2014 | 316 | 17% | — | ||
27Finance and StochasticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.51Q2 | 2.08 0.32 up from 2014 | 79 | 34% | $2,090 | ||
28Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.37Q2 | 1.51 0.21 up from 2014 | 194 | 31% | $2,940 | ||
29Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.36Q2 | 1.76 0.01 up from 2014 | 91 | 16% | $4,851 | ||
30Mathematical FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.29Q2 | 1.53 0.39 down from 2014 | 125 | 58% | $3,840 | ||
31Review of Development FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q2 | 1.53 0.90 up from 2014 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Time Series AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 2.28Q2 | 1.33 0.94 down from 2014 | 158 | 25% | $3,510 | ||
33ExtremesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.21Q2 | 1.83 0.49 up from 2014 | 63 | 54% | $2,290 | ||
34Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.19Q2 | 1.70 0.18 up from 2014 | 82 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
35International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.13Q2 | 2.00 1.07 up from 2014 | 74 | 12% | — | ||
36Journal of Futures MarketsWiley · United States | 2.12Q2 | 1.83 0.74 up from 2014 | 164 | 16% | $3,240 | ||
37Quarterly Journal of FinanceWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.08Q2 | 0.77 0.60 down from 2014 | 59 | 11% | — | ||
38Review of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q2 | 1.36 0.14 up from 2014 | 67 | 28% | $3,470 | ||
39European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 1.06 0.14 up from 2014 | 212 | 31% | — | ||
40The Journal of Financial Market InfrastructuresUnited Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 1.21 0.82 up from 2014 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
41Investment Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 1.59Q2 | 0.93 0.12 down from 2014 | 38 | 17% | — | ||
42Stochastic Processes and their ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q2 | 1.35 0.20 down from 2014 | 506 | 100% | $3,520 | ||
43Mathematics and Financial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.51Q2 | 0.68 0.70 down from 2014 | 69 | 39% | $3,290 | ||
44Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 1.27 0.19 up from 2014 | 171 | 2% | — | ||
45Annual Review of Financial EconomicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.44Q2 | 2.48 0.72 down from 2014 | 52 | 30% | — | ||
46Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 1.16 0.16 up from 2014 | 402 | 19% | — | ||
47Health Economics ReviewOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.40Q2 | 1.43 0.96 down from 2014 | 89 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
48Applied Mathematics & OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.33Q2 | 1.31 0.15 up from 2014 | 119 | 38% | $3,890 | ||
49Annals of FinanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q2 | 1.20 0.61 up from 2014 | 70 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
50IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 1.29Q2 | 0.90 0.37 up from 2014 | 138 | 100% | $1,200 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
38 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 103
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,163 +16.2% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.18 -6.4% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.