Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Finance journal rankings 2016
105 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 105 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2015 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.34. The top three are The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
105 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 12.50Q1 | 6.43 0.31 down from 2015 | 280 | 21% | $4,430 | ||
2Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.04Q1 | 5.43 0.76 up from 2015 | 402 | 21% | $4,740 | ||
3Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 7.68Q1 | 4.33 0.50 up from 2015 | 343 | 23% | $4,028 | ||
4IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 6.85Q1 | 2.77 3.34 down from 2015 | 84 | 10% | — | ||
5Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 5.69Q1 | 3.18 0.34 down from 2015 | 77 | 38% | $3,960 | ||
6European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 2.73 0.80 up from 2015 | 113 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 4.74Q1 | 2.64 0.10 up from 2015 | 250 | 51% | $3,800 | ||
8New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 3.78 1.39 up from 2015 | 115 | 51% | — | ||
9Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 2.46 0.12 down from 2015 | 198 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
10Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.44Q1 | 2.71 0.13 up from 2015 | 113 | 19% | $3,060 | ||
11Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 2.50 0.06 down from 2015 | 932 | 27% | $3,340 | ||
12Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.14Q1 | 2.45 0.17 up from 2015 | 351 | 24% | $3,130 | ||
13Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 3.76 2.54 up from 2015 | 119 | 50% | — | ||
14Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.95Q1 | 3.19 0.29 up from 2015 | 775 | 28% | — | ||
15Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.93Q1 | 1.24 2.76 down from 2015 | 88 | 23% | $2,950 | ||
16European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 2.16 0.35 down from 2015 | 193 | 31% | $5,071 | ||
17Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 3.65Q1 | 2.27 0.26 up from 2015 | 261 | 26% | $2,930 | ||
18Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 2.86 0.32 up from 2015 | 186 | 31% | $3,470 | ||
19Review of Development FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.63Q1 | 2.04 0.51 up from 2015 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
20Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 1.59 1.00 down from 2015 | 77 | 35% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 2.22 0.47 up from 2015 | 83 | 21% | $4,851 | ||
22Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 1.62 0.04 up from 2015 | 313 | 18% | — | ||
23Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 2.84Q1 | 1.06 0.43 down from 2015 | 118 | 19% | $2,850 | ||
24Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 2.62Q1 | 1.24 0.17 down from 2015 | 108 | 13% | $2,640 | ||
25Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 1.68 0.02 down from 2015 | 73 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
26International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 1.59 0.41 down from 2015 | 83 | 21% | — | ||
27Review of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.34Q1 | 0.93 0.44 down from 2015 | 71 | 9% | $3,470 | ||
28The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 1.08 0.51 down from 2015 | 38 | 9% | $4,028 | ||
29Health Systems & ReformOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q2 | 1.60 0.40 down from 2015 | 30 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
30Journal of Futures MarketsWiley · United States | 2.15Q2 | 1.56 0.27 down from 2015 | 163 | 22% | $3,240 | ||
31Mathematical FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q2 | 1.06 0.47 down from 2015 | 92 | 32% | $3,840 | ||
32Finance and StochasticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.04Q2 | 1.72 0.36 down from 2015 | 81 | 50% | $2,090 | ||
33Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q2 | 1.25 0.26 down from 2015 | 216 | 37% | $2,940 | ||
34Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q2 | 1.50 0.07 down from 2015 | 78 | 36% | — | ||
35Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 1.66 0.50 up from 2015 | 385 | 35% | — | ||
36SIAM Journal on Financial MathematicsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.63Q2 | 1.16 0.63 down from 2015 | 103 | 44% | — | ||
37ExtremesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 1.94 0.11 up from 2015 | 70 | 58% | $2,290 | ||
38Applied Mathematical FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.28 0.34 up from 2015 | 50 | 37% | — | ||
39Quarterly Journal of FinanceWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.55Q2 | 1.33 0.56 up from 2015 | 66 | 16% | — | ||
40Financial Markets Institutions and InstrumentsWiley · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.16 0.11 up from 2015 | 30 | 36% | $2,900 | ||
41Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Analysis and ComputationsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.21 0.24 up from 2015 | 64 | 90% | $3,190 | ||
42IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 1.46Q2 | 0.84 0.06 down from 2015 | 134 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
43European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 0.82 0.24 down from 2015 | 172 | 35% | — | ||
44Annual Review of Financial EconomicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.80 0.32 up from 2015 | 55 | 31% | — | ||
45Investment Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 1.30Q2 | 0.96 0.04 up from 2015 | 39 | 8% | — | ||
46Stochastic Processes and their ApplicationsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q2 | 1.03 0.32 down from 2015 | 506 | 100% | $3,520 | ||
47Journal of Behavioral FinanceRoutledge · United States | 1.25Q2 | 0.93 0.01 down from 2015 | 81 | 8% | — | ||
48Applied Financial EconomicsChapman and Hall London · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 0.77 0.26 up from 2015 | 213 | — | — | ||
49Journal of financial perspectivesUnited Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.00 0.47 up from 2015 | 62 | — | — | ||
50Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.94 0.33 down from 2015 | 150 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,475 +12.9% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.06 -20.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.