Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Finance journal rankings 2018
109 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 109 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.23 on 2017 to 1.25, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.26. The top three are Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Finance, and Economy and Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
109 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.70Q1 | 6.01 0.99 up from 2017 | 370 | 32% | $4,740 | ||
2The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 8.67Q1 | 5.12 0.27 down from 2017 | 272 | 27% | $4,430 | ||
3Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 2.86 1.65 down from 2017 | 75 | 43% | — | ||
4Review of Development FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.74Q1 | 5.18 2.68 up from 2017 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
5Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 6.70Q1 | 4.29 0.03 down from 2017 | 371 | 36% | $4,028 | ||
6Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.77Q1 | 3.63 0.69 up from 2017 | 139 | 12% | $3,060 | ||
7European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.62Q1 | 2.42 0.01 down from 2017 | 72 | 46% | $3,900 | ||
8New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 3.51 0.26 up from 2017 | 137 | 48% | — | ||
9IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 3.76 0.10 down from 2017 | 88 | 24% | — | ||
10Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 4.09Q1 | 3.13 0.70 up from 2017 | 206 | 47% | $3,800 | ||
11Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 3.75Q1 | 3.14 0.47 up from 2017 | 82 | 15% | $3,960 | ||
12Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.74Q1 | 2.74 0.21 up from 2017 | 650 | 30% | $3,340 | ||
13Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 2.56 0.33 up from 2017 | 246 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
14Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.54Q1 | 2.75 0.15 down from 2017 | 970 | 19% | — | ||
15Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 3.46Q1 | 2.70 0.63 up from 2017 | 240 | 37% | $2,930 | ||
16Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 2.91 0.39 up from 2017 | 255 | 33% | $3,470 | ||
17Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 2.25 0.19 down from 2017 | 361 | 33% | $3,130 | ||
18Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 2.67 0.56 up from 2017 | 292 | 39% | — | ||
19Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 3.58 2.04 up from 2017 | 71 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
20European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 2.32 0.66 up from 2017 | 205 | 41% | $5,071 | ||
21Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 2.50 0.93 up from 2017 | 95 | 41% | — | ||
22Health Systems & ReformOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.80Q1 | 2.22 0.04 up from 2017 | 93 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
23International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 2.49 0.83 up from 2017 | 104 | 27% | — | ||
24Financial Markets Institutions and InstrumentsWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 1.50 0.14 up from 2017 | 30 | 29% | $2,900 | ||
25Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 2.21 0.13 up from 2017 | 71 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
26Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 1.27 0.48 down from 2017 | 58 | 50% | $4,851 | ||
27Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 2.27Q1 | 1.27 0.12 up from 2017 | 106 | 19% | $2,850 | ||
28Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 1.66 0.42 up from 2017 | 250 | 34% | $2,940 | ||
29Quarterly Journal of FinanceWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.19Q2 | 0.94 0.57 down from 2017 | 63 | 5% | — | ||
30The Journal of Finance and Data ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 2.16Q2 | 1.86 0.76 up from 2017 | 32 | 100% | $550 | ||
31Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q2 | 1.21 0.05 down from 2017 | 111 | 5% | $2,640 | ||
32Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q2 | 1.60 0.37 up from 2017 | 94 | 26% | $2,950 | ||
33Market Microstructure and LiquidityWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.97Q2 | 0.62 1.42 down from 2017 | 39 | 42% | — | ||
34Finance and StochasticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.88Q2 | 2.06 0.14 up from 2017 | 94 | 63% | $2,090 | ||
35IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 1.83Q2 | 1.01 0.05 up from 2017 | 122 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
36Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 1.40 0.05 up from 2017 | 138 | 19% | — | ||
37Review of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.68Q2 | 1.34 0.27 up from 2017 | 89 | 26% | $3,470 | ||
38Mathematical FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q2 | 1.37 0.23 down from 2017 | 61 | 64% | $3,840 | ||
39Journal of Financial RegulationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.24 0.24 up from 2017 | 48 | 0% | $4,533 | ||
40Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 1.58 0.10 up from 2017 | 350 | 32% | — | ||
41European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 1.42 0.29 up from 2017 | 154 | 36% | — | ||
42Investment Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 1.60Q2 | 1.58 0.50 up from 2017 | 50 | 30% | — | ||
43IFDP NotesUnited States | 1.58Q2 | 1.40 5.84 down from 2017 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
44SIAM Journal on Financial MathematicsSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.69 0.53 up from 2017 | 107 | 55% | — | ||
45Journal of financial perspectivesUnited Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 0.33 1.21 down from 2017 | 32 | — | — | ||
46Health Economics ReviewOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.47Q2 | 2.01 0.35 down from 2017 | 140 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
47Journal of Futures MarketsWiley · United States | 1.43Q2 | 1.34 0.01 up from 2017 | 177 | 25% | $3,240 | ||
48Journal of Behavioral FinanceRoutledge · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.11 0.07 down from 2017 | 117 | 11% | — | ||
49ExtremesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 1.82 0.43 up from 2017 | 88 | 67% | $2,290 | ||
50Finance and SocietyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 1.21 0.73 up from 2017 | 53 | 100% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 109
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,400 +0.5% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.254 +6.2% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.