Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Finance journal rankings 2020
110 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 110 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 2.35. The top three are Review of Development Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and The Journal of Finance.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
110 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Review of Development FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.53Q1 | 6.31 2.27 up from 2019 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
2Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.84Q1 | 7.41 1.06 up from 2019 | 431 | 30% | $4,740 | ||
3The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 6.53Q1 | 6.11 0.63 up from 2019 | 270 | 29% | $4,430 | ||
4Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 5.51Q1 | 6.05 1.58 up from 2019 | 418 | 27% | $4,028 | ||
5New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 5.09 0.75 up from 2019 | 175 | 42% | — | ||
6Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.84Q1 | 4.86 0.80 up from 2019 | 156 | 21% | $3,060 | ||
7IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 5.04 1.97 up from 2019 | 73 | 23% | — | ||
8The Journal of Finance and Data ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 4.38Q1 | 5.84 1.91 up from 2019 | 36 | 100% | $550 | ||
9Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 4.22Q1 | 4.15 0.57 up from 2019 | 239 | 30% | $2,930 | ||
10European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 4.54no change | 71 | 77% | $3,900 | ||
11Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 3.84Q1 | 4.50 1.20 up from 2019 | 95 | 35% | $3,960 | ||
12Finance and SocietyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 1.92 2.14 down from 2019 | 41 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 3.72Q1 | 4.99 1.95 up from 2019 | 103 | 22% | $2,640 | ||
14Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 3.67 0.37 up from 2019 | 620 | 34% | $3,340 | ||
15European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 3.83 0.35 up from 2019 | 123 | 37% | $5,071 | ||
16Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.43Q1 | 3.79 0.22 up from 2019 | 187 | 38% | $3,470 | ||
17Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 4.50 1.31 up from 2019 | 80 | 41% | — | ||
18Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.32Q1 | 3.09 0.21 up from 2019 | 367 | 36% | $3,130 | ||
19Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 2.84 0.12 up from 2019 | 393 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
20Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.19Q1 | 4.02 0.32 up from 2019 | 843 | 29% | — | ||
21Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 3.48 0.37 down from 2019 | 79 | 54% | $3,650 | ||
22Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 3.06 0.12 up from 2019 | 203 | 34% | $2,940 | ||
23Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 2.52Q1 | 2.51 0.41 up from 2019 | 251 | 45% | $3,800 | ||
24Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.25 0.76 up from 2019 | 126 | 24% | $2,850 | ||
25IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 2.50Q1 | 3.10 1.02 up from 2019 | 124 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
26Health Systems & ReformOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.47Q1 | 3.52 1.47 up from 2019 | 83 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
27Central Bank ReviewOAElsevier BV · Türkiye | 2.36Q1 | 1.96 0.15 down from 2019 | 42 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
28International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 2.98 0.16 up from 2019 | 81 | 40% | — | ||
29Departmental PaperOAInternational Monetary Fund | 2.32Q2 | 3.03 1.81 up from 2019 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
30Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.28Q2 | 2.33 0.77 up from 2019 | 127 | 58% | — | ||
31Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.23Q2 | 2.56 0.34 up from 2019 | 322 | 34% | — | ||
32Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.17Q2 | 2.23 0.18 up from 2019 | 105 | 48% | — | ||
33Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q2 | 2.05 0.08 down from 2019 | 99 | 21% | $2,950 | ||
34Journal of Financial Regulation and ComplianceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.82Q2 | 1.49 0.47 down from 2019 | 98 | 20% | — | ||
35Finance and StochasticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.77Q2 | 1.98 0.32 down from 2019 | 93 | 74% | $2,090 | ||
36Journal of Central Banking Theory and PracticeOADe Gruyter Open · Montenegro | 1.70Q2 | 3.12 1.56 up from 2019 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
37The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 2.75 1.60 up from 2019 | 36 | 67% | $4,028 | ||
38European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 1.95 0.47 up from 2019 | 219 | 44% | — | ||
39Health Economics ReviewOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.48Q2 | 3.06 0.57 up from 2019 | 120 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
40Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.04 0.67 up from 2019 | 360 | 40% | — | ||
41Critical Finance ReviewNow Publishers · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.12 0.76 down from 2019 | 37 | 23% | — | ||
42Review of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.39Q2 | 1.14 0.23 down from 2019 | 86 | 34% | $3,470 | ||
43Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.57 0.23 up from 2019 | 95 | 40% | $4,851 | ||
44Review of Behavioral FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited | 1.31Q2 | 1.64 0.42 up from 2019 | 80 | 13% | — | ||
45Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 1.60 0.49 up from 2019 | 57 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
46Journal of Financial RegulationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.05 0.62 down from 2019 | 33 | 64% | $4,533 | ||
47Financial Markets Institutions and InstrumentsWiley · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.68 1.02 up from 2019 | 30 | 38% | $2,900 | ||
48Journal of Behavioral FinanceRoutledge · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.70 0.38 up from 2019 | 132 | 13% | — | ||
49Journal of Futures MarketsWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.46 0.03 up from 2019 | 255 | 22% | $3,240 | ||
50Annual Review of Financial EconomicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.16Q2 | 4.33 1.02 up from 2019 | 47 | 56% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 110
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,275 -4.9% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.98 -4.2% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.