Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Finance journal rankings 2022
106 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 106 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.95, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 2.24. The top three are The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
106 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 9.33Q1 | 15.30 6.64 down from 2021 | 62 | 32% | $4,028 | ||
2Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.06Q1 | 6.97 0.90 down from 2021 | 573 | 27% | $4,740 | ||
3Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 5.59Q1 | 5.77 1.94 down from 2021 | 425 | 35% | $4,028 | ||
4New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 4.95 0.77 down from 2021 | 185 | 66% | — | ||
5The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 4.30Q1 | 5.17 0.87 down from 2021 | 285 | 42% | $4,430 | ||
6Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 6.01 1.88 up from 2021 | 189 | 25% | $3,060 | ||
7Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 3.99Q1 | 3.93 1.11 down from 2021 | 73 | 35% | $3,960 | ||
8IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 5.13 0.26 down from 2021 | 73 | 68% | — | ||
9Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 5.92 1.76 up from 2021 | 82 | 67% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 3.69Q1 | 5.34 0.68 up from 2021 | 286 | 37% | $2,930 | ||
11Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.58Q1 | 5.76 1.97 up from 2021 | 193 | 37% | $3,470 | ||
12European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 3.39Q1 | 4.51 0.30 down from 2021 | 104 | 45% | $5,071 | ||
13Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 4.49 1.29 down from 2021 | 97 | 74% | — | ||
14Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 3.14Q1 | 5.47 1.65 up from 2021 | 86 | 44% | $2,640 | ||
15Central Bank ReviewOAElsevier BV · Türkiye | 2.97Q1 | 4.34 0.37 up from 2021 | 46 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
16Health Systems & ReformOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.92Q1 | 3.45 1.78 down from 2021 | 63 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
17Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 3.71 0.06 up from 2021 | 644 | 34% | $3,340 | ||
18Departmental PaperOAInternational Monetary Fund | 2.84Q1 | 4.31 1.22 up from 2021 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
19European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 3.89 0.56 down from 2021 | 72 | 59% | $3,900 | ||
20Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.46 0.13 down from 2021 | 1,154 | 23% | — | ||
21International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 3.00 0.11 down from 2021 | 105 | 38% | — | ||
22Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.62 0.56 down from 2021 | 207 | 33% | $2,940 | ||
23Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 1.66 1.83 down from 2021 | 108 | 35% | $2,850 | ||
24Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.88 0.15 down from 2021 | 397 | 39% | $3,130 | ||
25Journal of Financial RegulationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 3.57 1.87 up from 2021 | 32 | 67% | $4,533 | ||
26Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 3.25 0.77 up from 2021 | 94 | 44% | — | ||
27Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.23 0.56 up from 2021 | 382 | 44% | — | ||
28European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q2 | 3.15 0.14 up from 2021 | 312 | 52% | — | ||
29Finance and SocietyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.05Q2 | 2.87 0.87 up from 2021 | 38 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
30IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 2.00Q2 | 1.96 1.16 down from 2021 | 102 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
31Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q2 | 2.40 0.02 down from 2021 | 279 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
32Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.91Q2 | 2.80 0.11 up from 2021 | 96 | 42% | — | ||
33Review of Behavioral FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited | 1.85Q2 | 3.19 1.24 up from 2021 | 139 | 27% | — | ||
34Journal of Banking RegulationPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 2.28 0.45 up from 2021 | 87 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
35Journal of Asset ManagementPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.73Q2 | 2.95 0.55 up from 2021 | 134 | 51% | $3,190 | ||
36Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q2 | 2.16 0.03 up from 2021 | 123 | 34% | $2,950 | ||
37Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 1.45Q2 | 1.28 0.87 down from 2021 | 239 | 40% | $3,800 | ||
38Critical Housing AnalysisOACzechia | 1.42Q2 | 2.21 0.51 up from 2021 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Behavioral FinanceRoutledge · United States | 1.40Q2 | 2.16 0.85 down from 2021 | 129 | 19% | — | ||
40Financial markets and portfolio managementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.37Q2 | 1.77 0.45 down from 2021 | 71 | 50% | $2,290 | ||
41Journal of Central Banking Theory and PracticeOADe Gruyter Open · Montenegro | 1.31Q2 | 2.17 0.53 down from 2021 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
42Health Economics ReviewOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 3.11 0.24 up from 2021 | 121 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
| 1.19Q2 | 2.24 0.74 up from 2021 | 47 | 100% | $86 | |||
44Probability Uncertainty and Quantitative RiskSpringer Nature · China | 1.19Q2 | 1.70 0.83 down from 2021 | 33 | 74% | — | ||
45Quantitative FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.54 0.42 down from 2021 | 347 | 42% | — | ||
46Journal of Financial Regulation and ComplianceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.75 0.44 up from 2021 | 100 | 20% | — | ||
47The Journal of Financial ResearchWiley · United States | 1.14Q2 | 1.87 0.33 up from 2021 | 85 | 29% | $3,470 | ||
48Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.99 0.59 down from 2021 | 110 | 46% | $4,851 | ||
49Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 1.63 1.01 down from 2021 | 60 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
50Radical Housing JournalOAUnited Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.01no change | 101 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
26 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 106
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,347 +4.6% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.95 -6.5% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.