Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Finance journal rankings 2023
104 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 104 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.97, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 2.17. The top three are Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and European Finance Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
104 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.32Q1 | 10.16 3.19 up from 2022 | 513 | 64% | $4,740 | ||
2The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.92Q1 | 2.06 13.24 down from 2022 | 74 | 50% | $4,028 | ||
3European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 4.79Q1 | 7.16 2.65 up from 2022 | 149 | 73% | $5,071 | ||
4New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 6.27 1.32 up from 2022 | 179 | 72% | — | ||
5Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 4.18Q1 | 5.30 0.47 down from 2022 | 378 | 36% | $4,028 | ||
6The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 4.01Q1 | 5.14 0.04 down from 2022 | 277 | 64% | $4,430 | ||
7Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 3.99Q1 | 6.43 1.10 up from 2022 | 372 | 49% | $2,930 | ||
8Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 4.52 1.40 down from 2022 | 97 | 73% | $3,650 | ||
9Departmental PaperOAInternational Monetary Fund | 3.78Q1 | 6.06 1.75 up from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
10Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.76Q1 | 6.24 0.22 up from 2022 | 213 | 28% | $3,060 | ||
11Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 7.07 1.31 up from 2022 | 217 | 51% | $3,470 | ||
12Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 4.52 0.03 up from 2022 | 98 | 77% | — | ||
13Central Bank ReviewOAElsevier BV · Türkiye | 3.35Q1 | 3.88 0.47 down from 2022 | 44 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
14Journal of Financial RegulationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 2.39 1.17 down from 2022 | 34 | 69% | $4,533 | ||
15IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 4.34 0.78 down from 2022 | 86 | 32% | — | ||
16The Journal of Finance and Data ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 2.94Q1 | 6.27 1.87 up from 2022 | 33 | 100% | $550 | ||
17European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 3.35 0.55 down from 2022 | 85 | 75% | $3,900 | ||
18Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 2.71Q1 | 4.02 1.45 down from 2022 | 86 | 36% | $2,640 | ||
19Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.65Q1 | 4.27 0.56 up from 2022 | 647 | 46% | $3,340 | ||
20Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 2.55Q1 | 4.04 0.11 up from 2022 | 77 | 21% | $3,960 | ||
21Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.50Q1 | 4.19 0.27 down from 2022 | 1,272 | 22% | — | ||
22Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.33 0.91 down from 2022 | 93 | 64% | — | ||
23Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 3.33 0.09 up from 2022 | 369 | 49% | — | ||
24Health Systems & ReformOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.41 1.04 down from 2022 | 72 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
25Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 3.50 0.61 up from 2022 | 421 | 39% | $3,130 | ||
26Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 2.17Q1 | 3.30 1.64 up from 2022 | 87 | 42% | $2,850 | ||
27Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q2 | 3.56 0.76 up from 2022 | 89 | 46% | — | ||
28International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.10Q2 | 2.82 0.18 down from 2022 | 105 | 49% | — | ||
29European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q2 | 2.53 0.62 down from 2022 | 303 | 44% | — | ||
30Review of Behavioral FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited | 2.06Q2 | 3.47 0.28 up from 2022 | 140 | 13% | — | ||
| 2.06Q2 | 0.76 1.48 down from 2022 | 33 | 100% | $86 | |||
32Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.85Q2 | 2.68 0.28 up from 2022 | 336 | 76% | $3,550 | ||
33Journal of Financial Regulation and ComplianceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.82Q2 | 3.56 1.82 up from 2022 | 90 | 21% | — | ||
34IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 1.76Q2 | 3.10 1.14 up from 2022 | 82 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
35Finance and SocietyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 0.96 1.91 down from 2022 | 40 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
36Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q2 | 2.60 0.02 down from 2022 | 204 | 41% | $2,940 | ||
37Journal of Banking RegulationPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 2.53 0.25 up from 2022 | 84 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
38Journal of Asset ManagementPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.79 1.16 down from 2022 | 143 | 44% | $3,190 | ||
39Journal of Central Banking Theory and PracticeOADe Gruyter Open · Montenegro | 1.45Q2 | 2.83 0.67 up from 2022 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
40Health Economics ReviewOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.44Q2 | 3.46 0.35 up from 2022 | 147 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
41Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 1.97 0.20 down from 2022 | 137 | 38% | $2,950 | ||
42Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.82 0.19 up from 2022 | 63 | 54% | $3,090 | ||
43Annual Review of Financial EconomicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.29Q2 | 7.07 3.27 up from 2022 | 59 | 97% | — | ||
44Financial markets and portfolio managementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.96 0.19 up from 2022 | 71 | 59% | $2,290 | ||
45Critical Housing AnalysisOACzechia | 1.28Q2 | 1.50 0.71 down from 2022 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
46Housing and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 2.26 0.99 up from 2022 | 58 | 29% | — | ||
47Journal of Behavioral FinanceRoutledge · United States | 1.22Q2 | 1.77 0.39 down from 2022 | 121 | 24% | — | ||
48Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.45 0.18 up from 2022 | 253 | 73% | $3,800 | ||
49East Asian Economic ReviewOAKorea Institute for International Economic Policy · South Korea | 1.06Q2 | 1.46 0.24 up from 2022 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
50The Journal of Impact and ESG InvestingUnited States | 1.05Q2 | 1.52 0.08 down from 2022 | 81 | 12% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
27 additional Finance journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 104
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,439 +2.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.97 -0.9% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.