Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Finance journal rankings 2024
100 ranked journals · Subfield in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance has 100 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2023 to 1.03, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.06. The top three are Journal of Financial Economics, European Finance Review, and The Journal of Finance.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
100 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Journal of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.08Q1 | 13.14 2.98 up from 2023 | 440 | 56% | $4,740 | ||
2European Finance ReviewOxford University Press · Netherlands | 6.52Q1 | 10.27 3.11 up from 2023 | 150 | 63% | $5,071 | ||
3The Journal of FinanceWiley · United States | 5.34Q1 | 7.79 2.66 up from 2023 | 279 | 62% | $4,430 | ||
4Departmental PaperOAInternational Monetary Fund | 4.98Q1 | 6.55 0.49 up from 2023 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
5Review of Financial StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 4.57Q1 | 6.01 0.71 up from 2023 | 324 | 38% | $4,028 | ||
6Journal of Financial StabilityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.49Q1 | 4.54 2.53 down from 2023 | 219 | 41% | $3,470 | ||
7Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and MoneyElsevier BV · United States | 4.20Q1 | 7.08 0.65 up from 2023 | 443 | 56% | $2,930 | ||
8New Political EconomyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 5.71 0.56 down from 2023 | 169 | 76% | — | ||
9Emerging Markets ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 4.72 1.51 down from 2023 | 198 | 27% | $3,060 | ||
10Competition & ChangeSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 5.17 0.65 up from 2023 | 102 | 77% | $3,650 | ||
11Financial ManagementWiley · United States | 3.16Q1 | 5.25 1.95 up from 2023 | 86 | 65% | $2,850 | ||
12Journal of Banking & FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.13Q1 | 4.32 0.05 up from 2023 | 626 | 49% | $3,340 | ||
13Economy and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 4.92 0.40 up from 2023 | 95 | 74% | — | ||
14The Journal of Finance and Data ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 3.03Q1 | 4.37 1.90 down from 2023 | 49 | 100% | $550 | ||
15Financial Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 2.42 1.14 down from 2023 | 91 | 50% | — | ||
16Management ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.89Q1 | 5.28 1.09 up from 2023 | 1,310 | 17% | — | ||
17Housing StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 3.82 0.50 up from 2023 | 328 | 57% | — | ||
18Journal of Economics and BusinessElsevier BV · United States | 2.57Q1 | 3.71 0.31 down from 2023 | 71 | 50% | $2,640 | ||
19European Urban and Regional StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.11 0.24 down from 2023 | 101 | 87% | $3,900 | ||
20Journal of International Money and FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 4.03 0.53 up from 2023 | 423 | 43% | $3,130 | ||
21IMF Economic ReviewPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.68 1.66 down from 2023 | 98 | 23% | — | ||
22Journal of Empirical FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 2.87 0.27 up from 2023 | 246 | 38% | $2,940 | ||
23Journal of Financial IntermediationElsevier BV · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.85 1.19 down from 2023 | 76 | 47% | $3,960 | ||
24Journal of Financial Regulation and ComplianceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 4.14 0.58 up from 2023 | 94 | 17% | — | ||
25Journal of Financial RegulationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.13 0.74 up from 2023 | 35 | 55% | $4,533 | ||
26Journal of Financial and Quantitative AnalysisCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.03Q2 | 2.47 0.21 down from 2023 | 383 | 87% | $3,550 | ||
27European Journal of FinanceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q2 | 2.80 0.27 up from 2023 | 258 | 57% | — | ||
28Central Bank ReviewOAElsevier BV · Türkiye | 1.90Q2 | 2.40 1.47 down from 2023 | 37 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
29International Journal of Housing PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 2.59 0.23 down from 2023 | 113 | 51% | — | ||
30Housing Theory and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.79Q2 | 2.55 0.22 up from 2023 | 90 | 65% | — | ||
31Review of Behavioral FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited | 1.74Q2 | 2.71 0.76 down from 2023 | 116 | 14% | — | ||
32Health Economics ReviewOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.67Q2 | 4.03 0.57 up from 2023 | 160 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
33Journal of Central Banking Theory and PracticeOADe Gruyter Open · Montenegro | 1.66Q2 | 3.03 0.20 up from 2023 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Banking RegulationPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 2.24 0.28 down from 2023 | 87 | 42% | $3,290 | ||
35IIMB Management ReviewOAElsevier BV · India | 1.47Q2 | 1.79 1.32 down from 2023 | 106 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
36Annual Review of Financial EconomicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.42Q2 | 6.58 0.49 down from 2023 | 76 | 95% | — | ||
37Journal of Financial Services ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 2.26 0.43 up from 2023 | 70 | 41% | $3,090 | ||
38Investment Analysts JournalTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 1.32Q2 | 2.53 1.12 up from 2023 | 66 | 41% | — | ||
39Health Systems & ReformOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.31Q2 | 2.17 0.24 down from 2023 | 99 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
40Journal of Financial MarketsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.34 0.38 up from 2023 | 126 | 27% | $2,950 | ||
41The Review of Asset Pricing StudiesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.54 0.52 down from 2023 | 66 | 25% | $4,028 | ||
42Mathematical FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 2.78 1.48 up from 2023 | 109 | 53% | $3,840 | ||
43Housing and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.53 0.73 down from 2023 | 44 | 27% | — | ||
44Journal of money credit and bankingWiley · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.74 0.28 up from 2023 | 304 | 61% | $3,800 | ||
45Journal of Behavioral FinanceRoutledge · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.28 0.48 down from 2023 | 94 | 24% | — | ||
46Financial markets and portfolio managementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.11 0.16 up from 2023 | 64 | 58% | $2,290 | ||
47Review of Financial EconomicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.15Q2 | 1.97 0.33 up from 2023 | 62 | 59% | $3,470 | ||
48Journal of Asset ManagementPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.02 0.23 up from 2023 | 134 | 48% | $3,190 | ||
49Journal of Financial EconometricsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.02 0.75 up from 2023 | 91 | 59% | $4,851 | ||
50Journal of Financial Management Markets and InstitutionsOAWorld Scientific · Italy | 1.05Q2 | 1.15 0.28 down from 2023 | 37 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with Finance highlighted.
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 100
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,606 -2.2% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.03 +4.4% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 8
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.