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Applied Finance Letters
Applied Finance Letters is rated ABDC B, DOAJ. Published by Auckland University of Technology.
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ISSN 2253-5799Verify ISSN ↗2253-5802Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Auckland University of Technology
ABDC BOpen Access
B
ABDC rating
2
Indexed in
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ABDCAustralian Business Deans Council 2025
Rating
Unchanged since 2022 vs ABDC 2022
Year of inception
2012
Field of research
Banking, finance and investment (3502)
Publisher (per ABDC)
Auckland University of Technology
B = next 35–40% — good to excellent metrics and reputation.
View this source on ABDC Not listed in: Scopus, Web of Science, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
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Is Applied Finance Letters indexed in Scopus?
No — Applied Finance Letters is not currently indexed in Scopus.
What is the impact factor of Applied Finance Letters?
Applied Finance Letters has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
Who publishes Applied Finance Letters and what is its ISSN?
Applied Finance Letters is published by Auckland University of Technology. Its print ISSN is 2253-5799 and its online ISSN is 2253-5802.
Is Applied Finance Letters in Web of Science?
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
What is the ABDC rating of Applied Finance Letters?
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
Is Applied Finance Letters open access?
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
How well cited is Applied Finance Letters? — open metrics via OpenAlex
Applied Finance Letters has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
10
h-index
0.46
2-yr mean citations
10
i10-index
172
works indexed
406
total citations
Applied Finance Letters published 27 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
Main topics
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-10-14.
Who publishes in Applied Finance Letters? — latest 82 articles, 2021–2026
In its latest 82 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.2%), India (13.2%) and New Zealand (5.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Are there integrity warnings for Applied Finance Letters? — indicators, not proof of misconduct
Scopus status: Not in the Scopus source list. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
- Scopus statusNot in the Scopus source list
- Retracted papers None recorded
- Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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