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Foundations and Trends in Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2. Published by Now Publishers.
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ISSN 1567-2395Verify ISSN ↗1567-2409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 43 / 342 | 87th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 103 / 755 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2025 (also 2020–2021, 2017, 2005–2015), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Foundations and Trends in Finance is Q1 in Finance (rank 43 of 342) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 103 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Foundations and Trends in Finance is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1, 87th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.641, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
Foundations and Trends in Finance is published by Now Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1567-2395 and its online ISSN is 1567-2409.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foundations and Trends in Finance has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 5.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Foundations and Trends in Finance published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 5. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 11 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.4%), Belgium (11.4%) and Sweden (9.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
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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