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Journal of Empirical Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0927-5398Verify ISSN ↗1879-1727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$2,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 279 / 755 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Finance | 129 / 342 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Empirical Finance is Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 279 of 755) and Q2 in Finance (rank 129 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Empirical Finance is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.139, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,940 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Empirical Finance is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0927-5398 and its online ISSN is 1879-1727.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
It is graded 3 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.
Journal of Empirical Finance has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 2.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Journal of Empirical Finance published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 98. 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 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (30.5%), United States (20.4%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.4%).
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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