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Journal of Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.8), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Finance Association.
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ISSN 0022-1082Verify ISSN ↗1540-6261Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Finance Association
Cost to publish: About US$4,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting | 2 / 191 | 99th | Q1 |
| Finance | 6 / 342 | 98th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 17 / 755 | 97th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 47 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.8.
Journal of Finance is Q1 in Accounting (rank 2 of 191), Q1 in Finance (rank 6 of 342) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 17 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of 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 16.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 22.270, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 386.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,430 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 Finance is published by American Finance Association. Its print ISSN is 0022-1082 and its online ISSN is 1540-6261.
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 4* 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 Finance has an h-index of 665 and a 2-year mean of 13.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 183 Scopus journals in Accounting.
Journal of Finance published 107 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 117. 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 59 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (63.1%), United Kingdom (8.8%) and Hong Kong SAR China (7.3%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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