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Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. Published by Springer Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1052-3073Verify ISSN ↗1947-7910Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 269 / 755 | 64th | Q2 |
| Finance | 125 / 342 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1990–1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning is Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 269 of 755) and Q2 in Finance (rank 125 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.516, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 60.
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning is published by Springer Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1052-3073 and its online ISSN is 1947-7910.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #370 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 49. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (58%), India (8.7%) and Sweden (3.8%). 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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