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Journal of Financial Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.7), 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 Elsevier.
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ISSN 0304-405XVerify ISSN ↗1879-2774Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting | 1 / 191 | 99th | Q1 |
| Finance | 3 / 342 | 99th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 11 / 755 | 98th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 12 / 506 | 97th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 2 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 17 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.7.
Journal of Financial Economics is Q1 in Accounting (rank 1 of 191), Q1 in Finance (rank 3 of 342) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 11 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Financial Economics 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 20.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 18.748, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 355.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,740 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 Financial Economics is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0304-405X and its online ISSN is 1879-2774.
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 Financial Economics has an h-index of 559 and a 2-year mean of 12.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 183 Scopus journals in Accounting.
Journal of Financial Economics published 158 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 289. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (52%), United Kingdom (7.9%) and Canada (6.4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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