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Journal of Risk and Financial Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), formerly ABDC B. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1911-8066Verify ISSN ↗1911-8074Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Cost to publish: About US$1,689 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 51 / 235 | 78th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 179 / 755 | 76th | Q1 |
| Finance | 86 / 342 | 75th | Q1 |
| Accounting | 55 / 191 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Risk and Financial Management is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 51 of 235), Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 179 of 755) and Q1 in Finance (rank 86 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Risk and Financial Management 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 5.5, quartile Q1, 78th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.506, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,689 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 Risk and Financial Management is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its print ISSN is 1911-8066 and its online ISSN is 1911-8074.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated B in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Risk and Financial Management has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 4.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Journal of Risk and Financial Management published 731 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (12.1%), Bulgaria (6.7%) and Saudi Arabia (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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