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Journal of Risk Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.9), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1526-5943Verify ISSN ↗2331-2947Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 24 / 342 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Accounting | 16 / 191 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.9.
Journal of Risk Finance is Q1 in Finance (rank 24 of 342) and Q1 in Accounting (rank 16 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Risk Finance 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 10.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.916, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
Journal of Risk Finance is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1526-5943 and its online ISSN is 2331-2947.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
It is graded 1 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 Risk Finance has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 4.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Journal of Risk Finance published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Spain (14.4%), Tunisia (9.3%) and France (7.9%).
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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