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Quarterly Journal of Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2010-1392Verify ISSN ↗2010-1406Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 284 / 342 | 17th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 633 / 755 | 16th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 445 / 506 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Quarterly Journal of Finance is Q4 in Finance (rank 284 of 342), Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 633 of 755) and Q4 in Strategy and Management (rank 445 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
Quarterly Journal of 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.484, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
Quarterly Journal of Finance is published by World Scientific Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2010-1392 and its online ISSN is 2010-1406.
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 A 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.
Quarterly Journal of Finance has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 1.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #205 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Quarterly Journal of Finance published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 29. 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.6%), Italy (6.1%) and Germany (5.6%). 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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