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Review of Financial Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.2), 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 Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0893-9454Verify ISSN ↗1465-7368Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,028 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 15 / 342 | 95th | Q1 |
| Accounting | 9 / 191 | 95th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 35 / 755 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.2.
Review of Financial Studies is Q1 in Finance (rank 15 of 342), Q1 in Accounting (rank 9 of 191) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 35 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Review of Financial Studies 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 13.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 17.406, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 268.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,028 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.
Review of Financial Studies is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0893-9454 and its online ISSN is 1465-7368.
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.
Review of Financial Studies has an h-index of 399 and a 2-year mean of 11.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Review of Financial Studies published 110 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 153. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.6%), France (6.7%) and United Kingdom (6.3%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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