Business, Finance: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Finance Research Letters	92
2	International Review of Financial Analysis	84
3	International Review of Economics & Finance	65
-	Journal of Financial Economics	65
5	Research in International Business and Finance	59
6	Journal of Finance	55
7	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	45
8	Review of Financial Studies	44
9	Journal of Corporate Finance	40
10	Financial Innovation	39
11	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	38
12	Journal of Banking & Finance	36
13	Borsa Istanbul Review	35
14	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Journal of Accounting Research	34
16	Global Finance Journal	33
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	33
18	Journal of International Money and Finance	30
-	Review of Accounting Studies	30
-	Review of Finance	30
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Accounting Review	30
-	Emerging Markets Review	30
24	Contemporary Accounting Research	29
25	Journal of Financial Stability	28
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	28
27	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	27
-	British Accounting Review	27
29	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	26
-	International Journal of Finance & Economics	26
31	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	25
32	Accounting and Finance	24
33	World Economy	23
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	23
35	Corporate Governance-An International Review	21
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	21
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	21
38	Accounting Forum	19
-	European Financial Management	19
40	Accounting Organizations and Society	18
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	18
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	18
43	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	17
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	17
-	European Accounting Review	17
-	European Journal of Finance	17
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	17
-	Journal of Futures Markets	17
49	Quantitative Finance	16
50	Journal of Financial Intermediation	15

-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	15
-	IMF Economic Review	15
-	Journal of Financial Markets	15
-	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	15
-	Management Accounting Research	15
-	Mathematical Finance	15
-	Financial Management	15
-	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	15
60	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	14
-	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	14
62	Financial Analysts Journal	13
63	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	12
-	Real Estate Economics	12
-	Venture Capital	12
-	Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies	12
-	International Journal of Auditing	12
-	World Bank Economic Review	12
-	Accounting and Business Research	12
-	Accounting Horizons	12
-	Australian Accounting Review	12
72	Journal of Financial Research	11
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	11
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	11
75	Journal of Financial Econometrics	10
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	10
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	10
-	Journal of Portfolio Management	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Finance and Stochastics	10
-	International Review of Finance	10
-	Investment Analysts Journal	10
83	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	9
-	Journal of Financial Services Research	9
-	Journal of Information Systems	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	9
87	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	8
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	8
-	Fiscal Studies	8
-	International Finance	8
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
92	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	7
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	7
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
95	Mathematics and Financial Economics	6
-	Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad	6
97	International Insolvency Review	4
-	Journal of Derivatives	4
-	Review of Derivatives Research	4
100	Finanzarchiv	3
101	Journal of Risk	2