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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Finance Research Letters	81
2	Journal of Financial Economics	69
-	International Review of Financial Analysis	69
4	International Review of Economics & Finance	54
5	Journal of Finance	52
6	Research in International Business and Finance	50
7	Review of Financial Studies	48
8	Journal of Corporate Finance	46
9	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	39
10	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
11	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	35
-	Journal of Financial Stability	35
13	Journal of Accounting Research	34
14	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	33
15	Global Finance Journal	32
16	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Review of Finance	30
18	Review of Accounting Studies	29
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	29
20	Contemporary Accounting Research	28
21	Emerging Markets Review	27
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	27
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	27
-	Accounting Review	27
25	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	26
26	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	24
27	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	22
-	British Accounting Review	22
29	Accounting and Finance	21
30	Journal of Empirical Finance	20
-	World Economy	20
32	Accounting Organizations and Society	19
-	Corporate Governance-An International Review	19
34	Journal of Futures Markets	18
-	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	18
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	18
-	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	18
38	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	17
39	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	16
-	European Accounting Review	16
-	European Journal of Finance	16
-	International Journal of Finance & Economics	16
43	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	15
45	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	14
-	Journal of Financial Intermediation	14
47	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	13
-	Quantitative Finance	13
-	Accounting Forum	13
-	European Financial Management	13

-	Journal of Financial Markets	13
-	Financial Management	13
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	13
54	Journal of Risk and Insurance	12
-	Mathematical Finance	12
-	World Bank Economic Review	12
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	12
-	Accounting Horizons	12
-	Australian Accounting Review	12
60	Management Accounting Research	11
-	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	11
-	Financial Analysts Journal	11
-	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	11
-	IMF Economic Review	11
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	11
-	Real Estate Economics	11
-	Accounting and Business Research	11
-	Fiscal Studies	11
69	Journal of Portfolio Management	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies	10
-	International Journal of Auditing	10
-	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	10
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	10
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	10
76	International Review of Finance	9
-	Investment Analysts Journal	9
-	Venture Capital	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	9
-	Journal of Financial Research	9
81	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	8
-	Finance and Stochastics	8
-	Journal of Financial Services Research	8
-	Journal of Information Systems	8
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
86	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	7
-	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	7
-	International Finance	7
90	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	6
91	Review of Derivatives Research	5
-	Journal of Derivatives	5
93	Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad	4
94	Finanzarchiv	3
-	International Insolvency Review	3
96	Journal of Risk	2