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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Finance Research Letters	88
2	International Review of Financial Analysis	84
3	International Review of Economics & Finance	67
4	Research in International Business and Finance	63
5	Journal of Financial Economics	62
6	Journal of Finance	54
7	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	47
8	Review of Financial Studies	43
9	Journal of Corporate Finance	42
10	Financial Innovation	41
11	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	39
12	Journal of Accounting & Economics	36
13	Borsa Istanbul Review	35
-	Global Finance Journal	35
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	35
16	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
-	Journal of Accounting Research	34
18	Accounting Review	32
19	Journal of Monetary Economics	31
20	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	30
21	Journal of Financial Stability	29
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	29
-	Review of Accounting Studies	29
-	Review of Finance	29
-	Contemporary Accounting Research	29
-	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	29
-	British Accounting Review	29
28	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	27
-	Emerging Markets Review	27
-	International Journal of Finance & Economics	27
31	Accounting and Finance	25
-	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	25
33	World Economy	24
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	24
35	Journal of Empirical Finance	22
36	Corporate Governance-An International Review	21
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	21
38	Accounting Forum	19
-	Accounting Organizations and Society	19
-	European Financial Management	19
41	European Journal of Finance	18
-	Journal of Futures Markets	18
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	18
44	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	17
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	17
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	17
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	17
-	Quantitative Finance	17
49	European Accounting Review	16
-	Financial Management	16

51	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	15
-	Journal of Financial Markets	15
-	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	15
-	Management Accounting Research	15
-	Mathematical Finance	15
-	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	15
58	Journal of Financial Intermediation	14
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	14
-	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	14
61	Venture Capital	13
-	IMF Economic Review	13
-	World Bank Economic Review	13
-	Accounting Horizons	13
-	Financial Analysts Journal	13
66	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	12
-	Real Estate Economics	12
-	Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies	12
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	12
-	Australian Accounting Review	12
71	Journal of Financial Research	11
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	11
-	International Journal of Auditing	11
-	Accounting and Business Research	11
-	Finance and Stochastics	11
-	International Review of Finance	11
77	Journal of Industrial Economics	10
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	10
-	Journal of Financial Services Research	10
-	Journal of Information Systems	10
-	Journal of Portfolio Management	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Investment Analysts Journal	10
84	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	9
-	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	9
-	Fiscal Studies	9
88	Journal of Financial Econometrics	8
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	8
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
91	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	7
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	7
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
94	Mathematics and Financial Economics	6
-	International Finance	6
96	Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad	5
97	International Insolvency Review	4
-	Review of Derivatives Research	4
99	Finanzarchiv	3
-	Journal of Derivatives	3
101	Journal of Risk	2