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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Finance Research Letters	87
2	International Review of Financial Analysis	79
3	Journal of Financial Economics	64
4	Research in International Business and Finance	61
5	Journal of Finance	53
6	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	46
7	Review of Financial Studies	43
8	Journal of Corporate Finance	40
-	Financial Innovation	40
10	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	39
11	Journal of Banking & Finance	36
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	36
13	Journal of Accounting & Economics	35
14	Global Finance Journal	34
-	Journal of Accounting Research	34
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
17	Journal of Monetary Economics	32
18	Review of Accounting Studies	31
19	Accounting Review	29
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	29
-	Contemporary Accounting Research	29
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	29
-	Review of Finance	29
24	British Accounting Review	28
-	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	28
26	Emerging Markets Review	27
-	Journal of Financial Stability	27
28	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	26
29	Accounting and Finance	25
30	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	24
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	24
-	World Economy	24
33	Journal of Empirical Finance	22
34	Corporate Governance-An International Review	21
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	21
36	European Financial Management	19
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	19
-	Accounting Organizations and Society	19
39	Journal of Futures Markets	18
-	European Journal of Finance	18
-	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	18
42	Quantitative Finance	17
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	17
-	European Accounting Review	17
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	17
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	17
47	Financial Management	16
-	Accounting Forum	16
49	Journal of Financial Markets	15
-	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	15

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