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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Finance Research Letters	91
2	International Review of Financial Analysis	81
3	Journal of Financial Economics	72
4	International Review of Economics & Finance	62
5	Research in International Business and Finance	55
-	Journal of Finance	55
7	Review of Financial Studies	46
8	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	42
9	Journal of Corporate Finance	40
10	Financial Innovation	39
11	Journal of Banking & Finance	38
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	38
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	38
14	Journal of Accounting Research	35
15	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	34
16	Global Finance Journal	33
17	Journal of Accounting & Economics	31
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	31
19	Review of Accounting Studies	30
20	Review of Finance	29
21	Emerging Markets Review	28
22	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	27
-	Accounting Review	27
-	Journal of Financial Stability	27
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	27
26	Contemporary Accounting Research	26
27	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	25
-	British Accounting Review	25
29	International Journal of Finance & Economics	24
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	24
31	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	23
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	23
-	World Economy	23
-	Accounting and Finance	23
35	Corporate Governance-An International Review	22
36	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	21
37	Journal of Commodity Markets	20
-	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	20
39	Accounting Organizations and Society	19
40	Journal of Empirical Finance	18
-	European Financial Management	18
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	18
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	18
44	Journal of Futures Markets	17
-	Accounting Forum	17
46	Quantitative Finance	16
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	16
-	European Accounting Review	16
-	European Journal of Finance	16
50	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	15

-	Journal of Financial Markets	15
-	Financial Management	15
-	Journal of Financial Intermediation	15
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	15
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	15
56	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	14
-	Management Accounting Research	14
-	Mathematical Finance	14
-	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	14
-	Australian Accounting Review	14
61	World Bank Economic Review	13
-	Real Estate Economics	13
63	Journal of Risk and Insurance	12
-	Accounting and Business Research	12
-	Financial Analysts Journal	12
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	12
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	12
-	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	12
-	IMF Economic Review	12
70	Journal of Industrial Economics	11
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	11
-	Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies	11
-	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	11
-	International Journal of Auditing	11
75	International Review of Finance	10
-	Journal of Information Systems	10
-	National Tax Journal	10
-	Accounting Horizons	10
-	Finance and Stochastics	10
-	Journal of Financial Research	10
-	Venture Capital	10
82	Investment Analysts Journal	9
-	Journal of Portfolio Management	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	9
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	9
-	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	9
87	Journal of Behavioral Finance	8
-	Journal of Financial Services Research	8
-	Fiscal Studies	8
-	International Finance	8
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	8
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	8
93	Journal of Real Estate Research	7
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	7
95	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	5
-	Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad	5
97	Review of Derivatives Research	4
-	Journal of Derivatives	4
-	Finanzarchiv	4
100	Journal of Risk	3
-	International Insolvency Review	3