Business, Finance: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The 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	TQCC
1	Journal of Financial Economics	28
2	Journal of Finance	24
3	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	22
4	International Review of Financial Analysis	20
-	Journal of Accounting & Economics	20
-	Review of Financial Studies	20
7	Financial Innovation	17
-	Research in International Business and Finance	17
9	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	16
10	Review of Finance	15
11	Accounting Organizations and Society	14
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	14
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	14
14	Borsa Istanbul Review	13
-	Global Finance Journal	13
-	Journal of Corporate Finance	13
17	International Review of Economics & Finance	12
-	Review of Accounting Studies	12
-	Contemporary Accounting Research	12
-	Accounting Review	12
21	Finance Research Letters	11
-	Journal of Accounting Research	11
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	11
24	Journal of Financial Stability	10
-	Accounting Forum	10
-	Management Accounting Research	10
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	10
-	British Accounting Review	10
29	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	9
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	9
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	9
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	9
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	9
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	9
-	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	9
36	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	8
-	Journal of Financial Intermediation	8
-	Venture Capital	8
-	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	8
-	Corporate Governance-An International Review	8
-	Emerging Markets Review	8
42	Managerial Auditing Journal	7
-	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	7
-	International Journal of Finance & Economics	7
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	7
46	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	6
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	6
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	6
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	6
-	European Accounting Review	6

-	Financial Analysts Journal	6
-	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	6
-	Mathematical Finance	6
54	European Journal of Finance	5
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	5
-	Accounting and Finance	5
-	Journal of Financial Markets	5
-	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	5
-	World Bank Economic Review	5
-	Australian Accounting Review	5
-	European Financial Management	5
62	IMF Economic Review	4
-	International Journal of Auditing	4
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	4
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	4
-	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	4
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	4
-	Real Estate Economics	4
-	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	4
-	World Economy	4
-	Finance and Stochastics	4
-	Financial Management	4
-	Journal of Financial Services Research	4
-	Journal of Futures Markets	4
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	4
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	4
-	Quantitative Finance	4
-	Accounting and Business Research	4
-	Accounting Horizons	4
80	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	3
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	3
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	3
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	3
-	Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies	3
-	Fiscal Studies	3
-	International Review of Finance	3
-	Investment Analysts Journal	3
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	3
-	Journal of Information Systems	3
-	National Tax Journal	3
91	Journal of Financial Research	2
-	Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad	2
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	2
-	International Finance	2
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	2
96	Finanzarchiv	1
-	Journal of Portfolio Management	1
-	Review of Derivatives Research	1
99	International Insolvency Review	0
-	Journal of Derivatives	0
-	Journal of Risk	0