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

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Financial Economics	38
2	Journal of Finance	25
3	Review of Financial Studies	24
4	Journal of Corporate Finance	16
-	Journal of Accounting Research	16
6	Journal of Accounting & Economics	14
-	Review of Finance	14
8	Research in International Business and Finance	12
-	Review of Accounting Studies	12
-	Financial Innovation	12
-	International Review of Financial Analysis	12
12	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	11
-	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	11
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	11
-	Journal of Financial Stability	11
16	Global Finance Journal	10
-	Accounting Organizations and Society	10
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	10
19	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	9
-	Accounting Review	9
-	Contemporary Accounting Research	9
-	Finance Research Letters	9
23	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	8
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	8
-	Emerging Markets Review	8
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	8
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	8
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	8
-	International Review of Economics & Finance	8
-	Journal of Financial Intermediation	8
31	Journal of Commodity Markets	7
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	7
-	Accounting Forum	7
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	7
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	7
36	British Accounting Review	6
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	6
-	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	6
-	Management Accounting Research	6
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	6
-	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	6
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	6
43	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	5
-	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	5
-	Venture Capital	5
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	5
-	European Accounting Review	5
-	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	5
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	5
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	5

-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	5
52	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	4
-	Accounting and Business Research	4
-	Australian Accounting Review	4
-	Corporate Governance-An International Review	4
-	European Financial Management	4
-	Financial Analysts Journal	4
-	Financial Management	4
-	Journal of Financial Markets	4
-	Journal of Financial Services Research	4
-	Mathematical Finance	4
-	Accounting and Finance	4
-	European Journal of Finance	4
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	4
65	Quantitative Finance	3
-	World Bank Economic Review	3
-	Accounting Horizons	3
-	Finance and Stochastics	3
-	International Finance	3
-	International Journal of Finance & Economics	3
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	3
-	Journal of Futures Markets	3
-	Journal of Information Systems	3
-	Journal of Real Estate Research	3
-	Journal of Risk and Insurance	3
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	3
-	World Economy	3
-	IMF Economic Review	3
-	International Journal of Auditing	3
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	3
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	3
82	National Tax Journal	2
-	Review of Derivatives Research	2
-	Fiscal Studies	2
-	Investment Analysts Journal	2
-	Real Estate Economics	2
-	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	2
-	Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad	2
-	Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies	2
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics	2
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	2
-	Journal of Financial Research	2
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	2
94	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	1
-	International Review of Finance	1
-	Journal of Portfolio Management	1
-	Journal of Derivatives	1
-	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	1
99	Finanzarchiv	0
-	International Insolvency Review	0
-	Journal of Risk	0