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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Finance Research Letters	96
2	International Review of Financial Analysis	84
3	Journal of Financial Economics	68
4	International Review of Economics & Finance	63
5	Research in International Business and Finance	58
6	Journal of Finance	55
7	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	45
8	Review of Financial Studies	44
9	Journal of Corporate Finance	40
-	Financial Innovation	40
11	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	39
12	Journal of Banking & Finance	37
-	Borsa Istanbul Review	37
14	Global Finance Journal	33
-	Journal of Accounting Research	33
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	33
17	Journal of Accounting & Economics	32
18	Review of Finance	31
19	Emerging Markets Review	30
-	Journal of Monetary Economics	30
-	Review of Accounting Studies	30
22	Accounting Review	29
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	29
-	Contemporary Accounting Research	29
25	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	28
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	28
27	British Accounting Review	27
-	Journal of Financial Stability	27
29	International Journal of Finance & Economics	26
30	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	25
31	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	24
-	World Economy	24
-	Accounting and Finance	24
34	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	23
35	Corporate Governance-An International Review	21
-	European Financial Management	21
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	21
-	Journal of Empirical Finance	21
39	Accounting Organizations and Society	19
40	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	18
-	Quantitative Finance	18
-	Accounting Forum	18
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	18
44	Journal of Futures Markets	17
-	European Accounting Review	17
-	European Journal of Finance	17
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	17
48	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	16
-	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	16
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	16

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