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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Financial Economics	38
2	Journal of Finance	26
3	Review of Financial Studies	20
4	International Journal of Accounting Information Systems	18
5	Journal of Accounting & Economics	17
6	Financial Innovation	16
-	Review of Finance	16
8	Journal of Corporate Finance	15
-	Research in International Business and Finance	15
-	International Review of Financial Analysis	15
11	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money	14
-	Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal	14
-	Journal of Accounting Research	14
-	Review of Accounting Studies	14
15	Borsa Istanbul Review	13
16	Journal of Monetary Economics	12
-	Critical Perspectives on Accounting	12
18	Global Finance Journal	11
-	Journal of Banking & Finance	11
-	Finance Research Letters	11
-	International Review of Economics & Finance	11
22	Accounting Review	10
-	Contemporary Accounting Research	10
-	Accounting Organizations and Society	10
25	Emerging Markets Review	9
-	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	9
-	Management Accounting Research	9
-	Journal of Financial Stability	9
-	Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting	9
-	North American Journal of Economics and Finance	9
-	Accounting Forum	9
32	British Accounting Review	8
-	Journal of Commodity Markets	8
-	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	8
-	Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal	8
-	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance	8
-	Journal of International Money and Finance	8
-	Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management	8
39	Journal of Empirical Finance	7
-	Journal of Multinational Financial Management	7
-	Journal of Financial Intermediation	7
-	Managerial Auditing Journal	7
-	Venture Capital	7
44	Corporate Governance-An International Review	6
-	Financial Analysts Journal	6
-	International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management	6
-	SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics	6
-	European Accounting Review	6
-	Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	6
-	Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics	6

51	Australian Accounting Review	5
-	European Financial Management	5
-	Financial Management	5
-	International Journal of Finance & Economics	5
-	Journal of Financial Markets	5
-	Mathematical Finance	5
-	European Journal of Finance	5
-	IMF Economic Review	5
-	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy	5
-	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	5
-	Auditing-A Journal of Practice & Theory	5
62	Finance and Stochastics	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
-	World Bank Economic Review	4
-	Accounting and Business Research	4
-	Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice	4
-	International Journal of Auditing	4
-	Journal of Financial Econometrics	4
-	Journal of Money Credit and Banking	4
-	Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics	4
-	Real Estate Economics	4
-	Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review	4
-	World Economy	4
-	Accounting and Finance	4
79	International Finance	3
-	Journal of Behavioral Finance	3
-	Journal of Information Systems	3
-	National Tax Journal	3
-	Accounting Horizons	3
-	International Journal of Health Economics and Management	3
-	Journal of Industrial Economics	3
-	Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	3
-	Mathematics and Financial Economics	3
88	Fiscal Studies	2
-	International Review of Finance	2
-	Investment Analysts Journal	2
-	Review of Derivatives Research	2
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies	2
-	Journal of Financial Research	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
97	Journal of Portfolio Management	1
-	Finanzarchiv	1
99	International Insolvency Review	0
-	Journal of Derivatives	0
-	Journal of Risk	0