About the Journal of Finance

Published ( 6 issues per year )

The Journal of Finance is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Finance Association.

It was established in 1946. The editor-in-chief is Stefan Nagel. It is considered to be one of the premier finance journals. According to the Journal Citation Reports, it had a 2015 impact factor of 5.290, ranking it first out of 94 journals in the category "Business/Finance" and 4th out of 345 in the category "Economics".[3] It is listed as one of the 45 journals used by the Financial Times to compile its business-school research ranks and Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 20 Journals.

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Finance publishes leading research across all the major fields of financial research. It is one of the most widely cited academic journals on finance and one of the most widely cited journals in all of economics as well. Each issue of the journal reaches over 8,000 academics, finance professionals, libraries, government and financial institutions around the world. Published six times a year, the journal is the official publication of The American Finance Association, the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.

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• ABI/INFORM Database (ProQuest)
• Business Abstracts (HW Wilson)
• Business ASAP (GALE Cengage)
• Business Periodicals Index/Abstracts (HW Wilson)
• Catch Word
• CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database (CSA/CIG)
• Current Contents Collections/ Business (Thomson Reuters)
• Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters)
• Current Index to Statistics (ASA/IMS)
• EBSCO Online (EBSCO)
• EconLit (AEA)
• Emerald Management Reviews (Emerald)
• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
• InfoTrac
• Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Thomson Reuters)
• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson)
• OmniFile V (HW Wilson)
• PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service (CSA/CIG)
• ProQuest 5000 (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Accounting and Tax Database (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Discovery (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Platinum (ProQuest)
• ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
• Social SciSearch (Thomson Reuters)