Sci-Bytes> Journals Ranked by Impact: Finance
Week of June 20, 2010
Rank | 2008 Impact Factor | Impact 2005-09 | Impact 1981-2009 |
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1 |
Journal of Finance (4.02) |
Journal of Finance (9.07) |
Journal of Financial Economics (46.64) |
2 |
Journal of Financial Economics (3.54) |
Journal of Financial Economics (7.98) |
Journal of Finance (38.94) |
3 |
Journal of Accounting & Economics (2.85) |
Journal of Accounting & Economics (7.26) |
Journal of Accounting & Economics (26.56) |
4 |
Review of Financial Studies (2.64) |
Review of Financial Studies (4.31) |
Journal of Monetary Economics (24.71) |
5 |
Journal of Accounting Research (2.35) |
Accounting Review (4.03) |
Review of Financial Studies (22.92) |
6 |
Accounting Review (1.92) |
Journal of Accounting Research (4.02) |
Journal of Accounting Research (16.74) |
7 |
World Bank Economic Review (1.81) |
World Bank Economic Review (3.58) |
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (16.35) |
8 |
Accounting Organizations and Society (1.80) |
Journal of Monetary Economics (3.45) |
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis (14.39) |
9 |
Journal of Corporate Finance (1.70) |
Review of Accounting Studies (3.39) |
Journal of Industrial Economics (14.04) |
10 |
Review of Accounting Studies (1.50) |
Journal of Corporate Finance (3.27) |
Accounting Review (13.02) |
The above table compares the citation impact of journals in a given field as measured over three different time spans. The left-hand column ranks journals based on their 2008 "impact factor," as enumerated in the current edition of Journal Citations Report®. The 2008 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period--in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures from Journal Performance Indicators. In these columns, total citations to a journal's published papers are divided by the total number of papers that the journal published, producing a citations-per-paper impact score over a five-year period (middle column) and a 29-year period (right-hand column). SOURCE: Journal Citations Report and Journal Performance Indicators.