Nathan Dong, PhD, CFA
Department of Finance, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Ranking of Academic Research Journals in Finance
The Article Influence Score determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication. It is calculated by multiplying the Eigenfactor Score by 0.01 and dividing by the number of articles in the journal, normalized as a fraction of all articles in all publications. This measure is roughly analogous to the 5-Year Journal Impact Factor in that it is a ratio of a journal’s citation influence to the size of the journal’s article contribution over a period of five years. The mean for each article is 1.00. A score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has above-average influence. A score less than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has below-average influence.
Using the 2022 JCR data, the following journals are ranked based on their Article Influence Scores:
Journal Name Article Influence Score __________________________________________________________
1. Journal of Finance 12.96
2. Review of Financial Studies 8.326
3. Journal of Financial Economics 7.974
4. Journal of Accounting and Economics 5.459
5. Journal of Monetary Economics 5.219
6. Review of Corporate Finance Studies 5.047
7. Journal of Accounting Research 4.608
8. Review of Asset Pricing Studies 4.593
9. Annual Review of Financial Economics 4.417
10. Review of Finance 3.989
11. Accounting Review 3.454
12. Journal of Financial Intermediation 3.294
13. Journal of Financial And Quantitative Analysis 3.162
14. Review of Accounting Studies 3.089
15. Critical Finance Review 2.213
16. Contemporary Accounting Research 2.113
17. Accounting Organizations and Society 2.106
18. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2.106
19. Journal of Law Finance and Accounting 1.903
20. Journal of Corporate Finance 1.875
21. Financial Analysts Journal 1.576
22. Finance and Stochastics 1.561