Journal of Financial Economics: impact and ranking
Journal of Financial Economics has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #183 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 573. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 13.8 #183 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 573 #48 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #218 of 18,122
- Works
- 4.9k 291.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Financial Economics?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Journal of Financial Economics: 13.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Financial Economics #183 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Financial Economics?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Financial Economics an h-index of 573: 573 of its papers have each been cited at least 573 times. That ranks #48 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Financial Economics publish?
OpenAlex records 4,901 works in Journal of Financial Economics from 1961 to 2026, cited 1,428,342 times in all, 291.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #218 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Financial Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0304-405X
- In OpenAlex
- 1961 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Financial Economics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,740.
- OpenAlex record
- S149240962
Journals ranked near Journal of Financial Economics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Financial Economics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 172 | Molecular Cell | 14.3 | 527 |
| 176 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 14.1 | 361 |
| 181 | Diabetes Care | 13.9 | 508 |
| 184 | Cement and Concrete Research | 13.8 | 373 |
| 198 | Nature Biotechnology | 13.4 | 630 |
| 203 | Water Research | 13.3 | 460 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.