The Journal of Finance: impact and ranking
The Journal of Finance has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #109 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 672. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 16.8 #109 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 672 #26 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.9M #130 of 18,122
- Works
- 13k 153.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Journal of Finance?
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 The Journal of Finance: 16.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Journal of Finance #109 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.6%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Journal of Finance?
OpenAlex gives The Journal of Finance an h-index of 672: 672 of its papers have each been cited at least 672 times. That ranks #26 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Journal of Finance publish?
OpenAlex records 12,601 works in The Journal of Finance from 1946 to 2026, cited 1,933,289 times in all, 153.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #130 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Journal of Finance
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-1082
- In OpenAlex
- 1946 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Journal of Finance as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,430.
- OpenAlex record
- S5353659
Journals ranked near The Journal of Finance
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Journal of Finance on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Nucleic Acids Research | 17.2 | 868 |
| 102 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 17.2 | 522 |
| 106 | Nature Cell Biology | 16.9 | 485 |
| 111 | American Economic Review | 16.6 | 616 |
| 112 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | 16.6 | 397 |
| 119 | Physics Reports | 16.2 | 462 |
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.