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The Journal of Finance  
|Subject |Discipline}}Finance, economics, business
LanguageEnglish
Edited byAntoinette Schoar
Publication details
History1946-present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
7.870 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Finance
Indexing
CODENJLFIAN
ISSN0022-1082 (print)
1540-6261 (web)
LCCN49022513
JSTOR00221082
OCLC no.1782429
Links

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.[1] The editor-in-chief is Antoinette Schoar. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.870, ranking it 6th out of 111 journals in the category "Business, Finance" and 16th out of 381 journals in the category "Economics".[2]

Editors

The editorial board consists of the editor, co-editors, and associate editors. The current editor is Antoinette Schoar (MIT).

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:[3][4]

  • Marshall Ketchum (University of Chicago, 1946-1955)
  • Harold Fraine (University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1956-1958)
  • Joel Segall (University of Chicago, 1958-1960)
  • Harold Fraine (University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1961-1963)
  • Lawrence Ritter (New York University, 1964-1966)
  • Dudley Luckett (Iowa State University, 1967-1970)
  • Alexander A. Robichek (Stanford University, 1971-1973)
  • Jack M. Guttentag (University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1977)
  • Marshall E. Blume (University of Pennsylvania, 1977-1980)
  • Michael J. Brennan (University of British Columbia, 1980-1983)
  • Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber (New York University, 1983-1988)
  • René M. Stulz (Ohio State University, 1988-1999)
  • Richard C. Green (Carnegie Mellon University, 2000-2003)
  • Robert F. Stambaugh (University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005)
  • Geert Bekaert (Columbia, 2005-2006)
  • Campbell Harvey (Duke University, 2006-2012)
  • Kenneth J. Singleton (Stanford University, 2012-2016)
  • Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago, 2016-2022)
  • Antoinette Schoar (MIT, 2022-present)

Awards

Each year the associate editors vote for the best papers published in the journal. The Smith Breeden Prize is awarded for the best finance papers and the Brattle Prize for the best corporate finance research papers.

References

  1. "The Journal of Finance on JSTOR" (in en). https://www.jstor.org/journal/jfinance. 
  2. "The Journal of Finance". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2022. 
  3. Kavesh, Robert A. (1970). "The American Finance Association: 1939-1969". Journal of Finance 25 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00409.x. 
  4. "Current and past editors". https://afajof.org/editors/.