Finance journals: characteristics of the main periodicals, important authors, and most cited articles

Flávia Cruz de Souza (), José Alonso Borba (), Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa () and Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia ()
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Flávia Cruz de Souza: CPGA, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
José Alonso Borba: Departamento de Ciências Contábeis, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa: Departamento de Ciências Econômicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Brazilian Review of Finance, 2008, vol. 6, issue 1, 113-132

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to characterize the Finance journals available in CAPES’s Basis and to know the most important authors in this Area. After eliminating the publications that did not meet the proposed criterion, a total of 72 journals that contained the expression finance and financial in their titles have been analyzed. Main findings are: Journal of Finance has the highest impact factor (2,549); the great majority of journals are North-American (70,83%) and published four times a year; 51% of them charge a submission fee that varies from US$ 40 to US$ 450; most part takes around six months to publish a paper once it gets accepted; Research in International Business and Finance has the most internationalized editorial board; the most cited article has been published in the Journal of Finance in the year of 1997; and Andrei Shleifer is the author of the three most cited papers in Scopus.

Keywords: journals; papers; authors; finance; financial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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