Journal of Financial Economics

Short description: One of the premier finance journals

Journal of Financial Economics |Subject |Discipline}}| Financial economics

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Language| English
Edited by| Toni Whited
Publication details
History| 1974-present
Publisher|

Elsevier

Frequency| Monthly

Impact factor

| 6.988 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| J. Financ. Econ.
Indexing
CODEN * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
CODEN| JFECDT
ISSN| 0304-405X

LCCN| 84649771
OCLC no.| 863010774
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online archive
* Journal page

The Journal of Financial Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier, covering the field of finance. It is considered to be one of the premier finance journals.[1][2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 6.988.[3] The journal was founded by Michael C. Jensen, Eugene Fama, and Robert C. Merton in 1974.[4]

## Contents

* 1 Editors
* 2 Awards
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Editors

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

* Eugene Fama, 1974-1977
* Michael C. Jensen, 1974-1996
* Robert C. Merton, 1974-1977
* G. William Schwert, 1979–1986, 1989-2020
* John B. Long, 1983–1987, 1988-1996
* Clifford W. Smith, 1983-1996
* René M. Stulz, 1983-1987
* Jerold B. Warner, 1987-1996
* Richard S. Ruback, 1988-1996
* Wayne Mikkelson, 1993-1996
* Ron Kaniel, 2017-2020
* David Hirshleifer, 2020-2021
* Toni Whited, 2021–present

## Awards

The journal issues two annual prizes for economics research, Jensen Prize and Fama–DFA Prize.

## References

1. ↑ Oltheten, Elisabeth; Theoharakis, Vasilis; Travlos, Nickolaos G. (2005-03-01). "Faculty Perceptions and Readership Patterns of Finance Journals: A Global View". Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 40 (1): 223–239. doi:10.1017/S0022109000001800.
2. ↑ Borokhovich, Kenneth A.; Bricker, Robert J.; Simkins, Betty J. (1994-06-01). "Journal Communication and Influence in Financial Research". The Journal of Finance 49 (2): 713–725. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1994.tb05159.x.
3. ↑ "Journal of Financial Economics". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Schwert, G. William. "The Remarkable Growth in Financial Economics, 1974-2020". https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3722311.

## External links

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