Journal profile · AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
Agricultural Finance Review
ISSN 0002-1466 · eISSN 2041-6326 · Emerald
Agricultural Finance Review: CAS Zone 4 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; median 110 days to acceptance (82 articles, last 24 months); 27 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Agricultural Finance Review is published by Emerald and is in Zone 4 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Agricultural risk and resilience, Agricultural Economics and Policy and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, together about 41.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Agricultural risk and resilienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences16.1%
- Agricultural Economics and PolicyAgricultural and Biological Sciences14%
- Microfinance and Financial InclusionEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.3%
- Economics of Agriculture and Food MarketsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.4%
- Land Rights and ReformsAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.9%
- Agricultural Innovations and PracticesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.6%
- Insurance and Financial Risk ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4%
- Working Capital and Financial PerformanceBusiness, Management and Accounting3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Agricultural Economics & Policy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Agricultural Economics & Policy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.46LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.95LetPub ·
- h-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 380OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.68OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 8.97%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 25LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 773 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26 | 4 | 8 |
| 2025 | 27 | 6 | 26 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4 | 102 |
| 2023 | 27 | 5 | 291 |
| 2022 | 29 | 8 | 311 |
| 2021 | 55 | 14 | 554 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
110 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 52 days – 165 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (68 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 121 days
- Sample
- 82 articles with submission and acceptance dates (310 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Emerald
- ISSN
- 0002-1466
- Electronic ISSN
- 2041-6326
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Agricultural Finance Review
What CAS zone is Agricultural Finance Review in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Agricultural Finance Review is in Zone 4 of Economics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Agricultural Economics & Policy. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Agricultural Finance Review?
Based on the dates recorded on 82 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 110 days (interquartile range 52–165 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Agricultural Finance Review?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Agricultural Finance Review is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Agricultural Finance Review open access, and what is the APC?
Agricultural Finance Review is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .