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Annual Review of Financial Economics
ISSN 1941-1367 · eISSN 1941-1375 · Annual Reviews Inc.
Annual Review of Financial Economics: CAS Zone 2 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.92; subscription journal; 23 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Annual Review of Financial Economics is published by Annual Reviews Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies and Corporate Finance and Governance, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Finance and Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
AIMS AND SCOPE OF JOURNAL: The Annual Review of Financial Economics provides comprehensive, forward-looking and critical reviews of the most significant theoretical, empirical, and experimental developments in financial economics, including the fields of capital markets, corporate finance, financial institutions, market microstructure, and behavioral and experimental finance.  
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiencyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance17.1%
- Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance12.8%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting9.4%
- Housing Market and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.8%
- Credit Risk and Financial RegulationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.3%
- Global Financial Crisis and PoliciesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.7%
- Insurance and Financial Risk ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.2%
- Stochastic processes and financial applicationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 3.92LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 8.23LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 3.05LetPub ·
- h-index
- 86OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 244OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.97OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 362 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 7 | 4 |
| 2025 | 23 | 22 | 58 |
| 2024 | 20 | 19 | 261 |
| 2023 | 33 | 32 | 743 |
| 2022 | 26 | 14 | 1,607 |
| 2021 | 20 | 16 | 1,713 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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
- Annual Reviews Inc.
- ISSN
- 1941-1367
- Electronic ISSN
- 1941-1375
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Annual Review of Financial Economics
What CAS zone is Annual Review of Financial Economics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Annual Review of Financial Economics is in Zone 2 of Economics, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Business, Finance / Economics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Annual Review of Financial Economics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.92; CiteScore 9.7, h-index 86.
Which databases index Annual Review of Financial Economics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Annual Review of Financial Economics is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Annual Review of Financial Economics open access, and what is the APC?
Annual Review of Financial Economics is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .