Journal profile
Applied Finance Letters
ISSN 2253-5799 · eISSN 2253-5802 · Tuwhera Open Access Publisher · New Zealand
Applied Finance Letters: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 19 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Applied Finance Letters is published by Tuwhera Open Access Publisher. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling and Corporate Finance and Governance, together about 48.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Finance and Accounting. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Applied Finance Letters is an open-access journal publishing mainly empirical research with implications and relevance for academia and the finance industry. The aim is to encourage high-quality contributions that foster discussions among academics, policymakers and financial practitioners. The Journal welcomes submissions from all fields of finance and is especially interested in innovative and original contributions.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Olga DoddPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named New Zealand 6, Netherlands 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance24.2%
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance14.4%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting9.5%
- Market Dynamics and VolatilityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.5%
- Financial Analysis and Corporate GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting6.3%
- Stochastic processes and financial applicationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.4%
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisBusiness, Management and Accounting3.2%
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiencyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance2.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EconLitPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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 (publisher) 2023
- 0.72Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.66OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 165 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 44 |
| 2025 | 19 | 19 | 60 |
| 2024 | 17 | 17 | 70 |
| 2023 | 22 | 22 | 68 |
| 2022 | 18 | 18 | 58 |
| 2021 | 13 | 13 | 38 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteExcerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Tuwhera Open Access Publisher
- Country or region
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2253-5799
- Electronic ISSN
- 2253-5802
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Applied Finance Letters
How long does peer review take at Applied Finance Letters?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Applied Finance Letters based?
Of the 7 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are New Zealand (6) and Netherlands (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Applied Finance Letters?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Applied Finance Letters is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists EconLit; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Applied Finance Letters open access, and what is the APC?
Applied Finance Letters is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .