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Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
ISSN 0963-8008 · eISSN 1468-0416 · Wiley-Blackwell
Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments: subscription journal; APC about USD 2,900; median 189 days to acceptance (12 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 3% (journal website); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments is published by Wiley-Blackwell. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Corporate Finance and Governance and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, together about 43% of its articles. Its main subfields are Finance and Accounting. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments bridges the gap between the academic and professional finance communities. With contributions from leading academics, as well as practitioners from organizations such as the SEC and the Federal Reserve, the journal is equally relevant to both groups. Each issue is devoted to a single topic, which is examined in depth, and a special fifth issue is published annually highlighting the most significant developments in money and banking, derivative securities, corporate finance, and fixed-income securities.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiencyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance17.6%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting13.5%
- Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.9%
- Credit Risk and Financial RegulationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.7%
- Global Financial Regulation and CrisesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.5%
- finance, banking, and market dynamicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.3%
- Finance, Markets, and RegulationEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Financial Analysis and Corporate GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting3.9%
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.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Economics, Econometrics and Finance | Q1 | 72/289 | 75th |
| Finance | Q2 | 134/342 | 60th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EconLitPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.69LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.86LetPub ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 156OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.22OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 7Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 39,225Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 512 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 | 7 | 442 |
| 2025 | 17 | 12 | 580 |
| 2024 | 28 | 16 | 549 |
| 2023 | 21 | 12 | 550 |
| 2022 | 17 | 7 | 542 |
| 2021 | 18 | 9 | 528 |
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 Crossref · to
189 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 100 days – 244 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 15 days (12 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 204 days
- Sample
- 12 articles with submission and acceptance dates (23 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".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 3%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 61 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 292 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,900 / EUR 2,390 / GBP 1,930 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Self-archiving
- Authorship
No submission charge or page fee Model summary
There is no submissions charge or page fee.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Self-archiving permitted (preprint any time; accepted version after embargo) Model summary
Authors of articles published in Wiley journals are permitted to self-archive the submitted (preprint) version of the article at any time, and may self-archive the accepted (peer-reviewed) version after an embargo period.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts 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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 0963-8008
- Electronic ISSN
- 1468-0416
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 35, Issue 1-2 (May 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
How long does peer review take at Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments?
Based on the dates recorded on 12 articles published between November 2024 and November 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 189 days (interquartile range 100–244 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 3% (2025). 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 Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments is indexed in Scopus. The journal's website also lists EconLit; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments open access, and what is the APC?
Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments is a subscription journal. APC about USD 2,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-30). Last updated: .