Journal profile · BUSINESS, FINANCE
Journal of Risk
ISSN 1465-1211 · eISSN 1755-2842 · Incisive Media Ltd.
Journal of Risk: CAS Zone 4 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.45; subscription journal; 17 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Risk is published by Incisive Media Ltd. 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 Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, Stochastic processes and financial applications and Risk and Portfolio Optimization, together about 30.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Finance. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This international peer-reviewed journal publishes a broad range of original research papers which aim to further develop understanding of financial risk management. As the only publication devoted exclusively to theoretical and empirical studies in financial risk management, The Journal of Risk promotes far-reaching research on the latest innovations in this field, with particular focus on the measurement, management and analysis of financial risk.The Journal of Risk is particularly interested in papers on the following topics:Risk management regulations and their implicationsRisk capital allocation and risk budgetingEfficient evaluation of risk measures under increasingly complex and realistic model assumptionsImpact of risk measurement on portfolio allocationTheoretical development of alternative risk measuresHedging (linear and non-linear) under alternative risk measuresFinancial market model riskEstimation of volatility and unanticipated jumpsCapital allocationSystemic riskRisk management issues related to fintech and cryptocurrenciesNew methodologies for artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial risk managementAbstracting and Indexing: Scopus; Web of Science - Social Science Index; EconLit; EconBiz; ABI Research; and Cabell’s DirectoryJournal Metrics:Journal Impact Factor: 0.55-Year Impact Factor: 0.5CiteScore: 0.9
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS, FINANCE
Editor-in-chief Farid AitSahliaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance11.7%
- Stochastic processes and financial applicationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.4%
- Risk and Portfolio OptimizationDecision Sciences9.3%
- Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.8%
- Credit Risk and Financial RegulationsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.4%
- Market Dynamics and VolatilityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.7%
- Insurance and Financial Risk ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.2%
- Monetary Policy and Economic ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.8%
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 | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceEconLitPublisher 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
- 0.45LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 49OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 182OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.2OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 554 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 27 | 2 | 9 |
| 2023 | 24 | 3 | 50 |
| 2022 | 22 | 3 | 39 |
| 2021 | 24 | 8 | 55 |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- news and analysisNews and analysis In-depth intelligence across our four desks risk management, investing, regulation and markets.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePeer review
- Peer review
Editorial guiding principles Model summary
Read more about our editorial guiding principles.
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
- Incisive Media Ltd.
- ISSN
- 1465-1211
- Electronic ISSN
- 1755-2842
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Risk
What CAS zone is Journal of Risk in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Risk is in Zone 4 of Economics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business, Finance. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Risk?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.45; CiteScore 0.8, h-index 49.
Which databases index Journal of Risk?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Risk is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and EconLit; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Risk open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Risk 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .