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JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE
ISSN 0022-4367 · eISSN 1539-6975 · Wiley-Blackwell
JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE: CAS Zone 2 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.84; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,400; median 316 days to acceptance (77 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 17% (journal website); 47 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Insurance and Financial Risk Management, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy and Management, together about 51.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Risk and Insurance (JRI) is the premier outlet for theoretical and empirical research on the topics of insurance economics and risk management. Research in the JRI informs practice, policy-making, and regulation in insurance markets as well as corporate and household risk management. JRI is the flagship journal for the American Risk and Insurance Association, and is currently indexed by the American Economic Association’s Economic Literature Index, RePEc, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and others. Issues of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, from volume one to volume 82 (2015), are available online through JSTOR . Recent issues of JRI are available through Wiley Online Library. In addition to the research areas of traditional strength for the JRI, the editorial team highlights below specific areas for special focus in the near term, due to their current relevance for the field. Health Insurance: The JRI encourages submissions on a range of topics related to the economics, market dynamics, and regulation of health insurance and more broadly to the financing and management of health care risk. We highlight for interested authors that the editorial team has depth in this area and a familiarity with institutional issues that are often important for assessing research in health insurance and health care more broadly. Behavioral Research in Risk and Insurance: The JRI encourages research on behavioral aspects of risk and insurance, especially those that contribute to or are grounded in behavioral-economic theory. The editorial team is particularly interested in applied behavioral research that informs practice, policy-making, or regulation in insurance markets and broader risk-management activities. Quantitative Risk Management: We encourage papers on risk management and modeling techniques, with the qualification that the focus is on their relevance and application in insurance practice and policy rather than the techniques themselves. Examples may include the modeling of operational risk in an enterprise context, advances on measuring company specific and systematic insurance risk, or valuation approaches for non-traded long-term insurance liabilities in economic capital models. Big-Data Techniques, Digitalization, and Insure-Tech: The rapid expansion of data and advances in computing are transforming risk management and insurance. Predictive techniques are expanding and changing the ability to classify risk, but also raise new regulatory a
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief M. Martin BoyerPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Insurance and Financial Risk ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance30.1%
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk ManagementSocial Sciences13.9%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.3%
- Law, Economics, and Judicial SystemsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.9%
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisBusiness, Management and Accounting6.6%
- Global Health Care IssuesHealth Professions4.6%
- Housing Market and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance3.5%
- Agricultural risk and resilienceAgricultural and Biological Sciences2.3%
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 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Economics | Zone 3 |
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: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EconLitCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, RePEc, American Economic Association’s Economic Literature Index
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
- 1.84LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.25LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.47LetPub ·
- h-index
- 131OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,386OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.04OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 15.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 47.87%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 35Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 119,681Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,845 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 53 | 38 | 7 |
| 2025 | 47 | 35 | 83 |
| 2024 | 45 | 31 | 206 |
| 2023 | 48 | 35 | 291 |
| 2022 | 48 | 17 | 439 |
| 2021 | 38 | 16 | 567 |
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
316 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 218 days – 580 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 37 days (77 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 352 days
- Sample
- 77 articles with submission and acceptance dates (102 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)
- 17%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 17%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 272 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 32 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
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.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,400 / EUR 2,850 / GBP 2,270 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- USD 140
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)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability
- Data availability
Data sharing policy: authors of accepted papers are encouraged to post data and programs to the JRI data repository; exemptions for proprietary data. Model summary
JRI has a policy in which authors of accepted papers are encouraged to post their data and programs, along with sufficient details to permit replication, to the new JRI data repository. Exemptions will be considered in the case of proprietary data.
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
- 0022-4367
- Electronic ISSN
- 1539-6975
- Society / sponsor
- American Risk and Insurance Association
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 93, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE
What CAS zone is JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE is in Zone 2 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Business, Finance / Economics. 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.
What is the impact factor of JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.84; CiteScore 4.2, h-index 131.
How long does peer review take at JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE?
Based on the dates recorded on 77 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 316 days (interquartile range 218–580 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 17% (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.
What are the manuscript requirements of JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EconLit and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE open access, and what is the APC?
JOURNAL OF RISK AND INSURANCE is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,400.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .