Journal profile · BUSINESS, FINANCE
Quantitative Finance and Economics
ISSN 2573-0134 · AIMS Press · United States
Quantitative Finance and Economics: CAS Zone 2 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.7 (journal website); fully open access; no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 32 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Quantitative Finance and Economics is published by AIMS Press 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 Market Dynamics and Volatility, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, together about 36.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Finance and Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Quantitative Finance and Economics (QFE) is an international, scholarly, peer-reviewed, high quality and open access journal of finance and economics. It provides an advanced forum for communicating research results related to quantitative finance and economics. In order to promote the marginal contribution of the journal, QFE focuses on the following fields: 1) Quantitative research on the basis of indexes, like compilation methodologies for financial indexes and their data dissemination, including but not limited to financial condition indexes, digital finance indexes and so forth; 2) Financialization, including but not limited to leverage ratios, financialization behaviors of enterprises and so forth; 3) Digital finance and risk management, concerning on quantitative research of financial risk through the application of information technology, including but not limited to sovereign digital currencies and monetary policies, financial risks induced by digital finance and so forth.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS, FINANCE
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Market Dynamics and VolatilityEconomics, Econometrics and Finance16.5%
- Financial Risk and Volatility ModelingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance10.7%
- Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.4%
- Complex Systems and Time Series AnalysisEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9%
- Monetary Policy and Economic ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.9%
- Energy, Environment, Economic GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.2%
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiencyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.2%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting4%
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 |
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 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceEconLitPublisher website
Other: ANVUR, Academic OneFile (Gale)
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)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 34OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 109OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.27OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 334 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 24 | 8 |
| 2025 | 32 | 32 | 76 |
| 2024 | 33 | 33 | 207 |
| 2023 | 33 | 33 | 235 |
| 2022 | 32 | 32 | 353 |
| 2021 | 32 | 32 | 614 |
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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
Article types accepted5
- conference reportsWe publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.Length not stated
- editorialsWe publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.Length not stated
- lettersWe publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.Length not stated
- original research articlesWe publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.Length not stated
- reviewsWe publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access
Published quarterly online by AIMS and sponsored by Guangzhou University. Model summary
Quantitative Finance and Economics is published quarterly online by AIMS and sponsored by Guangzhou University.
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
- AIMS Press
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2573-0134
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Quantitative Finance and Economics
What CAS zone is Quantitative Finance and Economics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Quantitative Finance and Economics is in Zone 2 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Business, Finance. 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 Quantitative Finance and Economics?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.9, h-index 34.
How long does peer review take at Quantitative Finance and Economics?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 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.
Which databases index Quantitative Finance and Economics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Quantitative Finance and Economics is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and EconLit; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Quantitative Finance and Economics open access, and what is the APC?
Quantitative Finance and Economics is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
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: .