Journal of Banking and Finance
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

Journal of Banking and Finance
Overview

Impact Factor

3.07

H Index

197

Impact Factor

3.485

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

Netherlands
Journal ISSN: 3784266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
History: 1977-ongoing
Journal Hompage: Link
How to Get Published:

Research Categories

Scope/Description:

The Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF) publishes theoretical and empirical research papers spanning all the major research fields in finance and banking. The aim of the Journal of Banking and Finance is to provide an outlet for the increasing flow of scholarly research concerning financial institutions and the money and capital markets within which they function. The Journal's emphasis is on theoretical developments and their implementation, empirical, applied, and policy-oriented research in banking and other domestic and international financial institutions and markets. The Journal's purpose is to improve communications between, and within, the academic and other research communities and policymakers and operational decision makers at financial institutions - private and public, national and international, and their regulators. The Journal is one of the largest Finance journals, with approximately 1500 new submissions per year, mainly in the following areas: Asset Management; Asset Pricing; Banking (Efficiency, Regulation, Risk Management, Solvency); Behavioural Finance; Capital Structure; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Derivative Pricing and Hedging; Distribution Forecasting with Financial Applications; Entrepreneurial Finance; Empirical Finance; Financial Economics; Financial Markets (Alternative, Bonds, Currency, Commodity, Derivatives, Equity, Energy, Real Estate); FinTech; Fund Management; General Equilibrium Models; High-Frequency Trading; Intermediation; International Finance; Hedge Funds; Investments; Liquidity; Market Efficiency; Market Microstructure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Networks; Performance Analysis; Political Risk; Portfolio Optimization; Regulation of Financial Markets and Institutions; Risk Management and Analysis; Systemic Risk; Term Structure Models; Venture Capital.

II. Science Citation Report (SCR)



Journal of Banking and Finance
SCR Impact Factor

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SCR Journal Ranking

Journal of Banking and Finance
SCImago SJR Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.

1.58

Journal of Banking and Finance
Scopus 2-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 3-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 4-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Journal of Banking and Finance
Impact Factor History

2-year 3-year 4-year
  • 2023 Impact Factor
    #N/A #N/A #N/A
  • 2022 Impact Factor
    4.108 4.814 5.139
  • 2021 Impact Factor
    3.485 4.048 4.479
  • 2020 Impact Factor
    2.719 3.262 3.692
  • 2019 Impact Factor
    2.362 2.765 3.217
  • 2018 Impact Factor
    2.308 2.947 3.518
  • 2017 Impact Factor
    2.323 2.876 3.232
  • 2016 Impact Factor
    2.171 2.718 2.894
  • 2015 Impact Factor
    2.153 2.433 2.734
  • 2014 Impact Factor
    1.954 NA NA
  • 2013 Impact Factor
    2.138 NA NA
  • 2012 Impact Factor
    2.058 NA NA
  • 2011 Impact Factor
    3.336 NA NA
  • 2010 Impact Factor
    3.357 NA NA
  • 2009 Impact Factor
    2.478 NA NA
  • 2008 Impact Factor
    1.416 NA NA
  • 2007 Impact Factor
    1.273 NA NA
  • 2006 Impact Factor
    1.397 NA NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor
    1.132 NA NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor
    1.214 NA NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor
    1.071 NA NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor
    0.921 NA NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor
    0.888 NA NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor
    0.827 NA NA
Note: impact factor data for reference only

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Impact Factor

Impact factor (IF) is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years. A journal impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. Find out more: What is a good impact factor?


III. Other Science Influence Indicators

Any impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. There are also other factors such as H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR, SNIP, etc. Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed. (Learn More)

Journal of Banking and Finance
H-Index

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

197

Journal of Banking and Finance
H-Index History