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The Journal of Finance

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Source revisionFeb 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ1709844 ↗
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The Journal of Finance is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Finance Association. It was established in 1946. The editor-in-chief is Antoinette Schoar. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.870, ranking it 6th out of 111 journals in the category "Business, Finance" and 16th out of 381 journals in the category "Economics".

Editors

The editorial board consists of the editor, co-editors, and associate editors. The current editor is Antoinette Schoar (MIT).

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Awards

Each year the associate editors vote for the best papers published in the journal. The Smith Breeden Prize is awarded for the best finance papers and the Brattle Prize for the best corporate finance research papers.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Journal of Finance” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.