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The Journal of Financial Research publishes four issues per year.
The Journal of Financial Research
The official journal of
the Southern Finance Association
and the Southwestern Finance Association
06Aug
JFR’s 2019 Impact Factor is 1.268
The 2019 Journal Citation Report has been released by Clarivate Analytics and the new one year impact factor for JFR is 1.268. JFR has only recently been indexed by SSCI,…
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JFR’s 2018 Impact Factor is 1.086
The 2018 Journal Citation Report has been released by Clarivate Analytics and the new one year impact factor for JFR is 1.086. JFR has only recently been indexed by SSCI,…
Read More13Sep
2018 JFR Outstanding Article Awards Announced
Scott Hein, Jeffery Mercer, and Drew Winters, Past Co-Executive Editors of the Journal of Financial Research, have selected two articles deemed to be outstanding. From the Spring 2018 issue, "The Effects…
Read More12Feb
2017 JFR Outstanding Article Awards Announced
Scott Hein, Jeffery Mercer, and Drew Winters, Co-Executive Editors of the Journal of Financial Research, have selected two articles deemed to be outstanding. From the Summer 2017 issue, “Are Short Sellers…
Read More28Aug
Online Manuscript Submissions and Payment Process
The JFR has adopted the Scholar 1 Manuscript (S1M) online submission system. S1M is used by many other academic journals and it is our hope that this submission system will…
Read More22Aug
JFR to Be Followed by Social Science Citation Index
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Financial Research has been selected for coverage in Thomson Reuter’s products and services. Beginning with Volume 37, issue #1, 2014, JFR…
Read More22Aug
JFR Ranked Among Top 100 Business Journals in MIS Quarterly Study
Bruce Lewis (Wake Forest) and Gary Templeton (Mississippi State University) recently published an article that ranks the top 100 academic business journals (see citation below). Among other things, the article…
Read More15Aug
JFR Announces New Editorial Board
The Board of Directors of the Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association are pleased to announce the selection of the new editors of the Journal of Financial Research.…
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