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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 Informed? Evidence from Credit Rating Agency Announcements,” by Jian Shi, Junbo Wang and Ting Zhang.  The authors find that there is abnormally high short-selling in […]

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 not only streamline the process of submitting an article for review, but will also decrease the turnaround time of revisions. Payment of submission fees will […]

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 will be indexed and abstracted in: • Social Sciences Citation Index• Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition• Current Contents / Social and Behavioral Sciences […]

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 evaluates business journals regarding each journal’s individual quality. They base their results on a sample of 72 institutional journal lists commonly used in faculty research […]

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. Professors Erik Devos, William B. Elliott, and Murali Jagannathan will begin their three-year term on January 1, 2018. Dr. Erik Devos received his Ph.D. from […]