Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

International Journal of Financial Research encourages high-quality and original research in finance and closely related areas of accounting and economics. It welcomes empirical, theoretical, and applied studies in areas including, but not limited to:

  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Markets and Investments
  • Banking and Financial Institutions
  • Risk, Insurance, and Derivatives
  • International Finance
  • Financial Economics
  • Accounting and Financial Information
  • Financial Regulation and Stability
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Fintech and Digital Finance

Economics or accounting submissions should be clearly connected to a financial research question and make a substantive contribution to finance or financial economics. All submissions must undergo rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity and quality.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-anonymized peer-reviewed system for peer-review. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent external reviewers with relevant expertise. The review process may take 4-10 weeks. The editorial board makes the editorial decision after considering the reviewers' reports, the manuscript's scholarly quality, relevance, originality, methodological or analytical validity, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and any other relevant information. Possible decisions include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, rejection with an invitation to submit a substantially revised manuscript as a new submission, or rejection.

 

Publication Frequency

Quarterly, published in January, April, July and October

 

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

 

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Journal Metrics

1. Google-based Journal Impact Factor (2025): 0.92

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) normally referred to is the proprietary journal impact factor from Thomson Reuters calculated based on the Web of Science (WOS) and published in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). This journal has no JCR®JIF, but an alternative Google-based impact factor.

Today, most of readers find their way to our articles via Google Scholar. No open or proprietary database is directing so many readers to our articles. Google Scholar is the only openly available database suitable for journal metric calculation. It has a wide coverage and is a meaningful source. For this reason, Sciedu Press is calculating its own Impact Factor based on Google Scholar's citation counts. Scientists are used to Thomson Reuters' way of calculating an impact factor. For this reason, Sciedu Press applies Thomson Reuters'(TR) algorithm as published on https://clarivate.com/essays/impact-factor/ in Figure 1.

The 2025 Google-based impact factor of this journal would be calculated as follows:

A = total cites in 2025 = 360

B = 2025 cites to articles published in 2023-24 = 151 (this is a subset of A)

C = number of articles published in 2023-24 = 164

D = B/C = 2025 Impact Factor = 151/164 = 0.92 (Based on Google citations)

2. h-index: 62

h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

3. i10-index: 457

i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

 

Special Issue

To better serve the academic community, we welcome collaboration with academic and research institutions to publish special issues. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for our journal, please submit your inquiry and proposal to ijfr@sciedupress.com 

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Before submitting a proposal, please note the following:

  • The special issue should focus on a specific research topic, conference theme, or closely related area within the journal’s scope.
  • All manuscripts submitted to the special issue will follow the same editorial and peer-review process as regular submissions.
  • Proposed guest editors and reviewers are subject to approval by the journal.
  • Proposals should be submitted to the journal at least five months before the planned publication date.
  • An article processing charge (APC) applies to each accepted article.
  • All published articles will be freely available online as open-access articles.

We are committed to facilitating the dissemination of high-quality research and knowledge through special issues. We look forward to working with you to bring your research to a wider audience. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or concerns.