Publishing with the Journal of Financial Econometrics

The Journal of Financial Econometrics (JFEC) is a high-quality journal that focuses on this fast-growing field. The journal addresses substantive statistical issues raised by the tremendous growth of the financial industry over the last decades. The goal is to reflect and advance the relationship between econometrics and finance, both at the methodological and at the empirical levels.

There are many reasons to submit your work to the Journal of Financial Econometrics, including a fuss-free submissions process, commitment to fair and inclusive peer review, and robust social media/marketing for your work.

Read on to learn why JFEC is the perfect home for your research.

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Excellent Author Experience

By publishing with the Journal of Financial Econometrics, your paper will benefit from support and expertise from diverse and experienced academics on the editorial board, which will maximize the international reach of your article. Additionally, the simple  online submissions portal makes it easy to submit your work.

Rapid and Transparent Editorial Process

The Journal of Financial Econometrics practices anonymised peer review, which provides your research with honest and genuine reviews by anonymous reviewers. Moreover, the Editors will guide your manuscript through the process with care and efficiency, helping you get your research published as quickly as possible.

Prestige and Reputation

The Journal of Financial Econometrics has an Impact Factor of 1.8 and is ranked 241/597 in the SSI Economics category (2024) and 113/231 in the SSI Business, Finance category (2024). An Impact Factor is seen as an indicator of the quality of a journal and therefore publishing your work in a journal with a high Impact Factor in turn reflects the high quality of your work.

Explore some of the highly cited research that has contributed to our continued success here.

Global Readership

The Journal of Financial Econometrics connects your powerful ideas with the widest audience to give your research the greatest possible impact. Its articles are available in several abstracting and indexing services, attracting a diverse range of authors and readers.

The journal also offers by browse-by-subject using Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes. Providing the relevant JEL code when submitting your paper increases discoverability of your research within journals and OUP’s wider audience.

Content from JFEC may also be featured on our dedicated social and behavioural sciences Twitter channel: @OUPSocSci.

Range of Content

The Journal of Financial Econometrics publishes five issues per year. Comprising a wide range of article types, namely research articles, advance articles, book reviews and article commentary. This way the author can choose the format they find most appropriate to communicating their findings.

Advance access publishing means your content will be available online as soon as possible. Once a paper is accepted, the pre-proofed, pre-copyedited accepted manuscript will typically be published online within one week. It will be replaced by a copyedited, proofed version of the paper in an issue.

The journal covers a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Financial Economics

• Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

• International Economics

• Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

By publishing in the Journal of Financial Econometrics, your work could be included in these, or in other thematic content collections across OUP’s products.

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Community

The Engle Prize is awarded every three years to the young scholar or student who has published the best article in the Journal of Financial Econometrics over the preceding period.

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Open Access

The Journal of Financial Econometrics is a hybrid open access journal and authors may choose to pay an open access fee to make their accepted manuscript freely available online. Learn more about OA and other licensing agreements here.

Article Metrics 

Article-level metrics, including usage, citations, and Altmetric scores are available for all articles published in the journal, allowing you to understand the reach of your research, and the attention it is receiving online. 

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