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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Economics and Finance 25 114 151 34

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 125
Documents by Best Scientists*: 158
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 156
SCIMAGO SJR: 4.465
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis?

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis investigates areas of study like Econometrics, Monetary economics, Financial economics, Finance and Portfolio. Econometrics research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Actuarial science and Interest rate. The Monetary economics works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Bond, Equity (finance), Shareholder and Debt.

Topics in Financial economics were tackled in line with various other fields like Stock exchange, Stock market and Common stock. The majority of Portfolio studies are focused on the issues of Portfolio optimization.

  • Econometrics (25.51%)
  • Monetary economics (22.79%)
  • Financial economics (22.62%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Determinants of Firms' Hedging Policies (2356 citations)
  • Firm Performance and Mechanisms to Control Agency Problems between Managers and Shareholders (2276 citations)
  • The Relation between Price Changes and Trading Volume: A Survey (2023 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis:

The journal publications mostly deal with topics like Financial economics, Econometrics, Monetary economics, Equity (finance) and Finance. Issues in Econometrics were discussed in the journal articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Actuarial science, Interest rate and Portfolio. The study of Monetary economics in the published papers encompasses disciplines such as Debt, as well as fields such as Leverage (finance), all of which overlap with one another.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Law
  • Finance

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis mostly deals with topics like Monetary economics, Financial system, Econometrics, Value (economics) and Finance. Some problems in Monetary economics that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Capital (economics), Equity (finance), Investment (macroeconomics) and Debt. It facilitates discussions on Financial system that incorporate concepts from other fields like Deregulation, Corporate governance, Shareholder and Cash holdings.

Issues in Econometrics were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Variance (accounting), Percentage point and Measure (data warehouse). The subject of Enterprise value, which is connected to the field of Sample (statistics), serves as the foundation of the Value (economics) research featured in the journal. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis covers research in Finance, particularly Private equity and Venture capital and how they are related with concepts in Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and Exploit.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Innovation: International Evidence (24 citations)
  • Social Transmission Bias and Investor Behavior (19 citations)
  • Climate change news risk and corporate bond returns (14 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Haim Levy (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Harold Bierman (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Thomas J. Chemmanur (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Wilbur G. Lewellen (11 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (based on the number of publications) are:

  • College of Business Administration (41 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • New York University (31 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Toronto (24 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (23 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (22 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 48.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.46% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.85% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 27.69% of all publications and 40.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Using Stocks or Portfolios in Tests of Factor Models

    Andrew Ang;Jun Liu;Krista Schwarz

    (2020)
    333 Citations
  • Investor Attention and Stock Returns

    Jian Chen;Guohao Tang;Jiaquan Yao;Guofu Zhou

    (2021)
    153 Citations
  • Googling Investor Sentiment around the World

    Zhenyu Gao;Haohan Ren;Bohui Zhang

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Good Volatility, Bad Volatility, and the Cross Section of Stock Returns

    Tim Bollerslev;Sophia Zhengzi Li;Bingzhi Zhao

    (2020)
    145 Citations
  • Model Comparison with Sharpe Ratios

    Francisco Barillas;Raymond Kan;Cesare Robotti;Jay Shanken

    (2020)
    134 Citations

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