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Finance journals: characteristics of the main periodicals, important authors, and most cited articles

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  • Flávia Cruz de Souza

    (CPGA, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

  • José Alonso Borba

    (Departamento de Ciências Contábeis, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

  • Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa Jr.

    (Departamento de Ciências Econômicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)

  • Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to characterize the Finance journals available in CAPES’s Basis and to know the most important authors in this Area. After eliminating the publications that did not meet the proposed criterion, a total of 72 journals that contained the expression finance and financial in their titles have been analyzed. Main findings are: Journal of Finance has the highest impact factor (2,549); the great majority of journals are North-American (70,83%) and published four times a year; 51% of them charge a submission fee that varies from US$ 40 to US$ 450; most part takes around six months to publish a paper once it gets accepted; Research in International Business and Finance has the most internationalized editorial board; the most cited article has been published in the Journal of Finance in the year of 1997; and Andrei Shleifer is the author of the three most cited papers in Scopus.

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  • Flávia Cruz de Souza & José Alonso Borba & Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa Jr. & Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia, 2008. "Finance journals: characteristics of the main periodicals, important authors, and most cited articles," Brazilian Review of Finance, Brazilian Society of Finance, vol. 6(1), pages 113-132.
    • Handle: RePEc:brf:journl:v:6:y:2008:i:1:p:113-132
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    Keywords

    journals; papers; authors; finance; financial;
    All these keywords.

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    • G00 - Financial Economics - - General - - - General

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