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About the The Journal of Finance format

The Journal of Finance is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Corporate Finance and Governance, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." The Journal of Finance 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies Corporate Finance and Governance Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Financial Reporting and Valuation Research Housing Market and Economics
ISSN0022-1082
Citation impact (2-yr)12.12
h-index662
i10-index6,682
Total citations1,949,717
Article processing charge$4,020
Top institutions publishing hereNational Bureau of Economic Research
Journal websitewww.wiley.com
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Papers published in The Journal of Finance per year

108
2014
111
2015
131
2016
103
2017
110
2018
113
2019
118
2020
106
2021
95
2022
114
2023
116
2024
108
2025

Citation impact of The Journal of Finance by publication year

21.7K
2014
17.2K
2015
14.5K
2016
11.4K
2017
10.2K
2018
8.8K
2019
8K
2020
6.1K
2021
4.3K
2022
7.5K
2023
2.6K
2024
515
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The Journal of Finance

CAPITAL ASSET PRICES: A THEORY OF MARKET EQUILIBRIUM UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK*

William F. Sharpe · 1 Sep 1964

One of the problems which has plagued those attempting to predict the behavior of capital markets is the absence of a body of positive microeconomic theory dealing with conditions of risk. Although many useful insights can be obtained from the traditional models of investment under conditions of certainty, the pervasive influence of risk in financial…

17,410 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance

Mark M. Carhart · 1 Mar 1997

ABSTRACT Using a sample free of survivor bias, I demonstrate that common factors in stock returns and investment expenses almost completely explain persistence in equity mutual funds' mean and risk‐adjusted returns. Hendricks, Patel and Zeckhauser's (1993) “hot hands” result is mostly driven by the one‐year momentum effect of Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) , but individual…

17,088 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Survey of Corporate Governance

Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny · 1 Jun 1997

ABSTRACT This article surveys research on corporate governance, with special attention to the importance of legal protection of investors and of ownership concentration in corporate governance systems around the world.

16,285 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Cross‐Section of Expected Stock Returns

Eugene F. Fama, Kenneth R. French · 1 Jun 1992

ABSTRACT Two easily measured variables, size and book‐to‐market equity, combine to capture the cross‐sectional variation in average stock returns associated with market β , size, leverage, book‐to‐market equity, and earnings‐price ratios. Moreover, when the tests allow for variation in β that is unrelated to size, the relation between market β and average return is flat,…

15,111 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

The Journal of Finance template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does The Journal of Finance use?
The Journal of Finance uses Author–year (Chicago) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." The Journal of Finance 12 (3): 45–58.
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