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Asia-Pacific Financial Markets

Springer New York · United States · Est. 1994

ISSN1387-2834eISSN1573-6946
SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q2
SJR · Scopus
Top 50% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.521
H-Indexi
38
SNIPi
1.108
Total Worksi
773
Total Citationsi
6,743
2yr Mean Citednessi
1.91
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets is an international forum for empirical and theoretical research into the financial markets. Official journal of the Japanese Association of Financial Econometrics and Engineering (JAFEE). Interprets 'financial engineering' to cover a broad range of topics. Welcomes purely theoretical papers, as well as empirical studies using Asia-Pacific market data. Formerly known as Financial Engineering and the Japanese Markets. Encourages submission of quality papers on all aspects of finance and financial engineering.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published1994
Annual Volume~ 63 articles / year
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications773
Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media
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Submission Info

Peer Review—
OA License—
OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

6/11 · 55%
✅
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Springer New York
✅
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
✅
Is the ISSN verified?
1387-2834 / 1573-6946
✅
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus
❌
Peer review process documented?
N/A
❌
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
✅
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
❌
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
❌
Plagiarism detection in place?
N/A
❌
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
✅
Primary language documented?
English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
31
187
2019
27
321
2020
28
526
2021
40
486
2022
47
451
2023
67
309
2024
74
109
2025
54
12
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

FinanceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Economics

Scopus Categories

Finance

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Stochastic processes and financial applicationsFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesFinancial Risk and Volatility ModelingMarket Dynamics and VolatilityCorporate Finance and GovernanceMonetary Policy and Economic ImpactComplex Systems and Time Series AnalysisCredit Risk and Financial RegulationsBanking stability, regulation, efficiencyStock Market Forecasting Methods

Frequently asked questions about Asia-Pacific Financial Markets

Is Asia-Pacific Financial Markets a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Asia-Pacific Financial Markets: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Asia-Pacific Financial Markets?

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.91.

Is Asia-Pacific Financial Markets indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Asia-Pacific Financial Markets?

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets is an international forum for empirical and theoretical research into the financial markets. Official journal of the Japanese Association of Financial Econometrics and Engineering (JAFEE). Interprets 'financial engineering' to cover a broad range of topics. Welcomes purely theoretical papers, as well as empirical studies using Asia-Pacific market data. Formerly known as Financial Engineering and the Japanese Markets. Encourages submission of quality papers on all aspects of finance and financial engineering.

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref