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Review of Behavioral Finance

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 2009

ISSN1940-5987

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.454

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.121

Total Worksi

432

Total Citationsi

5,513

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.73

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business, Finance; Finance; Accounting; Strategy and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Annual Volume~ 37 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications432

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1940-5987

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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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

822

2019

1.2k

2020

676

2021

576

2022

208

2023

167

2024

2025

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

AccountingQ3

Strategy and ManagementQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business, Finance

Scopus Categories

FinanceStrategy and ManagementAccounting

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesMarket Dynamics and VolatilityCorporate Finance and GovernanceFinancial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisHousing Market and EconomicsAuditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsComplex Systems and Time Series AnalysisStock Market Forecasting MethodsIslamic Finance and Banking Studies

Frequently asked questions about Review of Behavioral Finance

Is Review of Behavioral Finance a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Review of Behavioral Finance: 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 Review of Behavioral Finance?

Review of Behavioral Finance 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 1.73.

Is Review of Behavioral Finance indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Review of Behavioral Finance is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Review of Behavioral Finance?