Managerial Finance: Volume 42 Issue 4

Ranking of institutions and academic journals: A selective review and a conceptual framework

Kam C. Chan, Anna Fung, Hung-Gay Fung, Jot Yau

The purpose of this paper is to provide a selective review of literature and presents a conceptual framework in journal and institution rankings. Several streams of ranking…

A review of studies on citations and journal ranking in finance

Haifeng Guo, Bo Wang, Xiaotuo Qiao, Renhui Liu

– The purpose of this paper is to review studies on ranking in finance journals, which have grown substantially in recent decades.

Ranking of finance journals: a stochastic dominance analysis

Erin H. Kao, Chuan-Hao Hsu, Yunlin Lu, Hung-Gay Fung

Prior studies in citation-based journal rankings tend to be static to compare across journals. One journal may be judged better in citations than other journals at some points in…

Quality weighted citations versus total citations in the sciences and social sciences, with an application to finance and accounting

Chia-Lin Chang, Michael McAleer

Both journal self-citations and exchanged citations have the effect of increasing a journal’s impact factor, which may be deceptive. The purpose of this paper is to analyse…

A research portfolio approach to evaluating finance journal quality

Morris G. Danielson, Jean L. Heck

The purpose of this paper is to update and extend Danielson and Heck (2014) to provide additional evidence about the relative quality of a set of 23 high-impact finance journals…

Journal features and impact factor

Jen-Sin Lee, Chu-Yun Wei

Journal quality and prestige are the main considerations for researchers, editors, and publishers when submitting manuscripts, citing papers, and developing publishing policies…

A complementary examination of author characteristics of finance journals

Kam C. Chan, Annie Wong, Hannah Wong

The purpose of this paper is to provide a complementary analysis of finance journals that are often being overlooked in prior studies. Specifically, the authors examine the…

Journal influence in corporate research

Kenneth Borokhovich, Allissa Lee, Betty Simkins

Studies of research influence commonly look at the overall field of finance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the sub-field of corporate finance at four different points in…

Accounting-education trends by authors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom

Richard A. Bernardi, Taylor L. Delande, Kimberly A. Zamojcin

The purpose of this paper is to examine the trends in accounting-education publications and the influence of journal rankings for authors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and…

Guest editorial

Kam C. Chan