The Review of Financial Studies

The Review of Financial Studies
DisciplineFinance
LanguageEnglish
Edited byItay Goldstein
Publication details
History1988-present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
No
8.2 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Rev. Financ. Stud.
Indexing
ISSN0893-9454 (print)
1465-7368 (web)
LCCNsf93094251
OCLC no.40777420
Links

The Review of Financial Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of finance. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies. It was established following discussions at the 1986 Western Finance Association meetings, and the first issue was published in 1988.[1] The current editor-in-chief is Itay Goldstein. It is considered to be one of the premier finance journals.[2][3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.814, ranking it 5/110 in the category "BUSINESS, FINANCE".[4]

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