Financial Management

Aims & Scope

Financial Management serves both academics and practitioners who are concerned with the financial management of nonfinancial businesses, financial institutions, and public and private not-for-profit organizations.

Financial Management’s editorial policy is that the journal serves the profession by publishing significant new scholarly research in finance that is of the highest quality.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	6

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	3.226

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	85

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important?

  Citation: 1657

  Authors: Murray Z., Vidhan K.

• A Simple Approximation of Tobin's q

  Citation: 1473

  Authors: Kee H., Stephen W.

• The Effects of Board Composition and Direct Incentives on Firm Performance

  Citation: 1413

  Authors: Benjamin E., Michael S.

• Corporate Stakeholders and Corporate Finance

  Citation: 846

  Authors: Bradford, Alan C.

• Corporate Social Performance and Stock Returns: UK Evidence from Disaggregate Measures

  Citation: 755

  Authors: Stephen, Chris, Stephen

• The Syndication of Venture Capital Investments

  Citation: 743

  Authors: Joshua

• Managerial Optimism and Corporate Finance

  Citation: 702

  Authors: J. B.

• Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity

  Citation: 631

  Authors: Michael C.

• Does Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Improve Credit Ratings? Evidence from Geographic Identification

  Citation: 542

  Authors: Pornsit, Napatsorn, Adisak, Kiyoung

• Differences between Politically Connected and Nonconnected Firms: A Cross‐Country Analysis

  Citation: 535

  Authors: Mara

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