North American Journal of Economics and Finance

Aims & Scope

The North-American Journal of Economics and Finance publishes high-quality, original manuscripts in financial economics.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: • Stock market, • Financial intermediation and capital markets, • Law and finance, financial institutions, • Integration of financial markets, • International finance, • Corporate governance, • Information and security markets, • Behavioral finance, • Hedging and risk management, • Corporate financial policy, • Financial econometrics, • Other applied topics in micro and macroeconomics.

The journal takes steps to ensure a balance between theoretical and empirical work and, in addition, it aims to provide prompt and constructive reviews to authors.

Empirical analyses ought to be replicable.

Where relevant, the authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to supply data and computer programs.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.9

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.961

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	65

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5165

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2743

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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 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.

• Predicting the direction of stock market prices using tree-based classifiers

  Citation: 276

  Authors: Suryoday, Saibal, Snehanshu, Luckyson, Sudeepa Roy

• Oil price shocks, geopolitical risks, and green bond market dynamics

  Citation: 255

  Authors: Chi-Chuan, Chien-Chiang, Yong-Yi

• Regionalism in the nineties: what effect on trade?

  Citation: 236

  Authors: Isidro, L.

• Do the emerging stock markets react to international economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk and financial stress alike?

  Citation: 204

  Authors: Debojyoti, M., Malay

• Fragmentation in simple trade models

  Citation: 189

  Authors: Alan V.

• Leverage and firm performance: New evidence on the role of firm size

  Citation: 188

  Authors: Oyakhilome W., Felicia O.

• Production fragmentation and trade integration: East Asia in a global context

  Citation: 182

  Authors: Prema-chandra, Nobuaki

• Globalization and the open economy

  Citation: 180

  Authors: Sven W.

• Gold as an inflation hedge in a time-varying coefficient framework

  Citation: 178

  Authors: Joscha, Robert

• Network connectedness and net spillover between financial and commodity markets

  Citation: 164

  Authors: Seong-Min, Md, Gazi Salah, Sang Hoon

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