Impact: What Influences Finance Research?

Finance journal rankings and tiers: An Active Scholar Assessment methodology

“…This suggests that the quality of finance journals following the premier three journals, as perceived by active finance scholars, is higher than what citation-based methods may appear to suggest. Some researchers including Chan et al (2000), Arnold et al (2003) and Krishnan and Bricker (2004) have suggested that the steep decline may be due to a self-citation group-bias among authors publishing in the premier finance journals. The more monotonic decline in quality and importance measures over journal rankings and lack of clustering suggest that the active scholar peer assessment methodology may be less influenced by this type of potential citation bias.…”

Sources of influence on award winning research: A note

“…Several of the authors listed in the table are nonaccountants, including 5 individuals whose works are often cited by finance researchers according to a study in the area of finance by Arnold, Butler, Crack, and Altintig (2003). These authors are Fama (21), French (9), Jensen (8), Meckling (5) and Scholes (5).…”

Finance editorial board membership and research productivity

“…These are the top five finance journals used in Arnold et al (2003). 2 There are 167 editorial board members associated with these top five finance journals.…”

“…In addition to these five journals,Arnold et al (2003) include the Journal of Business. Unlike the other finance journals, typically, all editorial board members in the Journal of Business are faculty members from the University of Chicago.…”