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Finance Research Letters is OFFICIALLY now Top 4
Economist
b9daDear colleagues and friends,
We hope that this email finds you well and that you are safe.
We are delighted to announce that the recently released Impact Factor of Finance Research Letters is now 3.527, making it the 4th highest in Finance after the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
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Yours faithfully
Narjess, Jonathan, and SamuelEconomist
d978The main takeaway is that the Impact Factor has gone from being a noisy measure of journal quality to a useless measure of journal quality.
So only a club journal could be a top journal?
Economist
4aceThere is value in an outlet for simple, quick results.
FRL has a smaller adverse selection problem than the other B journals. By the time a paper gets to (say) JFI, it's already been rejected five times. Some papers have FRL as their natural home and therefore are submitted there earlier.
That would be a disadvantage if Top 5 referee reports made papers better, but usually they don't. They are idiosyncratic and simply change the paper. By the time a paper gets to a B journal it bears the battle scars of being told by a dozen different people what they think is best. We then see a bloated, confusing monster.
Economist
682bDear colleagues and friends,
We hope that this email finds you well and that you are safe.
We are delighted to announce that the recently released Impact Factor of Finance Research Letters is now 3.527, making it the 4th highest in Finance after the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
...
Yours faithfully
Narjess, Jonathan, and SamuelConfirmed for the second year in a row
Economist
f275The main takeaway is that the Impact Factor has gone from being a noisy measure of journal quality to a useless measure of journal quality.
So only a club journal could be a top journal?
No, but not only top journals are club journals. This is basically business school, AaCSB and R1 label related journal gaming by the editors do that they do not have to teach.
Economist
3234The main takeaway is that the Impact Factor has gone from being a noisy measure of journal quality to a useless measure of journal quality.
So only a club journal could be a top journal?
No, but not only top journals are club journals. This is basically business school, AaCSB and R1 label related journal gaming by the editors do that they do not have to teach.
Lol
SV won a teaching award for his quants classes. It's only in USA professors can skip teaching.Economist
3234This is evidently not an indicator of very high quality, but it suggests that there is a demand for short papers, which only FRL satisfies. Except for referees, no one has the time to read long papers.
Pretty bang on the mark there. Letters journals should be quick and somewhat noisy.
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