2017

The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Jonathan Cohn, Ian Dew-Becker, Cary Frydman, Cam Harvey, Cliff Holderness, Peter Koudijs, Jacob Sagi, David Solomon, and Lucy White as Associate Editors starting from January 2018. We thank the outgoing Associate Editors Christa Bouwman, Andrea Buraschi, Joost Driessen, Lorenzo Garlappi, Reint Gropp, Bart Lambrecht, Hong Liu, Jose-Luis Peydro Alcalde, and Liuren Wu for many years of distinguished service.… Read more...

We recently encountered a clear-cut case of self-plagiarism which led to a manuscript being rejected. We have thus added the following to the journal’s Editorial Policy. Going forwards, such a case would lead to a 2-year ban for the authors, but we did not impose it in this case since the policy had not been announced.… Read more...

The Managing Editors’ Report for 2016/7 is available at revfin.org/reports-from-the-editors/.

Some highlights include:

• The RF remains #4 in finance journals, ranked by 2-year impact factor. Our 5-year impact factor is now 2.827, up from 2.555 in 2015
• The number of submissions rose from 848 to 923
• Consistent with our new policy of applying top-three standards, the acceptance rate fell from 8.61% to 6.28%, the number of R&Rs fell by nearly a half to 87, and the number of desk-rejections nearly doubled to 296
• Our average turnaround time fell from 50 to 38 days

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The Review of Finance congratulates the following award winners:

David Yermack for the Pagano/Zechner award for best non-investments paper, Corporate Governance and Blockchains. A short summary on the Managing Editor’s blog is here.

Christopher S. Jones and Lukasz Pomorski for the Spängler IQAM award for the best investments paper, Investing in Disappearing Anomalies.… Read more...

From August 2017, there will be a new, faster publishing model at the Review of Finance. Manuscripts will be published online to the Advance Articles page within 24 hours of the author completing their licence to publish, i.e. before copyediting and typesetting.… Read more...

Our longest-serving Editor, Burton Hollifield, has decided to retire as Editor of the Review of Finance. We thank him for his many years of distinguished service and are delighted that he has agreed to serve as Advisory Editor.… Read more...