Author name: Patricia Ponce

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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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...