The Journal of Finance is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Finance Association

American Finance Association

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. It was established in 1946. Its current editors are Campbell R. Harvey and John R. Graham

John Graham (economist)

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 (Duke University

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). The Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies

Review of Financial Studies

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, and the Journal of Financial Economics

Journal of Financial Economics

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 are considered the three most prestigious finance

Finance

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 journals. The Journal of Finance is among the most highly cited journals in the field of finance: In 2009, according to the Journal Citation Reports

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, it a 2009 impact factor

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 of 3.764, ranking it second out of 53 journals in the category "Business/Finance" and 7th out of 247 in the category "Economics". It is listed as one of the 45 journals used by the Financial Times

Financial Times

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 to compile its business-school research ranks and Bloomberg Businessweeks Top 20 Journals.

Past editors

Past editors of the journal are:

Editor	Affiliation	Years
Marshall Ketchum	University of Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...	1946-1955
Harold Fraine	University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...	1956-1958
Joel Segall	University of Chicago	1958-1960
Harold Fraine	University of Wisconsin–Madison	1961-1963
Lawrence Ritter Lawrence Ritter Lawrence S. Ritter was an American writer whose specialties were economics and baseball.Ritter was a professor of economics and finance, and chairman of the Department of Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University. He also edited the academic periodical...	New York University New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...	1964-1966
Dudley Luckett	Iowa State University Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...	1967-1970
Alexander A. Robichek	Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...	1971-1973
Jack M. Guttentag	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...	1974-1977
Marshall E. Blume	University of Pennsylvania	1977-1980
Michael J. Brennan	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...	1980-1983
Edwin J. Elton Ed Elton Edwin Elton is a Nomura Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and Academic Director of the Stern Doctoral Program...  and Martin Gruber Martin Gruber Martin Gruber is an Italian luger who has competed since 1992. A natural track luger, he won the men's singles silver medal at the 1998 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Rautavaara, Finland....	New York University New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...	1983-1988
Rene M. Stulz	The Ohio State University	1988-1999
Richard M. Green	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....	2000-2003
Robert F. Stambaugh Robert F. Stambaugh Robert F. Stambaugh is an American economist, who specializes in econometrics and finance. He graduated in 1981 from the University of Chicago and is now Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania...	University of Pennsylvania	2004-2006
Campbell R. Harvey	Duke University	2006-2012
Kenneth J. Singleton	Stanford University	2012-

Awards

Each year the top papers published in The Journal of Finance are nominated for the Smith Breeden

Smith Breeden Prize

The Smith Breeden Prize is an annual prize given to authors with the best finance research papers published in the Journal of Finance in any area other than corporate finance.-The Award:...

 and Brattle Prize

Brattle Prize

The Brattle Prize is an annual prize given to authors with the best corporate finance research papers published in the Journal of Finance.-Details:Each year the associate editors of the Journal of Finance award five papers for excellence...

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