Finance journal rankings : A paper affiliation methodology

Finance journal rankings are a key factor when deciding where to publish and what to read. Despite their great development in recent years, rankings are still not sufficiently precise or updated with sufficient frequency. In this paper, we employ a new methodology called 'paper affiliation index' to produce finance journal rankings, using research impact metrics and, indirectly, expert knowledge. Both of these are based on secondary, objective measures in our approach. This makes it possible to produce lists every year without human manipulation at virtually no cost. We compare our methodology with the approaches that dominate the creation of finance journal rankings and present a new ranking with 65 journals