Journal of Risk and Financial Management

Journal of Risk and Financial Management is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on risk and financial management, published monthly online by MDPI (since Volume 6, Issue 1 - 2013).

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, EconBiz, EconLit, RePEc, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q1 (Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous))
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 18.3 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Companion journal for JRFM include: Investment.
• Journal Cluster of Economics, Finance and Risk Systems: Commodities, Econometrics, Economies, FinTech, Forecasting, Games, International Journal of Financial Studies, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Platforms and Risks.