5.5
CiteScore
19 days
Submission to First Decision
6 days
Acceptance to Publication

Journal History

2008	The inaugural issue was released, initially published by Prof. Dr. Alan Wong in print (ISSN 1911-8066 for print edition) and online (ISSN 1911-8074 for electronic edition) with one annual volume from 2008 until the end of 2012.
2013	JRFM was published as a quarterly journal and online by MDPI. MDPI took over the publication of this title on 1 October 2013. Articles published prior to 1 October 2013 on www.jrfm.us were transferred to the MDPI platform and left unchanged. MDPI will continue to publish the online edition only.
2016	JRFM was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) - Web of Science.
2018	JRFM became an affiliated journal of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI), and the International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM). JRFM published its first Special Issue book “Extreme Values and Financial Risk”.
2019	JRFM was indexed in the ABDC - Australian Business Deans Council. JRFM was indexed in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (NSD). JRFM was indexed in the EconBiz/ECONIS (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics - ZBW). JRFM established the following Sections: Risk Banking and Finance Mathematical Finance Financial Economics Financial Markets Financial Technology and Innovation Sustainable Finance Entrepreneurial Finance Tourism: Economics, Finance and Management Applied Economics and Finance JRFM published the following Special Issue books: Nonparametric Econometric Methods and Application (Editor: Thanasis Stengos) Alternative Assets and Cryptocurrencies (Editor: Christian Hafner) Empirical Finance (Editor: Shigeyuki Hamori) Applied Econometrics (Editor: Chia-Lin Chang) Financial Econometrics (Editor: Yiu-Kuen Tse) Risk Analysis and Portfolio Modelling (Editors: David Allen, Elisa Luciano) Currency Crisis (Editor: Faridul Islam) JRFM established a Reviewer Board. JRFM appreciated the reviewers’ contributions and announced the winners of 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award. JRFM appreciated the authors’ contributions and announced the winners of 2019 Best Paper Award. JRFM announced the 2020 Travel Award. Nominations end by 1 April 2020. JRFM announced the 2020 Best Paper Awards & 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards.
2020	JRFM adopted a monthly publication schedule. JRFM established the following section: Energy and Environment: Economics, Finance and Policy. Mathematical Finance was renamed as Mathematics and Finance. Financial Economics was renamed as Economics and Finance. Sustainable Finance was renamed as Sustainability and Finance. Entrepreneurial Finance was renamed as Business and Entrepreneurship.
2022	JRFM was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 12 (Issue 1). JRFM established the following section: Currencies.
2023	JRFM received its first CiteScore (2022) of 2.8.
2024	The CiteScore increased to 4.5.
2025	The CiteScore increased to 5.0. The 1st International Online Conference on Risk and Financial Management: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in Finance (IOCRF2025) was held on 17–18 June 2025.
2026	The CiteScore increased to 5.5.

Editor-in-Chief

2008–2012	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Raymond A.K. Cox (Founding Editor)
2013–2021	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer
2021–present	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos

Section Editor-in-Chief

2019–2020	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos for the Section on Financial Economics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ming-Lang Tseng for the Section on Sustainable Finance Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wing-Keung Wong for the Section on Mathematical Finance
2019–2021	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer for the Section on Risk
2019–2023	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xuezhong (Tony) He for the Section on Financial Markets Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. James R. Barth for the Section on Banking and Finance
2019–2024	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Chia-Lin Chang for the Section on Applied Economics and Finance
2019–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shigeyuki Hamori for the Section on Financial Technology and Innovation Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Colin Michael Hall for the Section on Tourism: Economics, Finance and Management
2020–2021	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer for the Section on Risk
2020–2023	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wing-Keung Wong for the Section on Mathematics and Finance
2020–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Siri A. Terjesen for the Section on Business and Entrepreneurship Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos for the Section on Economics and Finance Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ming-Lang Tseng for the Section on Sustainability and Finance Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh for the Section on Energy and Environment: Economics, Finance and Policy
2021–2023	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Norm Swanson for the Section on Applied Economics and Finance
2023–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev for the Section on Mathematics and Finance

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