How to Publish Papers
in High Quality Journals
Prepared by
Carl R. Chen
Editor, International Review of Economics and Finance
For
The 15th Pacific Basin Finance, Economics,
Accounting, and Management Annual Conference
I. Publication is very Competitive
Number of unweighted
publications (1990-2004)
One publication
Two publications
Three publications
Four publications
Five publications
Six publications
Seven publications
Eight publications
Nine publications
Ten publications
Eleven publications
Twelve publications
Thirteen publications
Fourteen publications
Fifteen or more publications
Total
Number of authors
3,583
1,099
580
371
253
192
151
93
97
74
57
44
31
24
118
6,767
% of total
52.95
16.24
8.57
5.48
3.74
2.84
2.23
1.37
1.43
1.09
0.84
0.65
0.46
0.35
1.74
100.00
Cumulative %
52.95
69.19
77.76
83.24
86.98
89.82
92.05
93.42
94.86
95.95
96.79
97.44
97.90
98.26
100
Source: Chan, Chen, and Lung, “One-and-Half Decades of Global Research Output in Finance:1990-2004,” Review of Quantitative
Finance and Accounting, 2007.
Top-5
Top-5
2004
2002
2000
Year
1998
1996
1994
1992
20,000
18,000
16,000
14,000
12,000
10,000
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
0
1990
JF-Pages
• Total JF-Pages Published
All 21 Journals
Source: Chan, Chen, and Lung, “One-and-Half Decades of Global Research Output in Finance:1990-2004,” Review of
Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2007.
II. Target Journals
• What is my chance?
AAI: Author Affiliation Index
Proportion of the authors from top-80 academic programs
Journal Rank
1
1
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Journal Title
Journal of Finance
Review of Financial Studies
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Journal of Business
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal of Financial Markets
Financial Analysts Journal
Financial Management
Journal of Financial Intermediation
AAI
0.803
0.803
0.709
0.599
0.558
0.511
0.484
0.372
0.370
0.353
Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship,” Journal of Corporate
Finance, 2007, forthcoming.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
18
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
30
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
Mathematical Finance
Journal of Risk and Insurance
European Finance Review
Journal of Financial Research
Journal of Derivatives
Journal of Financial Services Research
Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
Journal of Computational Finance
Journal of Empirical Finance
Financial Review
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
European Financial Management
Journal of Banking and Finance
Review of Financial Economics
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Journal of Fixed Income
International Finance
Journal of Portfolio Management
Journal of Futures Markets
International Review of Economics and Finance
Journal of Behavioral Finance
Journal of International Money and Finance
Multinational Finance Journal
Journal of Multinational Financial Management
Journal of Int. Fin. Markets, Institutions & Money
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
European Journal of Finance
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
International Review of Financial Analysis
Global Finance Journal
Applied Financial Economics
0.294
0.292
0.286
0.272
0.250
0.247
0.242
0.239
0.239
0.206
0.203
0.199
0.197
0.194
0.189
0.181
0.172
0.158
0.150
0.147
0.147
0.142
0.133
0.128
0.119
0.114
0.097
0.094
0.071
0.042
0.028
III. Will Co-Authorship Enhance My
Chance?
Authorship Pattern
JF
JFE
JCF
JFM
JFR
FR
% articles with at least one
author from top 20
% articles with at least one
author from top 80
0.55
0.48
0.15
0.22
0.05
0.03
0.87
0.75
0.62
0.58
0.38
0.28
% solo authored articles
From top 20
From top 21-80
From “others”
0.3
0.39
0.28
0.33
0.283
0.35
0.35
0.29
0.333
0.15
0.6
0.25
0.317
0.105
0.37
0.53
0.25
0
0.33
0.67
0.233
0.07
0.36
0.57
% co-authored articles
At least one from top 20
At least one from top 80
All from top 20 and same
school
All from top 80 and same
school
All from top 20 but not
same school
All from top 80 but not
same school
At least one from top 20,
one from 21-80
At least one from top 20,
one from “others”
At least one from top 80,
one from “others”
All from “others”
0.7
0.62
0.95
0.143
0.717
0.53
0.77
0.116
0.667
0.15
0.55
0.025
0.683
0.22
0.63
0.024
0.75
0.05
0.4
0
0.767
0.03
0.24
0
0.238
0.139
0.125
0.049
0.067
0.021
0.119
0.163
0.025
0
0
0
0.381
0.349
0.075
0.195
0.11
0.02
0.191
0.209
0.025
0.146
0.067
0
0.167
0.116
0.075
0.097
0
0.022
0.333
0.30
0.375
0.366
0.222
0.174
0.024
0.116
0.375
0.22
0.51
0.587
This table reports patterns of authorship in six finance journals: Journal of Finance (JF), Journal
of Financial Economics (JFE), Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF), Journal of Financial
Markets (JFM), Journal of Financial Research (JFR), and Financial Review (FR).
Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship,” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2007,
forthcoming.
• Co-Authorship between Elite and Non-Elite
Programs
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
JF JFE
JCF JFM
Elite & Non-elite
Elite & Elite
JFR
FR
Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship,” Journal of Corporate
Finance, 2007, forthcoming.
•
Co-Authorship between Top-80 and Non-Top 80
Programs
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
JF
JFE
JCF
JFM
Top-80 & Others
Top-80 & Top-80
JFR
FR
Source: Chen and Huang, “Author Affiliation Index, Finance Journal Ranking, and the Pattern of Authorship,” Journal of
Corporate Finance, 2007, forthcoming.
IV. Most Commonly Seen Criticisms
– Makes no contributions
– Mechanical application of statistics
(econometrics)
– Simply adopting a different country’s
data to an existing method (model)
– Sloppy writing, grammatical errors,
typos