What to Look for When Choosing a Journal
Before submitting your research, evaluate journals on these key criteria:
- Specialist finance scope — the journal must cover your specific finance sub-field
- Editorial board with recognised experts in the niche finance or economics area
- Track record of publishing research in the specific sub-discipline
- Open access to ensure niche finance research reaches its specialist global audience
- Indexing ensuring niche research is found by the relevant academic and policy community
- Welcoming of interdisciplinary approaches where finance intersects other fields
Recommended Journals — Cluster 7: Finance, Accounting & Economics
All journals below are published by Keith Publications — open access, peer-reviewed, and indexed for global discoverability.
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Journal of Financial Economics and Management
(JFEM)
Financial economics, corporate finance, investment management, financial markets, monetary policy, and the economics of financial systems and institutions.
Financial Economics Corporate Finance Investment Management Financial Markets -
Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting
(JAFR)
Financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, corporate governance, financial reporting standards, and the intersection of accounting with regulation and public policy.
Financial Accounting Auditing Corporate Governance Financial Reporting -
International Journal of Banking and Financial Services
(IJBFS)
Banking systems, financial services regulation, fintech, digital banking, risk management, financial inclusion, and the stability of global financial institutions.
Banking Systems Financial Services Fintech Risk Management -
Economics and Social Policy Research Journal
(ESPRJ)
Applied economics, development economics, fiscal and monetary policy, social policy evaluation, labour economics, and the economics of welfare, health, and education.
Applied Economics Development Economics Fiscal Policy Social Policy
Fast Publication: All Keith Publications journals complete initial review within 2–5 business days and full peer review within 2–4 weeks. Articles are published online within 5–10 days of acceptance — making us one of the fastest open access publishers in finance, accounting, and economics.
Publishing Niche Finance Research: Finding the Right Platform
Niche finance and economics research — whether it is behavioural finance, Islamic banking, microfinance for development, FinTech regulation, insurance risk modelling, fiscal decentralisation, or financial inclusion in emerging markets — often struggles to find appropriate publication homes. Journals too broad in scope may marginalise specialist finance research; journals too narrow may have limited readership. Keith Publications finance, accounting, and economics journals are designed to accommodate the full spectrum of finance research, including specialist and niche work that sits at the intersection of financial theory, economic policy, accounting practice, and risk management.
Why Niche Finance Research Deserves Quality Publication
Niche finance research often makes the most practically significant contributions — a study on microfinance repayment behaviour in rural Nigeria, a framework for FinTech regulation in emerging markets, or an analysis of fiscal policy transmission in low-income economies may reach a smaller initial academic audience than a broad review, but its policy impact in specific economic contexts can be profound. Publishing niche finance and economics research in an indexed, open access journal maximises its discoverability within the specialist financial and economic research communities that value and can act on its findings.
Tips to Maximise Your Acceptance Chances
- Align your topic with the journal's scope — confirm your research fits the journal's finance, accounting, or economics focus area.
- Establish clear research questions — finance and economics editors expect precise, testable hypotheses or well-defined research questions.
- Address endogeneity and identification — be explicit about your causal identification strategy and its limitations.
- Use appropriate data and methodology — match your econometric or quantitative methods to your research question and data structure.
- Follow formatting guidelines exactly — non-compliant manuscripts are often desk-rejected without review.
- State practical and policy implications — explain how your findings inform investors, regulators, policymakers, or practitioners.
- Ensure robust robustness checks — include alternative specifications, subsample analyses, and placebo tests to strengthen your empirical claims.
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