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Volume 15,
Issue 2,
27 May 2026

About Foundations and Trends in Finance

The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essential ones that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Finance publishes high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field.

Submission information for Foundations and Trends in Finance

Accepted manuscript types

Foundations and Trends in Finance publishes exclusively long (± 100 pages) review and tutorial papers. For full details read the Editorial Aims of the journal. These criteria are strictly applied by the editorial board and your paper must meet them to be considered.

Original research papers will not be considered for publication and we will not acknowledge receipt.

If you intend to write, or are in the process of writing, a paper that meets the criteria in Editorial Aims, we will be pleased to hear from you. In the first instance, send an abstract for initial review to the publisher.

After this initial submission, a preliminary acceptance may follow. The full draft paper will be subject to a reviewing process to ensure quality standards and balance before being finally accepted..

Peer review type

Single-anonymous peer review.

Reference type

Alphabetical reference style. Please find more information on Alphabetical referencing here.

Keywords

A maximum of 6 appropriate and short keywords can be added to your ScholarOne submission.

Accepted languages

This journal accepts manuscripts in UK/US English.

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Metrics snapshot

2025 CiteScore (Scopus)
8
Downloaded articles in the last 12 months
3407

Editorial information

Editor-in-Chief: Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin
Editor: Josef Zechner, WU Vienna University of Economics and Finance
Editor: Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University

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