JOURNAL COMMUNICATION AND INFLUENCE IN FINANCIAL RESEARCH

This article uses the articles and citations from a set of eight finan ce journals to explore interjournal citation patterns, the research in terests of individual journals, each journal's influence in particular areas, areas of recent interest to finance, and the extent of interdi sciplinary borrowing by finance. We find the following: two journals c omprise the research core of finance research, most journals publish i n a variety of research areas but are influential in a smaller number, a higher level of interest in financial markets than in corporate fin ance or financial institutions, and an overall low level of borrowing from outside disciplines.