Indian Journal of Finance and Banking

Indian Journal of Finance and Banking(IJFB) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, scholarly open access journal on the financial market, instruments, policy, and management research published both online and print by CRIBFB.

Aims & Scope

IJFB aims to provide a platform for high-quality original research papers related to finance, banking, and business. The subject areas include, but are not limited to the following fields:

• Insurance
• Uncertainty
• Portfolio Theory
• Asset Pricing
• Futures Markets
• Investment Policy
• Agency Theory
• Risk Management
• Banking Systems
• Computational Finance
• Behavioral Finance
• Financial Econometrics
• Corporate Governance
• Credit and Market Risk
• Advanced Stochastic Methods
• Financial Intermediation
• Public Finance Management
• Financial Regulation and Policy
• Fiscal Markets and Instruments
• Financial Derivatives Research
• Financial Instruments for Risk Management
• Statistical and Empirical Financial Studies
• Asset-Liability Management
• Bank Assurance
• Banking Crises
• Derivatives and Structured Financial Products
• Efficiency and Performance of Financial Institutions and Bank Branches
• Financing Decisions of Banks
• Investment Banking
• Management of Financial Institutions
• Technological Progress and Banking
• Foreign Exchange Management
• Conventional Vs. Non-Conventional Banking
• Internet Banking
• Mobile Banking
• Retail Banking
• E-Banking
• CSR of Bank
• SMEs Banking
• Bankruptcy Prediction and Determinants
• Corporate Finance
• International Finance
• Rural Finance
• Fixed Income Securities
• Alternative Investments
• Portfolio and Security Analysis
• Time Value of Money
• Credit Risk Modelling and Management
• Financial Engineering
• Foreign Exchange Markets
• Law and Finance
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Mutual Funds Management
• Portfolio Management
• Regulations of Financial Markets
• Venture Capital
• Microcredit
• Valuation
• Risk and Return
• Liquidity Management
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Microeconomics
• Econometrics models
• Macroeconomics
• Information in Relation to Finance, Banking, and Business, etc.

Indian Journal of Finance and Banking currently has an acceptance rate of 30.23%. The average time between submission and final decision is 15 days and the average time between acceptance and publication is 30 days.

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Paper Selection and Publishing Process

1. There is no submission fee.
2. Submission Acknowledgement: When you submit a manuscript online, you will receive a submission acknowledgment letter sent by the online system automatically. For email submission, the editor or editorial assistant sends an e-mail confirmation to the submission’s author within one to three working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, please check your bulk email box or contact the editorial assistant.
3. Basic Review: The editor or editorial assistant determines whether the manuscript fits the journal’s focus and scope. Next a check for the similarity rate.
4. Peer Review: We use a double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The submitted manuscript will be reviewed by at least two experts: one editorial staff member as well as one to three external reviewers. The review process may take two to four weeks.
5. The decision is Made: The decision to accept or reject an article is based on the suggestions of reviewers. If differences of opinion occur between reviewers, the editor-in-chief will weigh all comments and arrive at a balanced decision based on all comments, or the second round of peer review may be initiated.
6. Notification of the Result of Review: The result of the review will be sent to the corresponding author and forwarded to other authors.
7. Publication Fee is Paid: After acceptance, the authors will revise the paper and pay the online publication fee: 300 USD.
8. Publication Notice: The authors and readers will be notified and invited to visit our website for the newly published articles.
9. Open Access Policy: This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
10. Copyright Policy: Copyrights for articles are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. Authors have the right to reuse, republish, archive, and distribute their own articles after publication. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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NOTE:

The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (https://www.turnitin.com).