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Use when targeting Journal of Finance (JF) or deciding whether a finance manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Journal of Finance (journal-of-finance)

## Journal positioning

The Journal of Finance is the official journal of the American Finance Association and, with JFE and RFS, one of the finance "top-3." It publishes the most consequential work across asset pricing, corporate finance, banking/intermediation, and household finance, judged on whether the question and result move the field. The readership is the whole finance profession plus financial economists in economics departments, so a paper must matter beyond its niche.

This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the AFA / Wiley site and the editorial submission system.

## When to trigger

- The author names JF (or the finance top-3) as the target venue.
- A finance paper has a clean design or a genuinely new asset-pricing/corporate-finance insight and the author is choosing among JF / JFE / RFS.
- An applied paper using financial data needs re-framing into a finance contribution rather than an economics or accounting one.
- The author needs JF's desk-reject risks and a credible top-3 / top-field alternative list.
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