The Journal of International Money and Finance (print: , online: ) is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 in economics

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 that was established in 1982 and is published 8 times a year. It was originally published by Butterworth-Heinemann, then by Pergamon

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, which is now incorporated into Elsevier

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. The journal is in over 500 WorldCat libraries. The editor in chief

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 is J.R. Lothian (Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University

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).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI/Inform, Journal of Economic Literature

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, and Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2009 impact factor

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is 0.923.