Section 2 provides a short literature review of existing techniques used to rank
journals in economics, finance and accounting. Section 3 concentrates on descriptive statistics for the full
sample of thirty-one journals. New variables and rankings are created in order to measure their
international expertise. Section 4 focuses on the sixteen finance journals included in this sample. Section 5
develops the hypotheses tested in this paper. The first model uses logistic regression to test whether
ranking improvements can be attributed to a journal's increased global expertise. The second model uses
OLS regression to measure the impact of international articles on a journal's current citation score.
Regression results are presented in Section 6 and a conclusion is provided in Section 7.