Existing studies provide numerous journal rankings with little variance in the resulting top ranked
publications in accounting, economics, and finance. This study takes into account the global focus and
expertise of thirty-one journals in order to analyze whether their international emphasis contributed to
their citation performance. 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.