Applied Finance Letters
Applied Finance Letters is an open-access journal publishing mainly empirical research with implications and relevance for academia and the finance industry. The aim is to encourage high-quality contributions that foster discussions among academics, policymakers and financial practitioners. The Journal welcomes submissions from all fields of finance and is especially interested in innovative and original contributions. Applied Finance Letters is B-ranked on the 2022 ABDC Journal Ranking List, is indexed by EconLit and DOAJ, and has a self-computed 2023 Impact Factor of 0.72
Announcements
Special Issue – Measuring What Matters: Alternative Data, Sentiment, and ESG Signals in Financial Markets
2026-06-19
Applied Finance Letters is pleased to announce a special issue with guest editor Vitali Alexeev, University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Measuring What Matters: Alternative Data, Sentiment and ESG Signals in Financial Markets
This special issue takes a measurement-first perspective. It proceeds from the view that progress in sustainable finance depends less on theoretical refinement and more on better, faster and more objective ways to extract ESG-relevant signals from the expanding universe of alternative data sources and translate those signals into actionable insights across equity, fixed income, credit and multi-asset financial markets. The guest editor invites original empirical and applied research that develops, evaluates, or deploys such methods in the context of ESG assessment, portfolio construction, or related investment decisions.
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2026
APPLIED FINANCE LETTERS (AFL) ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Format-Free Submission (“Your Paper, Your Way”)
Your time should be spent on research, not reformatting documents. Applied Finance Letters (AFL) allows submissions in any format for initial peer review. Simply submit your manuscript as an editable file (PDF, MS Word, or LaTeX). If your paper is accepted, we will handle the formatting to match the AFL journal style.