Venture Capital brings together research on entrepreneurial finance undertaken by academics from different disciplines and conducted from various methodological and philosophical standpoints and using a variety of research methods. It is a forum for communication between academic researchers, venture capital practitioners and policy-makers that raises the knowledge of venture capital activity and other types of entrepreneurial finance on a global basis. Its coverage is international, focusing not only on established financial capital markets such as the USA and the European Union, but also on emerging markets.
The Journal’s scope covers all aspects of entrepreneurial finance such as:
institutional venture capital and private equity
business angel and other forms of informal and quasi-informal investing, including crowdfunding
corporate venture capital
public sector venture capital
social finance and community venture capital
It also covers all aspects of the venture capital process from investment decision to exit and beyond, including studies on:
investment patterns and trends
investment decision-making
investment performance
investor-investee post-investment relationships
exits, exit routes and investment outcomes and the performance of Investee businesses
financial institutions
economic impacts and public policy
Submitted papers will normally be reviewed by the editors and two referees.
From time-to-time the Journal will also publish:
Commissioned review articles of recent books on venture capital and associated topics, and of specific topics in entrepreneurial finance
Special issues devoted to papers on a particular theme
Specially commissioned overviews of the state of venture capital activity in various country
An Executive Forum, to which industry experts, government officials and practitioners are invited to contribute
Journal metrics
Usage
87K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.8 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.9 (2023) 5 year IF
4.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.108 (2023) SNIP
0.749 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
28 days avg. from submission to first
decision
161 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
9 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
22% acceptance rate
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support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Vincenzo Capizzi - Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Editors Stefano Bonini - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Sofia Johan - Florida Atlantic University, USA
Founding Editors Richard Harrison -University of Edinburgh, UK Colin Mason - University of Glasgow, UK
Editorial Board Luisa Alemany - London Business School, UK Yan Alperovych - EMLYON Business School, France Sofia Avdeitchikova - CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden Fabio Bertoni - SKEMA Business School, France Joern Block - University of Trier and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Germany and Netherlands Stefano Bonini - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Tiago Botelho - University of East Anglia, UK Thomas Chemmanur - Boston College, USA Annalis Croce - Politecnico Milano, Italy Doug Cumming - Florida Atlantic University, USA Na Dai - SUNY Albany, USA Carlos Da Silva - HEG School of Management, Switzerland Dirk DeClercq - Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada Steven Dolvin - Butler University, Indianapolis, USA Jon Eckhardt - Wisconsin School of Business, USA Jim Fiet - University of Louisville, USA Igor Filatotchev - King’s College, UK Christian Fisch - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Massimo Gatano Colombo - Politecnico Milano, Italy Alexander Groh - EMLYON Business School, France Danial Hain - Aalborg University Business School, Denmark Hugo Kantis - Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina Mirjam Knockaert - University of Ghent, Belgium Kenji Kutsuna - Kobe University, Japan Tom Lahti - Hanken University, Finland Hans Landström - University of Lund, Sweden Othmar Lehner - University of Oxford, UK Benjamin Le Pendeven - Audencia Business School, France Josh Lerner - Harvard University, Boston, USA Ludvig Levasseur - Indian Institute of Management Bangalore , India Moren Lévesque - Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada David Lingelbach - Merrick School of Business, Baltimore University, USA Haitan Lu - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ciaran Mac An Bhaird - Dublin City University, Ireland Sophie Manigart - University of Ghent, Belgium Tatiana Manolova - Bentley University, USA Pierluigi Martino - Università di Pisa, Italy Markku Maula - Aalto University, Finland Joseph McCahery - University of Tilburg, Netherlands Samuele Murtinu - University of Utrecht, Netherlands Robyn Owen - Middlesex University, UK Ine Paeleman - University of Antwerp, Belgium David Park - Syracuse University, USA Annaleena Parhankangas - South Dakota State University, USA Anita Quas - University of Milan, Italy Allan Riding - University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Aurélie Sannajust - University of Saint Etienne, France Antoinette Schoar - MIT, USA Armin Schwienbacher - SKEMA Business School, France Dean Shepherd - University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Thomas D. Shohfi - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Jeffrey Sohl - University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA Roger Sørheim - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Monika Tarsalewska - University of Essex, UK Francesca Tenca - Milan Polytechnic, Italy Tereza Tykvova - University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Elisa Ughetto - Politecnico Torino, Italy Tom Vanacker - University of Ghent, Belgium Erik Vermeullen - University of Tilburg, Netherlands Silvio Vismara - Università di Bergamo, Italy Peter Wirtz - Emlyon Business School, France Andrew Zacharakis - Babson College, Babson Park, MA, USA Simona Zambelli - Università di Bologna, Italy Feng Zhan - University of Western Ontario, Canada Minjie Zhang - University of Windsor, Canada Yelin Zhang - Gonzaga University, USA
Updated 13-02-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Venture Capital is abstracted and indexed in:
EBSCO (Business Source Corporate, Business Source Premier, TOC Premier); Econlit; IBSS; OCLC ArticleFirst Database; OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online; Scopus; Social Sciences Citation Index; Swets Information Services; and Thomson Gale.
Open access
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Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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International Council for Small Business (ICSB)
Academy of Management (AOM)
Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE)
Print ISSN:
1369-1066
Online ISSN:
1464-5343
4 issues per year
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