Evaluating the Real Estate Journals: The Mainstream Finance Perspective

TLDR

The study investigates how mainstream finance faculty view real‑estate journals and the discipline. The authors surveyed 29.6% of the Financial Management Association’s membership, collecting data on faculty characteristics, journal rankings, and attitudes toward real‑estate courses.

Abstract

This study examines the real estate journals and discipline from the unique perspective of mainstream finance faculty. The entire academic membership of the Financial Management Association (FMA) is surveyed resulting in a 29.6% response rate. They were queried on their personal characteristics (enrollment, number of tenure track faculty, department, rank, area of expertise, number of articles published, and real estate courses offered). But more importantly, they were asked to rank real estate journals by perceived quality and to compare the quality of the real estate journals to five mainstream finance journals. Lastly, they were asked about the support for including real estate courses in the curriculum of the finance department.