Journal of Risk and Insurance


The Journal of Risk and Insurance is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering insurance economics and risk management. The journal is published by Wiley on behalf of the American Risk and Insurance Association. The current editor-in-chief is Joan T. Schmit. The journal was established in 1933 as the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting and renamed Journal of The American Association of University Teachers of Insurance in 1937. From 1954 till 1956 it was known as The Review of Insurance Studies and from 1957-1963 as The Journal of Insurance, before obtaining its current title.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Economic Literature Index, Scopus, InfoTrac, RePEc, and other databases. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.606.