The field of academic finance has grown and evolved in the 47 years since the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) began publishing papers. This paper examines detailed data on the 3,003 papers written by 3,358 different authors published in the JFE over the period 1974–2020. Advances in computing power and electronic communication have driven trends toward more empirical work, more coauthorship, and more complex papers. The set of authors, referees, and editors has also evolved as the field spans a much larger geographic footprint and as women have come to play a larger role in all aspects of academic finance. Growth in the demand for finance faculty has driven up faculty compensation and the demand for scarce journal space.

自《金融经济学杂志》（JFE）开始发表论文以来的47年中，学术金融领域不断发展壮大。本文研究了1974-2020年期间JFE上发表的3,358位不同作者撰写的3,003篇论文的详细数据。计算能力和电子通信技术的进步推动了越来越多的经验工作，更多的合著者和更复杂的论文的发展趋势。随着该领域跨越更大的地理足迹以及女性在学术财务的各个方面发挥更大的作用，作者，裁判和编辑的集合也不断发展。财务教师需求的增长推动了教师薪酬和对稀缺期刊空间的需求。