HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT

The Asian Journal of Economics and Banking (AJEB) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal affiliated with the Ho Chi Minh University of Banking (HUB). Its predecessor, the Banking Technology Review, was established in 2004. In 2017, the Journal launched its English edition, and on 1 January 2019, both the English and Vietnamese editions were officially renamed the Asian Journal of Economics and Banking (AJEB). These milestones mark significant stages in the Journal's internationalisation, the broadening of its disciplinary scope, and the expansion of its scholarly influence. Since June 2020, the Asian Journal of Economics and Banking has been officially published by Emerald Publishing (United Kingdom) under the Diamond Open Access model, which grants readers free access to all published content and exempts authors from any article processing charges. All submissions undergo peer review and editorial evaluation in accordance with established international standards.

AJEB serves as an academic forum for high-quality research in economics, finance, and banking, with a particular emphasis on emerging and developing economies in Asia. The Journal places special focus on studies examining the role of financial and banking systems in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and actively promotes the application of contemporary research methods, including statistics, econometrics, Bayesian approaches, and machine learning, to economic and financial inquiry. AJEB is currently indexed in a range of internationally recognised academic databases and discovery services, including Cabells' Directories, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO Discovery Service, EconBiz, Google Scholar, RePEc, Summon (ProQuest), and WorldCat.

In recent years, AJEB has recorded substantial growth in the number of submissions, the geographic diversity of contributing authors, and the volume of downloads and citations, attracting scholarly contributions from researchers across multiple countries. Over the past five years, the scientific journal system of HUB has published 545 research articles, of which approximately 120 are international publications. In 2022, the State Council for Professorship Titles of Vietnam raised the academic credit range for both the Vietnamese and English editions of AJEB from 0–0.5 to 0–0.75. Subsequently, on 11 July 2025, the State Council for Professorship Titles issued Decision No. 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN, under which AJEB (both Vietnamese and English editions) was further elevated to the range of 0–1.0 points. From December 2025 onwards, the Journal has continued to expand its scholarly publishing ecosystem with the launch of three new titles: (i) Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Policy (Publication Licence No. 175/GP-BVHTTDL dated 10 December 2025); (ii) Asian Journal of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (Publication Licence No. 171/GP-BVHTTDL dated 9 December 2025); and (iii) the Asian Journal of Applied Financial Econometrics (Publication Licence No. 174/GP-BVHTTDL dated 10 December 2025). Guided by a clearly defined scholarly orientation and supported by an internationally esteemed network of Editorial Board members and Advisory Council, AJEB is progressively establishing itself as an influential international scientific journal in the fields of economics, finance, and banking.