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This article describes the current status and trends in the past three decades (1990–2019) of the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning (JFCP). Since its first issue published in 1990, JFCP has become a major research outlet in consumer finance. The journal publishes cutting-edge, peer-reviewed, original research papers on consumer financial counseling, planning, and education that have broad impacts on both academic research and business practices in the field of consumer finance. It is included in many major indexes such as Scopus, Emerging Source Citation Index, EconLit, among others. It has published influential papers on consumer financial well-being, financial capability, financial education, financial counseling, financial planning, retirement planning, risk tolerance, and financial behavior change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Now in its third decade, the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning evolved to serve the needs of an international research community. The content analysis presented here focuses on the patterns in the second decade of publication (2000-2009), highlighting research and publication trends, and compares them with those of the first decade (1990-1999). Recent changes in the journal's identity and accessibility are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]