BOLETIN DE MATEMATICAS, cilt.25, sa.1, ss.27-37, 2018 (ESCI)
Let R be a ring with identity and J(R) denote the Jacobson radical of R. A ring R is called J-abelian if ae-ea is an element of J(R) for any a is an element of R and any idempotent e in R. In this paper, many characterizations of J-abelian rings are given. We prove that every J-Armendariz ring is J-abelian. We show that the class of J-abelian rings lies strictly between the class of abelian rings and the class of directly finite rings.