Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Accounting journal rankings 2003
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 67 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.14 on 2002 to 1.03, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.67. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting (9)
67 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.08Q1 | 6.89 3.28 up from 2002 | 79 | 2% | $4,170 | ||
2The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 6.62Q1 | 3.05 0.27 up from 2002 | 97 | 2% | — | ||
3Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 6.28Q1 | 2.95 0.62 up from 2002 | 109 | 5% | $4,420 | ||
4Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 4.09Q1 | 2.46 0.46 up from 2002 | 85 | 5% | — | ||
5Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.96Q1 | 2.88 1.42 up from 2002 | 136 | 1% | $4,040 | ||
6Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.55Q1 | 1.42 0.20 down from 2002 | 71 | 8% | $4,140 | ||
7Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.38Q1 | 2.34 0.94 up from 2002 | 49 | 12% | $3,190 | ||
8Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.64Q1 | 1.65 0.56 up from 2002 | 74 | 3% | — | ||
9British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.68 0.23 up from 2002 | 102 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
10Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 0.87 0.08 down from 2002 | 87 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
11Issues in Accounting EducationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.00Q1 | 0.91 0.40 up from 2002 | 88 | 0% | — | ||
12Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 0.93 0.23 up from 2002 | 78 | 5% | — | ||
13European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.01 0.42 up from 2002 | 100 | 14% | $3,350 | ||
14Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 0.79 0.28 up from 2002 | 77 | 7% | $3,380 | ||
15Journal of Consumer AffairsWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.28 0.05 up from 2002 | 58 | 7% | $3,350 | ||
16Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 0.95 0.75 up from 2002 | 101 | 6% | $3,175 | ||
17International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.17 0.23 up from 2002 | 72 | 7% | — | ||
18Australian Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.63Q2 | 0.48 0.29 down from 2002 | 60 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
19Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 0.73 0.30 up from 2002 | 41 | 8% | — | ||
20Journal of Information SystemsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.55Q2 | 0.66 0.12 down from 2002 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
21European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 0.81 0.29 up from 2002 | 145 | 4% | — | ||
22Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 1.40Q2 | 0.73 0.15 up from 2002 | 126 | 9% | $3,400 | ||
23Journal of Accounting Auditing & FinanceSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.29Q2 | 0.47 0.12 down from 2002 | 70 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
24Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 0.70 0.07 up from 2002 | 60 | 0% | $2,970 | ||
25The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 0.44 0.04 down from 2002 | 99 | 15% | $1,800 | ||
26Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 0.75 0.53 up from 2002 | 108 | 24% | $4,030 | ||
27Schmalenbach Business ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 0.76 0.38 up from 2002 | 57 | 29% | $2,750 | ||
28Behavioral Research in AccountingAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.14Q2 | 1.09 0.39 up from 2002 | 34 | 14% | — | ||
29Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.40 0.18 down from 2002 | 36 | 57% | $3,010 | ||
30Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.63 0.48 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
31Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.53 0.14 down from 2002 | 64 | 55% | $1,100 | ||
32Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.39 0.14 down from 2002 | 175 | 7% | — | ||
33International Review of FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.52 0.11 up from 2002 | 37 | 40% | $2,900 | ||
34Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 0.55 0.25 up from 2002 | 161 | 21% | $3,800 | ||
35The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 0.68 0.17 up from 2002 | 66 | 3% | $3,770 | ||
36Journal of the American Taxation AssociationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 0.94Q3 | 0.51 0.26 up from 2002 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
37Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q3 | 0.62 0.17 up from 2002 | 30 | 8% | $3,490 | ||
38Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 0.91Q3 | 0.62 0.15 up from 2002 | 77 | 7% | $2,920 | ||
39Accounting and FinanceWiley · Australia | 0.87Q3 | 0.17 0.15 down from 2002 | 39 | 40% | $3,470 | ||
40International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 0.86Q3 | 0.33 0.03 down from 2002 | 50 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
41Financial ReviewWiley · United States | 0.83Q3 | 0.37 0.13 down from 2002 | 99 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
42Review of Quantitative Finance and AccountingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.79Q3 | 0.56 0.35 up from 2002 | 118 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
43Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.79Q3 | 0.57 0.06 down from 2002 | 61 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
44International Journal of Commerce and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.20 0.05 up from 2002 | 63 | 6% | — | ||
45AbacusWiley · Australia | 0.66Q3 | 0.42 0.11 down from 2002 | 58 | 50% | $3,400 | ||
46The Journal of corporation lawUnited States | 0.63Q3 | 0.38 0.26 up from 2002 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.97 0.67 up from 2002 | 60 | 4% | $3,910 | ||
48The Journal of Private EquityEuromoney Institutional Investor · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.08 0.07 down from 2002 | 88 | 6% | — | ||
| 0.49Q3 | 0.31 0.21 up from 2002 | 62 | 16% | — | |||
50Journal of Legal Studies EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.12 0.36 down from 2002 | 43 | 13% | $2,900 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management94
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management79
- Accounting67
- Marketing56
- Management Information Systems41
- Management of Technology and Innovation20
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management5
- Business and International Management0
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
26 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 19,730 +35.0% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 1.03 +43.9% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 55 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 79 | 82 | 90 | 96 | 107 | 117 | 119 | 126 | 133 | 136 | 142 | 143 | 141 | 145 | 141 | 137 | 140 | 136 | 132 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,610 | 16,190 | 17,865 | 19,730 | 21,922 | 24,312 | 27,454 | 30,344 | 33,651 | 36,148 | 39,308 | 42,225 | 47,027 | 50,202 | 54,154 | 58,065 | 62,651 | 67,044 | 70,627 | 75,026 | 80,294 | 86,756 | 92,819 | 95,793 | 102,398 | 116,425 | |
| Median OJR | 0.72 | 0.90 | 0.89 | 1.03 | 0.97 | 0.98 | 1.02 | 1.08 | 1.06 | 1.29 | 1.05 | 1.11 | 1.30 | 1.21 | 1.391 | 1.20 | 1.395 | 1.27 | 1.50 | 1.483 | 1.360 | 1.41 | 1.363 | 1.33 | 1.476 | 1.60 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.