Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Accounting journal rankings 2009
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 90 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.22 on 2008 to 1.29, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.62. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
90 ranked journals
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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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.11Q1 | 3.74 0.20 down from 2008 | 122 | 13% | $4,170 | ||
2Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 8.52Q1 | 3.94 1.20 down from 2008 | 109 | 24% | $4,420 | ||
3The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 7.42Q1 | 3.95 0.51 up from 2008 | 151 | 17% | — | ||
4British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.88Q1 | 2.55 0.18 down from 2008 | 120 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
5Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.27Q1 | 3.08 1.46 up from 2008 | 65 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
6Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.05Q1 | 1.94 0.10 down from 2008 | 30 | 0% | $3,490 | ||
7Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 5.03Q1 | 2.30 0.60 up from 2008 | 52 | 9% | — | ||
8Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.82Q1 | 3.01 0.55 down from 2008 | 126 | 13% | $4,040 | ||
9Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 4.56Q1 | 2.29 0.30 up from 2008 | 107 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
10Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 4.15Q1 | 1.72 0.20 down from 2008 | 82 | 9% | — | ||
11Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 2.38 0.59 up from 2008 | 212 | 23% | $4,030 | ||
12Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.09Q1 | 2.01 0.15 down from 2008 | 129 | 26% | $4,140 | ||
13AbacusWiley · Australia | 3.99Q1 | 2.02 0.30 up from 2008 | 63 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
14The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.67Q1 | 1.44 0.23 down from 2008 | 66 | 5% | $1,800 | ||
15International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 1.85 0.08 up from 2008 | 89 | 0% | — | ||
16Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 1.76 0.23 down from 2008 | 76 | 20% | $2,970 | ||
17European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 2.08 0.57 up from 2008 | 93 | 5% | — | ||
18Behavioral Research in AccountingAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.02Q1 | 1.57 0.38 up from 2008 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 2.89Q1 | 1.33 0.27 down from 2008 | 115 | 12% | $3,380 | ||
20Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 1.16 0.27 down from 2008 | 173 | 3% | — | ||
21Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 1.39 0.49 up from 2008 | 34 | 8% | $3,010 | ||
22Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 1.34 0.32 down from 2008 | 200 | 15% | $3,800 | ||
23European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 1.44 0.12 down from 2008 | 163 | 16% | $3,350 | ||
24Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.39Q2 | 0.80 0.09 down from 2008 | 51 | 11% | — | ||
25Journal of Consumer AffairsWiley · United States | 2.34Q2 | 2.17 0.10 up from 2008 | 80 | 21% | $3,350 | ||
26International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 2.13Q2 | 1.22 0.70 up from 2008 | 40 | 13% | $2,900 | ||
27Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.08Q2 | 0.92 0.15 down from 2008 | 169 | 11% | — | ||
28Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.07Q2 | 1.39 0.14 up from 2008 | 84 | 9% | $1,100 | ||
29Accounting and FinanceWiley · Australia | 2.05Q2 | 1.18 0.24 down from 2008 | 131 | 14% | $3,470 | ||
30Journal of International Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.92Q2 | 0.86 0.14 up from 2008 | 31 | 7% | — | ||
31Australian Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.88Q2 | 0.89 0.10 up from 2008 | 66 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
32Financial ReviewWiley · United States | 1.65Q2 | 1.16 0.20 up from 2008 | 78 | 23% | $2,900 | ||
33Journal of Pensions Economics and FinanceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 0.79 0.46 down from 2008 | 70 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
34Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.54Q2 | 0.73 0.58 down from 2008 | 87 | 13% | $3,290 | ||
35Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q2 | 1.00 0.14 up from 2008 | 105 | 7% | $3,090 | ||
36Journal of Accounting Auditing & FinanceSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q2 | 0.84 0.25 up from 2008 | 78 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
37Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q2 | 0.71 0.18 up from 2008 | 42 | 0% | $3,910 | ||
38Journal of Management Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.48Q2 | 0.44 1.06 down from 2008 | 33 | 12% | — | ||
39Review of Quantitative Finance and AccountingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 0.85 0.31 up from 2008 | 142 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
40Journal of the American Taxation AssociationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.41Q2 | 0.51 0.04 down from 2008 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Information SystemsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.39Q2 | 0.64 0.06 down from 2008 | 107 | 0% | — | ||
42The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 0.78 0.16 up from 2008 | 132 | 5% | $3,770 | ||
43Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 0.57 0.14 up from 2008 | 44 | 4% | — | ||
44International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 0.73 0.12 up from 2008 | 57 | 17% | — | ||
45International Journal of Revenue ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 0.65 1.67 down from 2008 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
46Issues in Accounting EducationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.28Q3 | 0.55 0.32 down from 2008 | 143 | 2% | — | ||
47Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.22Q3 | 0.79 0.42 up from 2008 | 210 | 4% | — | ||
48Review of Accounting and FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.16Q3 | 0.69 0.31 up from 2008 | 81 | 0% | — | ||
49Schmalenbach Business ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q3 | 0.65 0.16 up from 2008 | 50 | 72% | $2,750 | ||
50International Journal of Accounting Auditing and Performance EvaluationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.06Q3 | 0.41 0.13 up from 2008 | 60 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management139
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management105
- Accounting90
- Marketing65
- Management Information Systems62
- Management of Technology and Innovation33
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management3
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
54 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,148 +31.7% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.29 +26.3% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.