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Journal rankings · indicator year 2011

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Subfield ranking · 2011

Accounting journal rankings 2011

107 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting

Accounting has 107 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2010 to 1.11, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.41. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 score is computed on.

107
19% of Business, Management and Accounting
Median OJR

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.

1.11+0.06 vs 2010
This subfieldAll 0.94World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

12%
All fields: 22%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,290
Median positive listed APC: $3,290 among 43 journals. 64 have no known price. All fields: $3,470.

Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting (9)

107 ranked journals

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Accounting ranking, 2011

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.

OJR

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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011.

Compare
1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands
11.01Q16.52 2.41 up from 20109933%$4,170
2Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom
10.47Q13.36 1.82 down from 201011145%$4,420
3The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States
8.58Q13.42 0.73 down from 201024620%—
4Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands
8.57Q16.05 1.97 up from 20101199%$4,040
5Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
5.28Q12.41 0.22 up from 20105526%$3,190
6British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom
5.25Q13.33 0.97 up from 201017447%$3,900
7Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States
4.91Q12.48 0.14 up from 20109411%—
4.77Q11.83 0.44 down from 201015219%$3,400
9Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
4.70Q11.73 0.60 down from 20107631%$2,970
4.68Q12.97 0.14 down from 201015329%$4,030
11Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.18Q11.90 0.29 down from 201017130%$4,140
12The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.12Q11.37 0.23 up from 20106611%$1,800
13Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom
4.03Q11.48 0.42 up from 2010307%—
14Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States
3.94Q12.00 0.35 up from 2010792%—
15Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States
3.79Q11.79 0.05 down from 201012413%$3,380
16International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
3.69Q12.57 0.46 up from 20109012%—
17European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom
3.40Q11.83 0.35 down from 20101154%—
18AbacusWiley · Australia
3.16Q11.79 0.01 down from 20106814%$3,400
19Journal of Consumer AffairsWiley · United States
3.15Q12.22 0.41 down from 20109915%$3,350
20International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States
3.05Q11.51 0.59 up from 2010520%$2,900
2.87Q12.02 0.59 up from 201013522%$3,800
22The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.79Q11.35 0.32 up from 201010720%$3,770
23Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.76Q11.45 0.02 up from 20101576%—
24European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom
2.64Q11.65 0.02 down from 201015532%$3,350
25Journal of Accounting Auditing & FinanceSAGE Publishing · United States
2.48Q11.23 0.14 down from 20107719%$3,650
26Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.47Q11.14 0.08 down from 20104933%—
27Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.41Q11.46 0.18 up from 2010729%$1,100
2.30Q21.42 0.67 up from 2010330%$3,010
29Issues in Accounting EducationAmerican Accounting Association · United States
2.28Q21.82 0.60 up from 20101565%—
30Accounting and FinanceWiley · Australia
2.14Q21.17 0.10 up from 201016822%$3,470
31Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States
2.04Q20.97 0.91 down from 2010460%$3,910
32Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.99Q21.04 0.10 up from 201014112%—
33Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.98Q21.19 0.29 up from 20108518%$3,090
34Journal of Information SystemsAmerican Accounting Association · United States
1.97Q21.88 0.49 up from 2010674%—
35Financial ReviewWiley · United States
1.95Q21.25 0.21 up from 20101033%$2,900
36Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.78Q21.07 0.84 up from 2010410%—
37Journal of International Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States
1.71Q21.13 0.63 up from 2010340%—
38Advances in AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.66Q20.68 0.15 up from 20101035%$3,240
39Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.64Q20.85 0.15 up from 201011718%$3,290
40Behavioral Research in AccountingAmerican Accounting Association · United States
1.56Q21.08 0.15 down from 2010406%—
41Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.52Q21.11 0.15 down from 20101165%$3,175
42Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.45Q20.45 0.24 down from 201020710%—
43Journal of Management Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States
1.45Q21.00 0.33 up from 20105210%—
44Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.44Q20.59 0.31 up from 2010450%—
45International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.42Q20.66 0.25 up from 2010515%—
46International Review of FinanceWiley · United Kingdom
1.40Q20.97 0.72 up from 2010429%$2,900
47Review of Quantitative Finance and AccountingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.35Q20.80 0.16 down from 20101439%$3,190
48Current Issues in AuditingOAAmerican Accounting Association · United States
1.34Q20.70 0.23 up from 20103830%—
49International Journal of Disclosure and GovernancePalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
1.32Q20.84 0.55 up from 20108921%$3,090
50Review of Accounting and FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.28Q20.74 0.47 up from 2010665%—

Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

48 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
107
Window papers (baseline)
42,225 +25.5% from indicator year 2008
Median OJR
1.11 +4.6% from indicator year 2008
Rising journals (2025)
12

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals5558616769707179829096107117119126133136142143141145141137140136132
Window papers (baseline)14,61016,19017,86519,73021,92224,31227,45430,34433,65136,14839,30842,22547,02750,20254,15458,06562,65167,04470,62775,02680,29486,75692,81995,793102,398116,425
Median OJR0.720.900.891.030.970.981.021.081.061.291.051.111.301.211.3911.201.3951.271.501.4831.3601.411.3631.331.4761.60

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.