Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Accounting journal rankings 2012
117 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 117 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.19 on 2011 to 1.30, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.49. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Organizations and Society, and The Accounting Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
117 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.73Q1 | 5.64 0.87 down from 2011 | 108 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
2Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.06Q1 | 3.12 2.93 down from 2011 | 120 | 8% | $4,040 | ||
3The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 7.33Q1 | 4.19 0.78 up from 2011 | 261 | 6% | — | ||
4Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 6.09Q1 | 2.75 0.22 down from 2011 | 159 | 28% | $4,030 | ||
5Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.74Q1 | 3.76 1.67 up from 2011 | 30 | 13% | $3,490 | ||
6British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.69Q1 | 2.79 0.54 down from 2011 | 195 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 2.27 1.09 down from 2011 | 103 | 35% | $4,420 | ||
8Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 5.11Q1 | 2.38 0.10 down from 2011 | 108 | 8% | — | ||
9The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.85Q1 | 1.98 0.60 up from 2011 | 61 | 8% | $1,800 | ||
10Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 4.43Q1 | 2.04 0.22 up from 2011 | 200 | 17% | $3,400 | ||
11Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 4.39Q1 | 1.43 0.36 down from 2011 | 122 | 26% | $3,380 | ||
12The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 1.94 0.59 up from 2011 | 83 | 24% | $3,770 | ||
13Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.27 0.54 up from 2011 | 81 | 11% | $2,970 | ||
14International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 3.30 0.73 up from 2011 | 91 | 6% | — | ||
15Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 4.01Q1 | 3.16 1.16 up from 2011 | 104 | 15% | — | ||
16Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 1.82 0.08 down from 2011 | 186 | 11% | $4,140 | ||
17Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 2.08 0.60 up from 2011 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
18AbacusWiley · Australia | 3.23Q1 | 1.41 0.38 down from 2011 | 72 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
19Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 1.49 0.04 up from 2011 | 156 | 9% | — | ||
20Journal of Information SystemsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.18Q1 | 3.24 1.36 up from 2011 | 52 | 10% | — | ||
21International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 3.18Q1 | 1.81 0.29 up from 2011 | 56 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
22Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 2.19 0.17 up from 2011 | 137 | 22% | $3,800 | ||
23Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 1.40 0.35 up from 2011 | 144 | 4% | — | ||
24Journal of International Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.10Q1 | 1.13no change | 42 | 8% | — | ||
25European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 1.58 0.26 down from 2011 | 112 | 18% | — | ||
26Journal of Consumer AffairsWiley · United States | 2.92Q1 | 2.34 0.13 up from 2011 | 94 | 13% | $3,350 | ||
27Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.65Q1 | 1.04 1.37 down from 2011 | 75 | 31% | $3,190 | ||
28European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 1.26 0.39 down from 2011 | 155 | 16% | $3,350 | ||
29Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 1.57 0.11 up from 2011 | 61 | 20% | $1,100 | ||
30Issues in Accounting EducationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.49Q1 | 1.77 0.05 down from 2011 | 159 | 2% | — | ||
31Accounting and FinanceWiley · Australia | 2.44Q2 | 1.14 0.03 down from 2011 | 181 | 7% | $3,470 | ||
32International Review of FinanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.44Q2 | 1.81 0.84 up from 2011 | 64 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
33Journal of Accounting Auditing & FinanceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q2 | 0.81 0.42 down from 2011 | 91 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
34Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 1.24 0.09 up from 2011 | 52 | 11% | — | ||
35Financial ReviewWiley · United States | 2.25Q2 | 1.40 0.15 up from 2011 | 109 | 6% | $2,900 | ||
36Advances in AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.25Q2 | 1.23 0.55 up from 2011 | 108 | 21% | $3,240 | ||
37Behavioral Research in AccountingAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.21Q2 | 1.44 0.36 up from 2011 | 56 | 9% | — | ||
38Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.07Q2 | 0.92 0.07 up from 2011 | 122 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
39Journal of Pensions Economics and FinanceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q2 | 1.11 0.64 up from 2011 | 86 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
40Australian Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.01Q2 | 1.30 0.43 up from 2011 | 44 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
41Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.98Q2 | 0.94 0.13 down from 2011 | 45 | 14% | — | ||
42Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q2 | 1.06 0.14 down from 2011 | 96 | 9% | $3,090 | ||
43Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 1.93Q2 | 1.61 0.93 up from 2011 | 99 | 19% | $2,920 | ||
44EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.82Q2 | 1.27 0.68 up from 2011 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
45International Journal of Disclosure and GovernancePalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 0.70 0.13 down from 2011 | 89 | 10% | $3,090 | ||
46Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q2 | 0.55 0.42 down from 2011 | 49 | 0% | $3,910 | ||
47International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 0.86 0.21 up from 2011 | 55 | 5% | — | ||
48Journal of the American Taxation AssociationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 1.53Q2 | 0.71 0.15 up from 2011 | 40 | 11% | — | ||
49Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 0.83 0.22 down from 2011 | 33 | 10% | — | ||
50Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 0.79 0.33 down from 2011 | 123 | 0% | $3,175 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management167
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management120
- Accounting117
- Management Information Systems77
- Marketing73
- Management of Technology and Innovation38
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management8
- Business and International Management3
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% 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 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 117
- Window papers (baseline)
- 47,027 +30.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.30 +1.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.