Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Accounting journal rankings 2016
136 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 136 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.19 on 2015 to 1.39, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.73. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and British Journal of Management.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
136 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 12.94Q1 | 5.12 0.80 down from 2015 | 122 | 11% | $4,170 | ||
2Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 8.69Q1 | 4.72 1.00 up from 2015 | 94 | 24% | $4,420 | ||
3British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 6.31Q1 | 3.80 0.57 up from 2015 | 142 | 48% | $3,900 | ||
4The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.07Q1 | 3.24 0.63 up from 2015 | 94 | 55% | $3,770 | ||
5The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 5.93Q1 | 2.77 0.18 up from 2015 | 262 | 6% | — | ||
6Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.77Q1 | 3.16 0.20 down from 2015 | 121 | 27% | $4,040 | ||
7The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.48Q1 | 2.79 0.94 up from 2015 | 58 | 19% | $1,800 | ||
8Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 5.27Q1 | 2.24 0.17 down from 2015 | 151 | 34% | $3,400 | ||
9Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.23Q1 | 2.23 0.21 down from 2015 | 111 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
10Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 1.83 1.22 down from 2015 | 60 | 39% | — | ||
11Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 4.84Q1 | 2.48 0.12 up from 2015 | 30 | 17% | $3,490 | ||
12Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 2.88 0.04 down from 2015 | 132 | 21% | $4,030 | ||
13Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.69Q1 | 2.14 0.35 up from 2015 | 53 | 13% | $3,860 | ||
14Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 4.50Q1 | 1.93 0.09 up from 2015 | 113 | 26% | $3,380 | ||
15Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 4.34Q1 | 2.01 0.12 up from 2015 | 151 | 8% | — | ||
16Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 2.10 0.26 down from 2015 | 95 | 40% | $2,970 | ||
17Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.27Q1 | 2.33 0.06 up from 2015 | 333 | 25% | $4,140 | ||
18AbacusWiley · Australia | 4.17Q1 | 1.68 0.34 down from 2015 | 59 | 30% | $3,400 | ||
19Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 1.71 0.50 down from 2015 | 38 | 35% | $3,010 | ||
20Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.94Q1 | 2.38 0.21 up from 2015 | 119 | 5% | — | ||
21Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.86Q1 | 2.20 0.05 up from 2015 | 195 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
22European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 2.43 0.98 up from 2015 | 99 | 25% | — | ||
23Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.73 0.02 up from 2015 | 110 | 24% | — | ||
24Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 1.70 0.28 up from 2015 | 142 | 15% | — | ||
25Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 2.42 0.79 up from 2015 | 141 | 28% | $3,800 | ||
26Behavioral Research in AccountingAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.61Q1 | 1.52 0.34 down from 2015 | 48 | 6% | — | ||
27International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 2.87 0.24 up from 2015 | 116 | 11% | — | ||
28China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 1.20 0.09 down from 2015 | 51 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
29Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 1.60 1.01 down from 2015 | 68 | 37% | $1,100 | ||
30Advances in AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 1.52 0.16 up from 2015 | 96 | 7% | $3,240 | ||
31Journal of Consumer AffairsWiley · United States | 2.87Q1 | 2.29 0.34 up from 2015 | 93 | 29% | $3,350 | ||
32Journal of Indian Business ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 1.29 0.32 down from 2015 | 51 | 6% | — | ||
33Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 1.61 0.52 up from 2015 | 57 | 27% | — | ||
34Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 1.00 0.47 down from 2015 | 45 | 17% | — | ||
35Financial ReviewWiley · United States | 2.61Q2 | 2.14 0.91 up from 2015 | 88 | 15% | $2,900 | ||
36Journal of Information SystemsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.52Q2 | 1.75 0.63 down from 2015 | 104 | 3% | — | ||
37Journal of International Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.46Q2 | 1.00 0.53 up from 2015 | 41 | 8% | — | ||
38Journal of Management Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.45Q2 | 1.85 0.38 up from 2015 | 60 | 5% | — | ||
39Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.43Q2 | 1.67 0.67 up from 2015 | 38 | 21% | — | ||
40Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 1.32 0.16 down from 2015 | 113 | 20% | $3,175 | ||
41Journal of Accounting Auditing & FinanceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.38Q2 | 1.16 0.02 up from 2015 | 89 | 29% | $3,650 | ||
42European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.35Q2 | 1.25 0.21 down from 2015 | 103 | 18% | $3,350 | ||
43Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.32Q2 | 1.00 0.44 up from 2015 | 54 | 17% | — | ||
44The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 2.23Q2 | 1.32 0.57 up from 2015 | 31 | 6% | $4,028 | ||
45Journal of Pensions Economics and FinanceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.23Q2 | 1.06 0.18 up from 2015 | 100 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
46Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 0.91 0.04 up from 2015 | 42 | 9% | — | ||
47International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 2.16Q2 | 0.79 0.31 down from 2015 | 56 | 15% | $2,900 | ||
48Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.12Q2 | 1.20 0.32 up from 2015 | 79 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
49Journal of the American Taxation AssociationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.11Q2 | 1.17 0.33 up from 2015 | 63 | 20% | — | ||
50Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.07Q2 | 0.56 0.04 down from 2015 | 44 | 23% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management199
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management138
- Accounting136
- Management Information Systems83
- Marketing79
- Management of Technology and Innovation52
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
44 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 136
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,651 +24.8% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.395 +15.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.