Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Accounting journal rankings 2018
143 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 143 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.23 on 2017 to 1.50, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.06. The top three are Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and The Accounting Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
143 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 9.43Q1 | 6.20 0.35 up from 2017 | 98 | 35% | $4,420 | ||
2Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.72Q1 | 4.60 0.27 up from 2017 | 126 | 14% | $4,170 | ||
3The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 7.38Q1 | 4.50 0.11 up from 2017 | 222 | 9% | — | ||
4Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 5.84Q1 | 2.65 0.59 down from 2017 | 113 | 6% | — | ||
5Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.14Q1 | 4.05 0.48 up from 2017 | 121 | 22% | $4,040 | ||
6Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 2.41 1.20 down from 2017 | 104 | 22% | $4,030 | ||
7British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 2.86 1.41 down from 2017 | 167 | 67% | $3,900 | ||
8Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.99Q1 | 2.26 0.03 up from 2017 | 56 | 26% | $3,860 | ||
9Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.92Q1 | 3.36 0.84 up from 2017 | 112 | 19% | $3,190 | ||
10Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 3.88 0.61 up from 2017 | 72 | 37% | $1,100 | ||
11Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.88Q1 | 3.07 0.37 up from 2017 | 459 | 30% | $4,140 | ||
12The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 3.69 0.97 up from 2017 | 95 | 58% | $3,770 | ||
13Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 4.59Q1 | 1.93 0.33 down from 2017 | 42 | 17% | $3,490 | ||
14International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 3.96 0.03 up from 2017 | 174 | 11% | — | ||
15Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 4.27Q1 | 2.38 0.40 down from 2017 | 121 | 16% | — | ||
16Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 3.06 0.67 up from 2017 | 152 | 17% | — | ||
17The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.24Q1 | 2.04 0.10 down from 2017 | 63 | 14% | $1,800 | ||
18Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 4.15Q1 | 2.39 0.39 up from 2017 | 195 | 24% | $3,400 | ||
19Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 3.74Q1 | 2.71 0.46 up from 2017 | 93 | 24% | $3,380 | ||
20Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 2.48 0.80 up from 2017 | 40 | 27% | $3,010 | ||
21Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 2.37 0.58 up from 2017 | 120 | 50% | $2,970 | ||
22International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 3.54Q1 | 2.11 0.88 up from 2017 | 72 | 19% | $2,900 | ||
23AbacusWiley · Australia | 3.48Q1 | 2.65 1.33 up from 2017 | 79 | 25% | $3,400 | ||
24China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 2.06 0.79 up from 2017 | 51 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
25Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 1.99 0.36 up from 2017 | 122 | 11% | — | ||
26Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 2.23 0.61 up from 2017 | 65 | 34% | — | ||
27European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 1.56 0.22 down from 2017 | 103 | 29% | — | ||
28Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.38Q1 | 1.66 0.16 up from 2017 | 90 | 27% | $3,290 | ||
29Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 2.31 0.95 up from 2017 | 44 | 6% | — | ||
30Journal of International Accounting ResearchAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.30Q1 | 1.08 0.70 down from 2017 | 60 | 10% | — | ||
31Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 2.17 0.01 up from 2017 | 256 | 16% | $3,090 | ||
32Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.25Q1 | 3.30 1.24 up from 2017 | 64 | 7% | $3,910 | ||
33Journal of Consumer AffairsWiley · United States | 3.24Q1 | 1.98 0.42 down from 2017 | 99 | 24% | $3,350 | ||
34Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 1.79 0.45 up from 2017 | 71 | 5% | — | ||
35Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 2.20 0.39 up from 2017 | 63 | 12% | — | ||
36Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 2.09 0.47 up from 2017 | 74 | 39% | — | ||
37Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.90Q2 | 1.76 0.42 down from 2017 | 103 | 32% | $3,175 | ||
38Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.69Q2 | 1.78 0.18 down from 2017 | 143 | 17% | $3,800 | ||
39Journal of Accounting and Management Information SystemsOABucharest Academy of Economic Studies · Romania | 2.67Q2 | 1.27 0.27 up from 2017 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
40International Journal of Disclosure and GovernancePalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.64Q2 | 1.72 0.95 up from 2017 | 43 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
41International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.61Q2 | 2.63 0.89 up from 2017 | 66 | 15% | — | ||
42Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.54Q2 | 1.37 0.11 down from 2017 | 64 | 28% | — | ||
43Advances in AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q2 | 1.78 0.45 up from 2017 | 120 | 6% | $3,240 | ||
44International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.39Q2 | 1.62 0.08 down from 2017 | 95 | 11% | — | ||
45EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.34Q2 | 2.62 1.16 up from 2017 | 61 | 13% | — | ||
46Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 1.30 0.16 up from 2017 | 86 | 21% | — | ||
47Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 2.27Q2 | 1.86 0.40 up from 2017 | 129 | 26% | $2,920 | ||
48Journal of Information SystemsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.22Q2 | 1.48 0.18 down from 2017 | 115 | 3% | — | ||
49Behavioral Research in AccountingAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.22Q2 | 1.68 0.19 up from 2017 | 52 | 9% | — | ||
50Journal of the American Taxation AssociationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.20Q2 | 1.30 0.27 up from 2017 | 51 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management206
- Accounting143
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management142
- Marketing86
- Management Information Systems84
- Management of Technology and Innovation59
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
41 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 143
- Window papers (baseline)
- 70,627 +21.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.50 +24.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.