Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Accounting journal rankings 2019
141 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 141 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.48 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 2.76 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
141 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting LiteratureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.51Q1 | 4.72 1.04 up from 2018 | 38 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
2Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 7.05Q1 | 3.70 2.50 down from 2018 | 104 | 41% | $4,420 | ||
3Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.92Q1 | 5.34 0.74 up from 2018 | 124 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
4The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 6.11Q1 | 3.49 1.01 down from 2018 | 244 | 9% | — | ||
5The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.41Q1 | 4.54 0.85 up from 2018 | 101 | 66% | $3,770 | ||
6Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.39Q1 | 3.70 0.34 up from 2018 | 125 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
7Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.05Q1 | 3.67 0.60 up from 2018 | 435 | 33% | $4,140 | ||
8Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.00Q1 | 3.08 0.81 up from 2018 | 73 | 33% | $3,860 | ||
9Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.49Q1 | 4.12 0.07 up from 2018 | 126 | 23% | $4,040 | ||
10Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 4.40Q1 | 3.40 1.47 up from 2018 | 45 | 22% | $3,490 | ||
11International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 4.95 0.99 up from 2018 | 198 | 21% | — | ||
12Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 2.19 0.13 down from 2018 | 67 | 3% | — | ||
13Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 3.44 1.46 up from 2018 | 123 | 17% | — | ||
14British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 4.23 1.37 up from 2018 | 148 | 69% | $3,900 | ||
15The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.82Q1 | 2.00 0.04 down from 2018 | 67 | 33% | $1,800 | ||
16Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 3.80Q1 | 3.25 0.54 up from 2018 | 91 | 12% | $3,380 | ||
17EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 4.26 1.65 up from 2018 | 62 | 12% | — | ||
18China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.74Q1 | 2.72 0.66 up from 2018 | 52 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
19Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 2.55 1.33 down from 2018 | 74 | 52% | $1,100 | ||
20Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 3.29 0.23 up from 2018 | 182 | 10% | — | ||
21Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 3.88 1.79 up from 2018 | 72 | 11% | — | ||
22Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 1.50 0.98 down from 2018 | 30 | 16% | $3,010 | ||
23Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 2.95 0.55 up from 2018 | 92 | 30% | $4,030 | ||
24Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.42Q1 | 2.04 0.34 down from 2018 | 126 | 3% | — | ||
25Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.42Q1 | 3.47 0.17 up from 2018 | 68 | 4% | $3,910 | ||
26AbacusWiley · Australia | 3.37Q1 | 4.30 1.65 up from 2018 | 72 | 35% | $3,400 | ||
27Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 3.27Q1 | 2.74 0.35 up from 2018 | 200 | 25% | $3,400 | ||
28Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.70 0.47 up from 2018 | 82 | 17% | — | ||
29Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 2.28 0.51 up from 2018 | 98 | 52% | $3,175 | ||
30International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 3.14Q1 | 2.15 0.04 up from 2018 | 82 | 15% | $2,900 | ||
31Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.10Q1 | 2.11 0.54 down from 2018 | 104 | 7% | — | ||
32Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 2.47 0.09 up from 2018 | 114 | 39% | $2,970 | ||
33Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 2.89 0.72 up from 2018 | 299 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
34International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 2.56 0.07 down from 2018 | 71 | 30% | — | ||
35Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 2.12 0.33 up from 2018 | 76 | 3% | — | ||
36Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 3.20 1.07 up from 2018 | 125 | 15% | $4,290 | ||
37International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.71Q2 | 2.39 0.77 up from 2018 | 93 | 13% | — | ||
38Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q2 | 2.18 0.40 up from 2018 | 149 | 35% | $3,800 | ||
39Revista de ContabilidadOAUniversity of Murcia · Spain | 2.63Q2 | 2.77 1.85 up from 2018 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Indian Business ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.60Q2 | 2.30 0.45 up from 2018 | 70 | 6% | — | ||
41Venture CapitalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q2 | 2.55 0.35 up from 2018 | 73 | 29% | — | ||
42European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.51Q2 | 2.10 0.54 up from 2018 | 105 | 19% | — | ||
43Review of Accounting and FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.45Q2 | 1.69 0.43 up from 2018 | 77 | 6% | — | ||
44Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 2.42Q2 | 1.75 0.10 down from 2018 | 158 | 8% | $2,920 | ||
45Australasian Accounting Business and Finance JournalOAUniversity of Wollongong · Australia | 2.40Q2 | 1.87 0.30 up from 2018 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
46Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.39Q2 | 1.72 0.31 up from 2018 | 84 | 22% | — | ||
47Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.37Q2 | 1.63 0.26 up from 2018 | 70 | 43% | — | ||
48International Journal of Financial StudiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.37Q2 | 2.24 0.71 up from 2018 | 156 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
49International Journal of Law and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 1.69 0.69 up from 2018 | 222 | 0% | — | ||
50Journal of the American Taxation AssociationAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.33Q2 | 1.64 0.34 up from 2018 | 47 | 12% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management211
- Accounting141
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management141
- Marketing86
- Management Information Systems82
- Management of Technology and Innovation59
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management4
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
40 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 141
- Window papers (baseline)
- 75,026 +19.8% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.483 +6.3% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 |
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| 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.