Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Accounting journal rankings 2020
145 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 145 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2019 to 1.36, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.71. The top three are Journal of Accounting and Economics, The British Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting Literature.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
145 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.07Q1 | 6.22 0.87 up from 2019 | 122 | 21% | $4,170 | ||
2The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 4.41 0.13 down from 2019 | 115 | 38% | $3,770 | ||
3Journal of Accounting LiteratureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.89Q1 | 5.97 1.24 up from 2019 | 41 | — | $3,000 | ||
4Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.79Q1 | 4.72 1.32 up from 2019 | 59 | 37% | $3,490 | ||
5Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 4.86Q1 | 4.23 0.53 up from 2019 | 90 | 40% | $4,420 | ||
6Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.86Q1 | 4.30 0.60 up from 2019 | 123 | 27% | $3,190 | ||
7International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 5.67 0.72 up from 2019 | 246 | 24% | — | ||
8Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.63Q1 | 4.49 0.82 up from 2019 | 414 | 39% | $4,140 | ||
9British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 5.54 1.31 up from 2019 | 164 | 68% | $3,900 | ||
10The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 4.46Q1 | 3.74 0.25 up from 2019 | 286 | 15% | — | ||
11Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 3.68 0.23 up from 2019 | 146 | 8% | — | ||
12Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 4.13Q1 | 4.62 1.15 up from 2019 | 70 | 6% | $3,910 | ||
13Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 4.07Q1 | 3.56 0.81 up from 2019 | 265 | 18% | $3,400 | ||
14Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 4.56 0.44 up from 2019 | 126 | 23% | $4,040 | ||
15China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 3.30 0.58 up from 2019 | 51 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
16Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 2.89 0.19 down from 2019 | 76 | 24% | $3,860 | ||
17Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.61Q1 | 2.75 0.70 up from 2019 | 123 | 8% | — | ||
18Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 4.69 1.40 up from 2019 | 198 | 17% | — | ||
19Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 3.09 0.79 down from 2019 | 86 | 22% | — | ||
20AbacusWiley · Australia | 3.45Q1 | 2.44 1.86 down from 2019 | 70 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
21Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 3.70 1.24 up from 2019 | 101 | 50% | $2,970 | ||
22Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 3.63 1.08 up from 2019 | 76 | 48% | $1,100 | ||
23International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 3.35Q1 | 2.65 0.50 up from 2019 | 86 | 17% | $2,900 | ||
24Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.07 1.79 up from 2019 | 85 | 24% | $3,175 | ||
25European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 2.94 0.84 up from 2019 | 90 | 54% | — | ||
26Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 3.59 0.64 up from 2019 | 96 | 37% | $4,030 | ||
27Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 3.02 0.32 up from 2019 | 106 | 27% | — | ||
28Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 3.14 0.96 up from 2019 | 143 | 28% | $3,800 | ||
29Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 3.09Q1 | 3.37 0.12 up from 2019 | 98 | 25% | $3,380 | ||
30Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 3.24 0.35 up from 2019 | 336 | 14% | $3,090 | ||
31International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 3.01 0.62 up from 2019 | 126 | 12% | — | ||
32Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 3.09 1.59 up from 2019 | 31 | 20% | $3,010 | ||
33Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.93Q1 | 2.60 0.49 up from 2019 | 116 | 7% | — | ||
34Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 2.03 0.08 down from 2019 | 90 | 13% | — | ||
35Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.86Q1 | 2.25 0.95 down from 2019 | 143 | 38% | $4,290 | ||
36The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 2.37 0.37 up from 2019 | 60 | 13% | $1,800 | ||
37EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 3.88 0.39 down from 2019 | 67 | 11% | — | ||
38Journal of Business EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q2 | 3.36 0.49 up from 2019 | 109 | 89% | $3,090 | ||
39Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 2.64Q2 | 2.99 1.23 up from 2019 | 128 | 33% | $2,920 | ||
40Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.62Q2 | 2.70 0.51 up from 2019 | 88 | 9% | — | ||
41International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.58Q2 | 3.60 1.04 up from 2019 | 81 | 20% | — | ||
42The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 2.52Q2 | 2.45 0.32 up from 2019 | 35 | 59% | $4,028 | ||
43Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.47Q2 | 2.57 0.65 up from 2019 | 95 | 4% | — | ||
44PSU Research ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 3.56 1.35 up from 2019 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
45Australasian Accounting Business and Finance JournalOAUniversity of Wollongong · Australia | 2.36Q2 | 1.44 0.42 down from 2019 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Indian Business ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.32Q2 | 2.38 0.09 up from 2019 | 71 | 4% | — | ||
47International Journal of Financial StudiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.24Q2 | 2.52 0.28 up from 2019 | 198 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
48Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.23Q2 | 2.37 0.65 up from 2019 | 106 | 23% | — | ||
49Cogent Business & ManagementOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 2.20Q2 | 3.18 1.24 up from 2019 | 349 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
50Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.16Q2 | 2.87 1.37 up from 2019 | 117 | 51% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management214
- Accounting145
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management139
- Marketing86
- Management Information Systems82
- Management of Technology and Innovation59
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management4
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
36 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 145
- Window papers (baseline)
- 80,294 +19.8% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.360 +7.2% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.