Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Accounting journal rankings 2021
141 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 141 ranked journals in 2021. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.41 against 1.00, up 0.05 on 2020. A journal needs OJR 2.90 to reach Q1. The top three are The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 10.59Q1 | 14.80 12.35 up from 2020 | 51 | 43% | $4,028 | ||
2Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.25Q1 | 5.60 0.62 down from 2020 | 124 | 16% | $4,170 | ||
3Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.59Q1 | 10.75 8.50 up from 2020 | 210 | 39% | $4,290 | ||
4Journal of Accounting LiteratureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.26Q1 | 3.00 2.97 down from 2020 | 31 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
5Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 5.14Q1 | 5.00 0.28 up from 2020 | 76 | 33% | $3,490 | ||
6Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 7.51 3.45 up from 2020 | 71 | 29% | $3,175 | ||
7British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 8.81 3.26 up from 2020 | 166 | 67% | $3,900 | ||
8Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.71Q1 | 5.17 0.68 up from 2020 | 457 | 37% | $4,140 | ||
9Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.66Q1 | 4.40 0.10 up from 2020 | 123 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
10International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 8.26 2.59 up from 2020 | 229 | 25% | — | ||
11Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.20Q1 | 5.01 0.46 up from 2020 | 130 | 41% | $4,040 | ||
12Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.14Q1 | 4.26 1.37 up from 2020 | 92 | 43% | $3,860 | ||
13Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 5.38 1.15 up from 2020 | 93 | 40% | $4,420 | ||
14Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 3.74 0.06 up from 2020 | 138 | 17% | — | ||
15The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 5.68 1.27 up from 2020 | 115 | 61% | $3,770 | ||
16The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.92Q1 | 3.50 0.24 down from 2020 | 306 | 25% | — | ||
17Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 7.39 2.70 up from 2020 | 226 | 24% | — | ||
18China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.83Q1 | 4.05 0.76 up from 2020 | 56 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
19Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.73Q1 | 5.04 0.42 up from 2020 | 70 | 14% | $3,910 | ||
20Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 4.05 0.95 up from 2020 | 31 | 39% | $3,010 | ||
21Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 3.69Q1 | 4.46 1.09 up from 2020 | 121 | 33% | $3,380 | ||
22Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 3.49 0.10 down from 2020 | 111 | 32% | $4,030 | ||
23Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 3.45Q1 | 3.85 0.30 up from 2020 | 252 | 28% | $3,400 | ||
24International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 5.37 1.76 up from 2020 | 104 | 45% | — | ||
25Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 4.00 1.34 up from 2020 | 49 | 57% | — | ||
26Accounting and Business ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 2.93 0.77 down from 2020 | 112 | 63% | $2,970 | ||
27Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 4.80 1.17 up from 2020 | 69 | 48% | $1,100 | ||
28Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 3.11Q1 | 5.77 2.79 up from 2020 | 91 | 12% | $2,920 | ||
29Auditing A Journal of Practice & TheoryAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 3.09Q1 | 2.75no change | 101 | 21% | — | ||
30Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 4.14 0.90 up from 2020 | 428 | 14% | $3,090 | ||
31European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 3.16 0.22 up from 2020 | 121 | 58% | — | ||
32Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 4.83 1.73 up from 2020 | 81 | 25% | — | ||
33Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 3.62 0.60 up from 2020 | 117 | 33% | — | ||
34Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 4.14 1.44 up from 2020 | 114 | 8% | — | ||
35EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 5.72 1.85 up from 2020 | 84 | 14% | — | ||
36International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 2.90Q1 | 3.42 0.78 up from 2020 | 88 | 36% | $2,900 | ||
37PSU Research ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.88Q2 | 5.19 1.62 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
38The International Journal of AccountingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.86Q2 | 2.26 0.11 down from 2020 | 63 | 33% | $1,800 | ||
39Australian Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.79Q2 | 4.62 1.66 up from 2020 | 102 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
40Frontiers of Business Research in ChinaBrill · China | 2.75Q2 | 4.43 1.84 up from 2020 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
41International Journal of Financial StudiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.63Q2 | 3.70 1.18 up from 2020 | 241 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
42International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.61Q2 | 2.89 0.12 down from 2020 | 143 | 9% | — | ||
43Cogent Business & ManagementOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 2.61Q2 | 4.05 0.87 up from 2020 | 503 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
44Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.60Q2 | 3.70 0.84 up from 2020 | 136 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
45Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.54Q2 | 3.65 1.08 up from 2020 | 86 | 24% | — | ||
46Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.48Q2 | 2.67 0.47 down from 2020 | 156 | 29% | $3,800 | ||
47Accounting HorizonsAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.43Q2 | 2.73 0.13 up from 2020 | 134 | 17% | — | ||
48Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.35Q2 | 3.05 0.68 up from 2020 | 128 | 25% | — | ||
49AbacusWiley · Australia | 2.30Q2 | 2.47 0.03 up from 2020 | 72 | 32% | $3,400 | ||
50Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.28Q2 | 2.69 0.66 up from 2020 | 79 | 15% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management210
- Accounting141
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management137
- Management Information Systems83
- Marketing82
- Management of Technology and Innovation63
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management5
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
39 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 141
- Window papers (baseline)
- 86,756 +22.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.41 -5.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.