Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Accounting journal rankings 2022
137 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 137 ranked journals in 2022. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.36 against 1.00, down 0.05 on 2021. A journal needs OJR 2.78 to reach Q1. The top three are The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
137 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 7.62Q1 | 12.92 1.88 down from 2021 | 65 | 21% | $4,028 | ||
2Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.26Q1 | 6.95 1.78 up from 2021 | 597 | 33% | $4,140 | ||
3Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.13Q1 | 9.77 0.98 down from 2021 | 289 | 34% | $4,290 | ||
4International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 7.78 0.48 down from 2021 | 234 | 25% | — | ||
5Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.99Q1 | 5.90 0.30 up from 2021 | 125 | 20% | $4,170 | ||
6Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 8.44 1.05 up from 2021 | 246 | 26% | — | ||
7Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 6.96 2.92 up from 2021 | 39 | 33% | $3,010 | ||
8Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 6.25 1.26 down from 2021 | 83 | 35% | $3,175 | ||
9British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 6.08 2.73 down from 2021 | 246 | 75% | $3,900 | ||
10Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 4.48Q1 | 5.54 0.23 down from 2021 | 52 | 43% | $2,920 | ||
11International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 7.00 1.63 up from 2021 | 110 | 46% | — | ||
12Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 4.16Q1 | 4.90 0.10 down from 2021 | 91 | 37% | $3,490 | ||
13The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 5.05 0.63 down from 2021 | 126 | 41% | $3,770 | ||
14Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.97Q1 | 5.26 0.86 up from 2021 | 153 | 46% | $3,190 | ||
15Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 4.74 1.01 up from 2021 | 142 | 14% | — | ||
16Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.73Q1 | 5.98 1.84 up from 2021 | 470 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
17Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 3.77 1.61 down from 2021 | 119 | 56% | $4,420 | ||
18China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 5.43 1.38 up from 2021 | 61 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
19Frontiers of Business Research in ChinaBrill · China | 3.55Q1 | 8.23 3.80 up from 2021 | 57 | — | — | ||
20Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.54Q1 | 4.81 0.21 down from 2021 | 113 | 30% | $4,040 | ||
21Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.53Q1 | 4.05 0.21 down from 2021 | 86 | 19% | $3,860 | ||
22PSU Research ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 5.11 0.07 down from 2021 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
23Cogent Business & ManagementOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 6.13 2.08 up from 2021 | 627 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
24Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 4.65 1.02 up from 2021 | 142 | 39% | — | ||
25EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 7.28 1.56 up from 2021 | 96 | 19% | — | ||
26International Journal of Disclosure and GovernancePalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 4.68 1.79 up from 2021 | 75 | 41% | $3,090 | ||
27Australian Journal of ManagementSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.20Q1 | 2.69 1.92 down from 2021 | 109 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
28International Journal of Law and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 4.24 1.52 up from 2021 | 116 | 0% | — | ||
29Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 3.92 0.88 down from 2021 | 77 | 63% | $1,100 | ||
30Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 4.61 0.91 up from 2021 | 150 | 46% | $3,290 | ||
31Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 4.35 0.21 up from 2021 | 170 | 12% | — | ||
32Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 2.92Q1 | 3.44 0.41 down from 2021 | 253 | 37% | $3,400 | ||
33Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 3.87 0.13 down from 2021 | 44 | 27% | — | ||
34Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 3.79 1.03 down from 2021 | 114 | 10% | — | ||
35Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 2.78Q1 | 4.02 0.44 down from 2021 | 152 | 33% | $3,380 | ||
36Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 2.78Q2 | 4.29 0.76 down from 2021 | 70 | 7% | $3,910 | ||
37Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.74Q2 | 3.72 0.23 up from 2021 | 132 | 24% | $4,030 | ||
38European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.72Q2 | 3.53 0.37 up from 2021 | 139 | 33% | — | ||
39The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.71Q2 | 2.69 0.81 down from 2021 | 328 | 24% | — | ||
40International Journal of Financial StudiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.47Q2 | 3.90 0.20 up from 2021 | 221 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
41Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.45Q2 | 3.04 0.37 up from 2021 | 168 | 44% | $3,800 | ||
42Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.45Q2 | 2.99 0.66 down from 2021 | 110 | 15% | — | ||
43Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 3.37 0.32 up from 2021 | 156 | 21% | — | ||
44International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.27Q2 | 2.58 0.31 down from 2021 | 149 | 20% | — | ||
45Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.26Q2 | 3.35 0.66 up from 2021 | 86 | 14% | — | ||
46International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 2.26Q2 | 2.89 0.53 down from 2021 | 90 | 34% | $2,900 | ||
47Accounting and FinanceWiley · Australia | 2.21Q2 | 2.92 0.12 up from 2021 | 430 | 46% | $3,470 | ||
48Australasian Accounting Business and Finance JournalOAUniversity of Wollongong · Australia | 2.19Q2 | 3.47 0.86 up from 2021 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
49Review of Accounting and FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.18Q2 | 2.90 1.25 up from 2021 | 60 | 10% | — | ||
50Qualitative Research in Financial MarketsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.15Q2 | 3.56 0.22 up from 2021 | 108 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management214
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management141
- Accounting137
- Management Information Systems82
- Marketing80
- Management of Technology and Innovation65
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Business and International Management6
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 137
- Window papers (baseline)
- 92,819 +23.7% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.363 -8.1% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.