Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Accounting journal rankings 2023
140 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 140 ranked journals in 2023. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.33 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022. A journal needs OJR 2.64 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Journal of Corporate Finance, and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
140 ranked journals
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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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 6.96Q1 | 11.82 4.86 up from 2022 | 43 | 42% | $3,010 | ||
2Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.76Q1 | 8.30 1.34 up from 2022 | 605 | 42% | $4,140 | ||
3The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesOxford University Press · United States | 5.06Q1 | 2.05 10.88 down from 2022 | 94 | 48% | $4,028 | ||
4Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 8.99 0.55 up from 2022 | 252 | 15% | — | ||
5International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 10.98 3.20 up from 2022 | 196 | 16% | — | ||
6International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 6.59 0.41 down from 2022 | 112 | 16% | — | ||
7Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.50Q1 | 4.99 0.91 down from 2022 | 150 | 23% | $4,170 | ||
8Frontiers of Business Research in ChinaBrill · China | 4.43Q1 | 5.60 2.63 down from 2022 | 35 | — | — | ||
9Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 5.65 4.12 down from 2022 | 302 | 39% | $4,290 | ||
10Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.08Q1 | 5.50 0.24 up from 2022 | 208 | 49% | $3,190 | ||
11Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 5.35 0.91 down from 2022 | 106 | 38% | $3,175 | ||
12British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 5.84 0.24 down from 2022 | 294 | 81% | $3,900 | ||
13Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 6.52 1.88 up from 2022 | 145 | 32% | — | ||
14The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 6.21 1.16 up from 2022 | 124 | 58% | $3,770 | ||
15Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 4.96 0.21 up from 2022 | 136 | 9% | — | ||
16Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 3.60Q1 | 5.47 0.57 up from 2022 | 96 | 45% | $3,490 | ||
17Cogent Business & ManagementOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 6.56 0.43 up from 2022 | 909 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
18Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 6.14 1.79 up from 2022 | 209 | 10% | — | ||
19Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 5.61 0.37 down from 2022 | 517 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
20Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.12 1.35 up from 2022 | 129 | 69% | $4,420 | ||
21China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.41Q1 | 2.84 2.58 down from 2022 | 77 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
22Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 5.70 1.90 up from 2022 | 119 | 20% | — | ||
23EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 6.57 0.71 down from 2022 | 134 | 14% | — | ||
24Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.16Q1 | 3.60 0.44 down from 2022 | 86 | 22% | $3,860 | ||
25PSU Research ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 4.82 0.29 down from 2022 | 85 | 100% | — | ||
26International Journal of Disclosure and GovernancePalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 4.13 0.55 down from 2022 | 95 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
27Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.13Q1 | 5.11 0.50 up from 2022 | 144 | 85% | $3,290 | ||
28Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 6.11 2.24 up from 2022 | 45 | 55% | — | ||
29International Journal of Law and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 3.13 1.10 down from 2022 | 102 | 14% | — | ||
30Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 4.54 0.27 down from 2022 | 107 | 44% | $4,040 | ||
31Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 2.93Q1 | 3.81 1.73 down from 2022 | 64 | 76% | $2,920 | ||
32Review of Accounting and FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 4.86 1.96 up from 2022 | 49 | 15% | — | ||
33International Journal of Financial StudiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.72Q1 | 4.35 0.44 up from 2022 | 275 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
34European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 3.31 0.22 down from 2022 | 174 | 52% | — | ||
35Qualitative Research in Financial MarketsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.71 1.15 up from 2022 | 103 | 24% | — | ||
36Review of Corporate FinanceNow Publishers · United States | 2.60Q2 | 3.79 0.51 down from 2022 | 33 | 43% | — | ||
37Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 2.56Q2 | 3.45 0.01 up from 2022 | 244 | 76% | $3,400 | ||
38Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.52Q2 | 3.90 0.02 down from 2022 | 79 | 55% | $1,100 | ||
39Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.50Q2 | 3.15 0.57 down from 2022 | 169 | 70% | $4,030 | ||
40Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 2.44Q2 | 3.61 0.67 down from 2022 | 74 | 25% | $3,910 | ||
41Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.43Q2 | 3.70 0.71 up from 2022 | 113 | 24% | — | ||
42Journal of Indian Business ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.42Q2 | 3.84 0.31 up from 2022 | 82 | 13% | — | ||
43Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 2.40Q2 | 2.92 1.10 down from 2022 | 187 | 30% | $3,380 | ||
44International Journal of AuditingWiley · United States | 2.27Q2 | 2.61 0.29 down from 2022 | 102 | 66% | $2,900 | ||
45Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 3.98 0.63 up from 2022 | 84 | 11% | — | ||
46The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.20Q2 | 3.26 0.57 up from 2022 | 336 | 37% | — | ||
47European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.19Q2 | 3.26 0.81 up from 2022 | 138 | 69% | $3,350 | ||
48Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.14Q2 | 3.94 0.57 up from 2022 | 123 | 24% | — | ||
49International Journal of Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.13Q2 | 2.27 0.31 down from 2022 | 135 | 4% | — | ||
50Journal of Capital Markets StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.10Q2 | 3.00 0.05 down from 2022 | 30 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management220
- Accounting140
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management140
- Management Information Systems83
- Marketing80
- Management of Technology and Innovation69
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management8
- Business and International Management6
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 140
- Window papers (baseline)
- 95,793 +19.3% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.33 -2.3% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.