Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Accounting journal rankings 2024
136 ranked journals · Subfield in Business, Management and Accounting
Accounting has 136 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.15 on 2023 to 1.48, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.53. The top three are Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Review of Accounting Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
136 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Journal of Corporate FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.78Q1 | 6.70 1.59 down from 2023 | 503 | 51% | $4,140 | ||
2Journal of International Financial Management and AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 10.18 1.64 down from 2023 | 61 | 50% | $3,010 | ||
3Review of Accounting StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.30Q1 | 6.59 1.09 up from 2023 | 227 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
4The British Accounting ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.23Q1 | 7.26 1.05 up from 2023 | 153 | 55% | $3,770 | ||
5International Journal of Bank MarketingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.22Q1 | 10.03 0.95 down from 2023 | 231 | 22% | — | ||
6Journal of Accounting ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 4.68Q1 | 6.96 1.84 up from 2023 | 141 | 72% | $4,420 | ||
7Corporate GovernanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.61Q1 | 7.17 1.82 down from 2023 | 257 | 25% | — | ||
8Journal of Accounting and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.59Q1 | 6.87 1.88 up from 2023 | 151 | 34% | $4,170 | ||
9International Journal of Accounting and Information ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 6.86 0.27 up from 2023 | 109 | 11% | — | ||
10Accounting in EuropeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 6.09 0.02 down from 2023 | 48 | 57% | — | ||
11Accounting EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 4.27 1.07 down from 2023 | 119 | 55% | $3,175 | ||
12Journal of Applied Accounting ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 5.29 1.23 down from 2023 | 173 | 35% | — | ||
13Pacific-Basin Finance JournalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.99Q1 | 6.16 0.55 up from 2023 | 601 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
14Journal of financial reporting & accountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.91Q1 | 6.78 0.64 up from 2023 | 289 | 11% | — | ||
15Journal of Accounting in Emerging EconomiesEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 6.13 0.44 up from 2023 | 135 | 14% | — | ||
16British Journal of ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 6.83 0.98 up from 2023 | 317 | 90% | $3,900 | ||
17Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.53Q1 | 5.89 0.24 up from 2023 | 267 | 54% | $4,290 | ||
18Journal of Management & GovernanceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 5.40 0.29 up from 2023 | 128 | 47% | $3,290 | ||
19EuroMed Journal of BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 6.17 0.40 down from 2023 | 147 | 21% | — | ||
20Contemporary Accounting ResearchWiley · Canada | 3.49Q1 | 4.38 0.93 up from 2023 | 243 | 73% | $3,400 | ||
21Cogent Business & ManagementOACogent OA · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.78 0.79 down from 2023 | 1,261 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
22Journal of International Accounting Auditing and TaxationElsevier BV · United States | 3.39Q1 | 4.58 0.88 down from 2023 | 98 | 51% | $3,490 | ||
23China Journal of Accounting ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 5.46 2.61 up from 2023 | 84 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
24International Journal of Disclosure and GovernancePalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.79 0.34 down from 2023 | 116 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
25Managerial Auditing JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 3.99 0.97 down from 2023 | 129 | 8% | — | ||
26International Journal of Financial StudiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.99Q1 | 4.72 0.37 up from 2023 | 336 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
27Accounting Organizations and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 4.66 0.12 up from 2023 | 101 | 56% | $4,040 | ||
28Journal of Contemporary Accounting & EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 3.31 0.30 down from 2023 | 77 | 38% | $3,860 | ||
29Corporate Governance An International ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 4.17 1.03 up from 2023 | 177 | 64% | $4,030 | ||
30Australian Accounting ReviewWiley · Australia | 2.66Q1 | 4.33 0.51 up from 2023 | 67 | 55% | $2,920 | ||
31Accounting ForumTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 4.51 0.61 up from 2023 | 91 | 81% | $1,100 | ||
32European Accounting ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 3.38 0.07 up from 2023 | 166 | 52% | — | ||
33Qualitative Research in Financial MarketsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 4.23 0.48 down from 2023 | 135 | 19% | — | ||
34Accounting Research JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.36 0.59 down from 2023 | 104 | 19% | — | ||
35PSU Research ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.52Q2 | 3.90 0.92 down from 2023 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Indian Business ResearchEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.47Q2 | 4.83 0.99 up from 2023 | 69 | 4% | — | ||
37European Financial ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.46Q2 | 3.98 0.73 up from 2023 | 158 | 70% | $3,350 | ||
38The Accounting ReviewAmerican Accounting Association · United States | 2.44Q2 | 3.00 0.26 down from 2023 | 347 | 55% | — | ||
39Asian Review of AccountingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 3.10 0.88 down from 2023 | 115 | 19% | — | ||
40Review of Accounting and FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.37Q2 | 3.56 1.30 down from 2023 | 74 | 9% | — | ||
41Accounting and FinanceWiley · Australia | 2.35Q2 | 3.27 0.38 down from 2023 | 448 | 56% | $3,470 | ||
42Journal of Business Finance & AccountingWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q2 | 2.54 0.13 down from 2023 | 198 | 68% | $3,800 | ||
43International Journal of Law and ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.22Q2 | 3.34 0.21 up from 2023 | 92 | 5% | — | ||
44Managerial FinanceEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 3.49 0.21 up from 2023 | 279 | 7% | — | ||
45AbacusWiley · Australia | 2.19Q2 | 2.73 0.14 up from 2023 | 88 | 78% | $3,400 | ||
46Journal of Accounting and Public PolicyElsevier BV · United States | 2.18Q2 | 2.43 0.48 down from 2023 | 205 | 34% | $3,380 | ||
47Journal of Accounting EducationElsevier BV · United States | 2.17Q2 | 2.94 0.67 down from 2023 | 72 | 24% | $3,910 | ||
48Review of Corporate FinanceNow Publishers · United States | 2.08Q2 | 2.86 0.92 down from 2023 | 54 | 69% | — | ||
49Pacific Accounting ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.05Q2 | 4.38 0.68 up from 2023 | 110 | 15% | — | ||
50Journal of Capital Markets StudiesOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.00Q2 | 3.70 0.70 up from 2023 | 32 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Business, Management and Accounting, with Accounting highlighted.
- Strategy and Management222
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management140
- Accounting136
- Marketing82
- Management Information Systems77
- Management of Technology and Innovation65
- Business and International Management7
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management7
- Industrial relations0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 additional Accounting journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 136
- Window papers (baseline)
- 102,398 +18.0% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.476 +4.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.