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Accounting Historians Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by American Accounting Association.
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ISSN 0148-4184Verify ISSN ↗2327-4468Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Accounting Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 163 / 1936 | 91st | Q1 |
| Accounting | 133 / 191 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Accounting Historians Journal is Q1 in History (rank 163 of 1936) and Q3 in Accounting (rank 133 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Accounting Historians Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.256, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
Accounting Historians Journal is published by American Accounting Association. Its print ISSN is 0148-4184 and its online ISSN is 2327-4468.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Business History and Economic History field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Accounting Historians Journal has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Accounting Historians Journal published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 31. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (67.6%), Italy (10.8%) and United Kingdom (9.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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