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Accounting Horizons

Accounting Horizons is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by American Accounting Association.

Checked against the index lists dated 4 October 2026.

ISSN 0888-7993Verify ISSN ↗1558-7975Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: American Accounting Association

Scopus · Q2ABDC AABS / AJG 3WoS · SSCI

4.3

CiteScore 2025

Scopus

Best quartile

rank 74 of 191 · 61st pctile

ABDC rating

JQL 2025

Indexed in

major indexes

Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher

ScopusElsevier Scopus

Status

Active

Coverage

1996–present

Source type

Journal

Open access

CiteScore

4.3

SJR · SCImago

1.361

Q1 SJR quartile

H-index

Best quartile

Q2 · 61st pctile

Subject area	Rank	Pctile	Q
Accounting	74 / 191	61st	Q2

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Web of ScienceClarivate (SCIE/SSCI/AHCI/ESCI)

Collections

SSCI

Quick answers

Is Accounting Horizons indexed in Scopus?

Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.

What quartile is Accounting Horizons in Scopus?

Accounting Horizons is Q2 in Accounting (rank 74 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.

What is the impact factor of Accounting Horizons?

Accounting Horizons is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.361, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 98.

Who publishes Accounting Horizons and what is its ISSN?

Accounting Horizons is published by American Accounting Association. Its print ISSN is 0888-7993 and its online ISSN is 1558-7975.

Is Accounting Horizons in Web of Science?

Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.

What is the ABDC rating of Accounting Horizons?

It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.

What is the ABS / AJG rating of Accounting Horizons?

It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Accounting field, unchanged from 2021.

Is Accounting Horizons open access?

No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.

How well cited is Accounting Horizons? — open metrics via OpenAlex

Accounting Horizons has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 183 Scopus journals in Accounting.

128

h-index

1.6

2-yr mean citations

721

i10-index

1,839

works indexed

70,522

total citations

2-yr mean citations, among Scopus journals in the same subject

#105 of 183 Bottom 43% Accounting

Papers published per year

Accounting Horizons published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 66. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics

Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceFinancial Reporting and Valuation ResearchCorporate Finance and GovernanceAccounting Education and Careers

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.

Who publishes in Accounting Horizons? — latest 96 articles, 2025–2026

In its latest 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (65.3%), China (7.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (4.5%). 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.

Are there integrity warnings for Accounting Horizons? — indicators, not proof of misconduct

Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (5.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.

Scopus statusActive
Retracted papers 10 · 5.4 per 1,000 papers
Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged
Author concentration65.3% of recent authorship from United States

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.

Official sources & links

Journal website ↗ Scopus source ↗ Web of Science ↗ ABDC list ↗ ISSN Portal · 0888-7993 ↗ISSN Portal · 1558-7975 ↗

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