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Accounting Research Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 1030-9616Verify ISSN ↗1839-5465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 63 / 342 | 81st | Q1 |
| Accounting | 44 / 191 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Accounting Research Journal is Q1 in Finance (rank 63 of 342) and Q1 in Accounting (rank 44 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Accounting Research 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.620, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 37.
Accounting Research Journal is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 1030-9616 and its online ISSN is 1839-5465.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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 Accounting field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Accounting Research Journal has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 4.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Accounting Research Journal published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 61. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (13.3%), United States (9%) and India (8.9%).
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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