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ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by American Accounting Association.
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ISSN 1543-866XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Accounting Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 720 / 1162 | 38th | Q3 |
| Accounting | 163 / 191 | 14th | Q4 |
| Finance | 293 / 342 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025 (also 2011–2016), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research is Q3 in Law (rank 720 of 1162), Q4 in Accounting (rank 163 of 191) and Q4 in Finance (rank 293 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research is published by American Accounting Association. Its ISSN is 1543-866X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
It is graded 1 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.
ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #714 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 11. 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 28 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (100%). 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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