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Behavioral Research in Accounting is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS ESCI. Published by American Accounting Association.
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ISSN 1050-4753Verify ISSN ↗1558-8009Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Accounting Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 156 / 254 | 38th | Q3 |
| Accounting | 120 / 191 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Behavioral Research in Accounting is Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 156 of 254) and Q3 in Accounting (rank 120 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Behavioral Research in Accounting 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.679, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
Behavioral Research in Accounting is published by American Accounting Association. Its print ISSN is 1050-4753 and its online ISSN is 1558-8009.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
It is graded 3 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.
Behavioral Research in Accounting has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #168 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Behavioral Research in Accounting published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 26. 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 84 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (72%), Canada (7.7%) and Netherlands (4.4%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (9.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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