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China Accounting and Finance Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), ABDC A, DOAJ. Published by Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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ISSN 1029-807XVerify ISSN ↗2307-3055Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 214 / 235 | 9th | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 258 / 283 | 8th | Q4 |
| Finance | 331 / 342 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Accounting | 188 / 191 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
China Accounting and Finance Review is Q4 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 214 of 235), Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 258 of 283) and Q4 in Finance (rank 331 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
China Accounting and Finance Review is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
China Accounting and Finance Review is published by Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Its print ISSN is 1029-807X and its online ISSN is 2307-3055.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
China Accounting and Finance Review has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
China Accounting and Finance Review published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 32. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (28.8%), United States (15.2%) and Australia (11.7%).
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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