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International Journal of Accounting is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific Publishing.
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ISSN 1094-4060Verify ISSN ↗2213-3933Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$1,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 162 / 342 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Accounting | 104 / 191 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
International Journal of Accounting is Q2 in Finance (rank 162 of 342) and Q3 in Accounting (rank 104 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.436, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,800 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
International Journal of Accounting is published by World Scientific Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1094-4060 and its online ISSN is 2213-3933.
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 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.
International Journal of Accounting has an h-index of 103 and a 2-year mean of 1.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
International Journal of Accounting published 50 papers in 2025. 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.
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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