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Issues in Accounting Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by American Accounting Association.
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ISSN 0739-3172Verify ISSN ↗1558-7983Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Accounting Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 572 / 1698 | 66th | Q2 |
| Accounting | 95 / 191 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Issues in Accounting Education is Q2 in Education (rank 572 of 1698) and Q2 in Accounting (rank 95 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Issues in Accounting Education 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.502, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
Issues in Accounting Education is published by American Accounting Association. Its print ISSN is 0739-3172 and its online ISSN is 1558-7983.
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 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Management Development and Education field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Issues in Accounting Education has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #731 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Issues in Accounting Education published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 60. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (84.2%), Australia (3.7%) and Germany (3%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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