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Journal of Business Finance and Accounting is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0306-686XVerify ISSN ↗1468-5957Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 65 / 235 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Finance | 111 / 342 | 67th | Q2 |
| Accounting | 69 / 191 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting is Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 65 of 235), Q2 in Finance (rank 111 of 342) and Q2 in Accounting (rank 69 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.202, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 102.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,800 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.
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0306-686X and its online ISSN is 1468-5957.
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 Social Sciences 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.
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting has an h-index of 149 and a 2-year mean of 2.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting published 93 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.
In its latest 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (40.7%), China (16.7%) and Australia (5.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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