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Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.3), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 1985-2517Verify ISSN ↗2042-5856Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 8 / 283 | 97th | Q1 |
| Accounting | 10 / 191 | 95th | Q1 |
| Management Information Systems | 20 / 143 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present (also 2009, 2007, 2003), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.3.
Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 8 of 283), Q1 in Accounting (rank 10 of 191) and Q1 in Management Information Systems (rank 20 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Financial Reporting and 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 12.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.889, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1985-2517 and its online ISSN is 2042-5856.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 7.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting published 143 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Tunisia (17.5%), Egypt (12.7%) and United States (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 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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