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Journal of Forensic Accounting Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2. Published by American Accounting Association.
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ISSN 2380-2138Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Accounting Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 158 / 209 | 24th | Q4 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 180 / 235 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Accounting | 157 / 191 | 18th | Q4 |
| Computer Science Applications | 840 / 1022 | 17th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 265 / 315 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Forensic Accounting Research is Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 158 of 209), Q4 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 180 of 235) and Q4 in Accounting (rank 157 of 191), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Forensic Accounting Research 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 1, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Journal of Forensic Accounting Research is published by American Accounting Association. Its ISSN is 2380-2138.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B 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 Accounting field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Forensic Accounting Research has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Journal of Forensic Accounting Research published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 30. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (91.6%), Japan (2.1%) and United Kingdom (1.1%). 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. 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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