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Journal of International Accounting Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by American Accounting Association.
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ISSN 1542-6297Verify ISSN ↗1558-8025Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Accounting Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting | 119 / 191 | 37th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 300 / 456 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2007), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of International Accounting Research is Q3 in Accounting (rank 119 of 191) and Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 300 of 456), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of International Accounting Research 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.526, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Journal of International Accounting Research is published by American Accounting Association. Its print ISSN is 1542-6297 and its online ISSN is 1558-8025.
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 Accounting field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of International Accounting Research has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 183 Scopus journals in Accounting.
Journal of International Accounting Research published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 43. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.4%), China (14.5%) and Australia (10.4%).
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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