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Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. Published by Now Publishers Inc.
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ISSN 2380-5005Verify ISSN ↗2380-5013Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 513 / 1162 | 55th | Q2 |
| Finance | 234 / 342 | 31st | Q3 |
| Accounting | 138 / 191 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2024, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting is Q2 in Law (rank 513 of 1162), Q3 in Finance (rank 234 of 342) and Q3 in Accounting (rank 138 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Law, Finance, 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.203, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting is published by Now Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 2380-5005 and its online ISSN is 2380-5013.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Finance field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #307 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 11. 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 26 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.8%), Israel (6.4%) and Canada (5.8%). 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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