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Management Control

Management Control is rated ABDC C. Published by Franco Angeli.

Checked against the index lists dated 4 October 2026.

ISSN 2239-0391Verify ISSN ↗2239-4397Verify ISSN ↗

Publisher: Franco Angeli

ABDC C

ABDC rating

JQL 2025

Indexed in

major index

Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher

ABDCAustralian Business Deans Council 2025

Rating

Unchanged since 2022 vs ABDC 2022

Year of inception

2011

Field of research

Accounting, auditing and accountability (3501)

Publisher (per ABDC)

Franco Angeli

C = a recognised quality journal in its field.

View this source on ABDC

Not listed in: Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)

Quick answers

Is Management Control indexed in Scopus?

No — Management Control is not currently indexed in Scopus.

What is the impact factor of Management Control?

Management Control has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.

Who publishes Management Control and what is its ISSN?

Management Control is published by Franco Angeli. Its print ISSN is 2239-0391 and its online ISSN is 2239-4397.

Is Management Control in Web of Science?

No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).

What is the ABDC rating of Management Control?

It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.

Is Management Control open access?

No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.

How well cited is Management Control? — open metrics via OpenAlex

Management Control has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex).

h-index

0.62

2-yr mean citations

i10-index

471

works indexed

1,697

total citations

Papers published per year

Management Control published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 49. 2026* is the year so far.

Main topics

Management, Economics, and Public PolicyAccounting and Organizational ManagementDiverse academic and cultural studiesInnovation and Knowledge Management

h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-10-14.

Are there integrity warnings for Management Control? — indicators, not proof of misconduct

Scopus status: Not in the Scopus source list. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.

Scopus statusNot in the Scopus source list
Retracted papers None recorded
Problematic Paper Screener flags None flagged

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.

Official sources & links

ABDC list ↗ ISSN Portal · 2239-0391 ↗ISSN Portal · 2239-4397 ↗

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