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National Tax Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by National Tax Association.
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ISSN 0028-0283Verify ISSN ↗1944-7477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Tax Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 178 / 342 | 48th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 397 / 755 | 47th | Q3 |
| Accounting | 109 / 191 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1989, 1985), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
National Tax Journal is Q3 in Finance (rank 178 of 342), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 397 of 755) and Q3 in Accounting (rank 109 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
National Tax Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.232, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
National Tax Journal is published by National Tax Association. Its print ISSN is 0028-0283 and its online ISSN is 1944-7477.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
National Tax Journal has an h-index of 121 and a 2-year mean of 1.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #176 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
National Tax Journal published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 63. 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.
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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