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Pacific Accounting Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.1), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0114-0582Verify ISSN ↗2041-5494Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 96 / 342 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Accounting | 60 / 191 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1997), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.1.
Pacific Accounting Review is Q2 in Finance (rank 96 of 342) and Q2 in Accounting (rank 60 of 191), by CiteScore 2025.
Pacific Accounting Review 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.521, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 40.
Pacific Accounting Review is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0114-0582 and its online ISSN is 2041-5494.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Accounting, auditing and accountability.
It is graded 1 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.
Pacific Accounting Review has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 2.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 335 Scopus journals in Finance.
Pacific Accounting Review published 55 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from New Zealand (19.5%), China (16.2%) and Indonesia (12.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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