Accounting journal rankings by citations
The 16 tracked accounting journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- Among the 16 tracked accounting journals, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (14.04), followed by Review of Accounting Studies (8.79) and Journal of Accounting and Economics (8.49).
- By h-index, Journal of Accounting and Economics leads with 309.
- The British Accounting Review published the most papers in 2025 (147).
| # | Journal | 2-year citedness | h-index | i10-index | Papers 2025 | Citations 2025 | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Journal of Accounting Information Systems | 14.04 | 94 | 413 | 37 | 3,044 | Elsevier BV |
| 2 | Review of Accounting Studies | 8.79 | 160 | 889 | 58 | 11,577 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 3 | Journal of Accounting and Economics | 8.49 | 309 | 1,292 | 61 | 25,899 | Elsevier BV |
| 4 | Accounting Organizations and Society | 7.83 | 258 | 1,621 | 32 | 10,924 | Elsevier BV |
| 5 | Critical Perspectives on Accounting | 6.19 | 129 | 1,276 | 46 | 5,598 | Elsevier BV |
| 6 | The British Accounting Review | 6.02 | 135 | 870 | 147 | 7,209 | Elsevier BV |
| 7 | Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation | 4.66 | 75 | 383 | 42 | 2,007 | Elsevier BV |
| 8 | Management Accounting Research | 4.55 | 146 | 625 | 20 | 3,229 | Elsevier BV |
| 9 | Journal of Management Control | 4.49 | 45 | 165 | 21 | 997 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 10 | Journal of Accounting and Public Policy | 3.45 | 139 | 819 | 80 | 5,783 | Elsevier BV |
| 11 | China Journal of Accounting Research | 3.41 | 50 | 217 | 33 | 1,508 | Elsevier BV |
| 12 | Journal of Management & Governance | 3.20 | 89 | 642 | 41 | 3,206 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 13 | International Journal of Disclosure and Governance | 3.14 | 46 | 266 | 61 | 1,394 | Palgrave Macmillan |
| 14 | Journal of Accounting Education | 3.09 | 71 | 499 | 31 | 1,199 | Elsevier BV |
| 15 | Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics | 2.62 | 60 | 238 | 61 | 1,668 | Elsevier BV |
| 16 | Advances in Accounting | 1.62 | 65 | 373 | 39 | 1,315 | Elsevier BV |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Accounting journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Accounting journal rankings by citations},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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