--- title: "Accounting journal rankings: citations and h-index" description: "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." url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "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… (as of 2026-10-31)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-10-31T07:48:13+09:00 window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # 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. By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md) ## 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). *Tracked accounting journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex)* | # | Journal | 2-year citedness | h-index | i10-index | Papers 2025 | Citations 2025 | Publisher | |---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---| | 1 | [International Journal of Accounting Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-accounting-information-systems.md) | 14.04 | 94 | 413 | 37 | 3,044 | Elsevier BV | | 2 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 8.79 | 160 | 889 | 58 | 11,577 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 3 | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 8.49 | 309 | 1,292 | 61 | 25,899 | Elsevier BV | | 4 | [Accounting Organizations and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/accounting-organizations-and-society.md) | 7.83 | 258 | 1,621 | 32 | 10,924 | Elsevier BV | | 5 | [Critical Perspectives on Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/critical-perspectives-on-accounting.md) | 6.19 | 129 | 1,276 | 46 | 5,598 | Elsevier BV | | 6 | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 6.02 | 135 | 870 | 147 | 7,209 | Elsevier BV | | 7 | [Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-accounting-auditing-and-taxation.md) | 4.66 | 75 | 383 | 42 | 2,007 | Elsevier BV | | 8 | [Management Accounting Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/management-accounting-research.md) | 4.55 | 146 | 625 | 20 | 3,229 | Elsevier BV | | 9 | [Journal of Management Control](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-management-control.md) | 4.49 | 45 | 165 | 21 | 997 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 10 | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | 3.45 | 139 | 819 | 80 | 5,783 | Elsevier BV | | 11 | [China Journal of Accounting Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-journal-of-accounting-research.md) | 3.41 | 50 | 217 | 33 | 1,508 | Elsevier BV | | 12 | [Journal of Management & Governance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-management-governance.md) | 3.20 | 89 | 642 | 41 | 3,206 | Springer Science+Business Media | | 13 | [International Journal of Disclosure and Governance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-disclosure-and-governance.md) | 3.14 | 46 | 266 | 61 | 1,394 | Palgrave Macmillan | | 14 | [Journal of Accounting Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-education.md) | 3.09 | 71 | 499 | 31 | 1,199 | Elsevier BV | | 15 | [Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-contemporary-accounting-economics.md) | 2.62 | 60 | 238 | 61 | 1,668 | Elsevier BV | | 16 | [Advances in Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/advances-in-accounting.md) | 1.62 | 65 | 373 | 39 | 1,315 | Elsevier BV | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Accounting journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-rankings-journal-metrics-accounting, 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} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).