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Foundations and Trends in Accounting

Now Publishers Inc · United States · Est. 2006

ISSN1554-0642

SJR Q1✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.055

H-Indexi

SNIPi

2.424

Total Worksi

Total Citationsi

2,121

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.67

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Accounting; Finance.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2006

Annual Volume~ 5 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications75

Publisher OrgNow Publishers

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Now Publishers Inc

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1554-0642

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

222

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

AccountingQ1

FinanceQ1

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

FinanceAccounting

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceFinancial Reporting and Valuation ResearchAccounting and Organizational ManagementFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesCorporate Finance and GovernanceClimate Change Policy and EconomicsExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesAuction Theory and ApplicationsCorporate Taxation and AvoidanceEconomic theories and models

Frequently asked questions about Foundations and Trends in Accounting

Is Foundations and Trends in Accounting a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Foundations and Trends in Accounting: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Foundations and Trends in Accounting?

Foundations and Trends in Accounting is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 1.055.

Is Foundations and Trends in Accounting indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Foundations and Trends in Accounting is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Foundations and Trends in Accounting?