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Behavioral Research in Accounting

American Accounting Association · United States · Est. 1991

ISSN1558-8009

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.679

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.584

Total Worksi

448

Total Citationsi

14,038

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.82

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business, Finance; Accounting; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1991

Annual Volume~ 22 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications448

Publisher OrgAmerican Accounting Association

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Accounting Association

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1558-8009

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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?

English

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

458

2019

124

2020

2021

2022

136

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.

AccountingQ2

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business, Finance

Scopus Categories

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementAccounting

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceAccounting and Organizational ManagementExperimental Behavioral Economics StudiesDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesAccounting Education and CareersEthics in Business and EducationJob Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorHuman auditory perception and evaluationCorporate Finance and Governance

Frequently asked questions about Behavioral Research in Accounting

Is Behavioral Research in Accounting a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Behavioral Research in Accounting: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Behavioral Research in Accounting?

Behavioral Research in Accounting is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.82.

Is Behavioral Research in Accounting indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Behavioral Research in Accounting is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Behavioral Research in Accounting?