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Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

University of Wollongong · Australia · Est. 2007

ISSN1834-2000eISSN1834-2019

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2025-02-01). DOAJ's stated reason: Problems with website. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

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 ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.386

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.72

Total Worksi

655

Total Citationsi

9,344

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.55

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business, Finance; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous); Finance.

General Information

Country / RegionAustralia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2007

Annual Volume~ 62 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications655

Publisher OrgUniversity of Wollongong

OA Since2006

Visit Journal Website

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

University of Wollongong

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1834-2000 / 1834-2019

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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

781

2019

958

2020

736

2021

1.1k

2022

510

2023

198

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.

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q2

FinanceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business, Finance

Scopus Categories

FinanceBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Corporate Finance and GovernanceAuditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceCorporate Social Responsibility ReportingIslamic Finance and Banking StudiesFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesAccounting and Organizational ManagementCorporate Governance and Financial ManagementEnvironmental Sustainability in BusinessAccounting Education and CareersFinancial Reporting and Valuation Research

Frequently asked questions about Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

Is Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal a predatory journal?

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Problems with website" (2025-02-01). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal?

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal 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 1.55.

Is Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal?