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Pacific Accounting Review

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1996

ISSN2041-5494

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 ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.521

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.74

Total Worksi

653

Total Citationsi

11,926

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.17

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business, Finance; Accounting; Finance.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1996

Annual Volume~ 35 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications653

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

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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?

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2041-5494

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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

1.2k

2019

593

2020

731

2021

731

2022

128

2023

165

2024

123

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

FinanceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business, Finance

Scopus Categories

FinanceAccounting

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceCorporate Finance and GovernanceAccounting and Organizational ManagementFinancial Reporting and Valuation ResearchCorporate Social Responsibility ReportingFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesAccounting Education and CareersCorporate Taxation and AvoidanceEnvironmental Sustainability in BusinessRisk Management in Financial Firms

Frequently asked questions about Pacific Accounting Review

Is Pacific Accounting Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Pacific Accounting Review: 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 Pacific Accounting Review?

Pacific Accounting Review 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 2.17.

Is Pacific Accounting Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Pacific Accounting Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Pacific Accounting Review?