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Accounting and Business Research

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 1970

ISSN2159-4260

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

1.065

H-Indexi

121

SNIPi

1.212

Total Worksi

2,264

Total Citationsi

65,995

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.26

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Accounting and Business Research disseminates original research that contributes to the understanding of the role of accounting in business. Papers may cover any area of accounting, broadly defined and including corporate governance, auditing and taxation.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1970

Annual Volume~ 34 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,264

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2159-4260

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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

912

2019

855

2020

809

2021

387

2022

239

2023

179

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

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 ResearchFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationAccounting Theory and Financial ReportingCorporate Taxation and AvoidanceLegal case studies and regulations

Frequently asked questions about Accounting and Business Research

Is Accounting and Business Research a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Accounting and Business Research: 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 Accounting and Business Research?

Accounting and Business Research 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 2.26.

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

Accounting and Business Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.