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Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting

Now Publishers Inc · United States · Est. 2016

ISSN2380-5013

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.203

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.713

Total Worksi

Total Citationsi

1,256

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.71

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

The Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting provides a forum for the dissemination of new research findings in Accounting and Taxation, Economic Policy and Law, and Finance. It publishes high-quality, original articles, including empirical or theoretical scholarly work at the intersection of law, finance, and accounting.

AI-compiled from public web sources · verify on publisher page →

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2016

Annual Volume~ 3 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications71

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

6/11 · 55%

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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?

2380-5013

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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

175

2018

2019

114

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

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.

LawQ3

AccountingQ4

FinanceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business, FinanceLaw

Scopus Categories

LawFinanceAccounting

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Corporate Finance and GovernanceAuditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceBanking stability, regulation, efficiencyFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesHousing Market and EconomicsCorporate Taxation and AvoidanceCorporate Insolvency and GovernanceCorporate Governance and LawFinancial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisFinancial Reporting and Valuation Research

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting

Is Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Law, Finance, and 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 Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting?

Journal of Law, Finance, and 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 0.71.

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

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