Journals whose output is mostly accounting: financial reporting, auditing, corporate governance, taxation and management accounting, together with finance journals that OpenAlex files largely under accounting. All 142 journals are ranked by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, with each journal's quartile in accounting and its h-index.
Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data
Accounting citation averages are lower than finance averages, so the finance journals in this list sit near the top. Compare accounting journals with each other first.
| Rank | Journal | 2026 score | Quartile | h-index | Publisher | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 11.3 | Q1 | 162 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 2 | JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS | 10.8 | Q1 | 555 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 3 | JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH | 10.4 | Q1 | 299 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Accounting in Europe | 9.6 | Q1 | 58 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting | 7.1 | Q1 | 70 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 6 | JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING | 6.9 | Q1 | 321 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 7 | Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting | 6.7 | Q1 | 63 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 8 | REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES | 6.3 | Q1 | 147 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 9 | JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS | 6.2 | Q1 | 306 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 10 | Review of Accounting and Finance | 6.2 | Q1 | 51 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 11 | ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE | 6.1 | Q1 | 301 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 12 | Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies | 6.0 | Q1 | 34 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 13 | JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE | 5.9 | Q1 | 211 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 14 | Borsa Istanbul Review | 5.8 | Q1 | 73 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 15 | International Journal of Accounting and Information Management | 5.7 | Q1 | 60 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 16 | Accounting Forum | 5.6 | Q1 | 90 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Critical Perspectives on Accounting | 5.5 | Q1 | 127 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 18 | Meditari Accountancy Research | 5.4 | Q1 | 73 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 19 | EuroMed Journal of Business | 5.3 | Q1 | 59 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 20 | ACCOUNTING REVIEW | 5.2 | Q1 | 281 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 21 | British Accounting Review | 5.2 | Q1 | 133 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 22 | SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS | 5.1 | Q1 | 237 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 23 | CORPORATE GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW | 4.9 | Q1 | 148 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 24 | International Journal of Law and Management | 4.9 | Q1 | 52 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 4.7 | Q1 | 119 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 26 | Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship | 4.6 | Q1 | 36 | Now Publishers | United States |
| 27 | Journal of Accounting Literature | 4.6 | Q1 | 43 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Journal of Applied Accounting Research | 4.6 | Q1 | 63 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Accounting Research Journal | 4.2 | Q1 | 48 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 30 | Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal | 4.2 | Q1 | 112 | Wiley | United States |
| 31 | International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management | 4.0 | Q1 | 72 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 32 | Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation | 4.0 | Q1 | 74 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 33 | CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH | 3.8 | Q1 | 183 | Wiley | Canada |
| 34 | Corporate Governance-The International Journal of Business in Society | 3.8 | Q1 | 126 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 35 | Journal of Multinational Financial Management | 3.7 | Q1 | 83 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 36 | Qualitative Research in financial Markets | 3.7 | Q1 | 51 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 37 | Journal of Management Control | 3.6 | Q1 | 45 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 38 | Asian Review of Accounting | 3.4 | Q2 | 53 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 39 | Banks and Bank Systems | 3.4 | Q2 | 33 | Business Perspectives | – |
| 40 | Managerial Auditing Journal | 3.4 | Q2 | 120 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 41 | Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change | 3.3 | Q2 | 59 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 42 | Accounting Education | 3.2 | Q2 | 85 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 43 | European Business Organization Law Review | 3.2 | Q2 | 46 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 44 | European Financial Management | 3.1 | Q2 | 106 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 45 | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance | 3.1 | Q2 | 69 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 46 | South African Journal of Accounting Research | 3.1 | Q2 | 24 | Taylor & Francis | South Africa |
| 47 | BOLETIN DE MATEMATICAS | 3.0 | Q2 | 3 | – | – |
| 48 | AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT | 2.9 | Q2 | 76 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 49 | China Journal of Accounting Research | 2.9 | Q2 | 49 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 50 | Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management | 2.9 | Q2 | 54 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 51 | ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS RESEARCH | 2.8 | Q2 | 121 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 52 | International Journal of Disclosure and Governance | 2.8 | Q2 | 45 | Palgrave Macmillan | United Kingdom |
| 53 | Journal of Management and Governance | 2.8 | Q2 | 87 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 54 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 2.8 | Q2 | 80 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 55 | FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | 2.7 | Q2 | 150 | Wiley | United States |
| 56 | Pacific Accounting Review | 2.7 | Q2 | 54 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 57 | European Accounting Review | 2.6 | Q2 | 131 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 58 | JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND PUBLIC POLICY | 2.6 | Q2 | 131 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 59 | Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics | 2.6 | Q2 | 58 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 60 | Australian Accounting Review | 2.4 | Q2 | 69 | Wiley | Australia |
| 61 | Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies | 2.3 | Q2 | 51 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 62 | Journal of Business Finance & Accounting | 2.3 | Q2 | 149 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 63 | Review of Behavioral Finance | 2.3 | Q2 | 42 | Emerald Publishing Limited | – |
| 64 | Corporate Board-Role Duties and Composition | 2.2 | Q2 | 22 | Publishing house "Virtus Interpress" | – |
| 65 | Venture Capital | 2.2 | Q2 | 84 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 66 | Accounting and Finance | 2.1 | Q2 | 102 | Wiley | Australia |
| 67 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDITING | 2.1 | Q2 | 73 | Wiley | United States |
| 68 | Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting Review | 2.1 | Q2 | 37 | University of Murcia | Spain |
| 69 | Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal | 2.0 | Q2 | 47 | University of Wollongong | Australia |
| 70 | JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL MARKETS | 2.0 | Q2 | 103 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 71 | Review of Corporate Finance Studies | 2.0 | Q2 | 42 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 72 | International Journal of Managerial Finance | 1.9 | Q2 | 57 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 73 | Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences | 1.9 | Q2 | 42 | Emerald Publishing Limited | – |
| 74 | MANAGERIAL FINANCE | 1.8 | Q3 | 82 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United Kingdom |
| 75 | AUDITING-A JOURNAL OF PRACTICE & THEORY | 1.7 | Q3 | 138 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 76 | International Journal of Accounting | 1.7 | Q3 | 103 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 77 | Rossiiskii Zhurnal Menedzhmenta-Russian Management Journal | 1.7 | Q3 | 14 | Saint Petersburg State University | Russia |
| 78 | Abacus-A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies | 1.6 | Q3 | 79 | Wiley | Australia |
| 79 | American Journal of Business | 1.6 | Q3 | 29 | Emerald Publishing Limited | United States |
| 80 | Gadjah Mada international journal of business | 1.6 | Q3 | 34 | Gadjah Mada University | – |
| 81 | Journal of Behavioral Finance | 1.6 | Q3 | 67 | Routledge | United States |
| 82 | Journal of International Accounting Research | 1.6 | Q3 | 53 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 83 | Accounting Horizons | 1.5 | Q3 | 127 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 84 | FINANCIAL REVIEW | 1.5 | Q3 | 86 | Wiley | United States |
| 85 | International Review of Finance | 1.5 | Q3 | 51 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 86 | Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance | 1.5 | Q3 | 40 | Wiley | United States |
| 87 | Annals of Corporate Governance | 1.4 | Q3 | 9 | Now Publishers | United States |
| 88 | Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance | 1.4 | Q3 | 89 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 89 | JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH | 1.3 | Q3 | 89 | Wiley | United States |
| 90 | Advances in Accounting | 1.2 | Q3 | 64 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 91 | Asian Academy of Management Journal | 1.2 | Q3 | 31 | University of Science Malaysia | – |
| 92 | Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance | 1.2 | Q3 | 23 | University of Science Malaysia | – |
| 93 | International Journal of Business and Society | 1.2 | Q3 | 36 | UNIMAS Publisher | – |
| 94 | ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION | 1.2 | Q3 | 66 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 95 | Journal of Management Accounting Research | 1.2 | Q3 | 74 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 96 | Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics | 1.1 | Q3 | 41 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 97 | Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies | 1.1 | Q3 | 34 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 98 | Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting | 1.1 | Q3 | 46 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 99 | Quarterly Journal of Finance | 1.1 | Q3 | 38 | World Scientific | Singapore |
| 100 | Accounting Historians Journal | 1.0 | Q3 | 39 | Academy of Accounting Historians | United States |
| 101 | Journal of Financial Reporting | 1.0 | Q3 | 24 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 102 | Journal of Law Finance and Accounting | 1.0 | Q3 | 14 | Now Publishers | United States |
| 103 | Journal of the American Taxation Association | 1.0 | Q3 | 50 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 104 | World Tax Journal | 1.0 | Q3 | 26 | – | – |
| 105 | Asian Journal of Business and Accounting | 0.9 | Q3 | 25 | – | – |
| 106 | Southern African Journal of Accountability and Auditing Research-SAJAAR | 0.9 | Q3 | 8 | – | South Africa |
| 107 | Accounting History | 0.8 | Q3 | 42 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 108 | International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting | 0.8 | Q3 | 26 | Inderscience Publishers | United Kingdom |
| 109 | Intertax | 0.8 | Q3 | 27 | Springer Nature | Netherlands |
| 110 | Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting-Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad | 0.8 | Q3 | 30 | Taylor & Francis | – |
| 111 | Accounting Perspectives | 0.7 | Q3 | 37 | Wiley | Canada |
| 112 | Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance | 0.6 | Q4 | 21 | – | – |
| 113 | EC Tax Review | 0.6 | Q4 | 22 | Springer Nature | United Kingdom |
| 114 | International Journal of Management and Economics | 0.6 | Q4 | 10 | – | – |
| 115 | Arab Law Quarterly | 0.5 | Q4 | 30 | Brill | Netherlands |
| 116 | Etikonomi | 0.5 | Q4 | 26 | Jakarta State Islamic University | – |
| 117 | Global Business and Economics Review | 0.5 | Q4 | 26 | Inderscience Publishers | United Kingdom |
| 118 | Japanese Accounting Review | 0.5 | Q4 | 9 | – | Japan |
| 119 | African Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance | 0.4 | Q4 | 10 | – | United Kingdom |
| 120 | Contaduria Universidad de Antioquia | 0.4 | Q4 | 16 | Universidad de Antioquia | – |
| 121 | Indonesian Capital Market Review | 0.4 | Q4 | 11 | University of Indonesia | – |
| 122 | Inquietud Empresarial | 0.4 | Q4 | 7 | Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia | – |
| 123 | International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing | 0.4 | Q4 | 36 | Inderscience Publishers | United Kingdom |
| 124 | Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies | 0.4 | Q4 | 30 | World Scientific | Singapore |
| 125 | Accounting History Review | 0.3 | Q4 | 22 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 126 | ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research | 0.3 | Q4 | 7 | American Accounting Association | United States |
| 127 | Contabilidad y Negocios | 0.3 | Q4 | 12 | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru | – |
| 128 | European Company and Financial Law Review | 0.3 | Q4 | 24 | De Gruyter | Germany |
| 129 | SMART-Journal of Business Management Studies | 0.3 | Q4 | 9 | – | India |
| 130 | Contabilidade Gestao e Governanca | 0.2 | Q4 | 9 | University of Brasília | Brazil |
| 131 | European Company Law | 0.2 | Q4 | 13 | – | Netherlands |
| 132 | Revista Ambiente Contabil | 0.2 | Q4 | 8 | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte | Brazil |
| 133 | Revista e-Mercatoria | 0.2 | Q4 | 3 | Universidad Externado de Colombia | – |
| 134 | Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal | 0.1 | Q4 | 15 | – | – |
| 135 | Educade-Revista de Educacion en Contabilidad Finanzas y Administracion de Empresas | 0.1 | Q4 | 7 | AECA | Spain |
| 136 | Revista Contabilidade e Controladoria-RC C | 0.1 | Q4 | 9 | Universidade Federal do Paraná | Brazil |
| 137 | Revista ENIAC Pesquisa | 0.1 | Q4 | 6 | Faculdade de Tecnologia Eniac | Brazil |
| 138 | Revista Evidenciacao Contabil & Financas | 0.1 | Q4 | 10 | Federal University of Paraíba | Brazil |
| 139 | Frontiers of Business Research in China | 0.0 | Q4 | 36 | Brill | China |
| 140 | Journal of Investment Management | 0.0 | Q4 | 7 | – | United States |
| 141 | Review of Development Finance | 0.0 | Q4 | 42 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 142 | Revista de Gestao Financas e Contabilidade | 0.0 | Q4 | 9 | Bahia State University | Brazil |
Most accounting journals on this list are published in United Kingdom (45), United States (31), Netherlands (21), Brazil (6), Australia (4).
By the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, the five highest-ranked accounting journals are International Review of Financial Analysis, JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, Accounting in Europe, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting. The score is a two-year citation average, so check each journal's scope and article types before choosing where to submit.
37 of the 142 accounting journals on this page are Q1, meaning they rank in the top quarter of their OpenAlex subfield by score. 36 are Q2, 38 are Q3 and 31 are Q4.
A journal is included when at least two of its four main OpenAlex research topics are classified under Accounting. Journals are ordered by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score: citations received in the latest complete year to works published in the two years before, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles compare each journal with every journal in the same subfield.
The ABDC Journal Quality List and the Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide (AJG) are expert-panel gradings used by many business schools. This page is a citation ranking computed from open OpenAlex data. Use the panel lists where your school requires them, and this ranking as a second opinion or for journals those lists do not grade.