Journal profile · BUSINESS, FINANCE
Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium
ISSN 2194-6051 · eISSN 2152-2820 · Walter de Gruyter
Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.9 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,712; 26 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency and Global Financial Regulation and Crises, together about 25.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Finance and Accounting. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
About this journal ObjectiveThe Journal of Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium (AEL) aims to encourage a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between individuals, organizations, and institutions in economy and society. Among other matters, attention will be paid to financial, economic, and legal methods and languages that have an important albeit neglected role in this relationship. Concerns of finance, control, accountability, responsibility, valuation, regulation, and governance will be raised in their connection with accounting, economics, law, sociology, anthropology, history, finance, political science, and the management and policy sciences. The journal encourages works that seek to recombine disciplinary domains in response to practical and relevant issues, including theoretical advances and insights, and comparative historical perspectives.The journal is published with the collaboration of the Maison des Sciencesde l'Homme - Paris NordEditorial PolicyWhile many journals cover accounting, economics and law separately, the intersection of these fields denotes common and significant concerns in society. Institutional rules and social norms are critical to workings of organizations. Beyond their technical aspects, these issues have broader societal and global consequences. Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium is intended to their study.This journal will pay attention to the institutional analysis of families, businesses, non-business organizations; and their management, finance, control, accountability, responsibility, valuation, regulation, and governance. Financial, economic, and legal devices lie at the heart of business and non business governance and regulation. The journal will examine their influence in the context of social, cultural, and political economy and history.The journal will explore links among the disciplines in order to yield theoreticali nsights and perspectives on practice, and seek methodological pluralism and tolerance. Proposals are welcome from sociology, anthropology, history, political science, policy studies, finance, and management sciences.Focusing at the connections among social disciplines, Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium is a unique outlet for interdisciplinary and combined perspectives. It welcomes transnational co-operative contributions, cross-fertilization of ideas, and will provide a supportive peer review process.Methodological tolerance and pluralismMethodological tolerance
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS, FINANCE
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Auditing, Earnings Management, GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting9.5%
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiencyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.9%
- Global Financial Regulation and CrisesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.1%
- Accounting and Organizational ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting6.9%
- Corporate Taxation and AvoidanceBusiness, Management and Accounting6.5%
- Economic Theory and PolicyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance6.3%
- Global Financial Crisis and PoliciesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.3%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting5.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business, Finance | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EBSCO, ProQuest, Baidu, OCLCPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.47LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.18LetPub ·
- h-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 87OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.82OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 22.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 13.89%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,008Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 383 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 26 | 3 | 22 |
| 2024 | 17 | 5 | 22 |
| 2023 | 33 | 24 | 117 |
| 2022 | 22 | 16 | 40 |
| 2021 | 28 | 16 | 253 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | EUR 2,400 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Hybrid Open Access
In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing ch…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- ISSN
- 2194-6051
- Electronic ISSN
- 2152-2820
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium
What CAS zone is Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business, Finance. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.9; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.7, h-index 27.
Which databases index Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium open access, and what is the APC?
Accounting Economics and Law-A Convivium is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,712.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .