Accounting Historians Journal

Accounting Historians Journal is published by American Accounting Association 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 Accounting and Organizational Management, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance and Accounting Education and Careers, together about 66.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Accounting. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Accounting Historians Journal is an international journal that addresses the development of accounting thought and practice. AHJ embraces all subject matter related to accounting history, including, but not limited to, research that provides a historical perspective on contemporary accounting issues. Authors may find the following guidelines helpful: Authors should provide a clear specification of the research issue or problem addressed and the motivation for the study. Authors should describe the method employed in the research, indicating the extent and manner in which they intend to employ the methodology. Manuscripts that draw on a variety of conceptual frameworks and techniques, including those used in other social sciences are encouraged. Authors who use a critical or new theoretical framework to examine prior historical interpretations of the development of accounting thought or practice should include a discussion of the rationale for use of that framework in the manuscript. In performing all analyses, authors should be sensitive to and take adequate account of the social, political, and economic contexts of the time period examined and of other environmental factors. While historians have long debated the ability to assign causation to particular factors, we encourage authors to address and evaluate the probable influences related to the problem or issue examined. Authors should clearly state all their interpretations of results, and the conclusions they draw should be consistent with the original objectives of and data used in the study. Interpretations and conclusions should be clearly linked to the research problem. Authors also should state the implications of the study for future research. In addition to scholarly work, the Editor(s) welcome submissions to the Salmagundi section of the journal. In this section, the editors seek responses to past articles, book reviews, items of general interest to our community of historians, historical syllabi, and exploratory historical work. Thought pieces or work found in other sources that may enrich our readership will also be considered (Authors are responsible for obtaining proper copyright permissions). Items in this section will be editorially reviewed. These submissions should be considerably shorter than main articles.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS, FINANCE

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

1.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.64LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

40OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

279OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.92OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

50%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

26LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Submission to first decision

65 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to acceptance

328 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

29 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

American Accounting Association

ISSN

0148-4184

Electronic ISSN

2327-4468

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website