Accounting History Review

Accounting History Review is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Historical Economic and Social Studies, together about 54% of its articles. Its main subfields are Accounting. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Accounting History Review is an international forum for research into the history of accounting thought, practice, and institutions. Our primary goal is the publication of scholarly articles that investigate accounting and its implication in diverse social, cultural, and multi-faceted institutional contexts across space and time. Accounting History Review is of interest not only to accounting historians but also specialists in other disciplinary areas of history and management in view of the pervasive and central role played by accounting in organisations. This scope is reflected in the membership of the journal’s Editorial Board and its readership. The journal maintains its reputable position by privileging accounting’s past as a worthy subject of inquiry. Notwithstanding, the goal is not accounting history that looks inwardly to demonstrate accounting’s present-day utility, but a history that looks outwardly into contexts with which accounting interacts. The scope of the journal explicitly includes research which reconsiders accounting’s past from differing and competing points of view; investigates the consequences of accounting as a calculative and quantitative technology, and the place of accounting in the broader quantitative and calculative space; makes use of accounting as an interpretive lens; and recognises the diversities of accounting including its relation to other disciplines. Accounting History Review welcomes research into the history of accounting and historical accounts which inform and are informed by broader historiographical debates. We encourage cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multi-disciplinary studies and submissions from disciplines with which accounting interacts. Research is published from a wide array of historiographical and theoretical traditions reflecting the journal’s ecumenical stance. Special issues and review essays are designed to bring emerging research and perspectives to the attention of our readership. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double-anonymized reviewing by anonymous referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS

Editor-in-chief Cheryl S. McWattersPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 1, Italy 1, Canada 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

EconLitERIH PLUSPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, OCLC, ABC-Clio/America History and Life, ABI/Inform, Cabell's Directory, Historical Abstracts, IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), K.G. Saur Verlag, Swets Information Services, Thomson Gale

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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.65Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

90OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

11LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

26,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

19%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

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.

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

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

2155-2851

Electronic ISSN

2155-286X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website