Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

The Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering accounting theory and practice. The journal was established in 1988 and is published by Emerald Group Publishing.

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

Discipline	Accountancy
Language	English
Edited by	James Guthrie, Lee D. Parker
Publication details
History	1988–present
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing
Frequency	8/year
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	4.88 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Account. Audit. Account. J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0951-3574
LCCN	sn91022763
OCLC no.	499757338
Links
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In 2022 the editors-in-chief are James Guthrie (Macquarie University) and Lee D. Parker (Glasgow University and RMIT University.^[1] The journal publishes papers on "the interaction between accounting and auditing on the one hand and their institutional, socio-economic, political, and historical environment on the other", as well as poetry and short prose from accounting and management academics.^[2] The journal sponsors the Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research Conference in Accounting, which is held every three years.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences^[3]
• EBSCO databases
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• ProQuest databases
• Scopus^[4]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.117.^[5]

Notable articles

According to Google Scholar, the most cited articles are:^{[citation needed]}

1. Gray, Rob; Kouhy, Reza; Lavers, Simon (1995). "Corporate social and environmental reporting: a review of the literature and longitudinal study". Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 8 (2): 47–77. doi:10.1108/09513579510146996.
2. Deegan, Craig (2002). "Introduction: the legitimising effect of social and environmental disclosures--a theoretical foundation". Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 15 (3): 282–311. doi:10.1108/09513570210435852.
3. Hackston, David; Milne, Markus (1996). "Some Deteriminants of social and environmental disclosures in New Zealand companies". Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 9 (1): 77–108. doi:10.1108/09513579610109987.
4. O'Donovan, George (2002). "Environmental disclosures in the annual report: extending the applicability and predictive power of legitimacy theory". Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 15 (3): 344–371. doi:10.1108/09513570210435870.
5. Deegan, Craig; Ranking, Michael (1996). "Do Australian companies report environmental news objectively? An analysis of environmental disclosures by firms prosecuted successfully by the Environmental Protection Authority". Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 9 (2): 50–67. doi:10.1108/09513579610116358.