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Business, Finance, and Accounting Journal Rankings

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What are the best Business, Finance, and Accounting journals?

The are many ways of evaluating what the top Business, Finance, and Accounting journals are including Impact Factor, SJR, SNIP, CiteScore, Citation Percentage, H Index, Self-Citation Percentage, Acceptance Rates, and Number of Submissions. Our interactive table below provides an intuitive and user-friendly way to explore and compare each journal's performance across these key metrics.

Importantly, the PJIP does not advocate for any particular way of ranking nor does the project assume to have any particular authority on the matter. The information presented here is solely to help researchers make informed decisions when assessing which journals are appropriate venues for their manuscripts.

For more information about each metric, see our comprehensive guide to ranking metrics or check out our FAQ section for answers to common questions and additional support.

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Sub-Fields

General Business, Finance, and Accounting Journals Accounting Journals Business Journals Finance Journals Management Journals Emerging Markets Journals Small Business and Entrepreneurship Journals Business Ethics Journals Marketing Journals Risk Management and Insurance Journals Emerging Markets Journals Real Estate and Property Journals Stochastics Journals Islamic Business, Finance, and Accounting Journals Sustainability and Environmental Business Journals Public Finance Journals Family Business Journals Business Communication Journals Business Sub-Sectors Journals Hospitality and Tourism Journals E-Business Journals Human Resources Journals Business Information Systems and Informatics Journals International Business and Trade Journals Project Management Journals Banking Journals Sport Finance Journals Business Logistics and Transportation Journals

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Rank	Journal	Area	APPY	Location	Open Access	Book Reviews	Discussions	SJR	SNIP	IPP	CiSc	Hdex	CTE%	SC%	Acpt	Subs

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Rankings Key

Area Column:
GNRL = General Business, Finance, and Accounting
ACNT = Accounting
BSNS = Business
FNNC = Finance
MNGT = Management
EMRM = Emerging Markets
SBaE = Small Business and Entrepreneurship
BSET = Business Ethics
MRKT = Marketing
RMaI = Risk Management and Insurance
EGMK = Emerging Markets
REaP = Real Estate and Property
STHT = Stochastics
ISFA = Islamic Business, Finance, and Accounting
SaEB = Sustainability and Environmental Business
PBFC = Public Finance
FAMB = Family Business
BCOM = Business Communication
BSBS = Business Sub-Sectors
HaTU = Hospitality and Tourism
EBNS = E-Business
HRES = Human Resources
BISI = Business Information Systems and Informatics
IBaT = International Business and Trade
PJTM = Project Management
BNKG = Banking
SPFI = Sport Finance
BLaT = Business Logistics and Transportation

APPY: the average number of papers published by the journal per year 
SJR: SCImago Journal Rank Indicator
SNIP:  Source normalized impact per paper
IPP: Impact per publication (impact factor)
CiSc: Elsevier's CiteScore
Hdex: Journal H-index
​CTE%: Percentage of journal publications that have received at least one citation
SC%: Percentage of citations from the same journal
Acpt: Journal acceptance rate calculated as total submissions / number accepted.
Subs: Total number of manuscripts submitted to the journal (in previous year)

Colour Codes (relative to journals in the same subject):

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For Filters (if applicable)
Location: country where the journal is based/published.
Open Access: open access status.
DAO = Diamond open access (no fees for authors or readers)
PTOA = Open access but fees applicable for publication
HYBD = hybrid with the option to publish open access by paying fees
​NTOA = no option to publish open-access
Book Reviews: if the journal publishes book reviews.
NBKR = does not publish book reviews
Inv. = publishes book reviews by invitation only
YBRK = publishes book reviews
Discussions: if the journal publishes discussion pieces.
NDIS = does not publish discussions.
RTJA = publishes discussions that reply to journal articles.
YDIS = publishes discussions

The Sub-Fields selector above the directory can be applied to isolate particular subject subdisciplines. If the PJIP also possesses directory information for this subject, Filters below the index can be applied to show journals of a certain type such as only Generalist journals, or only Open Access Journals, or only journals published in a particular country, etc. Crtl click multiple filters for further refinement such as showing only Open Access Generalist journals. ​
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Citation based rankings sourced from SCImago, (n.d.). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Retrieved from http://www.scimagojr.com & Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), (n.d.). SNIP Journal Indicators. Retrieved from https://www.journalindicators.com/downloads