Accounting History Review

Aims & Scope

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.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	0.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.345

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15278

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	32

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Business, Management and Accounting, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The evolution of internal audit research: a bibliometric analysis of published documents (1926–2016)

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Joel, Marc

• Fabio Besta: accounting thinker and accounting history pioneer

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Massimo, Stefania, Paolo

• Accounting for war risk costs: management accounting change at Guinness during the First World War

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Martin, William J.

• Accounting education in Britain during the early modern period

  Citation: 26

  Authors: John Richard

• An analysis of the role of a Chief Accountant at Guinness c. 1920–1940

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Martin R.W., Martin, Carmen

• ‘No French, no more’: language-based exclusion in North America's first professional accounting association, 1879–1927

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Crawford, Marion

• A review of the granators’ accounts of Durham Cathedral Priory 1294–1433: an early example of process accounting?

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Alisdair

• ‘The collector will call’: controlling philanthropy through the annual reports of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1837–1856

  Citation: 24

  Authors: William J.

• Professions and patriarchy revisited. Accountancy in England and Wales, 1887–1914

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Stephen P.

• The role of the state in the development of accounting in the Portuguese–Brazilian Empire, 1750–1822

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Lúcia Lima, Alan

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