Accounting, Organizations and Society

Aims & Scope

Accounting, Organizations & Society is a leading international interdisciplinary journal concerned with the relationships among accounting and human behaviour, organizational and institutional structures and processes, and the wider socio-political environment of the enterprise.

It aims to challenge and extend our understanding of the roles of accounting and related emergent and calculative practices in the construction of economic and societal actors, and their modes of economic organizing, including ways in which such practices influence and are influenced by the development of market and other infrastructures.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.118

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

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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 Business, Management and Accounting, Decision Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, 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 “new public management” in the 1980s: Variations on a theme

  Citation: 2277

  Authors: Christopher

• Revisiting the relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: An empirical analysis

  Citation: 2188

  Authors: Peter M., Yue, Gordon D., Florin P.

• Management control systems design within its organizational context: findings from contingency-based research and directions for the future

  Citation: 1716

  Authors: Robert H

• Determinants of corporate social responsibility disclosure: An application of stakeholder theory

  Citation: 1481

  Authors: Robin W.

• The role of environmental disclosures as tools of legitimacy: A research note

  Citation: 1297

  Authors: Charles H., Dennis M.

• The relations among environmental disclosure, environmental performance, and economic performance: a simultaneous equations approach

  Citation: 1295

  Authors: Sulaiman A, Theodore E, K.E

• Managing Public Impressions: Environmental Disclosures in Annual Reports

  Citation: 1194

  Authors: D, H, K

• The roles of accounting in organizations and society

  Citation: 1140

  Authors: Stuart, Colin, Anthony, John, Janine

• The relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: a research note

  Citation: 1058

  Authors: Dennis M.

• Accounting and the construction of the governable person

  Citation: 1049

  Authors: Peter, Ted

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