Financial Accountability and Management

Aims & Scope

Financial Accountability & Management is a leading international academic journal, publishing new thinking and research in the financial accountability, accounting, and financial and resource management of all types of governmental and other non-profit organizations and services.

Interdisciplinary in approach, the journal includes contributions from economics, political science, social and public administration, and management sciences, as well as accounting and finance.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.6
2024	3.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6154

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3529

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.855

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	54

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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 and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 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 NPM AGENDA: BACK TO THE FUTURE

  Citation: 322

  Authors: Irvine

• Application of Accrual Accounting in the Australian Public Sector – Rhetoric or Reality

  Citation: 292

  Authors: James

• Performance Management in the Public Sector: The Ultimate Challenge

  Citation: 252

  Authors: Michela, Irvine, Ileana

• Accounting and the New Public Management: Instruments of Substantive Efficiency or a Rationalising Modernity?

  Citation: 239

  Authors: Irvine

• Debating Developments in New Public Financial Management: The Limits of Global Theorising and Some New Ways Forward

  Citation: 220

  Authors: James, Olov, Christopher

• The Knowledge Worker, the Manager‐academic and the Contemporary UK University: New and Old Forms of Public Management?

  Citation: 191

  Authors: Rosemary

• Performance Measurement Myths in the Public Sector: A Research Note

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Sven

• INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING LITERATURE: A REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

  Citation: 164

  Authors: Sven

• Digitalization, accounting and accountability: A literature review and reflections on future research in public services

  Citation: 164

  Authors: Deborah, Iris, Ileana

• Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement

  Citation: 142

  Authors: Liisa, Peter

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