Journal of Accounting Research

The Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) is a leading peer-reviewed academic journal associated with the University of Chicago. It was established in 1963 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Chookaszian Accounting Research Center (Formerly the Institute of Professional Accounting) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Journal of Accounting Research

Discipline	Accounting, auditing, taxation, economics,finance, business
Language	English
Edited by	Philip G. Berger, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz, Valeri Nikolaev, Haresh Sapra, Rodrigo Verdi, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Publication details
History	1963-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell for the Chookaszian Accounting Research Center at the Booth School of Business
Frequency	5/year
Impact factor	4.4 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Account. Res.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0021-8456 (print) 1475-679X (web)
JSTOR	jaccorese
OCLC no.	499769796
Links
Journal homepage

JAR publishes original research in all areas of accounting and topics including finance, economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology. Research typically uses analytical, empirical archival, experimental, or field study methods. Questions pertain to information and measurement used in organizations, markets, governments, regulation and standards; often arising in financial reporting, disclosure, internal accounting, auditing, taxation, corporate governance, capital markets, law, contracting, and with respect to the accounting profession.

Its current senior editors are Philip G. Berger, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz, Valeri Nikolaev, Haresh Sapra, Rodrigo Verdi, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman. The editorial manager is Lisa M. Heiberger.

It is listed as one of the 50 journals used by the Financial Times to compile its business-school research ranks[1] and Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 20 Journals.[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has a 2022 impact factor of 4.4, ranking it 28 out of 111 journals in the category "Business, Finance".[3]