The Journal of Accounting Research 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 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, finance, business
Language	English
Edited by	Philip G. Berger, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz, Haresh Sapra, Douglas J. Skinner, Rodrigo Verdi, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Publication details
History	1963-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell for the Accounting Research Center at the Booth School of Business
Frequency	5/year
Impact factor	4.891 (2018)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Account. Res.
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0021-8456 (print) 1475-679X (web)
JSTOR	jaccorese
OCLC no.	499769796
Links
Journal homepage

Its current senior editors are Philip G. Berger, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz, Haresh Sapra, Douglas J. Skinner, Rodrigo Verdi, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman.

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 2018 impact factor of 4.891, ranking it third out of 103 journals in the category "Business, Finance".^[3]