Critical Perspectives on Accounting


Critical Perspectives on Accounting is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. The aim of the journal is to study how accounting works within society and to promote forms of accounting that are in the public interest. It was established in 1990 with David J. Cooper, and A.M. Tinker as founding editors-in-chief. They were succeeded in 2008 by Marcia Annisette, Christine Cooper, and Dean Neu. The current editors-in-chief are Jane Andrew, Christine Cooper, and Yves Gendron.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Accountants Index, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, EBSCO databases, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ProQuest databases, RePEc, Scopus, and Social Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.182.

Notable articles

According to Google Scholar, the most heavily cited articles are: