Journal of Accounting Research


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 at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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 45 journals used by the Financial Times to compile its business-school research ranks and Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 20 Journals. 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".

Former Editors