Accounting, Organizations and Society


Accounting, Organizations and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. Its editors-in-chief are Marcia Annisette, Mark E. Peecher, and Keith Robson. The journal focuses on the relationships between accounting and both human behaviour and organizations' structures, processes, social, and political environments: that is, relationships among accounting, organizations, and society.

History

The journal was established in 1975 by the late Anthony Hopwood, who subsequently took an active role as editor through promoting conferences and releasing editorial statements that helped to identify emerging areas of accounting research. Hopwood and colleagues defined the programmatic aims of the journal in its early years. Following Hopwood's retirement at the end of 2009, Christopher Chapman was appointed editor-in-chief, serving from the beginning of 2010 until 2015, when Keith Robson took on the role. Robson served as sole editor-in-chief until the appointment of Peecher and Annisette as co-editors-in-chief in September 2018.

Reception

The journal is reputed to publish high quality and innovative research work. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.077. It is among the 50 journals used to compile the "Financial Times Research Rank". It is also included in the highest rank of academic journals by the Australian Business Deans Council. According to a 2006 meta-analysis of studies of accounting journals, the journal was at the time one of the five accounting journals to be consistently ranked as top accounting journals.
According to Google Scholar, the most cited articles are:

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, RePEc, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.