Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Aims

International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting (IJAFR) aims to promote rigorous international scholarship and strengthen understanding of how accounting and reporting practices influence organizational transparency, financial decision-making, governance, and accountability in an evolving global business environment. The journal provides an international platform for researchers, accounting professionals, auditors, and scholars to examine how financial information is prepared, interpreted, regulated, and communicated to stakeholders across different institutional and business environments.

Focus and Scope

IJAFR welcomes theoretical, empirical, and applied research addressing a broad range of accounting and financial reporting issues, including but not limited to:

• Financial accounting and reporting
• Management accounting
• Auditing and assurance
• Corporate disclosure and transparency
• Corporate finance and banking
• Accounting standards and regulation
• Earnings quality and measurement research
• Corporate governance and internal control
• Public sector and nonprofit accounting
• Comparative and international financial reporting
• Tax accounting and corporate taxation
• Financial reporting and capital markets
• Emerging Issues in Accounting Research

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors' identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission.

 

Publication Frequency

Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Indexing

CNKI Scholar

EconBiz

Electronic Journals Library

Google Scholar

Index Copernicus

JournalTOCs

LOCKSS

Open J-Gate

PKP Open Archives Harvester

SHERPA/RoMEO

The Standard Periodical Directory

Ulrich's Periodical Directory

Worldcat

ZBW – German National Library of Economics


 

Special Issue Proposals

To foster academic collaboration and advance scholarly research, we welcome special issue proposals from scholars, researchers, and academic or research institutions. Those interested in organizing a special issue are invited to submit their inquiries and proposals to the journal’s editorial office via email: ijafr@macrothink.org

 

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses Crossref Similarity Check to screen for unoriginal submissions. Authors should be aware that their submissions will be submitted to Crossref Similarity Check prior to the peer-review process.