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Vol 5 No 1 (2020): International Journal of Accounting & Finance Review
Vol. 5, No. 1, June, 2020: [In Progress]

 

Published: 2020-01-06

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International Journal of Accounting & Finance Review

International Journal of Accounting & Finance Review (IJAFR) ) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal for accounting & finance academics.

Aims & Scope

The subject areas include, but are not limited to the following fields:

  • Taxation
  • Corporate Finance
  • Personal Finance
  • Financial Risk Management
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • International Financial Reporting Standards
  • Public Sector Accounting and Auditing
  • Corporate Governance, Audit Expectation Gap
  • Market for Audit Services
  • Determinants of Job Satisfaction of Accounting Academics
  • Determinants of Various Disclosures in Company Annual Reports
  • Earnings Management
  • Auditing Standards
  • Accounting Information Systems
  • Auditing
  • Banking
  • Business and Project Valuation
  • Banking Structure Reform
  • Business Cycles
  • Fluctuations 
  • Capital Budgeting
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Cost Accounting
  • Derivatives
  • Financial Innovation
  • Financial Statements Analysis
  • Fraud Management
  • Investment Management
  • Management Accounting
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Portfolio Management
  • Quantitative Methods in Finance
  • Banking, And Auditing
  • Real Options
  • Regulatory Framework
  • Risk Management
  • Stock Markets
  • Venture Capital
  • Working Capital Management
  • Information in Relation to Finance, Banking, Accounting and Business etc.

International Journal of Accounting & Finance Review currently has an acceptance rate of 10.25%. The average time between submission and final decision is 20 days and the average time between acceptance and publication is 30 days.

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Author Guidelines

1. Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors and typos.

2. Research papers should not exceed 8,000 words.

3. A separate title page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).

4. The first page of an article should contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words and a maximum of eight keywords.

5. Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.

6. All appendices should be numbered consecutively using uppercase roman numerals and shown after the list of references.

7. References should be cited within the text as follows: According to Wickremasinghe (2005), foreign exchange market … These results are inconsistent with those of other studies (Perera, 1995; Silva, 2000)

8. List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order and follow the style of APA

9. Author should register with the journal before submitting manuscripts.

10. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected manuscripts should be submitted, and the publication fee should be paid within 10 working days.

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Paper Selection and Publication Process

1. Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editor sends an E-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within 1-3 working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/e-mail may be missed. Please contact the Editor in time for that.

2. Peer review. We use 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. The review process may take 2-3 weeks.

3. Notification of the result of review by E-mail.

4. The authors revise paper and pay publication fee.

5. E-journal in PDF is available on the journal’s webpage, free of charge for download. We aim to post articles online within 3 weeks of acceptance.

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Open-access Policy

We follow the Gold Open Access way in journal publishing. This means that authors publish in the journals that provide immediate open access for readers to all articles on the publisher’s website. The readers pay nothing, while authors (or their institutions or funders) pay a publishing fee to maintain the journal operation.

All articles published are open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license.

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NOTE:

The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (https://www.turnitin.com).

All submissions will be checked by Turnitin before being sent to reviewers.

Keep a Similarity Index <20% and single-source matches are not >3%

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Statistics

2019Q2: Articles Received: 78; Accepted: 8; Rejected: 70; Published: 8; Retracted: 0

2019Q1: Articles Received: 29; Accepted: 6; Rejected: 23; Published: 6; Retracted: 0

2018Q3: Articles Received: 26; Accepted: 4; Rejected: 22; Published: 4; Retracted: 0

2018Q2: Articles Received: 25; Accepted: 2; Rejected: 23; Published: 2; Retracted: 0

2018Q1: Articles Received: 31; Accepted: 7; Rejected: 24; Published: 7; Retracted: 0

2017Q1: Articles Received: 30; Accepted: 5; Rejected: 25; Published: 5; Retracted: 0

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       Indexing/Ranking Under Process In:--

  • SCOPUS
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • ERA(Excellence in Research for Australia)
  • VHB-JOURQUAL (Category C)
  • ESSEC Rankings of Journals
  • SHERPA/RoMEO
  • IBSS (ProQuest's List)
  • The Association of Business Schools' (ABS) Academic Journal Guide
  • The Chartered Association of Business Schools' (CABS) Academic Journal Guide
  • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business journal ranking (AACSB) (USA)
  • University of Sydney Business School Journal Rankings List (Australia)
  • Journal Factor
  • International Journal Research Citation Index (IJRCI)
  • Microsoft Academic Example
  • International journal impact factor (IJIF)
  • BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
  • CNKI Scholar
  • IARC Impact Factor
  • ResearcherID
  • EndNote
  • JournalSeek
  • Saif Scholars Impact
  • International Society for Research Activity (ISRA)
  • AcademicKeys
  • Anoox
  • Academic-journal-index
  • Live Journal
  • SJI-Factor
  • International Journal Impact Factor
  • ANVUR journal list (Italy)
  • AIDEA list (Italian Academy of Business Administration)
  • NSD Database (Norway)
  • SIDREA (Italy)
  • Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Germany)
  • ZBW economic journal list (Germany)
  • EconBiz (Germany)
  • BASE (Germany)
  • European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) (Norway)
  • EconLit (American Economic Association, USA)
  • Pubindex (Colombia)
  • List of Journals recommended by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
  • EconStor (Germany)
  • Dimensions (Altmetric) (UK)
  • Qualis (Brazil)
  • Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN)

      IJAFR is Indexing Under Process  in the digital libraries of the following world’s universities and centers:--      

  • EBSCO
  • ProQuest Pharma Collection (ProQuest)
  • Bielefeld University Library (Germany)
  • German National Library of Science and Technology
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Open Science in Europe
  • Open Science MOOC, Berlin, Germany
  • British Library
  • Federal Science Library (Canada)