| Contemporary Accounting Research | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | Contemp. Account. Res. |
| Discipline | Accounting |
| Language | English, French |
| Edited by | Steven Salterio |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication history | 1984-present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Impact factor (2010) |
1.735 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0823-9150 (print) 1911-3846 (web) |
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Contemporary Accounting Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all aspects of accounting's role within organizations, markets, or society. The journal publishes articles in all areas of accounting, (including audit, financial, information systems, managerial and tax), using relevant methods (including but not limited to analytical, archival, case study, empirical, experimental, or field); based on economics, finance, history, psychology, sociology, or any cognate disciplines.
Contemporary Accounting Research is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association. The current editor is Steven E. Salterio from Queen's University. It is listed as one of the 45 journals used by the Financial Times to compile its business-school research ranks.[1] In 2010, according to the Journal Citation Reports, it had a 2010 impact factor of 1.735, ranking it 11th out of 74 journals in the category "Business/Finance".