Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Applied Finance and Accounting ( AFA ) will enable you to enhance and broaden knowledge in accounting and finance. In addition, AFA is pleased to publish original scholarly papers across the whole scope of accounting, finance and related subjects.

Publish researches and studies in these fields include, but not limited to, the following topic areas:
  • Accounting/Auditing
  • Asset Pricing
  • Banking and Market
  • Behavioural Finance
  • Controlling
  • Corporate Finance
  • Experimental Finance
  • Finance/Investment
  • Fiscality
  • Financial Accounting
  • International Accounting
  • Law and Finance
  • Management Accounting
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Monetary Policy
  • Tax Accounting
  • Public Finance
  • Public Administration
  • Personal Finance

 

 

 

 

 

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

2022-2024 Annual, published in August

2015-2021 Semiannual, published in February and August

 

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...

 

Index/List/Archive

 

Journal Metrics

1. h-index (December 2021): 10

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.

h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

2. i10-index (December 2021): 11

i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

3. h5-index (December 2021): N/A  

h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2016-2020 have at least h citations each.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics

4. h5-median (December 2021): N/A

h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics