About the Journal
Meditari Accountancy Research promotes better understanding of accountancy-related matters through research, encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary approaches, especially focused on the social impacts of accounting, sustainability accounting, CSR, and integrated reporting.
Submission information
Accepted manuscript types and word counts
- Research Paper — up to 9000 words
- Editorial — up to 3000 words
Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.
Reference style
Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.
Keywords
Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper. When you submit to the journal, you’ll be able to choose keywords that describe the main topics of your paper from a list of recommended keywords, or you can add your own.
Peer review type
Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.
Open access options
This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.
Accepted languages
This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.
Accepted submission files
Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.
Closes: 30th November 2026
This special issue explores accounting's role in measuring organisational impacts on, dependencies from, and the state of biodiversity, ecosystems, and species amid the global nature crisis.
Guest editor(s): Giacomo Pigatto, Jill Atkins, Lino Cinquini, John Dumay, Andrea Tenucci
Closes: 30th November 2026
This special issue aims to explore how equity and inclusion are understood, operate, and develop in the accounting field.
Guest editor(s): Maria Chiara Demartini, Nicholas McGuigan, Marisa Agostini, Valentina Beretta, Valerio Brescia, Sara Trucco
Closes: 1st December 2026
The issue explores AI's potential to enhance sustainability accounting and assurance while critically addressing risks like algorithmic bias, weakened human judgment, and evolving skills.
Guest editor(s): Carmen Olsen, Mercedes Luque-Vílchez, Sanjaya Chinthana Kuruppu
Closes: 31st January 2027
The special issue addresses conceptual and empirical issues of materiality in sustainability reporting, highlighting tensions between financial and impact perspectives under emerging international regulatory frameworks.
Guest editor(s): Salvatore Principale, Giuseppe Nicola, Rosa Lombardi, Joanna Krasodomska
Open access articles
Metrics snapshot
- 2025 Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate)
- 4.4
- Downloaded articles in the last 12 months
- 287677
Publication timeline
- Time to first decision
- 35.1 days
- Acceptance to publication
- 44 days
- Acceptance rate
- 8.6%
