La Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad cumple en 2022 sus 50 años

Abstract

The Spanish Journal of Financing and Accounting (REFC) was created in 1972 at the initiative of the Accounting Department of the Autonomous University of Madrid; AECA took over the journal in 1985 and, starting in the 1990s, international practices were adopted that affected the Editorial Board and the evaluation of the manuscripts received. On the occasion of the 2003 EAA Congress in Seville, issue 115 of the REFC was published entirely in English and its name was supplemented with that of the Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (REFC/SJFA); in 2007 it obtained recognition from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and, in 2008, from the Web of Science -Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), with mention in 2010 in the Journal of Citation Report (JCR); also in Scopus in 2010. The internationalization process undertaken is encouraged by the publication of the journal by Routledge, starting in 2014, which meant a significant increase in the number of manuscripts received, its wide dissemination in the international media and of the regular and systematic use of instruments for measuring the quality of the journal. Reference is made to the bibliometric studies on the REFC/SJFA and to the Conferences, Symposiums and Congresses that it promotes or in which it participates.