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Journal Lists and Steps to Develop Them

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations

ISBN: 978-1-78714-181-0, eISBN: 978-1-78714-180-3

Publication date: 6 March 2017

Abstract

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) member schools often compare their faculties’ research records to journal lists of their “peer and aspirational” programs. They often survey faculty and administrators’ perceptions of journal quality; number of Social Sciences Citation Index downloads; or “count” the number of faculty publications – but rarely analyze accounting programs’ actual journal quality lists. To examine this issue, we use a survey of national accounting programs. We identify a set of quality-classified journal lists by sampling 38 programs nationwide, varying by mission (e.g., urban or research), degrees granted (e.g., doctoral degrees in accounting), and national ranking (e.g., classified as a Top 75 Research Program) – from which we derive 1,436 data points that classify 359 journals that appear on these 38 programs’ journal lists. We also describe a case study that an accounting program used to revise its old journal list. We also find that while programs generally use generally accepted “bright lines” among the top three categories (A+, A, A−), they tailor their listings from the wide variety of B or C classified journals to create their own sets of acceptable journals in these categories. The study provides guidance and data for accounting programs who wish to develop or revise their own journal lists. While many studies have examined journal rankings, this is the first study to document the use of journal lists by accounting programs with a wide array of missions.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Mohammad Abdolmohammadi (Bentley University), Natalie Churyk (Northern Illinois University), Melvin Houston (Attorney at Law), Marty Leibowitz (Yeshiva University), Brigitte Muehlmann (Babson College), Jim Rebele (Robert Morris University), Arline Savage (University of Alabama-Birmingham), Dave Stout (Youngstown State University), Leah Woodall (Google), Greg Trompeter (University of Central Florida), and Omar Zeben (Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University) for their excellent comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.

Citation

Reinstein, A. and Apostolou, B. (2017), "Journal Lists and Steps to Develop Them", Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations (Advances in Accounting Education, Vol. 20), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 79-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1085-462220170000020005

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