Accounting Institution Citation-Based Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology

What is it about?

We create citation-based ranking of accounting research based on topic and method. We furthered prior research by aggregating rankings over the past six, 12, and since 1990 year ranges. Credit for research is only given to institutions whose authors still work for them. The rankings are computed by common topics in accounting journals namely: AIS, audit, financial, managerial, and tax. These research rankings are furthermore disaggregated by their method of research, i.e. analytical, archival, and experimental. We show that the citation-based and count-based rankings can vary. Rankings are kept up-to-date at http://www.byuaccounting.net/rankings/univrank/rankings.php.

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Why is it important?

The data presented in this papers show that there is evidence that both citation-based and count-based rankings are valuable in evaluating research productivity. It is primarily of value to faculty and institutions wishing to evaluate researcher value. It is also of value to pre-doctoral students wishing to gain an understanding of current and past research rankings. Additionally it may be beneficial to pre-doctoral students who want to know which universities are publishing in top-tier journals regularly.