Journal Rankings, Collaborative Research and Publication Strategies: Evidence from China

Hussain, Simon; Liu, Lana; Wang, Yue; Zuo, Ling-yan

doi:10.1080/09639284.2015.1037776

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“…Cross-border cooperation connects researchers with different sets of talents from different institutions or different countries to produce a research output (Kumar and Jan, 2013). To illustrate, when conducting international projects where researchers from a single country do not have full knowledge of business practices within other countries, international collaboration would make it easier for them to address country-specific issues (Hussain et al , 2015). Further, since English is globally accepted language of scientific research, scholars from Anglophone countries (e.g.…”

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Network analysis in accounting research: an institutional and geographical perspective

Uyar

Kılıç

Köseoğlu

2020

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PurposeThe objective of this study is to explore the accounting research network among institutions and countries globally and to contribute to the knowledge development in accounting discipline across regions with a novel and original approach.Design/methodology/approachThis study has been conducted by manually collecting data from 10,863 papers published in 22 accounting journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) for the period 2000–2016. Analyses and visualizations of collaborative networks across institutions and regions were performed by using network analysis software packages, including Pajek, UCINET 6, NetDraw and VOSviewer.FindingsThe study finds that the most productive five universities are the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Texas, University of California and University of Manchester worldwide. In accordance with the institution ranking, the five most productive countries in all periods are the USA, the UK, Australia, Spain and Canada. However, in addition to these countries, it is important to note that some European and Asian countries and New Zealand from Oceania are among the most productive countries which host prolific institutions. Furthermore, network indicators show that the UK is the most influential actor in centrality and brokerage within the research network. We should note that Australia is also among the most influential nations with its influential institutions. In all research metrics, the dominance of Anglophone countries (e.g. the USA, the UK and Australia) is observable on which language advantage might play a role since most internationally accredited journals publish scientific articles in English.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is bounded with several main limitations. First, due to collecting the data manually, there might be some inherent limitations. Second, the study is constrained by the time frame between 2000 and 2016. The study does not answer why and how questions in investigating research productivity and effectiveness in the network. Our study might inspire new studies to complement ours by considering these constraints.Practical implicationsOur findings indicated the prominent institution-wide and country-wide actors; thus, the results provide a global perspective on the collaboration network. Second, our findings guide job seekers, who are particularly research-oriented, to potential recruiters around the world both at the institution level and country level. Third, the results might play an important role in forming institution-based and country-based research policies. The USA, among others, is a particularly important actor in productivity, whereas the UK, among others, is a remarkable country in centrality and brokerage in the research network. By examining the policies of these two countries, other nations might shape their research strategies, promotion policies and support and reward schemes. Fourth, cross-institution and in particular cross-country collaborations are imperative in the diversity of accounting research as they blend culturally diverse researchers. Fifth, prominent institutions highlighted in this study might be adopted as role models by other institutions in the same country and benefit their expertise in productivity and cooperation by scrutinizing their approaches. Sixth, our findings and metrics might be adopted as benchmarks for institutions and nations for performance evaluation. Considering our 5-year period indicators, institutions can set targets for their improvement and for measuring the progress. We provide other important implications in the conclusion section of the study.Originality/valueTo the best knowledge of the authors, no study yet investigated the collaboration across academic institutions, regions, and countries in accounting discipline to this extent. Therefore, our research provides a significant contribution to the literature by seeking a comprehensive network analysis of authorship patterns from an institutional and geographical perspective. Doing so, we contribute to knowledge development in accounting discipline with institutional and geographical network analyses.

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Network analysis in accounting research: an institutional and geographical perspective

Uyar

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2020

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“…Reinstein and Calderon () identify a number of reasons for studies focused on research productivity. In particular, they note that productivity rankings can be used in career decisions such as merit, tenure and promotion (see also Hussain, Liu, Wang, and Zuo, ; Moore, ); and rankings can be used to help benchmark research productivity standards. Research productivity literature may also be helpful to accounting academics in exposing them to journals outside the mainstream, and thus may suggest other publication outlets to them.…”

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“…: 459), potentially impairing innovation in accounting research (ibid. ; Hussain et al., ; Northcott and Linacre, ; McGuigan, ; Sangster, ). Therefore, we also go beyond the list of top‐10 journals to assess other categories of available outlets.…”

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Productivity in Top‐10 Academic Accounting Journals by Researchers at Canadian Universities at the Start of the 21st Century

Bujaki

McConomy

2017

Accounting Perspectives

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We assess the research publication productivity of Canadian‐based accounting researchers in highly ranked accounting journals for the 2001–13 period. Our research provides important benchmarks for use by individual researchers and universities for matters such as promotion and tenure decisions. For example, each Canadian‐based faculty member had approximately 0.50 of a weighted article for the 13‐year period, and 45 percent of all accounting faculty members published at least once in a top‐10 accounting journal. We also provide an overview of the type of research being published by Canadian‐based researchers in each of the top‐10 journals (financial accounting, managerial, audit, tax or other) and we assess how productivity at top‐10 journals has changed over time. In supplemental analysis, we compare and contrast the productivity of the 15 male and 15 female academics that publish most in top‐10 accounting journals to assess the breadth of outlets being used beyond top‐10 outlets (including FT 45 journals, accounting journals ranked “A”, “B”, and “non‐A/B”; non‐accounting peer‐reviewed journals, non‐peer‐reviewed outlets). The supplemental analysis also helps to shed light on the finding from this paper, and prior research, that women are less likely to be represented on lists of those with most publications in highly ranked accounting journals, by comparing the two groups of researchers across a variety of institutional and other factors.

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“…En la presente década, se destacan por su nivel de impacto en el campo de la educación contable un trabajo con encuestas a un grupo de estudiantes de pregrado, para ver los avances en la aplicación del enfoque pedagógico de "aprendizaje activo" (Irving, 2011), y otro donde se encuestó a profesores chinos y británicos para identificar la fricción entre ellos por los diferentes criterios que tienen sus instituciones para clasificar las revistas contables científicas (Hussain, Liu, Wang, Zuo, & Lingyan, 2015). En todos estos trabajos los investigadores colombianos pueden encontrar detalles sobre cómo se llevan a cabo ese tipo de investigaciones y, especialmente, como se controlan las debilidades de las encuestas como método en este entorno particular.…”

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Oportunidades para la investigación contable en Colombia

Macías¹,

Fuentes²

2020

Temas Y Métodos De Investigación en Negocios, Administración, Mercadeo Y Contaduría

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El objetivo de este capítulo es proponer lineamientos para investigaciones contables futuras que les permita a los investigadores colombianos publicar en revistas internacionales indexadas en Scopus. Para esto, se abordaron tres subcampos de la contabilidad: la auditoría, la educación contable y la tributación. En ellos se identificó el estado actual de las discusiones, las preguntas de investigación que continúan abiertas, las características de los trabajos que se publican, los enfoques, los métodos utilizados y las oportunidades para investigaciones realizadas en economías emergentes. Además de proponer estudios en estos tres campos, en este texto se presentan fuentes en las que se pueden encontrar mayores detalles temáticos y metodológicos para cada campo como también posibilidades de publicación.

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Journal Rankings, Collaborative Research and Publication Strategies: Evidence from China

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Network analysis in accounting research: an institutional and geographical perspective

Network analysis in accounting research: an institutional and geographical perspective

Productivity in Top‐10 Academic Accounting Journals by Researchers at Canadian Universities at the Start of the 21st Century

Oportunidades para la investigación contable en Colombia

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