The Social Structure of Communication in Major Accounting Research Journals^*

Collaboration networks in accounting research

“…We should note, however, that our results on intellectual partnership are sensitive to the topical focus and the theoretical framework of the published research that we investigate: e.g. Bonner et al (2012) studied the same Journals as we do and discovered that − citation-based − intellectual communication between accounting scholars is diverse across, e.g., auditing, managerial accounting and economics-based financial accounting.…”

“…The analysis of collaboration networks can shed light on some aspects of the structure of accounting academia; it can illuminate the interaction between accounting scholars, uncovering the central authors in the network and employing cohesion measures to assess the dispersion and the diversity of accounting researchers. While previous scientometric research in accounting has employed social network analysis in the context of citations and accounting Ph.D. committees (Wakefield 2008;Bonner, Hesford, Van der Sted, & Young, 2012;Casanueva & Larrinaga 2013), the social networks between coauthors in accounting have yet to be investigated.…”

Accounting Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

“…Some other authors analysed the information by publication count such as the paper by Heck and Bremser (1986) focusing on TAR and Watts (1998) on JAE. Other papers have analysed the quality of accounting journals in order to establish a ranking that permits the classification of journals from very high quality to lower quality (Bonner et al 2006(Bonner et al , 2012. Under this framework, Lowe and Locke (2005) developed a survey of British accounting academics in order to establish the quality of the journals.…”

International Collaboration in Auditing Research: A Note

“…This paper focuses on international collaborations in auditing research. Auditing is an academic community which is characterized by prolific research production, methodological diversity, increasing impact, and rapid growth in the population of active scholars (e.g., Stephens et al ., ; Bonner et al ., ); moreover, the principles and practices of the audit profession share substantial similarities across different national contexts (e.g., Dunn ; Buisman & Guilmour, 2008; Humphrey, Loft, & Woods, ). For all these reasons, the international community of auditing scholars constitutes an important case of the interaction between auditing scholars, across diverse countries, regulatory settings and markets.…”