Journal Lists and Steps to Develop Them

• In Event: Public Interest 3

Abstract

For over a decade the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) member schools have often compared their faculties’ research records to journal lists of their “peer and aspirational” programs. To examine faculty perceptions of journal quality, prior research has surveyed faculty members or administrators, measured the number of downloads of the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), or “counted” faculty publications. We aim to extend this literature in two ways. First, we identify a set of quality-classified (i.e., A+, A, A-, B, and C) journal lists using a sample of 38 nationally ranked, urban, granting and non-granting of doctoral degrees in accounting and other types of accounting programs—from which we derive a classified list of 359 journals. Second, we describe the steps that a case study that an accounting program used to revise its old journal list. Our results should help accounting programs develop or revise their own ranked journal lists—either by adapting our lists or performing their own studies to derive similar lists.

Authors

• Alan Reinstein, Wayne State University

• Mohammad J Abdolmohammadi, Bentley University