Topics and trends in finance research: What is published,who publishes it and what gets cited?

In this study we provide a detailed examination of the subject matter of finance research and its institutional features as it has evolved over the past two decades. Drawing on novel approaches from data science, we examine the content of more than 30,000 published papers. Overall, we find a striking lack of diversity in the topics investigated and the methodological approaches used. Almost all finance research is conducted using techniques from economics and mathematics, with virtually no use made of qualitative methods or interdisciplinary approaches. Looking at the developments of the discipline over time, we document an increase in the volume of corporate finance research and a variation in the topics covered following the financial crisis, although these changes appear to be reactive and trivial rather than paradigm shifts. We also provide a cartography of research in finance and its citation-based impact by the location of authors. Leading finance research is concentrated in elite US institutions, and has a disproportionately strong citation-based impact. Compared with other business and management sub-fields, citations in finance are heavily skewed towards the top journals as the latter generate almost twice as much impact as the lower rated outlets.     

Revisiting the standing of international business journals in the competitive landscape

Journal rankings are contentious, proliferating and bring about a significant change to research productivity and quality assessment. In this paper, we assess the quality and impact of International Business (IB) journals in relation to each other and management and business journals more broadly. In so doing, we overcome methodological limitations of previous journal rankings by adopting a novel approach that incorporates a worldwide meta-ranking. Its key advantage is the ability to look at the standing of journals both within and between subject-areas. Comparisons between subject areas are important because centralization of resource allocation decisions within institutions has ramifications for disciplines and staff involved. Results indicate that within the IB domain, JIBS continues to top the list, JWB has solidified its position and joined the upper tier of IB journals, the space below JIBS and JWB is increasingly contested, pointing to the emergence of a multi-tier set of “core” IB journals. In the wider competitive landscape of management and business journals, IB journals perform well in the upper tier, but there is a long tail of IB journals at the lower end of our meta-ranking.     

高职学报论文题名图表等撰写常见问题实例分析

根据学报编排规范,结合工作实践,针对作者在科技论文撰写中存在的格式不规范问题,从论文题名、关键词、层次标题、图表等方面的编排要求、常见问题进行论述,并结合实例进行深入分析,提出具体修改建议. 对作者在规范撰写科技论文方面具有重要参考意义.     

我国期刊运营模式现状及创新分析

探讨期刊的经营模式、盈利模式以及经营运作方式,旨在为期刊特别是科技学术期刊的经营者提供借鉴。在传统的经营模式还没有淡出人们视野的时候,新的盈利模式又层出不穷。随着科技进步、高度市场经济化以及新闻报刊出版业的体制改革,给广大期刊经营者既带来机遇又带来挑战。结合自身实际情况,找准生存与发展新的切入点,是当前办刊人必须思考的重要议题。     

中国环境会计研究：历史、现状与未来——基子《会计研究》发表的环境会计论文的实证分析与理论评述

本文通过封1995—2005年发表在《会计研究》上的环境会计论文的分析，揭示了中国环境会计研究的历史轨迹和现状。结果表明：十年来学术界对环境会计领域的研究重视不够；2001年底环境会计专题研讨会的召开掀起了2002年的研究高潮；目前的环境会计研究取得了一定成果，但仍处于初期探索阶段，存在研究视角不清、专业术语混用、实证研究相对缺乏、环境管理会计领域的研究比较薄弱等问题。最后对未来的努力方向提出了建议。     

The demise of the ARC journal ranking scheme: an ex post analysis of the accounting and finance journals

The recent abolition of the ARC journal ranking scheme is indicative of some problematical features of journal ranking in general and the ARC scheme in particular. An alternative citation‐based ranking scheme is applied to the accounting and finance journals to highlight some loopholes in the abandoned ARC scheme and provide some suggestions for how to proceed with ERA 2012. By re‐ranking journals according to their citation indices, it is demonstrated that the ARC ranking placed a large number of journals where they do not belong. As a result, the ARC scheme induced some adverse behavioural changes with respect to preferred publication outlets.     

Revealed reader preference for marketing journals

In this paper we assess the reading preference for marketing journals by deriving a journal utility scale based on click responses to table of contents postings to the ELMAR virtual community. Use of ELMAR data provides a unique window into journal importance, allowing us to look at table of contents reading behavior rather than citing behavior or attitudinal constructs as has been the case in previous studies. At the time of the study, there were more than 5,100 ELMAR subscribers, easily making this the largest journal ranking study ever undertaken. The external validity of our sample is high since ELMAR subscribers include a high percentage of the population of those interested in scholarly research in marketing. Our results are based on actual choice behavior of subscribers as they simply decide what tables of contents to read. The list of journals included in the study contains 165 different titles posted during the study period, which spanned a year. During that period there were multiple issues posted of these 165 journals, resulting in a replicated field study with high reliability. In fact, our journal reading utility measurement yielded a model with an R² value of .95. We use this model to suggest ways that researchers might come to a richer understanding of the journal consumption process.     

发挥地域优势,构建特色栏目

地方高校学报在激烈的竞争中要占有一席之地,就要有自己的特色和优势,走特色化的道路。同时,地方高校学报要设自己的特色栏目,突出地方特色和学科优势,尤其要发挥地方区域优势,很多学报的特色栏目都是与地方文化相关的。做到以特色栏目带动学报的发展,从而为地方的政治、经济、文化服务。     

A Journal of Retailing Retrospective Based on ISI Web of Knowledge

In this article, we attempt two things. First, we begin with reviewing the three principal ways by which academic institutions make their quality assessments regarding different journals. We conclude this section with an assertion that citation-based measures of journal influence are the “most objective.” Second, we review the history of Journal of Retailing (from 1956 Issue 1 to 2009 Issue 2) using citation counts as a surrogate for quality assessment using the citation data contained in the ISI Web of Knowledge database.² We conclude with noting the recent impressive scores of the Journal of Retailing in terms of these citation scores and a discussion of what we perceive to be the next set of challenges for the Journal of Retailing.     

Management Accounting Research: 20 years on

This Editorial Report charts the progress of Management Accounting Research in its second decade. Starting by noting that in 2009 there were almost a quarter of a million downloads of papers from Management Accounting Research, it describes the range and diversity of the papers published in the Journal, their topics, research settings, and the theories and research methods used. It emphasises that the editors strongly encourage the use of a broad range of theories and research methods, and they want such diversity to continue to be a defining feature of the papers published in Management Accounting Research in the future. Finally, they urge management accounting researchers to undertake innovative research and to be both original and creative, thereby avoiding the homogeneity and narrowness which seem to be an increasing feature of accounting research more generally. In this way Management Accounting Research will continue to be the major source of leading edge research in the field of management accounting.