You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Problems with Journal Rankings

Autor/in	Sangster, Alan
Titel	You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Problems with Journal Rankings
Quelle	In: Accounting Education, 24 (2015) 3, S.175-186 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-9284
DOI	10.1080/09639284.2015.1055929
Schlagwörter	Periodicals; Accounting; Reputation; Academic Freedom; Faculty Publishing; College Faculty; Research Reports; Educational Researchers; Finance Occupations; Audits (Verification); Taxes; Administration; Business Administration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Akademische Freiheit; Fakultät; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Finanzbuchhalter; Abgabe; Verwaltung; Business economics; Betriebswirtschaft
Abstract	Journal rankings lists have impacted and are impacting accounting educators and accounting education researchers around the world. Nowhere is the impact positive. It ranges from slight constraints on academic freedom to admonition, censure, reduced research allowances, non-promotion, non-short-listing for jobs, increased teaching loads, and re-designation as a non-researcher, all because the chosen research specialism of someone "who was vocationally motivated to become a teacher of accounting" is, ironically, accounting education. University managers believe that these journal ranking lists show that accounting faculty publish top-quality research on accounting regulation, financial markets, business finance, auditing, international accounting, management accounting, taxation, accounting in society, and more, but not on what they do in their "day job"--teaching accounting. These same managers also believe that the journal ranking lists indicate that accounting faculty do not publish top-quality research in accounting history and accounting systems. And they also believe that journal ranking lists show that accounting faculty write top-quality research in education, history, and systems, but only if they publish it in specialist journals that do not have the word "accounting" in their title, or in mainstream journals that do. Tarring everyone with the same brush because of the journal in which they publish is inequitable. We would not allow it in other walks of life. It is time the discrimination ended. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01