An International Meeting of the American Accounting Association American Accounting Association 2006 Annual Meeting August 6–9, 2006 Washington, D.C.

Rebecca T. Shortridge
Northern Illinois University

C. Michele Matherly
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Abstract: Research productivity is critical to success in academics. Most often productivity has been captured by publication counts or publication counts weighted by quality. Identifying the quality of publication outlets has generally been accomplished through faculty perceptions or citation analysis. One of the primary weaknesses of both quality measures to date is the small number of journals ranked in relationship to the number of journals utilized as research outlets. The purpose of this project is threefold. First, we develop a model that can be used to estimate journal quality rankings. Second, we apply our model to estimate quality rankings for more than 200 journals. Finally, we present updated descriptive information about accounting faculty publications.

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