Incidents of research misconduct, especially falsification, in the hard sciences and medicine have been widely reported. Motives for misconduct include professional advancement and personal recognition. Accounting academics are under the same tenure, promotion, and recognition pressures as other...

The authors have developed, and intend to maintain indefinitely, a current database of articles published in Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting and its predecessor, Research on Accounting Ethics. Authors of all articles in volumes 1 (1995) through 13 (2008) were...

Many research and authorship practices are debatable or poorly understood. Our purpose was to capture the attitudes and understandings of accounting researchers, especially for discussion in doctoral seminars, and to advance the discussion of research ethics throughout the academic community. We...