I use a new approach to rank journals, namely the number and percent frequency of articles a journal publishes that are heavily downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). I rank 18 accounting and finance journals, and I identify five journals not considered by the two most...

This study utilizes the Accounting Research Directory to identify influential articles and individuals. Influence is defined in terms of cites per year by five leading accounting journals. The top 100 articles are identified, and the 26 papers defined as classics am content analyzed to determine...

We examine the affiliation performance and publication performance of 1991-1997 accounting Ph.D. graduates. We define affiliation performance as whether or not an individual is employed at a school with an accounting program ranked by Trieschmann et al. (Academy of Management Journal...