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Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics
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Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Economics and Finance 336 12 14 7
Business and Management 700 4 4 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 17
Documents by Best Scientists*: 18
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.729
Impact Factor: 2.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics?

The concepts of Accounting, Corporate governance, Earnings, Audit and Monetary economics are tackled in the journal. It holds forums on Accounting that merges themes from other disciplines such as Incentive, Finance and Shareholder. Presentations on Corporate governance include those discussing Executive compensation and Agency cost.

The studies in Earnings featured incorporate elements of Quality (business), Econometrics, Financial economics and Equity (finance). The in-depth study on Audit also explores topics in the intersecting field of Actuarial science. The journal explores research in Monetary economics and the adjacent study of Tax avoidance.

Chief audit executive and Audit evidence are all topics related to Joint audit research discussed. The Chief audit executive research discussed is included in the broader subject of Internal audit. Issues in Audit evidence were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Audit plan and Information technology audit.

  • Accounting (97.66%)
  • Corporate governance (23.05%)
  • Earnings (21.88%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Corporate Governance and Firm Performance in Iran (302 citations)
  • Is Comprehensive Income Useful (147 citations)
  • The impact of IFRS adoption on the value relevance of book value and earnings (129 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics:

The published articles focus on Accounting, Corporate governance, Independence, Audit and Accrual. The journal publications investigate Accounting research which frequently intersects with Shareholder. The published papers with studies in Corporate governance featured incorporate elements of Stakeholder and Financial structure.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Finance
  • Accounting
  • Psychology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics mostly deals with topics like Accounting, Incentive, Earnings, Corporate governance and Corporate social responsibility. Accounting research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Audit. Topics in Incentive were tackled in line with various other fields like Insider trading, Insider, Institutional investor and Systematic risk.

It explores research in Earnings alongside concepts in Conservatism and other areas of study in Quality (business) and Earnings quality. Religiosity, Investment (macroeconomics), Investment decisions and Labour economics are some topics wherein Corporate governance research discussed in it have an impact. In addition to Corporate social responsibility research, the journal aims to explore topics under Institution and Social responsibility.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Managerial ability and accounting conservatism (4 citations)
  • Does environmental information disclosure mitigate corporate risk? Evidence from China (2 citations)
  • Do co-opted boards increase insider profitability? (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Grant Richardson (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Zoltan Matolcsy (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wen Qu (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Paul A. Griffin (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ahsan Habib (6 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Curtin University (17 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Deakin University (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Technology, Sydney (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Monash University (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Massey University (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 40.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.00% of all publications and 30.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • The relationship between a firm’s information environment and its cash holding decision

    Peter Clarkson;Peter Clarkson;Ru Gao;Kathleen Herbohn

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Did mandatory CSR compliance impact accounting Conservatism? Evidence from the Indian Companies Act 2013

    Tara Shankar Shaw;Mehul Raithatha;Gopal V. Krishnan;James J. Cordeiro

    (2021)
    26 Citations
  • Financial statement comparability and bank risk-taking

    Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Adrian Cheung;Grantley Taylor

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Social capital and payout policies

    Mostafa Monzur Hasan;Ahsan Habib

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Workforce environment and audit fees: International evidence

    Xuan Sean Sun;Ahsan Habib;Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan

    (2020)
    16 Citations

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