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Short Desciption: This study reports on publishing patterns in the UK and Irish accounting
Content Inside: Publishing Patterns within the UK Accounting and Finance Academic Community Beattie, V. and Goodacre, A. (2004) Publishing patterns within the UK Accounting Review http:eprints.gla.ac.ukarchive00000769 Glasgow ePrints Service http:eprints.gla.ac.uk Accounting Academic Community Vivien Beattie and Alan Goodacre University of Stirling Correspondence details Professor Vivien Beattie Accounting University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Tel. 01786 467306 Fax. 01786 467308 V.A.Beattie@stirling.ac.uk Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the Faculty of Management, University of Stirling, for awarding us a research grant to fund this project. We are grateful to Joanne Lello in particular for her assistance with data collection. Special thanks go to Elizabeth Davie for her advice and assistance in designing the Access database. Accounting Community ABSTRACT accounting academic community for the two-year period 1998 to 1999 using the data contained in BAR Research Register modestly since 1991, with a doubling in the number of PhD-qualified staff (to 30%) and a reduction in the number with a professional qualification (from 81% to 58%). Nearly half of all outputs appear in other than academic journals. The mean number of publications is 1.76 per capita, with significantly more staff active in publishing than in 1991 (44% compared to 35%). However, only 17% publish in a subset of 60 #8216;top#8217; journals. Just over half of all articles are published in the core discipline journals, the rest appearing mainly in management, economics, sociology, education and IT journals. This may indicate a growing maturity in the disciplines, whereby applied research findings are flowing back into related foundation and business disciplines. Nearly two-thirds of academic articles are co-authored, with 25% of contributions coming from outside the community, indicating an openness to interdisciplinary collaboration, collaboration with overseas academics and collaboration with individuals in