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American Accounting Association

In research, American Accounting Association stands highest in Social Sciences (#14,180 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Finance, Accounting and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Finance is 82.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#34,683
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#7,262
of 7,310
Research works
221
▼ 99% vs 2018-21
Citations
442
2.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.74×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
96%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
American Accounting Association

What is American Accounting Association known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #14,180 of 14,833 0.8%207

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where American Accounting Association sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does American Accounting Association work in?

In all years, 94% of research at American Accounting Association is in Social Sciences, 4% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Economics, Econometrics and Finance (52%), Business, Management and Accounting (24%), Social Sciences (14%). It does 4.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 207 fractional works · 93.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 115 fractional works · 52.1% of its workFinance: 63 fractional works · 28.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 38 fractional works · 17.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 15 fractional works · 6.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 54 fractional works · 24.3% of its workAccounting: 28 fractional works · 12.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 12 fractional works · 5.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 14.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 14 fractional works · 6.6% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 4.4% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAmericanAccounting…221fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences94%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11552.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting5424.3%
    3. Social Sciences3114.1%
    4. Decision Sciences62.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.5%
    1. Computer Science52.2%
    2. Environmental Science41.8%
    3. Engineering00.2%
    4. Energy00.1%
    5. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Health Professions20.8%
    2. Medicine10.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
    2. Neuroscience00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does American Accounting Association specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Finance takes 82.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. FinanceSubfield · 62.9 works83×
  2. AccountingSubfield · 28.3 works28×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 115.3 works26×
  4. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 37.8 works12×
  5. Business, Management and AccountingField · 53.7 works9.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Who are the top researchers at American Accounting Association?

Ranked on the quality score, Marianne Ojo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Accounting Association.

  1. 1 Marianne Ojo United States · #6,320,453 worldwide 496 citations · 395 works
All ranked researchers at American Accounting Association

What are the most cited papers from American Accounting Association?

The most cited paper from American Accounting Association is "Measuring Country Differences in Enforcement of Accounting Standards: An Audit and Enforcement Proxy" (Philip R. Brown, John P. Preiato, Ann Tarca, 2014), with 406 citations. Next come "Balanced scorecard: a rising trend in strategic performance measurement" (144) and "Investment Opportunity Set and Voluntary Disclosure of Prospective Information: A Simultaneous Equations Approach" (93).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Measuring Country Differences in Enforcement of Accounting Standards: An Audit and Enforcement Proxy Philip R. Brown, John P. Preiato, Ann Tarca · Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting 2014 406
2 Balanced scorecard: a rising trend in strategic performance measurement Khim Ling Sim, Hian Chye Koh · Measuring Business Excellence Jun 2001 144
3 Investment Opportunity Set and Voluntary Disclosure of Prospective Information: A Simultaneous Equations Approach Mahmud Hossain, Kamran Ahmed, Jayne M. Godfrey · Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting Jun 2005 93
4 Compensation Schemes, Skill Level, and Task Performance: An Experimental Examination* Jesse Dillard, Joseph G. Fisher · Decision Sciences 1990 49
5 Accounting Doctoral Education—2007 A Report of the Joint AAA/APLG/FSA Doctoral Education Committee Bruce K. Behn, Gregory A. Carnes, George W. Krull et al. · Issues in Accounting Education Aug 2008 29
All 63 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at American Accounting Association?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Regulation, Monetary Policy, Liquidity, Financial Crisis, Economic Growth, Corporate Governance, Finance and Banking.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Regulation40▲ 29×7 topics
  2. Monetary Policy36▲ 58×8 topics
  3. Liquidity28▲ 118×2 topics
  4. Financial Crisis28▲ 87×8 topics
  5. Economic Growth26▲ 15×11 topics
  6. Corporate Governance22▲ 18×13 topics
  7. Finance22▲ 74×2 topics
  8. Banking21▲ 207×1 topic
  9. Credit21▲ 207×1 topic
  10. Global Governance18▲ 37×6 topics
  11. European Union17▲ 31×4 topics
  12. Globalization16▲ 4.0×13 topics
  13. Financial Reporting16▲ 64×5 topics
  14. Financial Regulation15▲ 498×1 topic
  15. International Politics15▲ 933×1 topic
  16. Capital Flows15▲ 122×2 topics
  17. Financial Performance14▲ 20×6 topics
  18. Risk Management13▲ 17×4 topics
  19. Exchange Rate Regimes13▲ 131×1 topic
  20. Financial Integration13▲ 128×1 topic
  21. Economic Development12▲ 8.1×9 topics
  22. Insurance12▲ 81×2 topics
  23. Sustainability12▲ 3.0×12 topics
  24. Catastrophe Bonds12▲ 152×1 topic
  25. Market Structure12▲ 80×1 topic
  26. International Trade10▲ 31×5 topics
  27. Innovation10▲ 4.7×9 topics
  28. Audit Committee9▲ 98×1 topic
  29. Earnings Management9▲ 64×1 topic
  30. Financial Stability9▲ 28×3 topics
  31. Human Rights8▲ 4.5×10 topics
  32. Entrepreneurship7▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Property Rights7▲ 28×5 topics
  34. Credit Spread Changes7▲ 234×1 topic
  35. Default Risk7▲ 234×1 topic
  36. Supply Chain Management7▲ 6.1×4 topics
  37. Stock Market6▲ 26×2 topics
  38. Structural Change6▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Fiscal Policy6▲ 13×5 topics
  40. Corporate Finance6▲ 44×2 topics

Which research topics does American Accounting Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: SMEs Development and Digital Marketing, Management and Optimization Techniques and School Leadership and Teacher Performance.

SMEs Development and Dig…0SMEs Development and Digital Marketing: 0 fractional worksManagement and Optimizat…0Management and Optimization Techniques: 0 fractional worksSchool Leadership and Te…0School Leadership and Teacher Performance: 0 fractional works
DemographyStrategy and ManagementEducation

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 SMEs Development and Digital Marketing Demography 0 works
  2. 2 Management and Optimization Techniques Strategy and Management 0 works
  3. 3 School Leadership and Teacher Performance Education 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available95.9%not open4.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.3%domestic only95.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has American Accounting Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 99% lower than in 2018-2021.

1990200020102020
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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is American Accounting Association as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00017% in 2021.

0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%American Accounting Association0.0000096% in 202219801990200020102020

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