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Accounting Education and Careers

Accounting Education and Careers is a research topic within Accounting. Science Explorer counts 8.5k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the skills and attributes needed by accounting graduates, as perceived by students and employers. It also explores the integration of soft skills, technology, and cooperative learning in accounting education, as well as the influence of academic research on accounting practice. The papers cover topics such as curriculum design, employer expectations, and the development of professional skills.

  • Accounting Education
  • Skills Development
  • Employer Expectations
  • Student Perceptions
  • Curriculum Design
  • Soft Skills Integration
  • Technology in Education
  • Professional Skills
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Academic Research
Research works
8.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
866
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Accounting Education and Careers

Which countries lead Accounting Education and Careers research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (386 and 174 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 386 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 174 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 147 works
  4. 4 South Africa 97 works
  5. 5 China 73 works
  6. 6 Australia 70 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 68 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 66 works
  9. 9 Brazil 57 works
  10. 10 India 57 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 32.3%Indonesia: 14.6%Türkiye: 12.3%South Africa: 8.1%6 others listed: 32.7%32%largest
United States386 · 32.3%Indonesia174 · 14.6%Türkiye147 · 12.3%South Africa97 · 8.1%6 others listed391 · 32.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Accounting Education and Careers research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Accounting Education and Careers research, followed by University of South Africa and University of Johannesburg.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 20 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 12 works
  3. 3 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 10 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 10 works
  5. 5 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 9 works
  6. 6 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 9 works
  7. 7 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 9 works
  8. 8 University of Cape CoastGhana 8 works
  9. 9 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 8 works
  10. 10 Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Accounting Education and Careers?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Accounting Education and Careers include Joseph F. Hair, Herbert W. Marsh and Richard H. Thaler.

  1. 1 Joseph F. Hair United States 163k citations
  2. 2 Herbert W. Marsh Australia 128k citations
  3. 3 Richard H. Thaler United States 113k citations
  4. 4 Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi United Kingdom 98k citations
  5. 5 William White Cooper United States 96k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Accounting Education and Careers?

The most cited paper in Accounting Education and Careers is "International Accounting Standards and Accounting Quality" (Mary E. Barth, Wayne R. Landsman, Mark H. Lang, 2008), with 3,100 citations. Next come "Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements*" (1,932) and "The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye" (1,874).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 International Accounting Standards and Accounting Quality Mary E. Barth, Wayne R. Landsman, Mark H. Lang · Journal of Accounting Research 28 Mar 2008 3,100
2 Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements* Patricia Dechow, Weili Ge, Chad Russell Larson et al. · Contemporary Accounting Research 27 Jan 2011 1,932
3 The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye Jeffrey Pfeffer, Christina T. Fong · Academy of Management Learning and Education Sep 2002 1,874
4 Accounting and the construction of the governable person Peter Benson Miller, Ted O’Leary · Accounting Organizations and Society 1987 1,499
5 The Relation Between Earnings Management Using Real Activities Manipulation and Future Performance: Evidence from Meeting Earnings Benchmarks* Katherine A. Gunny · Contemporary Accounting Research 23 Aug 2010 1,452
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Where is Accounting Education and Careers research done?

The largest centres of Accounting Education and Careers research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Pretoria (South Africa), Shah Alam (Malaysia) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shah Alam and Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 25 works
  2. 2 PretoriaSouth Africa 21 works
  3. 3 Shah AlamMalaysia 21 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 18 works
  5. 5 BangkokThailand 17 works
  6. 6 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 16 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 16 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 14 works
  9. 9 DurbanSouth Africa 14 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Shah AlamMY · 21.1 works14×
  2. PretoriaZA · 21.4 works10.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Accounting Education and Careers than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Accounting Education and Careers?

Among universities, judged by research, University of South Africa, University of Johannesburg and University of Cape Coast score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 9.94286%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of South …University of Cape C…University of Johann…Universiti Teknologi…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of South AfricaSouth Africa 76.717.4%18.1×12 +185.5%
2University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 64.812.0%10.2×10 +47.1%
3University of Cape CoastGhana 63.716.5%38.1×8 +285.2%
4Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 53.44.7%17.3×20 +44.5%
5University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 32.06.0%15.2×9 +47.8%
6Universidade de São PauloBrazil 26.96.9%3.1×10 +163.0%
7Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 25.76.1%3.4×9 +102.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Accounting Education and Careers, country by country

Is Accounting Education and Careers research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Accounting Education and Careers.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Accounting Education and Careers as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0061% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Accounting Education and Careers over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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