The Impact of Journal Rankings on Australasian Accounting Education Scholarship – A Personal View

Accounting Education

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 187-207

  McGuigan, Nicholas ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accounting education; Accounting research; journal rankings; research performance assessment; university management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934757148     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2015.1021261     Document Type: Article

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