You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Problems with Journal Rankings

摘要: Journal rankings lists have impacted and are impacting accounting educators education researchers around the world. Nowhere is impact positive. It ranges from slight constraints on academic freedom to admonition, censure, reduced research allowances, non-promotion, non-short-listing for jobs, increased teaching loads, re- designation as a non-researcher, all because chosen specialism of someone who was vocationally motivated become teacher is, ironically, education. University managers believe that these journal ranking show faculty publish top-quality regulation, financial markets, business finance, auditing, international accounting, management taxation, in society, more, but not what they do their ‘day job’ – accounting. These same also indicate history systems. And write education, history, systems, only if it specialist journals word ‘accounting’ title, or mainstream do. Tarring everyone with brush which inequitable. We would allow other walks life. time discrimination ended.