A Study of Accounting Faculty Publishing Productivity in New Zealand

Abstract

In this paper we measure the publishing productivity of New Zealand university accounting departments for the period 1992-1997. Publication productivity is assessed in terms of both the quantity of articles published and the quality of the journals where the articles appear. Data is obtained from the Accounting and Tax Index, ABI Inform and directly from Australian and New Zealand journals. To achieve a comprehensive assessment of publishing productivity the articles are weighted using various measures of quality. We make particular use of the quality rankings develop by Zeff (1996). Not surprisingly, none of the universities ranked highly in all categories we examined. Which university did best depends on the evaluative criteria the reader wishes to employ.