Accounting Dept. Research Productivity in Top 5 in World
The recently released 2022 Brigham Young University Accounting Rankings have placed The University of Scranton Accounting Department and faculty among the best research institutions in the world.The recently released 2022 Brigham Young University Accounting Rankings have placed The University of Scranton Accounting Department and faculty among the best research institutions in the world.
The Accounting Department of The University of Scranton ranked No. 5 (tied) in the world for accounting education research published in the most recent six-years in a listing considered to be the gold standard in accounting disciplines. The 2022 Brigham Young University Accounting Rankings also recognized several accounting faculty members individually for their research publication success.
The Brigham Young University report ranks accounting programs and faculty throughout the world based on their success in publishing in top-tier, peer-reviewed accounting journals. The report is updated annually and includes ranks for specific categories of research and for specific time periods. The 2022 update ranks Scranton’s Accounting Department at as the fifth (tied) most prolific department in the world for accounting education research over the most recent six-year period, following Brigham Young University (first), Texas Tech University (second) and Kennesaw State University (third), Clemson University (fourth) and tied (fifth) with Indiana University and West Virginia University. The department was also ranked internationally for all methods, audit, managerial, experimental and archival accounting research.
With respect to authorships of individual accounting faculty in the area of accounting education, three Scranton faculty members were ranked internationally. Douglas M. Boyle, D.B.A., professor and chair of the Accounting Department and director of the Ph.D. program, was ranked No. 6. James F. Boyle, D.B.A., associate professor of accounting and director of the MAcc program, was ranked No. 19 and Brian W. Carpenter, Ph.D., professor emeritus of accounting, was ranked No. 37. Additionally, Dr. Douglas Boyle was ranked for all methods, auditing and experimental research; Dr. Carpenter was ranked for all methods; and Jeh-Hyun Cho, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting, was ranked for managerial and archival.
“The University of Scranton’s listing near the top of the 2022 Brigham Young University Accounting Education Research rankings and the very high rankings of many of its individual faculty in a variety of sub-disciplines bear testimony to the Accounting Department’s commitment to excellence in both teaching and research. As an institution that is committed to teaching excellence, it is important that our faculty are committed to conducting research and disseminating it to our students in the classroom. These rankings show that our accounting faculty or engaged in high quality education research that impacts our students at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level,” said Mark Higgins, Ph.D., dean of the University’s Kania School of Management and professor of accounting.
This is the third consecutive year that the University’s Accounting Department was ranked in the top five in the world for research success in the prestigious Brigham Young University Accounting Rankings. The Accounting Department and the prolific research of its faculty have been recognized previously by two academic journals including one which ranked it as No. 1 for the number of publications in the leading five accounting practitioner journals.
