Publication Activity of Promoted Accounting Faculty.

Abstract This paper reports on an examination of the publication records of recently promoted accounting faculty. The findings Indicate that a substantial number of accounting faculty were promoted with few or no publications during the study period. Another finding was that those promoted to the full professor and associate professor rank at doctoral-granting institutions published at a significantly higher rate than those promoted to these ranks at non-doctoral-granting institutions. An analysis of the quality of the publications reveals that 42 percent of those promoted at doctoral-granting institutions, in contrast to only 11 percent of those promoted at non-doctoral-granting institutions, had published a feature article in either the Journal of Accounting Research or The Accounting Review. Further analysis of the quality of publication activity suggests that accounting faculty are being promoted with a breadth of publications across practitioner and academic journals, with most emphasis on nonacademic publications.