Accounting Department Among World's Best for Scholarship
The American Accounting Association recently ranked the department 16th in the world, based on the number of research articles published by Tippie accounting faculty in the top 20 peer-reviewed scholarly accounting journals between 1990 and 2009.
The department also was highly ranked in several specialty fields, including third in tax accounting and ninth in financial accounting.
See examples of recent faculty publications.
National Rankings
Key criteria in selecting a research-oriented Ph.D. program should be the research reputation of its faculty and the publication success of its past graduates. We are proud to report that Iowa ranks high on both dimensions. We encourage you to read the following studies that rank accounting faculty and doctoral programs along various dimensions of research productivity.
- "Accounting Program Research Rankings by
Topical Area and Methodology"
Joshua G. Coyne, Scott L. Summers, Brady Williams, and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, 2010 - "Publication Records of Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 Accounting Research Programs"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt, David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, 2006 - "Ranking Accounting Ph.D. Programs and Faculties Using Social Science Research Network Downloads"
Lawrence D. Brown and Indrarini Laksmana, Georgia State University, 2003 - "Prolific Authors of Accounting Literature"
James R. Hasselback, Alan Reinstein, and Edward S. Schwan
Advances in Accounting, 2002 - "Influential Accounting Articles, Individuals, Ph.D. Granting Institutions, and Faculties: A Citational Analysis"
Lawrence D. Brown
Accounting Organizations and Society, 1996 - "Assessing Accounting Doctoral Programs by Their Graduates' Research Productivity"
James R. Hasselback and Alan Reinstein
Advances in Accounting, 1995 - "A Proposal for Measuring Scholarly Productivity of Accounting Faculty"
James R. Hasselback and Alan Reinstein
Issues in Accounting Education, 1995
