PLEASE CITE THIS: an exploratory paper on citations, impacts and the social accounting literature

Gray, R. and Hoepner, A. G. F. (2011) PLEASE CITE THIS: an exploratory paper on citations, impacts and the social accounting literature. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 31 (1). pp. 25-47. ISSN 0969-160X doi: 10.1080/0969160X.2011.556392

Abstract/Summary

This paper seeks to use the increasingly influential citation and impact data to explore the contours of the social and environmental accounting (SEA) literature. Our ambitions are fourfold. First, we offer a more nuanced understanding of the journals in which we tend to publish SEA research. Second, we tease out what might plausibly be thought to be one indication of the ‘most influential’ SEA papers. Third, we offer a substantive cautionary note about the dangers of the careless use of citations as singular measures of ‘quality’ or ‘importance’, etc. Finally, we place the growing SEA literature in a wider context which both flatters and challenges the community that SEAJ seeks to serve.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/43509
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/0969160X.2011.556392
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Finance and Accounting
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
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