Mostafa Ghannad; Mohammad Arab Mazar Yazdi; Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh Bandari; HesarZadeh Reza
Abstract
Purpose: after three decades of effort, Iranian accounting and finance academics have achieved 31 scientific journals accredited by the MSRTs commission of the evaluation of scientific journals; however, citation databases and indexes indicate the existence of more than 100 domestic accounting and finance ...
Read More
Purpose: after three decades of effort, Iranian accounting and finance academics have achieved 31 scientific journals accredited by the MSRTs commission of the evaluation of scientific journals; however, citation databases and indexes indicate the existence of more than 100 domestic accounting and finance journals and the publication of more than 10000 papers by them. This study aims to evaluate Iranian accounting and finance journals based on the MSRT’s regulations on scientific journals.Methodology: this is descriptive survey research and employs an evaluative and webometric method. First, a list including20 items of the criteria for entering the evaluation process based on the MSRT’s regulations on scientific journals is prepared, then these items are reviewed in16 active journals that non-accredited by the MSRT’s commission of the evaluation of scientific journals by the end of 2021.Findings: The16 non-accredited accounting and finance quarterly journals have published more than186 issues and4306 papers. In more than30 issues of these journals, more than 40 papers have been published. Five of these journals meet more than85% of the MSRT’s criteria for entering the evaluation process, but11 of them do not satisfy more than seven of the criteria for entering the evaluation process, and notably, a high proportion of papers (4166 papers-97%) have been published in these journals. Particularly, in745 issues of these11 journals, more than one paper of the same author has been published. "Journal of New Research approaches in management and accounting" holds the record with48 papers of the same author in the issue of Winter2021.
