29 May 2006

Top five European spot for Dundee accountants

The Accountancy and Business Finance Department at the University of Dundee has been ranked in the top five in Europe for research output.

A paper in leading academic accounting journal Accounting and Business Research looked at the number of published articles in 19 different academic journals between 1991 and 2002 for 253 European universities.

The University of Dundee department finished in fifth place despite having fewer staff members than any other top ten listed institution.

"The main ranking was based on the absolute number of publications," explained senior lecturer Mr David Collison. "This meant that the performance for Dundee was all the more creditable since in that period it had the smallest number of staff in the top 10 of the listed departments."

"As the department has been strengthened in recent years, with a number of key appointments at both senior and junior levels, it is looking forward to building on its established research reputation which more and more is involving Europe-wide collaboration."

NOTES TO NEWS EDITORS

The paper "A ranking of accounting research output in the European region" by Chan, K.C., Chen, C.R. & Cheng, L.T.W. (2006) is published in Accounting and Business Research, Vol 36. No 1. pp3-17.

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