Please cite this: An exploratory paper on citations, impacts and the social accounting literature

Robert Hugh Gray, Andreas Gerhard Hoepner

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)25-47
    JournalSocial and Environmental Accountability Journal
    Volume31
    Issue number1
    Early online date12 Apr 2011
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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