The Profile of the Accounting Research About IFRS: A Bibliometric Review of International Articles on the Subject
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The main objective of this article is to identify what is currently being researched in the areaof International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) around the world; who is carrying onsuch researches; which researches has caused stronger impact; which journals shows morearticles about this issue and the ones that cause more impacts; the time frames and places thisRevista CientÃfica Hermes 7: 133-154, 2012subject is more often produced. The applied methodology was based on the metrics precepts,using as data base platform the Web of Science (WoS) of Citation Indexes from the Institutefor Scientific Information – ISI – Citation Indexes. It was found 150 articles for the researchlookout of “International Financial Reporting Standards†and 147 for “IFRS†found in thefour main categories of WoS related to that subject. According to the two used terms forresearch, the result was quite conflicting. It was observed that the more productive writers arenot necessarily the most influential ones, which also occurred in regard to periodicpublications. The large majority of the production occurred from 2006 on, and the countriesthat stood out more, in quantity terms, were the United States of America, Germany, Australiaand England.References
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