Brigham Young University has released a new Accounting Research Rankings website based on the paper by Joshua G. Coyne, Scott L. Summers, Brady Williams & David A. Wood (all of BYU, School of Accountancy), Accounting Program Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology (blogged here). See the methodology and abstract:

Recognizing the diversity of accounting research, this paper provides separate rankings of accounting research programs by topical area (accounting information systems, auditing, financial, managerial, tax, and other) and by methodology (analytical, archival, experimental, and other) based on journal counts in top journals (AOS, Auditing, BRIA, CAR, JAE, JAR, JATA, JIS, JMAR, RAST, and TAR). In addition, our rankings reflect the ability of accounting researchers relocate and therefore rank institutions based on the researchers’ current affiliation rather than their affiliation at time of an article’s publication. In an effort to explain how some schools achieve high research productivity, we rely on q-r theory (Ellison 2002) to motivate our examination of whether focusing on producing research in relatively few topical areas and methodologies (specialization) results in greater productivity than focusing on multiple topical areas and methodologies (diversification). Our results provide some evidence that schools that adopt a diversified research approach are able to produce more research than schools that adopt a specialization approach.

Here are the Top 25 accounting programs in tax, based on tax articles published in the most recent six, twelve, and twenty years: