Gordon and Porter (2009) provide a guide to reading and evaluating the academic accounting literature aimed at Master’s students and “future practitioners.” While the article has value as a guide to the historical publishing norms of a certain type of research, this comment argues that it provides a paradigm-specific view of what constitutes accounting research and an overly stylized view of th...

Background: Although Turkey publishes more than 3000 peer-reviewed scientific journals, fewer 5% of them are covered by major indexing databases, and only 1 the 10 journals published Trakya University (Turkey) is among those quality journals. In November 2017, organized a workshop titled ‘Increasing academic at University’, ultimate goal which was to bring together all stake...

Getting from an experimental result to a published paper is an energyand time-consuming process that involves the concerted effort by authors, editors, and publishers. Generally, a published paper represents a positive and celebratory outcome. Correcting errors in the literature is generally considered to be a positive academic achievement. In contrast, retracting erroneous or fraudulent work i...