Acknowledgments Networks in Accounting Scholarship: A Note

Abstract We explore social networks in accounting research. Our sample spans the 1996–2015 period and includes all research articles that were published Accounting Review, Journal of Research, Economics, Organizations Society, Review Studies, Contemporary Research. Employing network analysis, we delineate discuss structure scientific collaboration as it appears acknowledgments articles. identify most central nodes this nexus intellectual partnership. Furthermore, discover constitute a small-world network, with high average clustering coefficient small distance within giant component which covers biggest part acknowledgment network.