Journal titles and mission statements: Lexical structure, diversity, and readability in business, management and accounting research

There is an established research agenda on dissecting articles components, title and abstract readability diversity, keywords, number references, determining their association with bibliometrics performance. Yet, journals titles overview, aim scope (i.e., mission statement, JMS(s) have not been investigated the same diligence. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive outlook of JMSs lexical structure identify significant differences between prestige type access groups JMS content in field business, management accounting (BMA). Lexical network analysis was used explore structure. were examined through Flesch-Kincaid grade level for Yules K diversity. Titles structural reflected current critical discussion BMA: obsession counterintuitive findings ICT tools. expressed mostly target customers markets. from reputable showed higher betweenness key terms related rigorous features, while lower highlighted indexing attributes Scopus). Wilcoxon rank sum Kruskal Wallis tests median diversity regarding best quartiles.