OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Perspectives on Accounting is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board/Publication Information	462
Editorial Board/Publication Information	227
Accounting polycentricity in Africa: Framing an ‘accounting and development’ research agenda	56
Accounting for ignorance: An investigation into corruption, immigration and the state	48
Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field	45
Accountability and accounting in the NGO field comprising the UK and Africa – A Bordieusian analysis	43
Suffer little children: Power, boundaries and the epistemology of ignorance in accounting for Church and State	43
How tax administration influences social justice: The relational power of accounting technologies	42
Language was always a companion of the empire	37
Denunciation and resistance in post-crisis sensemaking	35
Double-entry bookkeeping and single-entry bookkeeping: Their comparative advantages, complementarity and coexistence	34
The internationalization of Italian critical accounting scholarship: between language and national tradition	34
The productive accountant as (un-)wanted self: Realizing the ambivalent role of productivity measures in accountants’ identity work	34
Critical accounting as an indigenous project	34
Editorial Board/Publication Information	34
Gender Responsive Budgeting: A tool for gender equality	32
Accountability for sustainability – An institutional entrepreneur as the representative of future stakeholders	31
Popular culture and totalitarianism: Accounting for propaganda in Italy under the Fascist regime (1934–1945)	30
The role of regressive sugar tax in the soft drink industry levy (SDIL): A Marxist analysis	30
Code as constitution: The negotiation of a uniform accounting code for U.S. railway corporations and the moral justification of stakeholder claims on wealth	29
Imagining cooperative tax regulation: Common origins, divergent paths	29
Critical reflections of accounting and social impact (Part II)	29
ChatGPT and accounting in African contexts: Amplifying epistemic injustice	27
Management accountants—A gendered image	27
How auditors legitimize commercialism: A micro-discursive analysis	26

Editorial Board/Publication Information	26
Quo vadis? The future of interdisciplinary accounting research	25
Wealth taxes and the post-COVID future of the state	25
Sophistry and high electricity prices in Australia	23
The translation of an extraordinary event and the role of accounts: The covid-19 case	22
Symbols in wood as a means of reciprocity: Accounting and social cohesion in pluralistic economies	21
A sticky chocolate problem: Impression management and counter accounts in the shaping of corporate image	21
Editorial Board/Publication Information	21
Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The ‘forecasted losses' intervention	20
The Chinese accounting profession in the People’s Republic: A preliminary understanding from an oral history perspective	20
The quid pro quo of charity: accounting, power and social positioning	20
Media framing in Wirecard’s fraud scandal: Facts, failures, and spying fraudster fantasies	19
Social investment innovation and the ‘social turn’ of neoliberal finance	19
Therapeutic governance: The art of mediating shame and blame and quasi-judicial pragmatic technologies in Indonesian government auditor-auditee engagements	19
Constructing housing literacy through financial literacy	18
Stories of resistance: The role of online forums in response to Uber’s algorithmic management	18
Editorial Board/Publication Information	18
Diversity, dialogic pedagogy and intersubjectivity in the classroom: Contributions from the Global South	18
Beyond conventional financialization: Intersectional insights and Indigenous responses to financial inequality in the UK	18
Is critique sustainable? A commentary on Bigoni and Mohammed	17
Subject, method and praxis – Conducting critical studies in accounting research	17
The silent resistance: An ethnographic study of the use of silence to resist accounting and managerialization	17
A stakeholder salience perspective on performance and management control systems in non-profit organisations	17
Working apart: Remote working and social bonding in the Big Four audit firms	16
Performance contracting and moral blindness: A study of autonomy and moral responsibility in Kenyan public enterprises	16
Theorizing (and) the future of interdisciplinary accounting research	15
Critical accounting scholarship and social movements: The case of rail privatisation in Britain	15
Fiscal decentralization in the nude: Discursive struggles and the stalling of its implementation in Jamaica	15
Accounting for human rights: Evidence of due diligence in EU-listed firms’ reporting	15
Professional bodies and professional closure strategies: The field of auditing for small and medium-sized enterprises in Italy☆	14
Accounting and statecraft in China: Accrual accounting for effective government rather than efficient market	14
Artificial intelligence and qualitative research: The promise and perils of large language model (LLM) ‘assistance’	14
Maintaining the universal banking model – A study of institutional work in the endogenization of a failed transnational post-crisis financial market reform	14
Accounting as a technology of neoliberalism: The accountability role of IPSAS in Nigeria	14
Environmental escalations to social inequities: Some reflections on the tumultuous state of Gaia	14
Accounting for accounting’s role in the neoliberalization processes of social housing in England: A Bourdieusian perspective	13
Financialisation and the Conceptual Framework: An update	13
Digital technologies and accounting quantification: The emergence of two divergent knowledge templates	13
Editorial Board/Publication Information	13
Evidence on the homogeneity of personality traits within the auditing profession	13
Editorial Board/Publication Information	13
Patriarchy persists: Experiences of barriers to women's career progression in Italian accounting academia	12
The perils of artificial intelligence in academic publishing	12
Charting the development of the Egyptian accounting profession (1946–2016): An analysis of the State-Profession dynamics	12
Cultural sustainability and the construction of (in)commensurability: cultural heritage at the Roşia Montană mining site	12
Comparing perceptions of the impact of journal rankings between fields	12
Special issue on Digitalization, work, and professions	12
Democratizing academic research with Artificial Intelligence: The misleading case of language	12
Accounting and pastoral power in Australian disability welfare reform	12