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Writing For Top Journal
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Professor Shahzad Uddin
Editor
Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies
University of Essex
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+ Plan for Today
▪ Introduce JAEE
▪ Structure of a good paper
▪ Some writing tips to avoid desk rejected
▪ Submission and handling of the reviews
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+ JAEE
▪ Top Ranking: ABS, ADBC, SJR, and NSD Journal Ranking Outlet
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+ Structure of the Paper
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Good Paper – Good Introduction
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+ Expectations
▪ Academic Importance
▪ - Academic Debate
▪ Practical Importance (if relevant)
▪ Development of Research Question - Problematisation
- establishing the gap in the literature
▪ Context/Location importance
▪ Theoretical directions (if needed)
▪ Research Questions
▪ Listing the contributions (for some journals)
▪ Plan for the paper
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+ Academic Importance
▪ Academic Debate
- Does it come from the context?
- Does it from the literature?
▪ Specify the literature first more broadly where you are contributing
- For instance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Earning Management, Corporate
Governance, Corporate Board Literature?
▪ Specify the debate within the literature
- Find the debate within the board literature that you are contributing to
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+ Review of Literature
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Feature of good Lit Review
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+ Theoretical Framework
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+ Research Methods
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+ Presentation of Findings
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+ Discussions
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+ Conclusion
▪ These should be kept short and set out the papers contribution –
i.e., its message(s). This should answer the “so what?” question.
▪ What are the practical implications and/or implications for future
research?
▪ There should also be some acknowledgement of the limitations of
the study and how they might be overcome in future work.
▪ But always finish on a positive note – what has been achieved (not
what has not been done!)
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+ Writing: Practical Help!
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+ Writing: Practical Help
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+ Good Paper - Features
▪ Catchy beginning
▪ Contribution to the debate
▪ Demonstrate the scope of the literature, understanding of the
literature
▪ Clear contributions: Empirically and Theoretically
▪ Good data set and a relevant theory/theories
▪ Acknowledge the limitations
▪ Identify potential areas for further investigation
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+ Be Strategic (or use common sense!)
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+ Be Strategic
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