The globalization of business and economic activities is expected to
increase readership and citation performance for articles with an
international focus. This studymeasures the impact of such articles on
rankings and citation scores of thirty-one academic journals in
accounting, economics and finance. Sample statistics show that
these journals increased their proportion of global articles from a
median of 15% in 2001 to a median of 25% in 2008. Two regression
models (logistic and OLS) support the increasing role of international
articles on journal performance. Both approaches show that improvements
in ranking and citation scores were positively affected by
global coverage, especially in economics. The results also highlight
that two research topics dominate the field of global finance:
International Corporate Governance and International Banking