The sample consists of 4468 articles published in 2007–2008 by thirty-one journals in the fields of
Accounting, Economics and Finance. This sample started with forty-one journals used in Chan, Fok, and
Pan (2000) and Millet-Reyes and Bailey (2008). Only thirty-one of the forty-one original journals were
available for this study. The selection was based on data availability from the Social Sciences Citations
Index when citation records were collected on October 14, 2010. The original sample (Millet-Reyes &
Bailey, 2008) was used in order to extract two important control variables: the first one (Score04)
measures the citation performance of articles published in 2001 over the period 2001–2004; the second
one (Prop01) measures the proportion of international articles published by each journal in 2001.
For each article, the contents are examined by reading the abstract (or part of the full-text if necessary)
in order to determine whether or not the topic can be defined as international. Empirical papers are
considered “international” if they include data from at least one non-US country. Theoretical papers are
included when they develop models applied to global issues. Out of 4668 articles published in 2007–2008
in these 31 journals, 28% on average covered international topics (six hundred articles in 2007 and seven
hundred ten articles in 2008).
Table 1a provides a complete list of the journals included in this empirical study. The field of each
journal is classified as A (accounting), E (economics), or F (finance). The average proportion of
international articles in 2007–2008 varies from 3.5% of total articles in Mathematical Finance to 97% for the
Journal of International Economics. The citation record of each journal is broken down into three scores.
Total score is the total number of citations (as reported in SSCI on October 14, 2010) for articles published
in 2007–2008 divided by the total number of articles published in 2007–2008. A similar score is calculated
for two subcategories: “Non” and “Int”. The “Int” score divides the number of international citations by the
number of international articles. The “Non” score divides the number of non-international citations by the
number of non-international articles. Additional data are also collected in order to evaluate a journal's
citation performance. Table 1a reports the number of articles with zero citation for each category (“Non”
versus “Int”), as well as the maximum number of citations per article in each category. A short description
of all variables is given in Table 1b.