JOURNAL INFLUENCE ON THE DESIGN OF FINANCE DOCTORAL EDUCATION

This article surveys the influence of research journals on finance doc toral education. Influence is measured by citations from syllabi of fi nance seminars: A sample of 101 distinct syllabi submitted by 33 finan ce doctoral programs yields a list of 1,031 articles cited by at least two schools. These 1,031 articles generate 3,273 citations referencin g 17 finance, economics, and accounting journals, where multiple citat ions from a single school are counted as a single citation. The most n otable findings are the wide variety of seminar content across finance doctoral programs and the dominance of five finance journals in provi ding this diverse content.