International Journal of Accounting, which has the highest reputation in the field of international accounting, published the paper finished by both Professor Xiaohui Qu, director of our center, and her co-author as well as her postdoctoral Professor Guohua Zhang. And the topic of this essay is: “Measuring the Convergence of National Accounting Standards with International Financial Reporting Standards: The Application of Fuzzy Clustering Analysis”.

IJA is the journal of Center for International Education and Research in Accounting, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The journal, founded in1965, comes out at the top of global 24 core accounting journals. With the propose of advancing the academic and professional understanding of accounting theory and practice from an international perspective and viewpoint, IJA selects papers through prescribed procedures in order to ensure the quality. Professor Xiaohui Qu and others’ publishing paper on IJA shows the ability and level of scientific research of our center’s scholars has been recognized from international mainstream academic cycle.