This study analyses and reports on the development of accounting history
research in Portugal across a period of 15 years spanning 1990 to 2004. In so
doing, it builds a database of all the contributions on accounting's past
appearing in Portugal and those of Portuguese authors disseminated abroad over
this period. The study further explores publishing patterns in the Portuguese
accounting journals, providing an array of evidence such as the number of
accounting history articles per journal, the gender of authors and the time
spans and subject areas examined. While the results indicate that there are
topics and periods still unexplored or deserving wider examination in Portuguese
accounting history, they also reveal a significant extension of the work in this
field, especially from 2002 to 2004. This increasing trend is particularly
visible in the number of articles published in international journals and the
number of papers submitted to international congresses, providing Portuguese
accounting history research with a growing international visibility.