How are quality in research and accountability related to each other through time? This question lies at the heart of this chapter. Readers will be invited to consider various ways in which the availability of time and the density of time generators that influence academic lives potentially impact the quality of our knowledge. The dimensions discussed will range from the implications of lacking or taking time, the research that remains undone due to temporal constraints, how the indicator-driven understanding of quality alters the very meaning of quality, addresses transgressions, and concludes by exploring how the ideals of impact and relevance, closely tied to accountability, shape contemporary research.