Contemporary Accounting Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Contemporary Accounting Research is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Talking down the competitors: How do investment banking relationships influence analysts' forecasts?176
Preventing fraudulent financial reporting with reputational signals of strategic auditors93
Improving Complex Audit Judgments: A Framework and Evidence*†88
The deterrent effect of the SEC Whistleblower Program on financial reporting securities violations74
Climatic disasters and distracted analysts60
Managerial performance evaluation and organizational form58
Issue Information58
Peer effects in subjective performance evaluation51
The Impact of Knowledge Transfer on Investment in Knowledge Creation in Firms†‡47
Tax Haven Incorporation and the Cost of Capital*46
Mitigating the Influence of Analysts Who Issue Aggressive Stock Price Targets: The Role of Joint Versus Separate Evaluation*44
Do Debt Investors Adjust Financial Statement Ratios When Financial Statements Fail to Reflect Economic Substance? Evidence from Cash Flow Hedges*†38
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Navigating through the noise: The effect of color‐coded performance feedback on decision‐making32
The role of target difficulty and career tournaments in retaining creative R&D employees32
Issue Information32
Navigating knowledge and ignorance in the boardroom: A study of audit committee members' oversight styles31
Toward a general equilibrium theory of financial reporting31
Managerial extraversion and corporate voluntary disclosure31
The effect of shareholder scrutiny on corporate tax behavior: Evidence from shareholder tax litigation30
How does depletion interact with auditors' skeptical dispositions to affect auditors' challenging of managers in negotiations?30
Do consumers pay the corporate tax?28
The Effects of Independent Director Litigation Risk*28
The Effect of SEC Reviewers on Comment Letters*27
Do Stronger Wise‐Thinking Dispositions Facilitate Auditors' Objective Evaluation of Evidence When Assessing and Addressing Fraud Risk?*27
Is the PCAOB enforcement approach aligned with its mandate? Perspectives of sanctioned auditors and former PCAOB enforcement staff26
Management Faultlines and Management Forecasts*26
What a relief: How do firms respond to competitors' listing delays?26
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