British Accounting Review

Papers
(The median citation count of British Accounting Review is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Determinants and consequences of sales/production report issuance636
Languages and dividends136
The bright side of common ownership: Evidence from bank transparency76
Bitcoin under the microscope59
The Academic Legacy of Professor Michael John Jones (1953–2023): Accounting narratives, financial graphs, medieval accounting history and accounting for biodiversity58
Does CEO extraversion pay off when in need? Evidence from the global financial crisis54
Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations53
Understanding corporate governance in China51
Actors constructing accountability in hybrid organisations: The case of a Swedish municipal corporation45
Are key audit matter disclosures useful in assessing the financial distress level of a client firm?44
Does the market value the green credit performance of banks? Evidence from bank loan announcements44
The role of market devices in addressing labour exploitation: An analysis of the Australian cleaning industry43
WITHDRAWN: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit43
How do investors perceive firms’ hiring of local CEOs? Evidence from the cost of equity capital41
When stimulus strikes: The predictive power of accruals after government stimulus packages37
Keep a watchful eye on both: The impact of the joint terms of ruling party and government leaders on family firm government subsidies36
The role of science-based targets on carbon mitigation: Addressing the tension between net zero anxiety and economic growth36
Vertical, horizontal, and self control in academia: Survey evidence on their diverging effects on perceived researcher autonomy and identity35
Investor behavior around targeted liquidity announcements33
Withdrawal notice to “Rank-and-file employee stock options and audit pricing: Evidence from S&P 1500 firms” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101422]32
The geography of environmental regulation: Plant-level emissions data31
Cross-border regulatory cooperation and cash holdings: Evidence from US-listed foreign firms30
Is bank diversification a linking channel between regulatory capital and bank value?30
NGOs’ performance, governance, and accountability in the era of digital transformation29
The impact of the UK's Modern Slavery Act (2015) on the disclosure of FTSE 100 companies29
Editorial Board28
The price of corporate social irresponsibility in seasoned equity offerings: International evidence27
Reprint of: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk25
Editorial: What have we learned about green and climate finance?25
A real effect of climate-related shareholder proposals: Diversification24
Does budget target setting lead managers to engage in unethical behavior for the organization?24
Do generalist CEOs reduce corporate default risk?23
Blockchain and earnings management: Evidence from the supply chain22
Market reactions to a cross-border carbon policy: Evidence from listed Chinese companies22
To datafication and beyond: Digital transformation and accounting technologies in the healthcare sector22
Do managers care about analyst attention to ESG?21
Withdrawal notice to: “Key audit matters disclosures and informed Traders” [YBARE 56 (6) (2024) 101386]21
The impact of hedge fund activism on audit pricing21
WITHDRAWN: Third-party auditor liability risk and trade credit policies21
OK, let’s talk. Firms’ willingness to communicate with retail investors: Evidence from controlling shareholders’ equity pledging21
WITHDRAWN: Key audit matters disclosures and informed traders20
On professional destabilization and accounting self-regulation19
From debt breaches to employee safety: The hidden power of banking interventions19
From whales to waves: Social media sentiment, volatility, and whales in cryptocurrency markets19
Hallmarks of Integrated Thinking19
Management accounting and artificial intelligence: A comprehensive literature review and recommendations for future research19
Disclosure of investor relationship activities and stock crash risk: Evidence from private in-house meetings19
Do students have satisfying educational experiences at sustainable universities? Evidence from Australian universities18
Social media analysts, investor attention, and IPO underpricing18
Examining the re-territorialisation of beneficiary accountability: Digitising nonprofit services in response to COVID-1918
Linkage between strategy and financial performance disclosure in annual reports: A new reporting path for organizational learning18
On the dynamics of treasury bond yields: From term structure modelling to economic scenario generation17
Green wave goes up the stream: Green innovation among supply chain partners17
The impact of green regulation on cost stickiness17
Climate risks and debt structure17
Auditor distraction: An unintended consequence of M&As16
From bytes to bucks: The influence of social media commentary on private placements in Chinese listed companies16
WITHDRAWN: The use of machine learning algorithms to predict financial statement fraud16
Textual dimensions of sustainability information, stock price informativeness, and proprietary costs: Evidence from integrated reports16
Climate risk disclosures and auditor expertise15
Hybridity, institutional logics and value creation mechanisms in the corporatisation of social care15
Management controls and modern slavery risks in the building and construction industry: Lessons from an Australian social housing provider15
ESG controversies and external assurance: Examining their impact on firm value and image15
The spillover effect of natural disaster on analyst forecast inaccuracy: Evidence from shared analyst coverage15
Digitalization and management accountants’ role conflict and ambiguity: A double-edged sword for the profession15
WITHDRAWN: On the role and effects of supervisor feedback sign in auditing: Evidence from a cohort of early career auditors15
Information leakage prior to market switches and the importance of Nominated Advisers15
Deposit insurance and credit union earnings opacity14
Editorial: Special Issue New challenges in governance, sustainability and accountability of universities14
Language diversity, social trust, and corporate environmental performance14
The economic and cultural motives of green price premium14
Does the legal enforcement environment constrain earnings management in social enterprises? Evidence from microfinance institutions14
Corrigendum to “Does audit Partner–Client relationship affect managerial tone? Evidence from earnings conference calls question and answer Sessions” [The British Accounting Review 101781]14
Technical talk in bitcoin and equity14
Environmental externalities of corporate culture: Evidence from firm pollution14
Hospital Management Accounting Systems: Evolving roles, actors, and interactions14
When a financially oriented performance measurement system supports hybrid collective sensemaking: The case of a cooperative bank13
The effect of big data-driven tax enforcement on audit pricing: Evidence from China13
Why do banks acquire FinTech? The role of board cultural diversity13
Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms13
Uncovering the intensity of climate risk and opportunity: Awareness and effectiveness13
Mobile banking transaction volume and perceived service quality: A text analytics approach13
Predicting financial distress using textual risk disclosures in annual reports: How and what risks are disclosed?13
Long live the walking dead? Corporate tax avoidance and zombie firms in China13
Writing method sections in qualitative accounting research: Engaging with landmark citations through ‘instructively selective elaboration’13
Changes in bank profitability Post-CEO succession: Does prior CEO experience improve bank performance?13
Dynamics of carbon risk, cost of debt and leverage adjustments13
The impact of integrated thinking on firm value: An international perspective12
Asymmetric reactions of abnormal audit fees jump to credit rating changes12
The impact of diversification on industry effects in firm profitability forecasting12
Mandatory ESG reporting and cross-Listing activities: Worldwide evidence11
Private equity buyout pricing, returns, and portfolio firm performance across UK regions11
Editorial Board11
Social networks and venture capital investments around the world11
Regulator as a minority shareholder and corporate fraud: Quasi-natural experiment evidence from the pilot project of China Securities Investor Services Center11
Accounting as capital and field of struggle: Symbolic power and labour relations in municipal government11
WITHDRAWN: Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording10
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of Directive 2010
From traditional to digital: Unravelling performance measurement systems and accounting methods in drug treatment through a systematic review and content analysis10
Mandatory corporate social responsibility spending, family control, and the cost of debt10
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Ex-ante Expected Changes in ESG and Future Stock Returns Based on Machine Learning ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101457]>10
Editorial Board10
The role of political elites in income tax system design and tax fairness10
FinTech adoption in banks and their liquidity creation10
The impact of terrorist attacks and mass shootings on earnings management10
Withdrawal notice to: <’ Heterogeneity in the Integration of ESG Measures in Executive Compensation: Determinants, Contracting Details and Outcomes ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101440]>10
Bridging accounting and finance with entrepreneurship: Business and social perspectives10
Short-selling activities in the time of COVID-1910
The costs of being stuck in traffic: Evidence from debt contracting9
When employee incentives bias cost information: On the tension between decision-making and control9
Common auditors and relationship-specific investment in supplier-customer relationships9
Does online interaction between firms and investors reduce stock price crash risk?9
Isn't it ironic? The unintended consequences of audit firm efforts to increase auditor awareness of blockchain9
Narcissistic audit committee chairs and the quality of non-IFRS disclosures9
Accounting scholarship and the Majority World: A case of epistemic injustice9
Editorial Board9
Institutional mechanisms, ownership and bank risk-taking during crises9
Does more effective director monitoring make management guidance more credible?8
Fintech and home bias: The power of new social capital in innovative entrepreneurial financing8
Does board co-option affect corporate tax avoidance?8
Reprint of: The hidden cost of organisation capital: Evidence from trade credit8
Textual and AI-based analysis of climate disclosures: Evidence from the European energy sector8
Corporate environmental reporting in the China context: The interplay of stakeholder salience, socialist ideology and state power8
Strategic reaction and tax avoidance: Evidence from the effect of large IPOs on peers8
How do women accounting and finance professors develop and leverage their capitals for career advancement?8
Smart defaults: Determining the number of default funds in a pension scheme8
Withdrawal notice“Audit committee member busyness and risk factor disclosure” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101442]7
The information content of rating action reports: A topic modeling approach7
Stock exchange oversight and investor quotes: Evidence from initial public offering comment letters in China7
Strategy and business model disclosures in annual reports: The role of legal regime7
Local creative culture and audit fees7
WITHDRAWN: Mimicking crypto portfolios in sustainable investment7
Capitalism and the return on capital employed. Some further evidence7
Bureaucratic discretion and auditor choice: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment7
The role of sustainability awards in institutionalising sustainability: Case study evidence7
Institutional ownership and investment by private companies7
Political affiliation, cash flow volatility, and debt maturity in China7
Discretionary tone in reward-based crowdfunding: Do project owners talk their way to success?7
Third-party auditor liability and financial restatements7
Curbing myopic R&D behavior: How private meetings serve as a channel6
Family business origin and investment preference: An empirical study of imprinting theory6
Asset revaluations and credit conditions6
Riding the storm: How natural disasters shape financial advisor misconduct?6
COVID-19 pandemic and audit quality6
A networked perspective on NGO accountability in the digital realm6
“Fly alone, die alone”? The clan and the production of tax expertise6
Withdrawal notice to“ On the role and effects of supervisor feedback sign in auditing: Evidence from a cohort of early career auditors” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101371]6
Shareholders' political hierarchy and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from corporate risk management6
Algorithmic trading and block ownership initiation: An information perspective6
Rhetorical big baths following CEO turnovers6
Editorial Board6
WITHDRAWN: Ex-ante expected changes in ESG and future stock returns based on machine learning6
Use of proceeds in private equity-backed initial public offerings6
Does analyst ESG experience matter?6
Green is the new gold: The role of professional managers in enhancing ESG performance in Chinese state-owned enterprises6
What drives individual investors in the bear market?6
Does non-financial information disclosure promote firm's exports? Evidence from China's mandatory CSR reporting regulation6
Stuck in traffic: Do auditors price traffic congestion?6
Planning for business cycle fluctuations in budgeting: The application of innovative data sources and techniques5
Management control systems, business financial literacy and financial leverage in business-incubated start-ups5
Climate theory & managerial decisions on cross-border mergers5
Market uncertainty and workplace safety: Evidence from China5
Does commitment to operational sustainability pay off? International evidence5
The impact of loosening regulatory requirements on firm innovation: Evidence from SEC rule 12h-65
Digitalization as a form of marketization: The performativity of calculative practices in framing and overflowing NGO performance and accountability5
Do geographically nearby major customers mitigate suppliers’ stock price crash risk?5
Tax avoidance and disclosure strategies5
Long-run IPO performance and the role of venture capital5
The schizophrenic board secretary: An embedded agent between multiple stakeholders and financial misconduct5
Political sentiment and corporate social responsibility5
Strategic opportunism or risk response? Customer real earnings management following supplier litigation5
The dual impact of on-chain and off-chain factors on Bitcoin market efficiency5
WITHDRAWN: The capital market consequence of sustained abnormal Audit fees: Evidence from stock price crash risk5
Key audit matters disclosures from a legitimacy perspective: A European analysis5
The effect of CSR assurance on subsequent corporate greenwashing: Suggestion acquisition or opinion shopping?5
Going big, going small: A perspective on strategies for researching audit quality5
The genre of banking financial product information: The characters, the setting, the plot and the story5
Auditing decentralized finance4
Bookkeeping, but not for profit: A special form of double entry in a 16th century Venetian charity4
Do acquirers care about credit rating consequences? Evidence from credit rating watches4
Commercial reform and corporate investment efficiency: The roles of governmental administrative efficiency, information transparency, and regulatory oversight4
Financial statement comparability and analysts’ optimism for accruals4
Bilateral political relations and analyst herding4
Perceived enabling budget designs and motivational channels for learning in R&D projects4
Accounting and reporting for facing multiple values in meso-level hybrid organisations4
China's infrastructure investments in Africa: An imperative for attaining sustainable development goals or a debt-trap?4
Institutionalisation of sustainability performance measurement and reporting: Insights from Victoria (Australia) and New Zealand universities4
Editorial Board4
Unsung guardians? Communal fraud susceptibility and complaints following mass financial adviser attrition4
The decentralization enigma in DeFi: Impact of U.S. federal funds rate changes4
Devolution, counter-conduct and territoriality: The case of Tax Business Rates in the United Kingdom4
Hybridisation, purification, and re-hybridisation: A study of shifting registers of value4
Nurturing diversity in accounting through “Queering” accounting pedagogy4
Cross-border enforcement of securities laws and dividend payouts4
Towards fluid role identity of management accountants: A case study of a Finnish bank4
Do tax incentives make firms greener? Evidence from the accelerated depreciation policy in China4
Editorial Board4
Data breach notification laws and the cost of private debt4
The influence of a globalized supply chain on corporate carbon management and disclosure4
Exporting corporate social responsibility: Evidence from foreign bank entry4
Employee power and audit Fees: Worldwide evidence4
Controlling shareholder share pledging and the cost of equity capital: Evidence from China4
Is greater connectivity of financial and non-financial information in annual reports valued by market participants?4
Board gender composition and waste management: Cross-country evidence4
WITHDRAWN: Corporate culture and carbon emission performance4
Withdrawal notice to: <’ The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Financial Statement Fraud ‘><[YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101441]>4
Exploring effectiveness of entity actions to eliminate modern slavery risk – Early Australian evidence4
Picturing success: The informational role of visual cues in initial coin offerings4
WITHDRAWN: Does mandating corporate social and environmental disclosure improve social and environmental performance?: Broad-based evidence regarding the effectiveness of directive 2014/95/EU4
Public value disclosure by Brazilian federal universities4
Choice of financial audit firm and ESG assurance firm: The role of board of director characteristics3
Female lead auditors, audit fees, and audit quality3
Political sentiment and credit ratings3
Auditor choice in reverse mergers: Evidence from China3
Let's have a relook at accountability3
Signals from CSR competition: The influence of relative CSR performance on analysts’ recommendations3
The benefits of small business FinTech lending: Evidence from entrepreneurs’ consumption structure3
Analyst coverage overlaps and similarity in corporate social activities3
Auditors’ inter-organizational upward mobility and audit quality3
Innovation in capital funding by public hospitals during austerity: Evidence from the English National Health Service3
Do conformity and bailouts affect misreporting? The case of public health-care organisations3
Do investor reactions to merger announcements shape the writing of SEC filings?3
Does practice make perfect? The effect of online formative assessments on students’ self-efficacy and test anxiety3
Audit quality in the face of a crisis: Evidence from the audit inspection scandal3
Withdrawal notice to‟Nineteenth century audit reports: Evolution from free-form to standardised wording” [YBARE(56/6) (2024) / 101428]3
Megaprojects and hybridity. Accounting and performance challenges for multiple diverse actors and values3
Does lowball guidance work? An analysis of firms that consistently beat their guidance by large margins3
Should underwriters be trusted? Reducing agency costs through primary market supervision3
WITHDRAWN: Audit committee member busyness and risk factor disclosure3
High-speed railways, audit partner changes across audit offices and audit quality: Evidence from China3
Talking across purposes [sic] in social investing: Standardising boundary objects in times of crisis3
Learning to be green: Accounting comparability and environmental violations3
Implementing problematic tax regulation: Hysteresis and bureaucratic revolutionaries within tax administrations3
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