Journal of Corporate Finance

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 40. 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
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences175
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta152
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?108
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale107
Labor unions and real earnings management106
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing104
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying90
Greening through trade87
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards76
Imbalanced ESG investing?76
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China73
Corporate ownership and ESG performance72
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation71
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales70
Signaling through timing of stock splits68
Economic magnitudes within reason67
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives64
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity63
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption58
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market57
Do director ownership plans change director behavior?57
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts56
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance55
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions53
Editorial Board52
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation51
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders48
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk47
Local peer effects and corporate investment47
Learning and staged equity financing45
Leggso: Financing experimentation44
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions44
Editorial Board44
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms43
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency43
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts42
Bank market power and financial reporting quality42
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence41
Director networks and firm value41
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends40
Political uncertainty and institutional herding40
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?40
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