OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	171
Imbalanced ESG investing?	149
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	105
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	105
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards	103
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	102
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	86
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing	82
Greening through trade	75
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	71
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	70
Labor unions and real earnings management	70
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions	69
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	69
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	67
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	67
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption	61
Editorial Board	60
Economic magnitudes within reason	56
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	55
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	54
Signaling through timing of stock splits	53
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance	52
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	51
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	51

Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	47
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders	46
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence	46
Local peer effects and corporate investment	45
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	45
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends	44
Learning and staged equity financing	43
Leggso: Financing experimentation	42
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	42
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	41
Editorial Board	41
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	41
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency	40
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	40
Bank market power and financial reporting quality	40