Journal of Corporate Finance

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 42. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Peer-level analyst transitions324
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale194
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying185
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences180
Imbalanced ESG investing?150
Product market competition with CDS149
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China119
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data113
Political connection, CEO gender, and firm performance112
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?101
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk100
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta92
Corporate ownership and ESG performance91
Labor unions and real earnings management82
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity78
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation78
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales76
Local product market competition and bank loans75
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market68
Economic magnitudes within reason68
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions67
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts66
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives65
Signaling through timing of stock splits63
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.61
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation56
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence53
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions52
Leggso: Financing experimentation51
Learning and staged equity financing48
Editorial Board47
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme47
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk46
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms46
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency45
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts45
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?45
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets45
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan45
A review of DAO governance: Recent literature and emerging trends44
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions43
Director networks and firm value42
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