OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?	187
Corporate green revenue and syndicated loan pricing	123
Bank municipal bond holdings and mortgage lending standards	109
Imbalanced ESG investing?	107
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China	107
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale	107
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying	103
Greening through trade	85
The role of growth strategies in acquisitions	82
Social interactions in investment decisions: Evidence from fund managers' common site visits	81
Editorial Board	78
Labor unions and real earnings management	76
Corporate ownership and ESG performance	75
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences	74
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta	74
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation	68
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales	67
Signaling through timing of stock splits	66
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity	62
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives	62
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption	61
Real estate collateral, lender screening, and M&A performance	59
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions	58
Editorial Board	57
Do director ownership plans change director behavior?	55

Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation	54
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts	52
Economic magnitudes within reason	52
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market	49
Do creditor rights reduce tunneling? Evidence from India’s bankruptcy law reforms	47
Editorial Board	46
Corporate socio-political activism and retail investors: Evidence from the Black Lives Matter campaign	46
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets	46
“Death becomes her”: Market reaction to the death of controlling inside blockholders	45
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms	45
Local peer effects and corporate investment	45
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions	45
Islamic bonds ratings and the price of risk	44
Do bank shocks affect physical or R&D investments more? Evidence from Japan	43
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China	43
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions	42
Political uncertainty and institutional herding	42
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts	42