Review of Accounting Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Review of Accounting Studies is 12. 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.)
ArticleCitations
How do retail investors respond to summary disclosure? Evidence from mutual fund factsheets354
Innovation incentives and competition for corporate resources180
Why do critical audit matters lack teeth? Insights from auditors’ implementation experiences149
Firm innovation and covenant tightness126
Creditor control rights and executive bonus plans102
Climate-risk materiality and firm risk89
Did FIN 48 improve the mapping between tax expense and future cash taxes?86
Improving the production and reviewing of design science research in accounting81
Gross versus net balance sheet presentation of offsetting derivatives assets and liabilities76
National security-related foreign investment screening laws and investment efficiency72
The productivity effect of digital financial reporting52
Why did the Big Four get so large? Evidence from Australia51
All losses are not alike: Real versus accounting-driven reported losses49
Actions speak louder than words: environmental law enforcement and audit fees49
Voluntary disclosures and monetary policy: evidence from quantitative easing43
Investor distraction and multi-dimensional financial narrative42
Auditor-provided nonpublic signals of misreporting and CFO dismissal41
Which multiples matter in M &A? An overview41
Investor protection, aggregate changes in profit margins and forecasts of growth in GDP: international evidence37
Crypto-influencers36
ASC 606, revenue uncertainty, and cost of debt: short-term and long-term consequences35
Geographic connections to China and insider trading at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic35
Representations and warranties insurance in mergers and acquisitions33
Something in the air: does air pollution affect fund managers’ carbon divestment?33
Voluntary disclosures by activist investors: the role of activist expectations*33
Beyond disclosure: Can firms be forced to spend their way to social responsibility?32
The explanatory power of explanatory variables32
Risk information, investor learning, and informational feedback32
Does automation improve financial reporting? Evidence from internal controls31
When attention is away, analysts misplay: distraction and analyst forecast performance29
Strategic syndication: is bad news shared in loan syndicates?29
Diversity targets28
Inventory planning and tax incentives for charitable giving26
Who reports cryptocurrency to the IRS?24
The impact of standard setting on individual investors: evidence from SFAS 10924
Accounting choice in measurement and comparability: an examination of the effect of the fair value option23
Market and regulatory implications of social identity cohorts: a discussion of crypto influencers23
Securities class action is coming to “town”: the effect of a milestone lawsuit in China23
Outside directors’ insider trading around board meetings22
Board bias, information, and investment efficiency22
Activist directors: determinants and consequences21
Transparency and divestment: the impact of a public database about insurers’ carbon-intensive investments on their portfolio choices21
Green dies in darkness? environmental externalities of newspaper closures21
The value of equal access to mandatory disclosure: evidence from the Great Postal Strike of 197020
Mistaking bad news for good news: investor optimism and mispricing of strategic alternatives announcements20
The PCAOB inspections process over global network firms: synthesizing the perspective of former inspectors with prior research19
Unexpected defaults: the role of information opacity19
When are concurrent quarterly reports useful for investors? Evidence from ASC 60618
Predictable EPS growth and the performance of value investing18
Analyst information about peer firms during the IPO quiet period17
Controlling the narrative: managers’ topic-shifting behavior in conference calls17
Gender bias and female analyst performance: evidence from the #MeToo movement16
Investment portfolio management to meet or beat earnings expectations16
National culture and analysts’ forecasting16
Information acquisition costs and price informativeness: global evidence16
The monitoring role of social media16
No news is bad news: local news intensity and firms’ information environments16
Is hiring fast a good sign? The informativeness of job vacancy duration for future firm profitability16
Human bias in the oversight of firms: evidence from workplace safety violations16
Material changes in accounting estimates and the usefulness of earnings15
The spillover effect of private firm disclosure on public firms’ loan pricing14
When do firms deliver on the jobs they promise in return for state aid?14
Sound analysis? Investing podcasts and investor information processing14
Credit risk assessment and executives’ legal expertise13
Individual investors’ paid news subscriptions13
The gender effects of COVID: evidence from equity analysts13
The role of external regulators in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from SEC comment letters13
Riding the merger wave: the gatekeeping role of auditors13
Exposure to superstar firms and financial distress12
Analyst following and R&D investment12
The effect of PCAOB inspections on corporate innovation: evidence from deficiencies about the valuation of intangibles12
Corporate stakeholders and CEO-worker pay gap: evidence from CEO pay ratio disclosure12
Overprecise forecasts12
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