Contemporary Accounting Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Contemporary Accounting Research is 28. 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
352
Political incentives and analyst bias: Evidence from China154
Climatic disasters and distracted analysts114
Managerial performance evaluation and organizational form108
The Effect of SEC Reviewers on Comment Letters*90
Reporting misstatements as revisions: An evaluation of managers' use of materiality discretion56
Disclosure to competitors in light of endogenous firm investments48
Peer effects in subjective performance evaluation47
Is There a Brain Drain in Auditing? The Determinants and Consequences of Auditors Leaving Public Accounting*47
The Impact of Managerial Discretion in Revenue Recognition: A Reexamination*45
Manager narcissism, target difficulty, and employee dysfunctional behavior45
The Relevance of Non‐Income Tax Relief*45
Relative Performance Evaluation and Earnings Management*44
Aggregate tone and gross domestic product41
Promoting proactive auditing behaviors40
The effect of securities litigation risk on firm value and disclosure39
Reporting bias and feedback effect39
Overloaded and overwhelmed: Weakened partner aspirations of women public accountants during the COVID‐19 pandemic38
The Effect of Reporting Opacity on Trading Opacity: New Evidence from American Depositary Receipt Trades in Dark Pools*33
Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation*32
Behavioral Economics of Accounting: A Review of Archival Research on Individual Decision Makers*32
31
FinBERT: A Large Language Model for Extracting Information from Financial Text*31
30
What Determines Effective Tax Rates? The Relative Influence of Tax and Other Factors*†29
Accounting as a Normalizing Tool for Transitional Dirtiness: The Case of theUS Adult‐UseCannabis Industry*29
Analysts' Book Value Forecasts: Initial Evidence from the Perspective of Real‐Options‐Based Valuation*28
Evidence‐Informed Audit Standard Setting: Exploring Evidence Use and Knowledge Transfer*28
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