Journal of Corporate Finance

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Insider pledging: Its information content and forced sale374
Long-term institutional investors and climate change news Beta213
Can employee welfare policies insure workers against fluctuations in employment?168
Pre-IPO hype by affiliated analysts: Motives and consequences137
Greening through trade133
Buffing firm innovation by lobbying116
Product market competition with CDS88
Imbalanced ESG investing?86
Labor unions and real earnings management83
Non-financial corporations and systemic risk83
Corporate ownership and ESG performance80
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China70
Mergers and acquisitions with private equity intermediation66
Board directors' foreign experience and firm dividend payouts64
Have banks caught corona? Effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.62
Venture capitalist directors and managerial incentives61
Zombie lending due to the fear of fire sales60
Economic magnitudes within reason59
Quantifying the legacy of trauma: The long-term impact of the African slave trade on contemporary firm corruption56
Interest rate uncertainty and the investment/financing decisions56
Signaling through timing of stock splits56
Earnings announcements in China: Overnight-intraday disparity56
Right-to-Work laws and corporate innovation55
The real impacts of third-party certification on green bond issuances: Evidence from the Chinese green bond market55
Corporate divestitures around acquisitions55
Exposures to common shocks along supply chains and relative performance evaluation in CEO compensation contracts53
Do options trading activities affect underlying firms' asymmetric cost behavior?52
Serving multiple ‘masters’: Evidence from the loan decisions of a publicly listed state-owned bank around a massive economic stimulus programme51
Learning and staged equity financing51
Anti-collusion leniency legislations and IPO activity: Worldwide evidence49
Inventory investment and the choice of financing: Does financial development play a role?49
Leggso: Financing experimentation47
Editorial Board47
Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets46
Bank market power and financial reporting quality46
CEO overconfidence and bondholder wealth effects: Evidence from mergers and acquisitions44
Government contracts and labor investment efficiency43
Institutional voids and business group dynamics: Evidence from judicial reform in China42
Taking no chances: Lender concentration and corporate acquisitions42
Local religiosity and financial advisor misconduct41
Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms40
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