Journal of Corporate Finance

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Corporate Finance is 46. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Personal financial incentives, corporate governance, and firms’ campaign contributions341
Explaining the involvement and investment of women in business angel groups: The impact of organizational context and investment experience284
Adoption of central bank digital currencies: Initial evidence from China273
Corporate ownership and ESG performance266
Political corruption, Dodd–Frank whistleblowing, and debt financing161
Dark trading volume and market quality: A natural experiment155
Executive compensation and secured debt: Evidence from REITs153
The internal labor markets of business groups149
Short seller attention136
Fictitious dividend cuts in the CRSP data128
Editorial Board126
Product market competition with CDS121
Editorial Board115
Regional redistribution through SBA guaranteed loan programs105
Callable or convertible debt? The role of debt overhang and covenants102
Director self-dealing: Evidence from compensation peer groups101
Ancestral connections and corporate alliances94
Editorial Board89
JCF special issue on private equity editorial89
Do firms manage their share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?85
Information transfer of CEO turnover: Evidence from firm-CEO mismatch81
Corporate financial policy: What really matters?80
Why do investment banks buy put options from companies?80
Corporate opacity and effectiveness of independent female directors78
CEO risk-seeking and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from pilot CEOs75
Do corporate lawyers matter? Evidence from patents75
Debt maturity structure and the quality of risk disclosures74
Too much of a good thing? Corporate social responsibility and the takeover market70
Foreign institutional ownership externalities and supplier innovation70
Do CEO beliefs affect corporate cash holdings?69
Trademarks and the cost of equity capital67
Does gender diversity on banks' boards matter? Evidence from public bailouts65
Judicial independence and crash risk: Evidence from a natural experiment in China60
The spillover effect of advertising on the capital market: Evidence from financial constraints60
Labor unions and real earnings management58
Peer-level analyst transitions57
Borrowing from government owned banks & firm's liquidation risk56
Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing––Evidence from environmental courts56
Managerial activism55
Concierge treatment from banks: Evidence from the paycheck protection program53
Corporate insider purchases and the options market: Competition among informed investors51
Pension risk and corporate investment distortion51
When CEOs adapt: An investigation of manager experience, policy and performance following recessions51
IPO withdrawals: Are corporate governance and VC characteristics the guiding light in the rough sea of volatile markets?49
Overlapping institutional ownership along the supply chain and earnings management of supplier firms49
The finance of climate change47
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