Review of Accounting Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Review of Accounting Studies is 13. 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
How do retail investors respond to summary disclosure? Evidence from mutual fund factsheets310
Firm innovation and covenant tightness248
Can short sellers constrain aggressive non-GAAP reporting?203
Social media analysts and sell-side analyst research166
Innovation incentives and competition for corporate resources120
Creditor control rights and executive bonus plans116
Climate-risk materiality and firm risk109
Actions speak louder than words: environmental law enforcement and audit fees107
Why did the Big Four get so large? Evidence from Australia83
Did FIN 48 improve the mapping between tax expense and future cash taxes?81
Gross versus net balance sheet presentation of offsetting derivatives assets and liabilities80
Uncertainty about managerial horizon and voluntary disclosure67
The productivity effect of digital financial reporting59
Geographic connections to China and insider trading at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic57
Voluntary disclosures and monetary policy: evidence from quantitative easing55
Investor protection, aggregate changes in profit margins and forecasts of growth in GDP: international evidence52
How do most low ETR firms avoid paying taxes?51
Crypto-influencers46
All losses are not alike: Real versus accounting-driven reported losses43
Which multiples matter in M &A? An overview43
Executive equity incentives and opportunistic manager behavior: new evidence from a quasi-natural experiment43
Voluntary disclosures by activist investors: the role of activist expectations*38
Social media, signaling, and donations: testing the financial returns on nonprofits’ social media investment35
Does automation improve financial reporting? Evidence from internal controls34
Strategic syndication: is bad news shared in loan syndicates?32
When doing good for society is good for shareholders: importance of alignment between strategy and CSR performance31
Risk information, investor learning, and informational feedback31
When do firms use one set of books in an international tax compliance game?31
The explanatory power of explanatory variables30
Representations and warranties insurance in mergers and acquisitions28
Diversity targets26
Something in the air: does air pollution affect fund managers’ carbon divestment?24
Accounting choice in measurement and comparability: an examination of the effect of the fair value option24
When attention is away, analysts misplay: distraction and analyst forecast performance24
Political information flow and management guidance24
The impact of standard setting on individual investors: evidence from SFAS 10924
Market and regulatory implications of social identity cohorts: a discussion of crypto influencers23
Activist directors: determinants and consequences23
Outside directors’ insider trading around board meetings23
Inventory planning and tax incentives for charitable giving23
Green dies in darkness? environmental externalities of newspaper closures22
Board bias, information, and investment efficiency22
Analyst information about peer firms during the IPO quiet period21
Unexpected defaults: the role of information opacity20
Correction to: using accounting earnings and aggregate economic indicators to estimate firm-level systematic risk20
When are concurrent quarterly reports useful for investors? Evidence from ASC 60620
Predictable EPS growth and the performance of value investing20
Valuation uncertainty and analysts’ use of DCF models20
Is hiring fast a good sign? The informativeness of job vacancy duration for future firm profitability20
The value of equal access to mandatory disclosure: evidence from the Great Postal Strike of 197018
Walking the walk? Bank ESG disclosures and home mortgage lending18
An analysis of net-outcome contracting with applications to equity-based compensation18
Other comprehensive income, its components, and analysts’ forecasts18
No news is bad news: local news intensity and firms’ information environments18
National culture and analysts’ forecasting18
Investment portfolio management to meet or beat earnings expectations18
Brokerage trading volume and analysts’ earnings forecasts: a conflict of interest?17
On the tax efficiency of startup firms17
Correction to: Collusive versus coercive corporate corruption: evidence from demand-side shocks and supply-side disclosures17
Information acquisition costs and price informativeness: global evidence16
Human bias in the oversight of firms: evidence from workplace safety violations16
The monitoring role of social media16
Material changes in accounting estimates and the usefulness of earnings15
Is artificial intelligence improving the audit process?15
When do firms deliver on the jobs they promise in return for state aid?15
Riding the merger wave: the gatekeeping role of auditors14
Credit risk assessment and executives’ legal expertise14
Private disclosure and myopia: evidence from the JOBS act14
The gender effects of COVID: evidence from equity analysts14
The role of external regulators in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from SEC comment letters14
Analyst following and R&D investment13
The effect of PCAOB inspections on corporate innovation: evidence from deficiencies about the valuation of intangibles13
Overprecise forecasts13
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