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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
How do retail investors respond to summary disclosure? Evidence from mutual fund factsheets385
Creditor control rights and executive bonus plans294
Innovation incentives and competition for corporate resources258
Social media analysts and sell-side analyst research230
Firm innovation and covenant tightness138
Climate-risk materiality and firm risk138
Did FIN 48 improve the mapping between tax expense and future cash taxes?129
Uncertainty about managerial horizon and voluntary disclosure121
Why did the Big Four get so large? Evidence from Australia106
Gross versus net balance sheet presentation of offsetting derivatives assets and liabilities100
The productivity effect of digital financial reporting97
Actions speak louder than words: environmental law enforcement and audit fees89
Auditor-provided nonpublic signals of misreporting and CFO dismissal78
Which multiples matter in M &A? An overview67
Investor protection, aggregate changes in profit margins and forecasts of growth in GDP: international evidence67
Voluntary disclosures and monetary policy: evidence from quantitative easing65
Geographic connections to China and insider trading at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic58
Crypto-influencers55
All losses are not alike: Real versus accounting-driven reported losses53
When do firms use one set of books in an international tax compliance game?51
Risk information, investor learning, and informational feedback50
Representations and warranties insurance in mergers and acquisitions48
Strategic syndication: is bad news shared in loan syndicates?40
The explanatory power of explanatory variables39
Voluntary disclosures by activist investors: the role of activist expectations*38
Something in the air: does air pollution affect fund managers’ carbon divestment?37
Diversity targets36
When attention is away, analysts misplay: distraction and analyst forecast performance35
When doing good for society is good for shareholders: importance of alignment between strategy and CSR performance32
Does automation improve financial reporting? Evidence from internal controls31
The impact of standard setting on individual investors: evidence from SFAS 10930
Accounting choice in measurement and comparability: an examination of the effect of the fair value option30
Board bias, information, and investment efficiency29
Political information flow and management guidance28
Inventory planning and tax incentives for charitable giving28
Outside directors’ insider trading around board meetings26
Green dies in darkness? environmental externalities of newspaper closures25
Activist directors: determinants and consequences25
Market and regulatory implications of social identity cohorts: a discussion of crypto influencers25
Mistaking bad news for good news: investor optimism and mispricing of strategic alternatives announcements24
Unexpected defaults: the role of information opacity24
The value of equal access to mandatory disclosure: evidence from the Great Postal Strike of 197024
Analyst information about peer firms during the IPO quiet period24
Is hiring fast a good sign? The informativeness of job vacancy duration for future firm profitability24
Transparency and divestment: the impact of a public database about insurers’ carbon-intensive investments on their portfolio choices23
Other comprehensive income, its components, and analysts’ forecasts23
Predictable EPS growth and the performance of value investing23
Valuation uncertainty and analysts’ use of DCF models22
National culture and analysts’ forecasting22
Walking the walk? Bank ESG disclosures and home mortgage lending21
When are concurrent quarterly reports useful for investors? Evidence from ASC 60620
Investment portfolio management to meet or beat earnings expectations20
An analysis of net-outcome contracting with applications to equity-based compensation19
On the tax efficiency of startup firms19
Information acquisition costs and price informativeness: global evidence18
Human bias in the oversight of firms: evidence from workplace safety violations18
Correction to: Collusive versus coercive corporate corruption: evidence from demand-side shocks and supply-side disclosures18
No news is bad news: local news intensity and firms’ information environments17
The monitoring role of social media15
Is artificial intelligence improving the audit process?15
Private disclosure and myopia: evidence from the JOBS act14
Material changes in accounting estimates and the usefulness of earnings14
Riding the merger wave: the gatekeeping role of auditors14
The gender effects of COVID: evidence from equity analysts14
The role of external regulators in mergers and acquisitions: evidence from SEC comment letters13
Corporate stakeholders and CEO-worker pay gap: evidence from CEO pay ratio disclosure13
Born to behave: Home CEOs and financial misconduct*13
The effect of PCAOB inspections on corporate innovation: evidence from deficiencies about the valuation of intangibles13
When do firms deliver on the jobs they promise in return for state aid?13
Analyst following and R&D investment13
Exposure to superstar firms and financial distress13
Credit risk assessment and executives’ legal expertise13
Overprecise forecasts13
Computing corporate bond returns: a word (or two) of caution13
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