A quality-based global assessment of financial research

Nianhang Xu (), Kam C. Chan () and Chih-Hsiang Chang ()
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Nianhang Xu: Renmin University of China
Kam C. Chan: Western Kentucky University
Chih-Hsiang Chang: National University of Kaohsiung

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2016, vol. 46, issue 3, No 6, 605-631

Abstract: Abstract We conduct rankings on finance programs based on a rich database of citations for all articles from a set of 23 quality finance journals during 1990–2010. Our work represents a new perspective on the evaluation of faculty research as compared to the traditional counting of total number of publications in the literature. Our findings show that the top-five institutions are the University of Chicago, Harvard University, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University. In general, the top programs are able to produce a large number of high impact articles and a majority of their citations are drawn from premier finance journals. In addition, European and Asia–Pacific institutions are doing very well during the recent years. Our author assessment suggests that for an author with at least five normalized citations per year from articles that appeared in the 23 finance journals, she will be in the top 1.7 % of all authors.

Keywords: Research; Ranking; Quality; Google Scholar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 G10 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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