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Researcher · University of Chicago · United States

Kenneth R. French

Kenneth R. French publishes mostly in Finance, Accounting and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Corporate Finance and Governance and Financial Reporting and Valuation Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#9,097
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,130
of 1,627,098
Works
134
Citations
133k
Citations per work
994.9
h-index
73
i10-index 99Top 0.2% in Finance
Kenneth R. French

What does Kenneth R. French research?

Kenneth R. French's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (57%), Business, Management and Accounting (34%), Decision Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 126 works · 94.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 76 works · 56.9% of their workFinance: 46 works · 34.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 20 works · 15.0% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 works · 7.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 46 works · 34.4% of their workAccounting: 33 works · 24.4% of their workStrategy and Management: 13 works · 10.0% of their workDecision Sciences: 4 works · 2.8% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth R. French134works
Social Sciences94%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7656.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting4634.4%
    3. Decision Sciences42.8%
  2. Everything else85.9%
  1. 1Finance35% of their works
  2. 2Accounting24% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics15% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management10% of their works
  5. 5General Economics, Econometrics and Finance7% of their works
  6. 6Management Science and Operations Research3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth R. French's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Asset Pricing, Stock Returns, Corporate Governance, Investor Protection, Ownership Structure, Monetary Policy, Economic Value Added and Shareholder Value.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Asset Pricing901 topic
  2. Stock Returns901 topic
  3. Corporate Governance752 topics
  4. Investor Protection481 topic
  5. Ownership Structure481 topic
  6. Monetary Policy392 topics
  7. Economic Value Added351 topic
  8. Shareholder Value351 topic
  9. Earnings Management271 topic
  10. Financial Reporting271 topic
  11. Economic Growth211 topic
  12. Fiscal Policy211 topic
  13. Economic Policy Uncertainty181 topic
  14. Oil Price Shocks181 topic
  15. Housing Supply171 topic
  16. Mortgage Credit Expansion171 topic
  17. Stock Market Prediction81 topic
  18. Time Series Forecasting81 topic

Where does Kenneth R. French work?

Kenneth R. French's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth R. French have?

OpenAlex counts 134 works and 133,320 citations for Kenneth R. French, an h-index of 73, ranking #9,097 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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