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Researcher · University of Southern California · United States

Mark L. DeFond

Mark L. DeFond publishes mostly in Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Corporate Finance and Governance and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies.

ORCID 0000-0001-5822-5286 OpenAlex
World rank
#25,462
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,519
of 1,627,098
Works
96
Citations
25k
Citations per work
262.7
h-index
47
i10-index 68Top 0.5% in Accounting
Mark L. DeFond

What does Mark L. DeFond research?

Mark L. DeFond's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (75%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (20%), Social Sciences (1%).

Social Sciences: 92 works · 95.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 72 works · 75.2% of their workAccounting: 58 works · 60.9% of their workStrategy and Management: 11 works · 11.3% of their workManagement Information Systems: 3 works · 3.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 works · 19.6% of their workFinance: 16 works · 16.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 3.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 0.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 0.8% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMark L. DeFond96works
Social Sciences96%

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. Business, Management and Accounting7275.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1919.6%
    3. Social Sciences10.8%
  2. Everything else44.4%
  1. 1Accounting61% of their works
  2. 2Finance16% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management11% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics3% of their works
  5. 5Management Information Systems3% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark L. DeFond's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Corporate Governance, Earnings Management, Financial Reporting, Investor Protection, Ownership Structure, Asset Pricing, Stock Returns and Performance Measurement.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Governance1483 topics
  2. Earnings Management861 topic
  3. Financial Reporting861 topic
  4. Investor Protection571 topic
  5. Ownership Structure571 topic
  6. Asset Pricing321 topic
  7. Stock Returns321 topic
  8. Performance Measurement312 topics
  9. Economic Value Added241 topic
  10. Shareholder Value241 topic
  11. Credit Spread Changes101 topic
  12. Default Risk101 topic
  13. Management Control Systems71 topic
  14. Strategic Management71 topic
  15. Bankruptcy Prediction51 topic
  16. Credit Scoring51 topic
  17. Derivatives51 topic
  18. Hedging51 topic

Where does Mark L. DeFond work?

Mark L. DeFond's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Southern California, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mark L. DeFond have?

OpenAlex counts 96 works and 25,218 citations for Mark L. DeFond, an h-index of 47, ranking #25,462 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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