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Researcher · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · China

Michael A. Firth

Michael A. Firth publishes mostly in Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#9,390
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#487
of 978,568
Works
274
Citations
19k
Citations per work
68.8
h-index
67
i10-index 167Top 0.1% in Accounting
Michael A. Firth

What does Michael A. Firth research?

Michael A. Firth's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (57%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (27%), Social Sciences (2%).

Social Sciences: 236 works · 86.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 155 works · 56.7% of their workAccounting: 131 works · 47.7% of their workStrategy and Management: 25 works · 9.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 73 works · 26.8% of their workFinance: 43 works · 15.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 24 works · 8.7% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 works · 2.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 2.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 38 works · 14.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael A. Firth274works
Social Sciences86%

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 Accounting15556.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7326.8%
    3. Social Sciences72.5%
  2. Everything else3814.0%
  1. 1Accounting48% of their works
  2. 2Finance16% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management9% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science2% of their works
  6. 6General Economics, Econometrics and Finance2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael A. Firth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Corporate Governance, Financial Constraints, Investor Protection, Ownership Structure, Financial Reporting, Audit Committee, Earnings Management and Asset Pricing.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Governance2652 topics
  2. Financial Constraints1602 topics
  3. Investor Protection1461 topic
  4. Ownership Structure1461 topic
  5. Financial Reporting1372 topics
  6. Audit Committee1191 topic
  7. Earnings Management1191 topic
  8. Asset Pricing641 topic
  9. Stock Returns641 topic
  10. Financial Performance582 topics
  11. Economic Value Added441 topic
  12. Shareholder Value441 topic
  13. Regulation342 topics
  14. Banking181 topic
  15. Corporate Tax181 topic
  16. Finance181 topic
  17. Tax Avoidance181 topic
  18. Corruption161 topic
  19. Governance161 topic
  20. Trade Credit141 topic
  21. Working Capital Management141 topic

Where does Michael A. Firth work?

Michael A. Firth's main affiliation in the publication record is Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.

How many publications and citations does Michael A. Firth have?

OpenAlex counts 274 works and 18,863 citations for Michael A. Firth, an h-index of 67, ranking #9,390 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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