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Researcher · University of Chicago · United States

Ray Ball

Ray Ball publishes mostly in Accounting, Economics and Econometrics and Finance, on topics such as Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies and Corporate Finance and Governance.

ORCID 0000-0002-8210-1643 OpenAlex
World rank
#12,434
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,317
of 1,627,098
Works
255
Citations
33k
Citations per work
129.1
h-index
63
i10-index 124Top 0.1% in Accounting
Ray Ball

What does Ray Ball research?

Ray Ball's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (46%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (40%).

Social Sciences: 219 works · 85.8% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 117 works · 45.7% of their workAccounting: 84 works · 33.0% of their workStrategy and Management: 26 works · 10.0% of their workManagement Information Systems: 7 works · 2.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 102 works · 40.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 43 works · 16.7% of their workFinance: 37 works · 14.7% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 22 works · 8.7% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 14.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRay Ball255works
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 Accounting11745.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10240.1%
  2. Everything else3614.2%
  1. 1Accounting33% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics17% of their works
  3. 3Finance15% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management10% of their works
  5. 5General Economics, Econometrics and Finance9% of their works
  6. 6Management Information Systems3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ray Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Corporate Governance, Financial Reporting, Audit Committee, Earnings Management, Asset Pricing, Performance Measurement, Market Efficiency and Stock Returns.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Governance1422 topics
  2. Financial Reporting982 topics
  3. Audit Committee851 topic
  4. Earnings Management851 topic
  5. Asset Pricing772 topics
  6. Performance Measurement622 topics
  7. Market Efficiency581 topic
  8. Stock Returns581 topic
  9. Investor Protection571 topic
  10. Ownership Structure571 topic
  11. Economic Value Added491 topic
  12. Shareholder Value491 topic
  13. Economic Growth472 topics
  14. Financial Crisis412 topics
  15. Aggregate Demand281 topic
  16. Income Distribution281 topic
  17. Liquidity191 topic
  18. Monetary Equilibrium191 topic
  19. Human Capital131 topic
  20. International Accounting Standards131 topic
  21. Management Control Systems131 topic
  22. Strategic Management131 topic

Where does Ray Ball work?

Ray Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ray Ball have?

OpenAlex counts 255 works and 32,921 citations for Ray Ball, an h-index of 63, ranking #12,434 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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