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Researcher · University of West Georgia · United States

Ronald W. Best

Ronald W. Best publishes mostly in Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Corporate Finance and Governance and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance.

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World rank
#4,428,049
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,182,269
of 1,627,098
Works
41
Citations
539
Citations per work
13.1
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 28% in Accounting
Ronald W. Best

What does Ronald W. Best research?

Ronald W. Best's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (48%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (47%), Social Sciences (1%).

Social Sciences: 39 works · 95.8% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 20 works · 47.9% of their workAccounting: 15 works · 35.4% of their workStrategy and Management: 5 works · 12.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 works · 46.9% of their workFinance: 14 works · 34.4% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 9.4% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 works · 3.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 0 works · 1.0% of their workDevelopment: 0 works · 1.0% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRonald W. Best41works
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 Accounting2047.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1946.9%
    3. Social Sciences01.0%
  2. Everything else24.2%
  1. 1Accounting35% of their works
  2. 2Finance34% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management12% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics9% of their works
  5. 5General Economics, Econometrics and Finance3% of their works
  6. 6Development1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ronald W. Best's research?

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

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 Governance312 topics
  2. Asset Pricing231 topic
  3. Stock Returns231 topic
  4. Investor Protection181 topic
  5. Ownership Structure181 topic
  6. Financial Performance142 topics
  7. Earnings Management131 topic
  8. Financial Reporting131 topic
  9. Economic Value Added111 topic
  10. Shareholder Value111 topic
  11. Monetary Policy72 topics
  12. Regulation72 topics
  13. Economic Growth62 topics
  14. Banking41 topic
  15. Finance41 topic
  16. Financial Development31 topic
  17. Fiscal Policy31 topic
  18. Insurance31 topic
  19. Risk Management31 topic
  20. Financial Literacy21 topic
  21. Retirement Planning21 topic

Where does Ronald W. Best work?

Ronald W. Best's main affiliation in the publication record is University of West Georgia, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ronald W. Best have?

OpenAlex counts 41 works and 539 citations for Ronald W. Best, an h-index of 10, ranking #4,428,049 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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