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Researcher · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · China

Walid Saffar

Walid Saffar publishes mostly in Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management, on topics such as Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency.

ORCID 0000-0003-2166-807X OpenAlex
World rank
#43,574
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#3,099
of 978,568
Works
84
Citations
6.2k
Citations per work
74.0
h-index
31
i10-index 45Top 2% in Accounting
Walid Saffar

What does Walid Saffar research?

Walid Saffar's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (64%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (25%), Social Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 79 works · 93.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 54 works · 64.3% of their workAccounting: 45 works · 53.4% of their workStrategy and Management: 9 works · 10.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 21 works · 24.8% of their workFinance: 14 works · 17.2% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 works · 7.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 4.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 4.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 2.1% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 2.1% of their workInformation Systems: 2 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKWalid Saffar84works
Physical Sciences2%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. Business, Management and Accounting5464.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2124.8%
    3. Social Sciences44.6%
  2. Everything else44.2%
    1. Computer Science22.1%
  1. 1Accounting53% of their works
  2. 2Finance17% of their works
  3. 3Strategy and Management11% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walid Saffar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Corporate Governance, Firm Performance, Investor Protection, Ownership Structure, Financial Reporting, Regulation, Audit Committee and Earnings Management.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Corporate Governance1184 topics
  2. Firm Performance842 topics
  3. Investor Protection661 topic
  4. Ownership Structure661 topic
  5. Financial Reporting372 topics
  6. Regulation292 topics
  7. Audit Committee261 topic
  8. Earnings Management261 topic
  9. Banking201 topic
  10. Finance201 topic
  11. Corporate Lobbying181 topic
  12. Political Connections181 topic
  13. Corporate Tax111 topic
  14. Tax Avoidance111 topic
  15. Asset Pricing101 topic
  16. Stock Returns101 topic
  17. Corruption91 topic
  18. Governance91 topic
  19. Start-Up Firms81 topic
  20. Venture Capital81 topic

Where does Walid Saffar work?

Walid Saffar's main affiliation in the publication record is Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.

How many publications and citations does Walid Saffar have?

OpenAlex counts 84 works and 6,215 citations for Walid Saffar, an h-index of 31, ranking #43,574 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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