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Corporate Taxation and Avoidance

Corporate Taxation and Avoidance is a research topic within Accounting. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 19.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on corporate tax avoidance strategies, including the use of high-powered incentives, the behavior of multinational firms, financial reporting practices, transfer pricing, and the impact of tax shelters. It also explores the relationship between tax planning and corporate social responsibility, as well as the influence of tax policies on investment behavior.

  • Tax Avoidance
  • Corporate Tax
  • Incentives
  • Multinational Firms
  • Financial Reporting
  • Transfer Pricing
  • Tax Shelters
  • International Taxation
  • Social Responsibility
  • Investment Behavior
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+33%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Corporate Taxation and Avoidance research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 798 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Indonesia 2.2k works
  2. 2 United States 798 works
  3. 3 China 580 works
  4. 4 Germany 301 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 176 works
  6. 6 Russia 171 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 132 works
  8. 8 Spain 131 works
  9. 9 Australia 122 works
  10. 10 France 103 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 46.2%United States: 17.1%China: 12.4%Germany: 6.4%6 others listed: 17.9%46%largest
Indonesia2,156 · 46.2%United States798 · 17.1%China580 · 12.4%Germany301 · 6.4%6 others listed835 · 17.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Corporate Taxation and Avoidance research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universitas Pamulang publishes the most Corporate Taxation and Avoidance research, followed by Universitas Trisakti and University of Indonesia.

Who are the leading researchers in Corporate Taxation and Avoidance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Corporate Taxation and Avoidance include Andrei Shleifer, Robert J. Barro and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Andrei Shleifer United States 10k citations
  2. 2 Robert J. Barro United States 7.9k citations
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 7.4k citations
  4. 4 Stephen Bond United Kingdom 4.5k citations
  5. 5 René M. Stulz United States 4.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Corporate Taxation and Avoidance research done?

The largest centres of Corporate Taxation and Avoidance research in 2022–2025 are Jakarta (Indonesia), Tangerang (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Banten, Leoben and Tangerang.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Jakarta Indonesia 465 works
  2. 2 Tangerang Indonesia 211 works
  3. 3 Bandung Indonesia 141 works
  4. 4 Surabaya Indonesia 112 works
  5. 5 Beijing China 110 works
  6. 6 Semarang Indonesia 103 works
  7. 7 Makassar Indonesia 94 works
  8. 8 Malang Indonesia 85 works
  9. 9 Moscow Russia 84 works
  10. 10 Depok Indonesia 75 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BantenID · 44.5 works125×
  2. LeobenAT · 47.8 works69×
  3. TangerangID · 210.5 works29×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Corporate Taxation and Avoidance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Corporate Taxation and Avoidance?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Sfax, Central University of Finance and Economics and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%25%50%mean 36.85%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Sfax: 12, 58.3%Central University of Finance and Economics: 15, 47.2%Southwestern University of Finance and Economics: 13, 52.7%Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics: 10, 59.0%University of Indonesia: 62, 16.6%Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics: 8, 53.2%Bucharest University of Economic Studies: 13, 23.0%Tilburg University: 10, 17.4%Universitas Patria Artha: 50, 4.6%Northern University of Malaysia: 8, 36.5%Zhejiang University …University of SfaxSouthwestern Univers…Central University o…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of SfaxTunisia 71.558.3%7.8×12 +288.9%
2 Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina 62.247.2%20.3×15 +63.8%
3 Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 61.552.7%14.2×13 +9.3%
4 Zhejiang University of Finance and EconomicsChina 58.959.0%22.2×10 -84.4%
5 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 58.016.6%8.1×62 +836.0%
6 Jiangxi University of Finance and EconomicsChina 56.253.2%15.6×8 -27.9%
7 Bucharest University of Economic StudiesRomania 55.723.0%11.9×13 +195.5%
8 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 55.117.4%10.0×10 +197.8%
9 Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 54.84.6%10.0×50 +1265.2%
10 Northern University of MalaysiaMalaysia 54.136.5%7.0×8 +324.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Corporate Taxation and Avoidance research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 33% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Corporate Taxation and Avoidance.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.