Rankings & Awards

Research rankings

• Ranked #2 Highly Ranked Scholar - Prior Five Years in Corporate Finance (ScholarGPS)

• Ranked #2 (tied) most prolific author in Cultural Finance (Goodell et al., 2023)

• Top author in the Journal of Corporate Finance between 2014 and 2018 (Baker et al., 2021)

• Ranked #161 most prolific author in top ten finance journals from 1946 to 2020 (Chung and Lee, 2022)

• Ranked #129 in Finance in 2022 among the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (Baas, Boyack, and Ioannidis)

• Ranked #397 in the top 10% of authors (Last 10 years publications) in 2023 (IDEAS)

• Ranked #49 in Canada and #1971 in the world in the field of Economics and Finance (based on D-index) in 2023 (Research.com)

• Ranked in the top 10% of authors based on all-time downloads (SSRN, 2017-)

Awards

• Award for best empirical research at the American Accounting Association’s 27th Annual Ethics Research Symposium (2023)

•  Award for best paper at the Sustainable Financial Innovation Centre (SFiC) Conference on Sustainability, Climate Change and Financial Innovation (2022)

•  Award for best paper at the International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (2022)

•  Award for best paper at the Frontiers of Business Research in China International Conference (2019)

•  Award for best paper in financial institutions at the Southwestern Finance Association Conference (2019)

•  Emerald Best Research Paper award at the India Finance Conference (2018)

•  Award for best paper in emerging economies research at the Academy of International Business (AIB) Meeting (2018)

•  Award for best young scholar paper at the Frontiers of Business Research in China International conference (2018) (awarded to R. Chen).

•  Top reviewers list at Journal of Business Ethics (2018)

• Martha Cook Piper Research Prize (2017)

•  Award for best paper at the 6th World Business Ethics Forum (2016)

• Award for best paper at the Tunisian Accounting and Finance Professors’ Association of North America (TAFPANA) Conference (2016)

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies Best Reviewer (2015)

• Outstanding contribution in reviewing for Finance Research Letters (2018), Journal of Economics & Business (2018), Journal of Banking & Finance (2015, 2017), Review of Financial Economics (2017), International Review of Financial Analysis (2017), and Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2016).

• McCalla Professorship (2013-2014)

• Korea Development Bank outstanding paper award at the Conference on Asia–Pacific Financial Markets (2013)

• Hyundai Securities outstanding paper award at the Conference on Asia–Pacific Financial Markets (2012)

• Award for best paper in banking and finance at the European Business Research Conference (2012)

• Award for excellence in research at Campus Saint-Jean (2012)

• Award for best paper in financial institutions at the Southwestern Finance Association Conference (2012)

• Moskowitz Prize for best paper in socially responsible investing (2011)