Editorial board member for Accounting and Business Research
2024 BYU Author Citation Ranking (including data from the past 12 years): ranked in the top 12% globally among 2,951 archival financial accounting researchers with at least one top-tier accounting publication.
2024 BYU Author Altmetric Ranking, which measures policy and social research influence across multiple disciplines (including data from the past 12 years): I am ranked in the top 8% globally among 1,647 archival financial accounting researchers with a non-zero Altmetric Score and 9th in Asia.
Ranking of Accounting Individual Scholars by Altmetric (based on published articles from 1990 to 2015): the 1st in Asia, the 3rd outside the US, and the 17th globally—Reference: Table 9, Burton, Summers, Wilks, and Wood (2021), https://publications.aaahq.org/iae/article-abstract/36/1/1/8184/Do-We-Matter-Attention-the-General-Public
Co-authored paper ‘Masculinity, testosterone, and financial misreporting’ has garnered substantial attention from the public and policymakers, as indicated by its high Altmetric score, placing it in the top 5% of all research outputs
Wiley recognized my co-authored paper, ‘Facial structure and achievement drive: evidence from financial analysts’ by awarding it Top Cited Article and Top Downloaded Paper, based on its citations and downloads within the first 12 months after its acceptance and publication, respectively.
2020 BYU Accounting Research Ranking: A custom ranking based on the Top-3 Accounting Journal publication (including data from the past 6 years)—the 3rd in Asia (jointly held by 13 Asian scholars) and the 6th globally (jointly held by 74 scholars) in archival financial accounting research
2019 BYU Accounting Research Ranking: A custom ranking based on the Top-3 Accounting Journal publication (including data from the past 6 years)—the 2nd in Asia (jointly held by 11 Asian scholars) and the 6th globally (jointly held by 61 scholars) in archival financial accounting research
Best Paper Award at Nordic Accounting Conference: my co-authored paper "CEO equity compensation and financial misreporting: evidence from the motive of misreporting” (currently titled "Measuring misreporting incentives and severity")
Co-authored paper “Accounting comparability and the accuracy of peer-based valuation models” has been discussed in the Expert Group on the International Accounting Standards (IAS) Regulation
Research member of the INTACCT, a research network promoting a scientific research program related to IFRS in Europe (granted by the European Commission)—see reports at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/35850/reporting
Keynote Presentation: ISBF Summer School: Frontiers of Academia and Research Methodologies, “Multi-disciplinary Research in Accounting and Finance,” Sun Yat-sen University, China (2019)
Top reviewer on Publons for The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Accounting Forum
Academic Research Fund Tier 1, Singapore Ministry of Education, “'People-thing orientations and business in the new economy”, SGD 81,270. (Principal Investigator) (2023)
Academic Research Fund Tier 1, Singapore Ministry of Education, “Equity Analysts’ Comments on Managerial Personnel: News or Noise”, SGD 72,956.42. (Principal Investigator) (2017, completed)
2021 Research Excellence Award ( NTU)
EU Marie Curie IHP Grant, The European IFRS revolution: Compliance, consequences and policy lessons (INTACCT), EU, 6th Framework Program (Collaborator) (2008-2010)
Grant for the 25th EAA Doctoral Colloquium, Tampere, Finland (2009)
EIASM Grant for EDEN Seminar on Empirical Financial Accounting Research, Brussels, Belgium (2006)
LUMS Scholarship, Lancaster University Management School (2005-2008)
Wenjiao (Amanda) Cao, 2018, placement: Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
Lu Chen, 2022, placement: Xiamen University (China)
Long Niu, expected to graduate in 2025
Jin Zhang, 2017, placement: Monash University (Australia)
Yusiyu Wang (external), 2019 (industry)
Xi Xiong, 2022, placement: Wuhan University (China)
Hang Yu, 2022, placement: Central University of Finance and Economics (China)
Xiaoxu Yu, 2022, placement: Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (China)
Visiting Scholar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2022, 2023)
Visiting Scholar, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne (2016, 2018)
Short-term visit, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt (2018)
Short-term visit, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (2017)
Visiting Scholar, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France (2010)
Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS), Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Forum, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Accounting Research (JAR), Journal of Banking and Finance, Managerial Auditing Journal, Management Science (MS), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, The Accounting Review (TAR), The International Journal of Accounting
Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (External Reviewer)
American Accounting Association International Accounting Mid-Year Conference
American Accounting Association Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section
European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress
International Symposium on Audit Research
Illinois International Accounting Symposium & NBS Accounting Conference
Fall Camp at Tilburg University