RCF 2025 Volume 5 Best Paper Award
$1000 prize
Slide announcing the prize, & status of RCF as at December 14, 2025
Chemmanur, Thomas J., Pengfei Ma, Chaopeng Wu, and Qianqian Yu, 2025. "Information Production by Institutions and Information Extraction by Underwriters in Hybrid IPO Auctions" Review of Corporate Finance (5:3-4) 291-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/114.00000076
Praise for the Chemmanur et al. paper from one of AEs, Raghu Rau (University of Cambridge):
“I like it that they tackle a central issue in primary market design: do institutional investors actually produce value-relevant information, and can alternative mechanisms to bookbuilding (here, hybrid auctions) harness that information effectively?
This speaks directly to IPO mechanism design. They have genuinely rich micro-level data: institutional bidding records from Chinese IPO auctions. This lets them link who bids what, how underwriters set prices, and who gets allocations, and then connect this to both short- and long-run performance.
The paper pushes beyond the US-centric bookbuilding literature and speaks to IPO reforms in developing markets. This advances our understanding of how institutional investors and underwriters interact under alternative mechanisms, rather than just documenting underpricing or long-run underperformance.”
$1000 prizes sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies
Plaques sponsored by the British Academy of Management Corporate Governance Special Interest Group
Best Discussants:
Kehan Zhang (University of Oregon)
Serdar Aldatmaz (Northeastern University)
Best Papers:
Breaking Network Barriers In the Era of Data-Driven Venture Capitalists
Melissa Crumling (Drexel University)
How Does Competition Affect Firms’ Carbon Performance? Firm-Level Evidence from Tariff Cuts
Manuel Kathan (University of Augsburg)
Raphaela Roeder (University of Augsburg)
Sebastian Utz (University of Augsburg)
Martin Nerlinger (University of St.Gallen)
Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers, and board members!
The Review of Corporate Finance (RCF), which started in 2021, has just entered Scopus and is featured on Scimago
RCF enters Scimago for the first time in 2024 as a top quartile (Q1) journal in 3 Scimago categories:
- Accounting
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Finance
RCF started publishing in 2021. Scimago shows:
Cites / Doc. (3 years) 2022 8.800
Cites / Doc. (3 years) 2023 5.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years) 2024 6.044
Cites / Doc. (2 years) 2022 8.800
Cites / Doc. (2 years) 2023 5.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years) 2024 4.400
To learn more about RCF, please see
- RePEc
- Google Scholar (1,518 cites so far!)
- Official Now Publishers page
Please keep in mind some friendly features:
- no submission fees
- authors keep copyright of their work
- Annual $1000 Best Paper award sponsored by Now Publishers
Please share the good news with your colleagues, encouraging them to read RCF papers and submit their best work to RCF.
The Review of Corporate Finance will now be covered by Scopus.
‘The Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has reviewed the application and approved it for coverage.’
The attached presentation file shows the updated RCF citation statistics, citing journals, and other information about RCF as at March 16, 2024.
RCF impact factors are as follows:
Cites / Doc
2022 2023 2024
11.7 7.63 6.97
•From published papers (not counting working papers)
•2022: based on cites in 2022 for 2021 papers
•2023: based on cites in 2023 for 2021 & 2022 papers
•2024: adjusted for 2.5 months, based on cites as at March 16, 2024, for papers in 2022 & 2023
Berger, Allen N., Tanakorn Makaew, & Rima Turk-Ariss, 2023. "Who Pays for Financial Crises? Price and Quantity Rationing of Publicly-Listed and Privately-Held Borrowers," Review of Corporate Finance 3(3), 275-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/114.00000042.
Award sponsored by Now Publishers.
Two best paper awards ($300 each) and two best discussant awards ($200 each) were announced at the 2023 Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference. Plaques will be sent to award recipients from the British Academy of Management through the Corporate Governance Special Interest Group . Cash prizes for the two best paper and best discussant awards are generously provided by the Institute for Humane Studies.
RCF's most recent status update from a "meet the editors" session at The 2023 International Conference in Banking and Financial Studies
The 2023 Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference draft program is here
Please email bocaconference@fau.edu if you would like to volunteer as a discusssant and/or session chair.
The 2023 Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference drew in well over 300 submissions! We are working on decisions... will send out notifications soon.
https://sites.google.com/view/review-of-corporate-finance/2023-boca-conference-call-for-papers?authuser=0
In Volumes 1 (2021) and 2 (2022), RCF published 32 articles and 1 book review, with 24 articles forthcoming in Volume 3 (2023).
RCF’s citations totaled 356 by 12/13/2022 for 32 articles published in 2021–2022, after excluding pre-2021 citations to working-paper versions (or 454 if including prior citations and forthcoming papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=shXUEEEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&authuser=3).
RCF’s Google Scholar citations-per-published-article is 11.13.
RCF features highly-cited authors (with 6,000-96,000+ citations), including Franklin Allen, Renee Adams, Allen Berger, David Reeb, Ronald Anderson, Thomas Chemmanur, John Doukas, Omrane Guedhami, Sadok El Ghoul, Tim Jenkinson, Shaen Corbet, Narjess Boubakri, Barbara Casu, James Chrisman, Richard Smith, Janet Kiholm-Smith, among over 100 authors worldwide from Australia, New Zealand, China, Norway, Germany, UK, Canada, U.S., France, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Cyprus, Switzerland, UAE, Pakistan, Singapore, Turkey, and Luxembourg.
Two RCF Editors - Douglas Cumming and Silvio Vismara - were listed in the Clarivate top 92 cited scholars in the world in 2022 in the Business and Economics category.
Anderson, Ronald, Masud Karim, Nan Li, & David M. Reeb, 2022. "The Family Firm Ownership Puzzle" Review of Corporate Finance 2(4), 679-720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/114.00000027.
Award sponsored by Now Publishers.
Two best paper awards ($300 each) and two best discussant awards ($200 each) were announced for the 2022 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference. Plaques will be sent to award recipients from the British Academy of Management through the Corporate Governance Special Interest Group . Cash prizes for the two best paper and best discussant awards are generously provided by the Institute for Humane Studies.
Connect with RCF on LinkedIn!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/review-of-corporate-finance-rcf-8638b2259/
Click here for the RCF Google Scholar profile page!
The page shows real time updates to citations of papers that have been published in RCF and/or are forthcoming in RCF. It also shows authors of RCF papers (as long as they have a Google Scholar profile page).
The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) will sponsor the 2022 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (December 10-11, 2022) by providing $1000 in prizes, consistent with the IHS sponsorship of the 2020 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference and the 2021 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference. There will be two best paper awards of $300 each, and two best discussant awards of $200 each.
Google Scholar Data as at May 2, 2022:
Cites / Doc for papers published in 2021: 15.300
Cites / Doc for papers published or forthcoming in 2022: 3.864
Cites / Doc for papers forthcoming in 2023: 0.500
Note: Journal "Impact Factor" calculations are based on the total number of citations divided by the total number of articles published in the prior 2 years. Since RCF started publishing in 2021, it is too soon to calculate a formal impact factor. The figures above are based on Google Scholar citations as at May 2, 2022.
Review of Corporate Finance Best Paper Award in 2021
$1000 prize and plaques
Allen, F., X. Gu, & J. Jagtiani, 2021. "A Survey of Fintech Research and Policy Discussion" Review of Corporate Finance 1 (3-4), 259-339.
36 citations so far – highest of the papers published in 2021
Top 5 cited papers in 2021 have 36, 17, 12, 12, and 10 cites
Slide deck announcing the prize at the 2021 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference
Advantages of publishing in RCF: see the new slide deck.
Citation Performance as at October 15, 2021
79 Citations to date (Google Scholar and Published Papers)
10 papers published in Vol. 1 (2021)
7 papers forthcoming so far in Vol. 2 (2022)
4.65 Cites/Doc as at October 15, 2021
Citation Performance as at October 15, 2021 for published papers only
45 Citations to date as at October 15, 2021 (in Published Papers)
10 Published papers published in Vol. 1 (2021)
4.5 Cites/Doc as at October 15, 2021
RCF Special Issue (in Progress) on Family Firms (Zhenyu Wu)
Conference at the University of Manitoba October 15, 2021
Attracted >50 attendees, 11 paper presentations from Australasia, Europe, and North America
The 2021 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference Program is now available. The conference takes place on December 11-12, 2021 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. The event is hybrid. There are 72 papers accepted for presentation from top scholars around the world. The panel members on December 11 are Bartley Madden, Jeff Madden, and Mark Frigo. The Keynote speaker on December 12 is Jay Ritter.
The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) will sponsor the 2021 Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference by providing $1000 in prizes, consistent with the IHS sponsorship of the 2020 Boca Finance and Governance Conference. There will be two best paper awards of $300 each, and two best discussant awards of $200 each.
The Review of Corporate Finance will offer an annual best "Review of Corporate Finance Now Publishers Best Paper Award" of $1,000. 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive plaques and official recognition on the Review of Corporate Finance Now Publishers webpage.