Sofie Balcaen

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 755 citations indexed

About

Sofie Balcaen is a scholar working on Accounting, Artificial Intelligence and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofie Balcaen has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 755 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Accounting, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Sofie Balcaen's work include Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction (5 papers), Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques (4 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (4 papers). Sofie Balcaen is often cited by papers focused on Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction (5 papers), Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques (4 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (4 papers). Sofie Balcaen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium and United States. Sofie Balcaen's co-authors include Hubert Ooghe and Sophie Manigart and has published in prestigious journals such as Small Business Economics, The British Accounting Review and Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

In The Last Decade

Sofie Balcaen

9 papers receiving 692 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

35 years of studies on business failure: an overview of the classic statistical methodologies and their related problems

2005 564 citations Sofie Balcaen, Hubert Ooghe The British Accounting Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofie Balcaen Belgium	7	653	199	172	151	113	9	755
Arto Suvas Finland	10	704 1.1×	231 1.2×	195 1.1×	78 0.5×	214 1.9×	15	864
Chris Charalambous Cyprus	10	392 0.6×	224 1.1×	104 0.6×	144 1.0×	97 0.9×	13	624
Duane B. Kennedy Canada	9	416 0.6×	150 0.8×	78 0.5×	154 1.0×	94 0.8×	19	520
Serafeim Tsoukas United Kingdom	14	335 0.5×	197 1.0×	250 1.5×	22 0.1×	92 0.8×	34	541
Vineet Agarwal United Kingdom	11	874 1.3×	578 2.9×	211 1.2×	98 0.6×	219 1.9×	21	1.1k
Robert O. Edmister United States	12	839 1.3×	495 2.5×	261 1.5×	124 0.8×	184 1.6×	35	1.0k
Travis Dyer United States	9	526 0.8×	277 1.4×	125 0.7×	44 0.3×	189 1.7×	20	711
Jairaj Gupta United Kingdom	11	322 0.5×	120 0.6×	131 0.8×	40 0.3×	86 0.8×	35	405
Andreas Charitou Cyprus	19	1.2k 1.9×	451 2.3×	150 0.9×	148 1.0×	559 4.9×	60	1.4k
Edward B. Deakin	2	849 1.3×	305 1.5×	123 0.7×	265 1.8×	166 1.5×	4	951

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofie Balcaen

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All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Ooghe, Hubert & Sofie Balcaen. (2015). Are Failure Prediction Models Widely Usable? An Empirical Study Using a Belgian Dataset. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

2.

Balcaen, Sofie, et al.. (2011). Firm Exit after Distress: Differentiating between Bankruptcy, Voluntary Liquidation and M&A. 11 indexed citations

3.

Balcaen, Sofie, et al.. (2011). Firm exit after distress: differentiating between bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation and M&A. Small Business Economics. 39(4). 949–975. 91 indexed citations

4.

Balcaen, Sofie, Sophie Manigart, & Hubert Ooghe. (2010). From distress to exit: determinants of the time to exit. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 21(3). 407–446. 35 indexed citations

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Balcaen, Sofie, et al.. (2009). Financial Distress and Firm Exit: Determinants of Involuntary Exits, Voluntary Liquidations and Restructuring Exits. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

6.

Ooghe, Hubert & Sofie Balcaen. (2007). Are Failure Prediction Models Widely Usable? An Empirical Study Using a Belgian Dataset. Multinational Finance Journal. 11(1/2). 33–76. 18 indexed citations

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Balcaen, Sofie & Hubert Ooghe. (2005). 35 years of studies on business failure: an overview of the classic statistical methodologies and their related problems. The British Accounting Review. 38(1). 63–93. 564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ooghe, Hubert, et al.. (2002). The Ooghe-Joos-De Vos failure prediction models: a cross-industry validation. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 46(1). 39–70. 9 indexed citations

9.

Balcaen, Sofie & Hubert Ooghe. (2002). Are failure prediction models transferable from one country to another? An empirical study using Belgian financial statements. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 110–120. 19 indexed citations

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