W. Robert Knechel

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

W. Robert Knechel is a scholar working on Accounting, Management Information Systems and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Robert Knechel has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Accounting, 25 papers in Management Information Systems and 18 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in W. Robert Knechel's work include Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (86 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (43 papers) and Risk Management in Financial Firms (30 papers). W. Robert Knechel is often cited by papers focused on Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (86 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (43 papers) and Risk Management in Financial Firms (30 papers). W. Robert Knechel collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Australia. W. Robert Knechel's co-authors include David Hay, Norman Wong, Ann Vanstraelen, Monika Causholli, Jeff L. Payne, Divesh S. Sharma, Mikhail Pevzner, Uma Velury, Karl E. Hackenbrack and Mikko Zerni and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review.

In The Last Decade

W. Robert Knechel

111 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Audit Fees: A Meta‐analysis of the Effect of Supply and Demand Attributes*

2006 1.3k citations David Hay, W. Robert Knechel et al. profile →
Audit Quality: Insights from the Academic Literature

2012 558 citations W. Robert Knechel, Mikhail Pevzner et al. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Robert Knechel United States	42	7.0k	2.4k	1.3k	1.1k	702	114	7.8k
Joseph V. Carcello United States	40	8.9k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	517 0.7×	99	9.7k
Clive S. Lennox United States	44	8.0k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	883 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	110	8.7k
Weili Ge United States	21	8.5k 1.2×	3.9k 1.7×	802 0.6×	2.4k 2.1×	850 1.2×	41	9.3k
William R. Kinney United States	34	5.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	976 0.7×	2.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.7×	78	6.9k
K. Raghunandan United States	42	8.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	582 0.8×	98	8.4k
Mark W. Nelson United States	36	4.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	651 0.9×	75	5.1k
Gopal V. Krishnan United States	35	5.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	594 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	514 0.7×	113	5.6k
Abbie J. Smith United States	31	8.3k 1.2×	3.8k 1.6×	692 0.5×	2.8k 2.5×	1.4k 2.0×	45	9.6k
Jean C. Bedard United States	36	3.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	895 0.7×	515 0.5×	465 0.7×	100	4.2k
Shiva Rajgopal United States	17	7.2k 1.0×	3.4k 1.5×	497 0.4×	3.1k 2.7×	1.2k 1.8×	29	8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by W. Robert Knechel

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of W. Robert Knechel's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by W. Robert Knechel with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites W. Robert Knechel more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by W. Robert Knechel

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by W. Robert Knechel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by W. Robert Knechel. The network helps show where W. Robert Knechel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Robert Knechel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. Robert Knechel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. Robert Knechel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with W. Robert Knechel. W. Robert Knechel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Hurley, Patrick J., et al.. (2024). Submit-to-Accept Times in Accounting: Determinants and Comparisons to Other Business Disciplines. The Accounting Review. 100(2). 219–247. 2 indexed citations

Friedrich, Christian, et al.. (2023). Client Employee Training and Audit Efficiency. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory. 43(1). 73–99. 1 indexed citations

Knechel, W. Robert, et al.. (2021). How do audit team industry and client‐specific experience impact audit effort and audit fees?. International Journal of Auditing. 25(1). 249–268. 13 indexed citations

Gaeremynck, Ann, et al.. (2021). Multimarket Contact and Mutual Forbearance in Audit Markets. Journal of Accounting Research. 59(5). 1651–1688. 5 indexed citations

Knechel, W. Robert, et al.. (2021). Do Personal Beliefs and Values Affect an Individual’s “Fraud Tolerance”? Evidence from the World Values Survey. Journal of Business Ethics. 177(2). 463–489. 24 indexed citations

Knechel, W. Robert, et al.. (2019). Understanding financial auditing from a service perspective. Accounting Organizations and Society. 81. 101080–101080. 97 indexed citations

Knechel, W. Robert, et al.. (2018). The Effects of Generalized Trust and Civic Cooperation on the Big N Presence and Audit Fees Across the Globe. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory. 38(1). 193–219. 43 indexed citations

Moroney, Robyn, W. Robert Knechel, & Carlin Dowling. (2017). The effect of inspections, rotations and client preferences on staffing decisions. Accounting and Finance. 59(4). 2645–2677. 3 indexed citations

Bell, Timothy B., Monika Causholli, & W. Robert Knechel. (2015). Audit Firm Tenure, Non-Audit Services, and Internal Assessments of Audit Quality. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

10.

Dowling, Carlin, W. Robert Knechel, & Robyn Moroney. (2015). Public Oversight of Audit Firms: The Slippery-Slope of Enforcing Regulation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 20 indexed citations

11.

Knechel, W. Robert, Lasse Niemi, & Mikko Zerni. (2013). Empirical Evidence on the Implicit Determinants of Compensation in Big Four Audit Partnerships. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

12.

Cohen, Jeffrey R. & W. Robert Knechel. (2013). A Call for Academic Inquiry: Challenges and Opportunities from the PCAOB Synthesis Projects. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory. 32(Supplement 1). 1–5. 18 indexed citations

13.

Causholli, Monika, et al.. (2011). Audit Markets, Fees and Production: Towards An Integrated View of Empirical Audit Research. Journal of Accounting Literature. 29. 167–215. 87 indexed citations

14.

Knechel, W. Robert, et al.. (2009). A modified audit production framework: Evaluating the relative efficiency of audit engagements. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 141 indexed citations

15.

Meuwissen, Ralph, W. Robert Knechel, Rogier Deumes, et al.. (2009). Evaluation of the differences between International Standards on Auditing (ISA) and the standards of the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Research Publications (Maastricht University). 1 indexed citations

16.

Knechel, W. Robert & Marleen Willekens. (2006). The Role of Risk Management and Governance in Determining Audit Demand. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. 33(9-10). 1344–1367. 172 indexed citations

17.

Knechel, W. Robert, Steven E. Salterio, & Brian Ballou. (2001). Auditing : assurance & risk. 30 indexed citations

18.

Bell, Timothy B., W. Robert Knechel, Jeff L. Payne, & John J. Willingham. (1998). An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between the Computerization of Accounting Systems and the Incidence and Size of Audit Differences. Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory. 17(1). 13. 35 indexed citations

19.

Knechel, W. Robert. (1998). Auditing : text & cases. 3 indexed citations

20.

Hackenbrack, Karl E. & W. Robert Knechel. (1997). Resource Allocation Decision in Audit Engagements. SSRN Electronic Journal. 46 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact