William Elliott

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

William Elliott is a scholar working on Accounting, Education and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, William Elliott has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Accounting, 59 papers in Education and 50 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in William Elliott's work include Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (58 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (47 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (45 papers). William Elliott is often cited by papers focused on Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (58 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (47 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (45 papers). William Elliott collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. William Elliott's co-authors include Frank D. Hodge, Kristina M. Rennekamp, Brian J. White, Richard S. Warr, Terri Friedline, Kevin Jackson, Mark E. Peecher, Maarten Pronk, Nerissa C. Brown and Jane Kennedy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research and Journal of Accounting Research.

In The Last Decade

William Elliott

153 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

What Are You Saying? Usin... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150
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.

  1. What Are You Saying? Using topic to Detect Financial Misreporting
    2019 165 citations Nerissa C. Brown, Richard M. Crowley et al. Journal of Accounting Research profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William Elliott 3.2k 1.3k 1.0k 849 574 161 4.4k
Mathew Hayward 2.1k 0.7× 536 0.4× 1.6k 1.6× 702 0.8× 80 0.1× 24 4.3k
Steven E. Kaplan 2.1k 0.7× 260 0.2× 906 0.9× 530 0.6× 83 0.1× 134 3.7k
Eunhee Kim 1.6k 0.5× 973 0.7× 509 0.5× 673 0.8× 192 0.3× 101 2.7k
William C. Dunkelberg 1.1k 0.3× 391 0.3× 425 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 109 0.2× 34 3.1k
John E. Grable 2.7k 0.8× 826 0.6× 104 0.1× 1.6k 1.9× 108 0.2× 140 4.4k
Mark W. Nelson 4.2k 1.3× 1.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 651 0.8× 45 0.1× 75 5.1k
Maija Renko 589 0.2× 164 0.1× 766 0.7× 964 1.1× 225 0.4× 64 3.9k
Theresa M. Welbourne 1.1k 0.3× 115 0.1× 1.0k 1.0× 409 0.5× 149 0.3× 102 4.2k
Hun‐Tong Tan 3.6k 1.1× 773 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 341 0.4× 41 0.1× 115 4.3k
Robert J. Bloomfield 3.6k 1.1× 2.9k 2.2× 1.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 37 0.1× 125 5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by William Elliott

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Elliott

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Elliott

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Elliott. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Elliott 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 William Elliott. William Elliott is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Michailos, Stavros, et al.. (2025). A Performance Modeling Study for Zero Fossil CO2 Stack Operation and Solvent Thermal Reclaiming in Post-Combustion Capture Industrial Applications. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 64(13). 7100–7114. 1 indexed citations
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Shanks, Trina, et al.. (2024). A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 10(3). 92–111. 2 indexed citations
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Elliott, William, et al.. (2023). To read or to listen? Does disclosure delivery mode impact investors' reactions to managers' tone language?. Contemporary Accounting Research. 41(1). 7–38. 6 indexed citations
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Elliott, William, et al.. (2023). Children’s Savings Accounts and Rural Children’s College Expectations: The Case of Kickstart Newaygo County. Sociology Mind. 13(1). 43–61. 1 indexed citations
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Elliott, William, et al.. (2023). Asymmetric motivated reasoning in investor judgment. Review of Accounting Studies. 29(4). 3534–3563. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Anao, et al.. (2019). Association between Children’s Saving Account and Parent Rated Children’s Health: A Preliminary Study. Sociology Mind. 10(1). 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Nerissa C., Richard M. Crowley, & William Elliott. (2019). What Are You Saying? Using topic to Detect Financial Misreporting. Journal of Accounting Research. 58(1). 237–291. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Elliott, William, et al.. (2017). Student Debt. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Nerissa C. & William Elliott. (2016). What are You Saying? Using Topic to Detect Financial Misreporting. SSRN Electronic Journal. 47 indexed citations
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Elliott, William, et al.. (2015). STUDENT DEBT EFFECTS ON FINANCIAL WELL-BEING: RESEARCH AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS: STUDENT DEBT EFFECTS ON FINANCIAL WELL-BEING. Journal of Economic Surveys. 29(4). 614–636. 22 indexed citations
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Elliott, William, Jessen L. Hobson, & Brian J. White. (2015). Earnings Metrics, Information Processing, and Price Efficiency in Laboratory Markets. Journal of Accounting Research. 53(3). 555–592. 41 indexed citations
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Elliott, William. (2014). Student Loans: Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?. Change The Magazine of Higher Learning. 46(4). 26–33. 1 indexed citations
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Devos, Erik, et al.. (2014). Top-Up Options and Tender Offers. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Elliott, William. (2013). Reducing Student Loan Debt through Parents' College Savings. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 5 indexed citations
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Elliott, William, Johanna Koëter-Kant, & Richard S. Warr. (2007). A Valuation-Based Test of Market Timing. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Elliott, William. (2006). Are Investors Influenced by Pro Forma Emphasis and Reconciliations in Earnings Announcements?. The Accounting Review. 81(1). 113–133. 283 indexed citations
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Elliott, William & Richard S. Warr. (2005). Price Pressure on the NYSE and Nasdaq: Evidence from S&P 500 Index Changes. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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