Yuyan Guan

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Yuyan Guan is a scholar working on Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuyan Guan has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Accounting, 16 papers in Finance and 5 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Yuyan Guan's work include Corporate Finance and Governance (24 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (23 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (12 papers). Yuyan Guan is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Finance and Governance (24 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (23 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (12 papers). Yuyan Guan collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada. Yuyan Guan's co-authors include Donghui Wu, Zhifeng Yang, Lixin Su, Hai Lu, Jeong‐Bon Kim, Donghua Chen, Tianyu Zhang, Gus De Franco, Xiangang Xin and M.H. Franco Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Management Science and Journal of Accounting and Economics.

In The Last Decade

Yuyan Guan

36 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Do school ties between auditors and client executives influence audit outcomes?
    2015 279 citations Yuyan Guan, Lixin Su et al. Journal of Accounting and Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yuyan Guan Hong Kong 15 835 318 308 138 84 37 1.1k
Mark Wilson Australia 16 299 0.4× 233 0.7× 122 0.4× 252 1.8× 19 0.2× 38 756
Lukas Schmid United States 20 515 0.6× 164 0.5× 830 2.7× 822 6.0× 13 0.2× 69 1.5k
Dong Lou United Kingdom 21 804 1.0× 130 0.4× 1.2k 3.8× 640 4.6× 34 0.4× 51 1.8k
Sara Jönsson Sweden 12 247 0.3× 95 0.3× 65 0.2× 132 1.0× 44 0.5× 31 539
Thomas A. Lee United States 14 625 0.7× 311 1.0× 59 0.2× 79 0.6× 270 3.2× 55 1.1k
Javier García-Bernardo Netherlands 11 253 0.3× 221 0.7× 166 0.5× 226 1.6× 14 0.2× 28 681
Maria João Guedes Portugal 17 238 0.3× 180 0.6× 38 0.1× 177 1.3× 24 0.3× 52 980
Stuart Fraser United Kingdom 15 471 0.6× 76 0.2× 159 0.5× 320 2.3× 98 1.2× 54 1.1k
Craig Wilson Canada 11 341 0.4× 349 1.1× 54 0.2× 200 1.4× 13 0.2× 24 696
Thomas Pfeiffer Austria 15 373 0.4× 370 1.2× 132 0.4× 157 1.1× 538 6.4× 60 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuyan Guan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuyan Guan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yuyan Guan. 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 Yuyan Guan. The network helps show where Yuyan Guan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuyan Guan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guan, Yuyan, Xing Li, Gerald J. Lobo, & Haibin Wu. (2023). Positive Externalities of Social Capital Along the Supply Chain: Evidence from the Cost of Debt. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Franco, Gus De, Yuyan Guan, Yibin Zhou, & Xindong Zhu. (2023). The Impact of Credit Market Development on Auditor Choice: Evidence from Banking Deregulation. Journal of Accounting Research. 62(2). 589–634. 3 indexed citations
3.
Guan, Yuyan, Gerald J. Lobo, Albert Tsang, & Xiangang Xin. (2020). Societal Trust and Management Earnings Forecasts. The Accounting Review. 95(5). 149–184. 84 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan, Congcong Li, Hai Lu, & M.H. Franco Wong. (2019). Regulations and Brain Drain: Evidence from Wall Street Star Analysts’ Career Choices. Management Science. 65(12). 5766–5784. 25 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan, et al.. (2019). XBRL adoption and expected crash risk. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 38(1). 31–52. 46 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhihong, Yuyan Guan, & Bin Ke. (2018). The Economic Consequences of Tightening Insider Trading Regulation: Evidence from Hong Kong. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhihong, Yuyan Guan, & Bin Ke. (2017). Should Regulators Ban Insider Trading? Evidence from Hong Kong. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan, et al.. (2017). The Effect of Risk Factor Disclosures on the Pricing of Credit Default Swaps. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Alström, Per, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Chao Zhao, et al.. (2016). Integrative taxonomy of the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals cryptic species, including a new species. Avian Research. 7(1). 25 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan, Lixin Su, Donghui Wu, & Zhifeng Yang. (2015). Do school ties between auditors and client executives influence audit outcomes?. Journal of Accounting and Economics. 61(2-3). 506–525. 279 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guan, Yuyan, et al.. (2014). Do School Ties between Auditors and Client Executives Influence Audit Quality. PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhihong, Yuyan Guan, & Bin Ke. (2013). Are Stock Option Grants to Directors of State-Controlled Chinese Firms Listed in Hong Kong Genuine Compensation?. The Accounting Review. 88(5). 1547–1574. 62 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan. (2012). Political connection of financial intermediaries: evidence from China IPO market. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhihong, Yuyan Guan, & Bin Ke. (2011). Fake Stock Options? An Empirical Analysis of Managerial Stock Option Compensation in State-Controlled Chinese Firms Listed in Hong Kong. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Lu, Hai, et al.. (2011). Conflict of interest reforms and analysts’ research biases. TSpace. 32 indexed citations
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Chen, Donghua, et al.. (2011). Securities regulation and implicit penalties. China Journal of Accounting Research. 4(1-2). 47–62. 3 indexed citations
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Callen, Jeffrey L., Yuyan Guan, & Jiaping Qiu. (2010). The Market for Corporate Control and Accounting Conservatism. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan. (2006). Understanding Analysts' Rreactions to Earnings Management: Evidence from Forecast Revisions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuyan, et al.. (2006). Does Similarity of Local GAAP to US GAAP Explain Analysts' Forecast Accuracy?. Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics. 2(2). 151–169. 11 indexed citations
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Franco, Gus De, Yuyan Guan, & Hai Lu. (2005). The Wealth Change and Redistribution Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Control Disclosures. SSRN Electronic Journal. 77 indexed citations

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