---
title: "10-K filings: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 208 archived papers mentioned 10-K filings in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (15)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/10-k-filings
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/10-k-filings.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 208 archived papers mentioned 10-K filings in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (15). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# 10-K filings

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory.md)

Annual reports and other regulatory filings, earnings calls, and the word lists used to read them.

- data category: Corporate filings and text
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: 10-K filing, 10-K report, Form 10-K

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Corporate filings and text datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/corporate-filings-and-text.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 208 archived papers mentioned 10-K filings in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jul 2026 (15).
- 10-K filings was mentioned in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #64 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Accounting (1), Finance (1), AI (1), Management (1) and Information Systems (1).
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (1), Journal of Economics and Finance (1) and Knowledge and Information Systems (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), 10-K filings was mentioned in 282 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in accounting (106), finance (105) and management (27).
- 66 of them were published in 2025, against 8 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Singapore Management University (6), Durham University (5) and Stanford University (5).
- The journals publishing most of them were Review of Accounting Studies (31), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (14) and International Review of Financial Analysis (13).
- The most-cited of them is “The evolution of 10-K textual disclosure: Evidence from Latent Dirichlet Allocation” (Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2017), with 840 citations.
- Papers use 10-K filings most often with Compustat (82), CRSP (54) and Loughran-McDonald dictionary (47); it has 61 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 46 | 68 | 94 | 208 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 32 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 37 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 8 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 23 | 51 | 66 | 85 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 31 |
| 2 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Journal of Banking & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-banking-finance.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Singapore Management University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university.md) | 6 |
| 2 | [Durham University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/durham-university.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 5 |
| 4 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [University of Nottingham](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-nottingham.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [University of Southampton](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton.md) | 5 |
| 7 | Brigham Young University | 4 |
| 8 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Concordia University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/concordia-university.md) | 4 |
| 10 | Illinois State University | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 96 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 46 |
| 3 | China | 27 |
| 4 | Australia | 21 |
| 5 | Germany | 17 |
| 6 | Canada | 15 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 13 |
| 8 | Finland | 11 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 10 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | 10-K filings | 64 |
| 2 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 30 |
| 3 | 10-K reports | 22 |
| 4 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 22 |
| 5 | corporate disclosure | 14 |
| 6 | [stock returns](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/stock-returns.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 11 |
| 8 | disclosure quality | 10 |
| 9 | financial disclosure | 10 |
| 10 | [earnings management](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/earnings-management.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 840 | 7.6 | [The evolution of 10-K textual disclosure: Evidence from Latent Dirichlet Allocation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2017.07.002) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2017-09-08 | Travis A. Dyer, Mark H. Lang, Lorien Stice‐Lawrence |
| 2 | 628 | 5.5 | [A plain English measure of financial reporting readability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2017.03.002) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2017-04-01 | Samuel B. Bonsall, Andrew J. Leone, Brian P. Miller et al. |
| 3 | 362 | 3.1 | [The Effects of Proprietary Information on Corporate Disclosure and Transparency: Evidence from Trade Secrets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2018.04.002) | [Journal of Accounting and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-economics.md) | 2017-01-01 | Stephen Glaeser |
| 4 | 237 | 4.5 | [Artificial intelligence focus and firm performance](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-022-00876-5) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 2022-06-08 | Sagarika Mishra, Michael Thomas Ewing, Holly B. Cooper |
| 5 | 226 | 2.1 | [The influence of business strategy on annual report readability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2018.01.003) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | 2018-01-01 | Edwin KiaYang Lim, Keryn Chalmers, Dean Hanlon |

## Used together with

Papers use 10-K filings most often with Compustat (82), CRSP (54) and Loughran-McDonald dictionary (47); it has 61 partners in the code and data network, in the group around S&P 500, Economic Policy…, Compustat.

*What papers use 10-K filings together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Compustat](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/compustat.md) | Dataset | 82 | 22.0 |
| [CRSP](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/crsp.md) | Dataset | 54 | 21.4 |
| [Loughran-McDonald dictionary](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/loughran-mcdonald-dictionary.md) | Dataset | 47 | 40.3 |
| [I/B/E/S](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/i-b-e-s.md) | Dataset | 40 | 26.8 |
| [SEC EDGAR](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sec-edgar.md) | Dataset | 36 | 66.9 |
| [S&P 500](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/s-p-500.md) | Dataset | 31 | 2.3 |
| [Earnings call transcripts](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/earnings-call-transcripts.md) | Dataset | 29 | 18.1 |
| [WRDS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/wrds.md) | Dataset | 18 | 24.1 |
| [Twitter / X](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/twitter-x.md) | Dataset | 17 | 0.7 |
| [XBRL filings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/xbrl-filings.md) | Dataset | 17 | 42.9 |
| [Audit Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/audit-analytics.md) | Dataset | 15 | 36.8 |
| [Thomson Reuters 13F holdings](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/thomson-reuters-13f-holdings.md) | Dataset | 14 | 21.7 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*Papers mentioning 10-K filings in the last 30 days, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Human resources governance and human capital management disclosure following the SEC mandate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2026.107484) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | Cynthia Melhem, MICHEL L. MAGNAN, Rucsandra Moldovan | Lebanese American University; Concordia University |
| 2026-10-26 | [The effect of urban density on stock returns: evidence from satellite imagery and firms in the United States](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12197-026-09789-3) | [Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | Mahsa Memarian, Carles Vergara‐Alert, Sara Benetti | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; IESE Business School; ESE Business School; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [LLM application in digital asset assessments: mixed methods research](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02910-2) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | Yann Thorens, Martin Angerer, Pejman Ebrahimi et al. | University of Liechtenstein |
| 2026-10-15 | [The memory that walks out the door: Generative AI and the knowledge depletion spiral in permacrisis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2026.101291) | [Organizational Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/organizational-dynamics.md) | Geshwaree Huzooree | Edinburgh Napier University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Design-logic alignment in digital transformation: A qualitative meta-analysis of Kodak](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2026.102008) | [The Journal of Strategic Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems.md) | Amir Ashrafi, Panos Constantinides, Jason Bennett Thatcher et al. | Brunel University of London; Stockholm School of Economics; University of Colorado System; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). 10-K filings. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/10-k-filings

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-10-k-filings,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {10-K filings},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/10-k-filings}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).