Papers on “audit fees”
Research on “audit fees” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “audit fees” appeared in 303 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in accounting (178), finance (86) and management (24).
- 52 of them were published in 2025, against 19 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (8), Renmin University of China (7) and Xiamen University (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (23), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (21) and The British Accounting Review (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Is artificial intelligence improving the audit process?” (Review of Accounting Studies, 2022), with 461 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting | 16 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 19 | 24 | 20 |
| Finance | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 21 | 21 |
| Management | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| Economics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 19 | 20 | 23 | 27 | 20 | 24 | 35 | 40 | 52 | 43 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 23 |
| 2 | Journal of Accounting and Public Policy | 21 |
| 3 | The British Accounting Review | 16 |
| 4 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 16 |
| 5 | Journal of International Accounting Auditing and Taxation | 14 |
| 6 | Advances in Accounting | 9 |
| 7 | Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics | 7 |
| 8 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 6 |
| 9 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 5 |
| 10 | Journal of Business Ethics | 4 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 8 |
| 2 | Renmin University of China | 7 |
| 3 | Xiamen University | 7 |
| 4 | Nanjing Audit University | 5 |
| 5 | Bentley University | 4 |
| 6 | Jinan University | 4 |
| 7 | RMIT University | 4 |
| 8 | Shandong University | 4 |
| 9 | University of Macau | 4 |
| 10 | Yunnan University of Finance And Economics | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 84 |
| 2 | United States | 48 |
| 3 | Australia | 20 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 16 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 11 |
| 6 | France | 9 |
| 7 | Macao | 8 |
| 8 | Spain | 5 |
| 9 | Canada | 4 |
| 10 | Iran | 4 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | audit quality | 54 |
| 2 | corporate governance | 32 |
| 3 | audit risk | 29 |
| 4 | Chinese listed companies | 25 |
| 5 | Big 4 auditors | 16 |
| 6 | China | 14 |
| 7 | audit delay | 14 |
| 8 | financial reporting quality | 14 |
| 9 | audit effort | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “audit fees”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/audit-fees
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title = {Papers on “audit fees”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/audit-fees}},
urldate = {2026-11-05},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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