Papers on “executive compensation”
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Research on “executive compensation” 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 “executive compensation” appeared in 909 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (493), accounting (153) and management (130).
- 123 of them were published in 2025, against 84 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Renmin University of China (12), Central University of Finance and Economics (10) and City University of Macau (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (76), International Review of Economics & Finance (37) and International Review of Financial Analysis (28).
- The most-cited of them is “The effects of board characteristics and sustainable compensation policy on carbon performance of UK firms” (The British Accounting Review, 2017), with 748 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 46 | 32 | 35 | 41 | 35 | 51 | 53 | 76 | 84 | 40 |
| Accounting | 18 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 23 |
| Management | 11 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 19 |
| Economics | 8 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 16 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 84 | 77 | 62 | 84 | 80 | 90 | 93 | 118 | 123 | 98 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance research letters | 76 |
| 2 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 37 |
| 3 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 28 |
| 4 | Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 19 |
| 5 | Journal of Corporate Finance | 18 |
| 6 | Pacific-Basin Finance Journal | 15 |
| 7 | Journal of Business Research | 13 |
| 8 | Research in International Business and Finance | 11 |
| 9 | Journal of Banking & Finance | 10 |
| 10 | International Journal of Disclosure and Governance | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renmin University of China | 12 |
| 2 | Central University of Finance and Economics | 10 |
| 3 | City University of Macau | 9 |
| 4 | Hunan University | 9 |
| 5 | University of International Business and Economics | 9 |
| 6 | Chongqing University | 8 |
| 7 | Peking University | 8 |
| 8 | Tongji University | 7 |
| 9 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 7 |
| 10 | Beijing Technology and Business University | 6 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 207 |
| 2 | United States | 117 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 4 | South Korea | 30 |
| 5 | Australia | 28 |
| 6 | Taiwan | 22 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 20 |
| 8 | Canada | 14 |
| 9 | France | 14 |
| 10 | Germany | 12 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | corporate governance | 160 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 74 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 51 |
| 4 | CEO compensation | 41 |
| 5 | firm performance | 33 |
| 6 | China | 30 |
| 7 | listed companies | 21 |
| 8 | corporate social responsibility | 20 |
| 9 | performance-based pay | 20 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 748 | 6.3 | The effects of board characteristics and sustainable compensation policy on carbon performance of UK firms | The British Accounting Review | 2017-01-07 | Faizul Haque |
| 2 | 726 | 9.6 | COVID-19 and the march 2020 stock market crash. Evidence from S&P1500 | Finance research letters | 2020-07-08 | Mieszko Mazur, Man Dang, Miguel Vega |
| 3 | 335 | 3.4 | CEO tenure and corporate social responsibility performance | Journal of Business Research | 2018-08-23 | Wanyu Chen, Gaoguang Zhou, Xindong Kevin Zhu |
| 4 | 277 | 4.4 | Integrating corporate social responsibility criteria into executive compensation and firm innovation: International evidence | Journal of Corporate Finance | 2021-08-18 | Albert Tsang, Kun Tracy Wang, Simeng Liu et al. |
| 5 | 231 | 2.0 | CSR-Contingent Executive Compensation Contracts | Journal of Banking & Finance | 2017-01-01 | Atif Ikram, Zhichuan Frank Li, Dylan B. Minor |
Research ideas that follow this keyword#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “executive compensation”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/executive-compensation
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