2026 Alex Coad: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	53	812	755	2	1	242	14430
Economics and Finance	53	1172	1042	6	5	247	14465

Alex Coad publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex Coad sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 242 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Alex Coad D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex Coad sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Alex Coad is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research spans multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, management of technology and innovation, accounting, strategy and management, and political science and international relations.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on firm innovation, growth, entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital, corporate finance and governance, innovation policy and R&D, innovation and knowledge management, as well as climate change policy and economics.

Editorial: the dark side of innovation (2020), Industry and Innovation
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review (2021), Small Business Economics
A field guide for gazelle hunters: Small, old firms are unlikely to become high-growth firms (2021), Journal of Business Venturing Insights
What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander: heterogeneous innovation capabilities and the performance effects of R&D (2020), Industrial and Corporate Change

Alex Coad's frequent collaborators include:

Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
Anders Bornhäll
Alexander McKelvie
Antonio Vezzani
Péter Harasztosi

The scholar has published predominantly in the following venues:

Small Business Economics (7 publications)
SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
Industry and Innovation (2 publications)
Industrial and Corporate Change (2 publications)
Research Policy (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Alex Coad has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Springer Nature titled Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms (2024).

The central themes of Alex Coad's research revolve around firm innovation and growth, entrepreneurship studies and influences, private equity and venture capital, corporate finance and governance, innovation policy and R&D, innovation and knowledge management, and climate change policy and economics. This range demonstrates a focus on understanding the dynamics that influence firm performance, the impact of innovation, and the broader economic and financial forces shaping business environments.

Best Publications

Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach

Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Rekha Rao

1351
Citations
The Growth of Firms: A Survey of Theories and Empirical Evidence

Alex Coad

914
Citations
Innovation and firm growth: Does firm age play a role?

Alex Coad;Agustí Segarra;Mercedes Teruel

894
Citations
High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section

Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Sven-Olov Daunfeldt;Werner Hölzl;Dan Johansson

490
Citations
Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age?

Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;A. Segarra;M. Teruel

466
Citations
Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach

M. Binder;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad

451
Citations
Muppets and gazelles: Political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research

P. Nightingale;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad

444
Citations
From Average Joe's happiness to Miserable Jane and Cheerful John: using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution

M. Binder;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad

417
Citations
The Growth of Firms

Alex Coad

410
Citations
Firm growth and innovation

David B. Audretsch;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Agustí Segarra

353
Citations
Firm growth and R&D expenditure

Alexander Coad;Rekha Rao

340
Citations
Growth paths and survival chances: an application of Gambler's Ruin theory

Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Julian Frankish;Richard G. Roberts;David J. Storey

327
Citations
Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India

Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Jaganaddha Pawan Tamvada;Jaganaddha Pawan Tamvada

325
Citations
Testing the principle of ‘growth of the fitter’: The relationship between profits and firm growth

Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Alex Coad

315
Citations
Firm Growth : a Survey

Alexander Coad;Alexander Coad

306
Citations
Firm age and performance

Alex Coad;Jacob Rubæk Holm;Jackie Krafft;Francesco Quatraro;Francesco Quatraro;Francesco Quatraro

298
Citations
Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing

Giulio Bottazzi;Alex Coad;Nadia Jacoby;Angelo Secchi

274
Citations
A Closer Look at Serial Growth Rate Correlation

Alex Coad

236
Citations
Causal Inference by Independent Component Analysis: Theory and Applications*

Alessio Moneta;Doris Entner;Patrik O. Hoyer;Alex Coad

230
Citations
Consumer support for environmental policies: An application to purchases of green cars

Alex Coad;Peter de Haan;Julia Sophie Woersdorfer

223
Citations
2010,06: Like milk or wine : does firm performance improve with age?

Alex Coad;Agusti Segarra;Mercedes Teruel

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Storey University of Sussex

Ismael Rafols Leiden University

Marc Cowling Oxford Brookes University

Francesco Quatraro University of Turin

Maria Savona University of Sussex

Patrik O. Hoyer University of Helsinki

Karl Wennberg Stockholm School of Economics

Susan Marlow University of Nottingham

Kristian Fog Nielsen Technical University of Denmark

Elisa Giuliani University of Pisa

External Links

Personal website of Alex Coad Google Scholar page

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