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Gordon D. Richardson

Gordon D. Richardson

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
35
Citations
12017
World Ranking
2137
National Ranking
91

Economics and Finance

D-Index
35
Citations
12055
World Ranking
2865
National Ranking
78

Gordon D. Richardson 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 Gordon D. Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 81 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gordon D. Richardson 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 Gordon D. Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gordon D. Richardson is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans several areas within business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics, and finance, focusing particularly on topics intersecting corporate governance, social responsibility, and financial reporting.

The main fields of study covered by Richardson's work include Business, Management and Accounting, with 13 publications, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, represented by 7 publications. Within these broader fields, the subfields addressed include Accounting, Strategy and Management, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Pharmacy.

Richardson's primary research topics encompass Corporate Finance and Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Auditing, Earnings Management and Governance, Law, Economics and Judicial Systems, Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, Intellectual Property and Patents, as well as Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Frequent collaborators in Richardson's research include Peter Clarkson, Yu Hou, Jody Grewal, Jingjing Wang, and Albert Tsang, reflecting ongoing partnerships in various studies.

Notable publication venues where Richardson's work has appeared comprise Abacus, SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), Research Policy, and Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Chilling effects of patent trolls, 2022, Research Policy
  • The Effect of Mandatory Carbon Reporting on Greenwashing, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • A Textual Analysis of US Corporate Social Responsibility Reports, 2020, Abacus
  • Modeling board governance, environmental expertise, and social engagement effects on firm environmental performance: Panel data evidence, 2023, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics
  • Have SFAS 166 and SFAS 167 improved the financial reporting for securitizations?, 2020, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Best Publications

  • Revisiting the relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: An empirical analysis

    Peter M. Clarkson;Peter M. Clarkson;Yue Li;Gordon D. Richardson;Florin P. Vasvari

  • Does it really pay to be green? Determinants and consequences of proactive environmental strategies

    Peter M. Clarkson;Peter M. Clarkson;Yue Li;Gordon D. Richardson;Florin P. Vasvari

  • The relevance of environmental disclosures: Are such disclosures incrementally informative? ☆

    Peter M. Clarkson;Peter M. Clarkson;Xiaohua Fang;Yue Li;Gordon Richardson

  • The Market Valuation of Environmental Capital Expenditures by Pulp and Paper Companies

    Peter M. Clarkson;Peter M. Clarkson;Yue Li;Gordon D. Richardson

  • An Information Interpretation of Financial Analyst Superiority in Forecasting Earnings

    Lawrence D. Brown;Gordon D. Richardson;Steven J. Schwager

  • Corporate Disclosure of Environmental Liability Information: Theory and Evidence*

    Yue Li;Gordon D. Richardson;Daniel B. Thornton

  • The impact of IFRS adoption on the value relevance of book value and earnings

    Peter Clarkson;Peter Clarkson;J. Douglas Hanna;Gordon D. Richardson;Rex Thompson

  • The Voluntary Inclusion of Forecasts in the MD&A Section of Annual Reports*

    Peter M. Clarkson;Jennifer L. Kao;Gordon D. Richardson

  • The Valuation Relevance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the European Union Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme

    Peter M. Clarkson;Yue Li;Matthew L. Pinnuck;Gordon D. Richardson

  • Evidence That Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is a Part of a Firm's Overall Disclosure Package*

    Peter M. Clarkson;Jennifer L. Kao;Gordon D. Richardson

  • The Association between Insider Trading and Information Announcements

    John Elliott;Dale Morse;Gordon Richardson

  • A test of dividend irrelevance using volume reactions to a change in dividend policy

    Gordon Richardson;Stephan E. Sefcik;Rex Thompson

  • The voluntary inclusion of earnings forecasts in IPO prospectuses

    Peter M. Clarkson;Alex Dontoh;Gordon Richardson;Stephan E. Sefcik

  • Revisiting the Relation Between Environmental Performance and Environmental Disclosure: An Empirical Analysis

    Yue Li;Peter Clarkson;Peter Clarkson;Gordon D. Richardson;Florin P. Vasvari

  • Revisiting the Relation Between Environmental Performance and Environmental Disclosure: An Empirical Analysis

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  • Equity Valuation Employing the Ideal versus Ad Hoc Terminal Value Expressions

    Lucie Courteau;Jennifer L. Kao;Gordon D. Richardson

  • Causes and consequences of voluntary assurance of CSR reports: International evidence involving Dow Jones Sustainability Index Inclusion and Firm Valuation

    Peter Clarkson;Yue Li;Gordon Richardson;Albert Tsang

  • Direct and Indirect Effects of Internal Control Weaknesses on Accrual Quality: Evidence from a Unique Canadian Regulatory Setting*

    Hai Lu;Gordon Richardson;Steven Salterio

  • Analysts' use of earnings forecasts in predicting stock returns: Forecast horizon effects

    Sati P. Bandyopadhyay;Lawrence D. Brown;Gordon D. Richardson

  • Capital Market Effects of U.S.-Canada GAAP Differences

    Sati P. Bandyopadhyay;J. Douglas Hanna;Gordon Richardson

  • Accounting based valuation models: What have we learned?

    Gordon Richardson;Surjit Tinaikar

  • The Impact of SFAS No. 2 on Firm Expenditures on Research and Development: Replications and Extensions

    John Elliott;Gordon Richardson;Thomas Dyckman;Roland Dukes

  • The LIFO/FIFO Decision

    Dale Morse;Gordon Richardson

  • Do Private Company Targets that Hire Big 4 Auditors Receive Higher Proceeds

    Gus De Franco;Ilanit Gavious;Justin Y. Jin;Gordon D. Richardson

  • Does it Really Pay to Be Green? Determinants and Consequences of Proactive Environmental Strategies

    Peter Clarkson;Peter Clarkson;Yue Li;Gordon D. Richardson;Florin P. Vasvari

  • An Information Interpretation of Financial Analyst Superiority in Forecasting Earnings

    Lawrence D. Brown;Gordon D. Richardson

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Clarkson
Peter M. Clarkson University of Queensland
Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence D. Brown Temple University
Frank Rudzicz
Frank Rudzicz University of Toronto
Steven E. Salterio
Steven E. Salterio Queen's University

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