2026 James Guthrie: 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	88	99	92	48	45	506	45869
Economics and Finance	81	259	232	192	168	432	42585

James Guthrie 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 James Guthrie sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 506 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James Guthrie 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 James Guthrie sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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 United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award

Overview

James Guthrie is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research output spans 43 publications, with notable focus areas in Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Management Information Systems, among other subfields.

Their main subfields of study include:

Accounting
Strategy and Management
Management Information Systems
Sociology and Political Science
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Guthrie's research topics concentrate on:

Accounting and Organizational Management
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
Higher Education Governance and Development
Accounting Education and Careers
Corporate Finance and Governance
Management and Organizational Studies

The scholar has published multiple papers, some of the recent ones include:

"Australia's COVID-19 public budgeting response: the straitjacket of neoliberalism" (2020), Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management
"Exploring past, present and future trends in public sector auditing research: a literature review" (2021), Meditari Accountancy Research
"Being critical about intellectual capital accounting in 2020: An overview" (2020), Critical Perspectives on Accounting
"Public universities and impacts of COVID-19 in Australia: risk disclosures and organisational change" (2021), Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
"The commercialized Australian public university: An accountingized transition" (2021), Financial Accountability and Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Guthrie include:

John Dumay
Ann Martin-Sardesai
Lee D. Parker
Giuseppe Grossi
Francesca Manes Rossi

The researcher publishes regularly in several academic journals, including:

Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems
Meditari Accountancy Research
Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management
Accounting and Finance

James Guthrie also has contributions to academic books, with at least one publication titled "Research Handbook on Intellectual Capital and Business" (2021) published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

High-Involvement Work Practices, Turnover, and Productivity: Evidence from New Zealand

James P. Guthrie

2780
Citations
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL LITERATURE REVIEW: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT

Richard Petty;James Guthrie

2630
Citations
Corporate Social Reporting: A Rebuttal of Legitimacy Theory

James Guthrie;Lee D. Parker

2224
Citations
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: DOES INDUSTRY MATTER?

Deepak K. Datta;James P. Guthrie;Patrick M. Wright

1999
Citations
Using content analysis as a research method to inquire into intellectual capital reporting

J. Guthrie;R. Petty;K. Yongvanich;Federica Ricceri

1826
Citations
Corporate social disclosure practice: a comparative international analysis

James Guthrie;Lee Parker

1661
Citations
Intellectual capital: Australian annual reporting practices

James Guthrie;Richard Petty

1291
Citations
On the shoulders of giants: undertaking a structured literature review in accounting

Maurizio Massaro;John Dumay;James Guthrie

957
Citations
Reflections and projections: A decade of Intellectual Capital Accounting Research

James Guthrie;Federica Ricceri;John Dumay

902
Citations
The management, measurement and the reporting of intellectual capital

James Guthrie

873
Citations
Integrated reporting: A structured literature review

John Dumay;Cristiana Bernardi;James Guthrie;Paola Demartini

869
Citations
An empirical investigation of annual reporting trends of intellectual capital in Sri Lanka

Indra Abeysekera;James Guthrie

798
Citations
Public sector to public services: 20 years of “contextual” accounting research

Jane Broadbent;James Guthrie

748
Citations
Content analysis of social, environmental reporting: what is new?

James Guthrie;Indra Abeysekera

714
Citations
Application of accrual accounting in the Australian public sector - rhetoric or reality?

James Guthrie

704
Citations
Causes and Effects of Employee Downsizing: A Review and Synthesis

Deepak K. Datta;James P. Guthrie;Dynah Basuil;Alankrita Pandey

684
Citations
Changes in the Public Sector: A Review of Recent“Alternative” Accounting Research

Jane Broadbent;James Guthrie

683
Citations
The voluntary reporting of intellectual capital

James Guthrie;Richard Petty;Federica Ricceri

598
Citations
Debating Developments in New Public Financial Management: The Limits of Global Theorising and Some New Ways Forward

James Guthrie;Olov Olson;Christopher Humphrey

584
Citations
Sustainability reporting by Australian public sector organisations: Why they report

Federica Farneti;James Guthrie;James Guthrie

523
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee D. Parker University of Glasgow

John Dumay Macquarie University

Christopher Humphrey University of Manchester

Roger Burritt Australian National University

Indra Abeysekera S P Jain School of Global Management

Patrick C. Flood Dublin City University

Deepak K. Datta The University of Texas at Arlington

Jeffrey Unerman Royal Holloway University of London

Rob Gray University of East Anglia

Jane Broadbent Royal Holloway University of London

External Links

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