2026 Michael D. Shields: 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	37	1919	1797	784	718	84	10476

Overview

Michael D. Shields is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, with a particular focus on probabilistic and robust engineering design, model reduction and neural networks, structural health monitoring techniques, Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference, advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms, machine learning in materials science, and neural networks and applications.

Michael D. Shields has published a number of notable papers recently, including:

Bayesian neural networks for uncertainty quantification in data-driven materials modeling, 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Deep transfer operator learning for partial differential equations under conditional shift, 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence
UQpy: A general purpose Python package and development environment for uncertainty quantification, 2020, Journal of Computational Science
Data-driven surrogates for high dimensional models using Gaussian process regression on the Grassmann manifold, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
MANIFOLD LEARNING-BASED POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSIONS FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SURROGATE MODELS, 2022, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Research Square, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.

Michael D. Shields collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, including Dimitris G. Giovanis, Somayajulu L. N. Dhulipala, Katiana Kontolati, Promit Chakroborty, and Somdatta Goswami.

Best Publications

Budgeting Research: Three Theoretical Perspectives and Criteria for Selective Integration☆

Mark Covaleski;John H. Evans;Joan Luft;Michael D. Shields

1648
Citations
Mapping management accounting: graphics and guidelines for theory-consistent empirical research

Joan Luft;Michael D. Shields

1085
Citations
Antecedents of participative budgeting

J.F. Shields;M.D. Shields

873
Citations
Budgeting Research: Three Theoretical Perspectives and Criteria for Selective Integration

Mark A. Covaleski;John H. Evans;Joan L. Luft;Michael D. Shields

829
Citations
What Do Industry-Specialist Auditors Know?

Ira Solomon;Michael D. Shields;O. Ray Whittington

774
Citations
Research in management accounting by North Americans in the 1990s

Michael D. Shields

590
Citations
The importance of national culture in the design of and preference for management controls for multi-national operations

Chee W. Chow;Michael D. Shields;Anne Wu

481
Citations
Handbook of management accounting research

Christopher S. Chapman;Anthony G. Hopwood;Michael D. Shields

451
Citations
Psychology Theory in Management Accounting Research

Jacob G. Birnberg;Joan Luft;Michael D. Shields

318
Citations
The effects of management controls and national culture on manufacturing performance: An experimental investigation☆

Chee W. Chow;Michael D. Shields;Yoke Kai Chan

314
Citations
The design and effects of control systems: tests of direct- and indirect-effects models

Michael D. Shields;F.Johnny Deng;Yutaka Kato

291
Citations
National culture and the preference for management controls: An exploratory study of the firm—Labor market interface☆

Chee W. Chow;Yutaka Kato;Michael D. Shields

247
Citations
Organizational control systems in research and development

Howard O. Rockness;Michael D. Shields

206
Citations
Why Does Fixation Persist? Experimental Evidence on the Judgment Performance Effects of Expensing Intangibles

Joan L. Luft;Michael D. Shields

190
Citations
Effects of organizational process change on responsibility accounting and managers' revelations of private knowledge

Casey Rowe;Jacob G. Birnberg;Michael D. Shields

152
Citations
Management accounting practices in Europe: a perspective from the States

Michael D. Shields

144
Citations
Antecedents and consequences of participative budgeting: Evidence on the effects of asymmetrical

S. Mark Young;Michael D. Shields

134
Citations
Psychology Models of Management Accounting

Joan Luise Luft;Michael D. Shields

134
Citations
The Effects of Personality on a Subject's Information Processing

Walter McGhee;Michael D. Shields;Jacob G. Birnberg

127
Citations
Judgment and decision-making research in accounting and auditing: Judgment and decision-making research in auditing

Ira Solomon;Michael D. Shields

125
Citations
Effects of Audit Report Wording Changes on the Perceived Message

K. E. Bailey;Joseph H. Bylinski;Michael D. Shields

117
Citations
Zimmerman's contentious conjectures: describing the present and prescribing the future of empirical management accounting research

Joan Luft;Michael D. Shields

114
Citations
The role of attention and memory in accounting decisions

Jacob G. Birnberg;Michael D. Shields

113
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chee W. Chow San Diego State University

Carol Propper Imperial College London

Irene Hanson Frieze University of Pittsburgh

Wesley J. Johnston Georgia State University

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