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61
Citations
13211
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9248
National Ranking
2614

Overview

Roger D. Willett is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within business, management, and accounting, with notable emphasis on accounting and finance. The scientist's work also intersects with inorganic chemistry and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scholar has contributed to various research topics, including:

  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Crystal structures of chemical compounds
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media

Recent publications illustrate the diversity of their research interests. In 2024, they coauthored "The valuation demand for accounting conservatism: evidence from firm-level climate risk measures," published in China Finance Review International. Also from 2024, their work on "Copper(II) salts and complexes of 2-amino-5-nitropyridine*" appeared in the Journal of Coordination Chemistry. In 2022, they contributed to "The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture by Daniel Thomas Cook," which was published in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

Frequent collaborators include Su Li, Tony van Zijl, Andrew Bellesis, Alexander J. Villani-Gale, and Diane A. Dickie, indicating a network spanning both scientific and financial research domains.

Their research has been disseminated in journals such as:

  • China Finance Review International
  • Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Best Publications

  • The nature of halogen...halogen synthons: crystallographic and theoretical studies.

    Firas F. Awwadi;Roger D. Willett;Kirk A. Peterson;Brendan Twamley

  • Ethylene polymerization by a cationic dicyclopentadienyl zirconium(IV) alkyl complex

    Richard F. Jordan;Chandrasekhar S. Bajgur;Roger. Willett;Brian. Scott

  • Chemistry of cationic zirconium(IV) benzyl complexes. One-electron oxidation of d0 organometallics

    Richard F. Jordan;Robert E. LaPointe;Chandrasekhar S. Bajgur;Scott F. Echols

  • Crystal structures of three new copper(II) halide layered perovskites: structural, crystallographic, and magnetic correlations

    Roger. Willett;Helen. Place;Michael. Middleton

  • Thermochromic phase transitions in transition metal salts

    D.R. Bloomquist;R.D. Willett

  • The crystal structure of (C2H5NH3)2CuCl4

    J.P. Steadman;R.D. Willett

  • Crystal Structure of (CH3CH2CH2NH3)2MnCl4

    Ellis R. Peterson;Roger D. Willett

  • Molecular structure and magnetic properties of the chloro-bridged dimer chloro[hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)borato]copper(II). Observation of a ferromagnetic ground state

    Stephanie G. N. Roundhill;D. Max Roundhill;Darrel R. Bloomquist;Christopher Landee

  • Electronic absorption spectra of monomeric copper(II) chloride species and the electron spin resonance spectrum of the square-planar CuCl42- ion

    Roger D. Willett;O. L. Liles;Christian Michelson

  • Crystal structure and magnetic susceptibility of copper (II) chloride tetramethylsulfoxide [Cu Cl 2 (TMSO)] and copper (II) chloride monodimethylsulfoxide [Cu Cl 2 (DMSO)]: Ferromagnetic spin-½ Heisenberg linear chains

    D. D. Swank;C. P. Landee;R. D. Willett

  • Crystal Structures of KCuCl3 and NH4CuCl3

    Unknown

  • The Aryl Chlorine−Halide Ion Synthon and Its Role in the Control of the Crystal Structures of Tetrahalocuprate(II) Ions

    Roger D. Willett;Firas Awwadi;Robert Butcher;Salim Haddad

  • Thermochromic phase transitions in copper(II) halide salts. 1. Crystal structure and magnetic resonance studies of isopropylammonium trichlorocuprate(II)

    S. A. Roberts;D. R. Bloomquist;R. D. Willett;H. W. Dodgen

  • Crystal-structure, magnetic-susceptibility, and EPR studies of bis(piperidinium)tetrabromocuprate(II): A novel monomer system showing spin diffusion.

    Baldev R. Patyal;Brian L. Scott;Roger D. Willett

  • Imidodiphosphate and Pyrophosphate: Possible Biological Significance of Similar Structures

    Marlin Larsen;Roger Willett;Ralph G. Yount

  • Electron spin resonance spectra and covalent bonding in the square‐planar CuCl42− and CuBr42− ions

    Chee Chow;Kun Chang;R. D. Willett

  • Crystal Chemistry of the 4,4‘-Dimethyl-2,2‘bipyridine/Copper Bromide System

    Roger D. Willett;George Pon;Callie Nagy

  • Multiple stereochemistry in copper(II) halides

    Roger D. Willett

  • Two-dimensional heisenberg antiferromagnets: syntheses, X-ray structures, and magnetic behavior of [Cu(pz)2](ClO4)2, [Cu(pz)2](BF4)2, and [Cu(pz)2(NO3)](PF6).

    F. Matthew Woodward;Pamela J. Gibson;Geoffrey B. Jameson;Christopher P. Landee

  • Crystal Structure of (NH4)2CuCl4

    Unknown

  • Thermochromism in copper(II) halide salts. 4. Bis(diethylammonium)tetrachlorocuprate(II), structure of the high-temperature phase and physical characterization of its two phases

    Darrell R. Bloomquist;Mark R. Pressprich;Roger D. Willett

  • Spectral nature, antifungal activity and molecular structure of metal complexes of acetylpyrazine 4N-substituted thiosemicarbazones

    Douglas X. West;Mark A. Lockwood;Anthony E. Liberta;Xin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian L. Scott
Brian L. Scott Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carlos J. Gómez-García
Carlos J. Gómez-García University of Valencia
Jean'ne M. Shreeve
Jean'ne M. Shreeve University of Idaho
Urs Geiser
Urs Geiser Argonne National Laboratory
Richard F. Jordan
Richard F. Jordan University of Chicago
Douglas X. West
Douglas X. West University of Washington
Karen J. Brewer
Karen J. Brewer Virginia Tech
Eugenio Coronado
Eugenio Coronado University of Valencia
Jan Reedijk
Jan Reedijk Leiden University
Jack M. Williams
Jack M. Williams Argonne National Laboratory

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