2026 Stephen H. Penman: 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	802	745	353	321	151	22479
Economics and Finance	53	1158	1029	701	606	158	22558

Stephen H. Penman 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 Stephen H. Penman sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 151 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen H. Penman 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 Stephen H. Penman 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.

Overview

Stephen H. Penman is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad fields, their work covers subfields including Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics of their scholarly output encompass Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance; Financial Reporting and Valuation Research; Financial Markets and Investment Strategies; Corporate Finance and Governance; Accounting Education and Careers; Accounting and Organizational Management; and Accounting Theory and Financial Reporting.

Frequent publication venues for Stephen H. Penman include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Foundations and Trends® in Accounting
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Abacus
Accounting and Business Research

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Julie Zhu, Hyung Il Oh, Haofei Wang, Xiao-Jun Zhang, and David Johnstone.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen H. Penman include:

An accounting-based asset pricing model and a fundamental factor (2022), Journal of Accounting and Economics
Connecting book rate of return to risk and return: the information conveyed by conservative accounting (2020), Review of Accounting Studies
Accounting for Intangible Assets: Thinking It Through (2023), Australian Accounting Review

Additional relevant papers in their field of study but authored by other contributors include "Accounting for intangible assets: suggested solutions" (2021) published in Accounting and Business Research and "Accounting for Intangible Assets: Suggested Solutions" (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal, reflecting ongoing discourse related to intangible asset accounting.

Stephen H. Penman has also contributed to academic literature through books, notably "Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing," published by Columbia University Press, with a release planned for 2025.

Best Publications

Financial statement analysis and security valuation

Stephen H. Penman

3169
Citations
Accounting Conservatism, the Quality of Earnings, and Stock Returns

Stephen H. Penman;Xiao‐Jun Zhang

2149
Citations
FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS AND THE PREDICTION OF STOCK RETURNS

Jane A. Ou;Stephen H. Penman

1740
Citations
Timeliness of Reporting and the Stock Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements

Anne E. Chambers;Stephen H. Penman

1197
Citations
Ratio Analysis and Equity Valuation: From Research to Practice

Doron Nissim;Stephen H. Penman

1163
Citations
Voluntary Forecast Disclosure, Nondisclosure, and Stock Prices

Baruch Lev;Stephen H. Penman

824
Citations
Financial reporting quality: is fair value a plus or a minus?

Stephen H. Penman

759
Citations
The Articulation of Price-Earnings Ratios and Market-to-Book Ratios and the Evaluation of Growth

Stephen H. Penman

706
Citations
An Empirical Investigation of the Voluntary Disclosure of Corporate Earnings Forecasts

Stephen H. Penman

700
Citations
Book Rate-of-Return and Prediction of Earnings Changes: An Empirical Investigation

Robert N. Freeman;James A. Ohlson;Stephen H. Penman

637
Citations
The Book-to-Price Effect in Stock Returns: Accounting for Leverage

Stephen H. Penman;Scott A. Richardson;Irem Tuna

572
Citations
The distribution of earnings news over time and seasonalities in aggregate stock returns

Stephen H. Penman

465
Citations
An Evaluation of Accounting Rate-of-return

Stephen H. Penman

465
Citations
Return to Fundamentals

Stephen H. Penman

441
Citations
A Comparison of Dividend, Cash Flow, and Earnings Approaches to Equity Valuation*

Unknown

424
Citations
Volatility increases subsequent to stock splits: An empirical aberration

James Arvid Ohlson;Stephen H. Penman

419
Citations
Accounting Measurement, Price-Earnings Ratio, and the Information Content of Security Prices

Unknown

345
Citations
A Synthesis of Equity Valuation Techniques and the Terminal Value Calculation for the Dividend Discount Model

Stephen H. Penman

344
Citations
Insider Trading and the Dissemination of Firms' Forecast Information

Stephen H. Penman

342
Citations
Disaggregated Accounting Data as Explanatory Variables for Returns

James A. Ohlson;Stephen H. Penman

316
Citations
Financial Statement Analysis of Leverage and How It Informs About Profitability and Price-to-Book Ratios

Doron Nissim;Stephen H. Penman

281
Citations
Combining Earnings and Book Value in Equity Valuation

Stephen H. Penman

237
Citations
Accounting Conservatism, the Quality of Earnings, and Stock Returns

Stephen H. Penman;Xiao-Jun Zhang

221
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Ohlson Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Shyam Sunder Yale University

Theodore E. Christensen University of Georgia

Ross L. Watts MIT

Robert J. Bloomfield Cornell University

Scott A. Richardson London Business School

Mark H. Lang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Baruch Lev New York University

External Links

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