Nathan Y. Sharp

5.2k citations

26 papers · 3.1k · 3 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

Accounting top 0.2%
- Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
- Corporate Finance and Governance
Finance top 1%
- Financial Markets and Investment Strategies

Papers in

Accounting 26
- Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance 25
- Corporate Finance and Governance 1
Finance 6
- Financial Markets and Investment Strategies 6

Co-authors: Thomas C. Omer (3 shared papers)Andrew C. Call (9 shared papers)Lawrence D. Brown (3 shared papers)Michael B. Clement (3 shared papers)Sean T. McGuire (1 shared paper)Kathleen A. Bentley‐Goode (1 shared paper)David Alvra Wood (6 shared papers)Douglas F. Prawitt (3 shared papers)
Journals: Review of Accounting Studies (4 papers)Journal of Accounting Research (3 papers)Contemporary Accounting Research (3 papers)Journal of Accounting and Economics (3 papers)Journal of Corporate Finance (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Australia

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Nathan Y. Sharp

26 papers receiving 3k citations

Nathan Y. Sharp's Hit Papers

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Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts 2013 · 659 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2013 Journal of Accounting Research
2012 Contemporary Accounting Research
2011 The Accounting Review

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1	Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts Journal of Accounting Research ·Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, Nathan Y. Sharp Hit paper breakdown →	2013	659
2	The Impact of Religion on Financial Reporting Irregularities The Accounting Review ·Sean T. McGuire, Thomas C. Omer, Nathan Y. Sharp Hit paper breakdown →	2011	632
3	Business Strategy, Financial Reporting Irregularities, and Audit Effort Contemporary Accounting Research ·Kathleen A. Bentley‐Goode, Thomas C. Omer, Nathan Y. Sharp Hit paper breakdown →	2012	457
4	Internal Audit Outsourcing and the Risk of Misleading or Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Did Sarbanes‐Oxley Get It Wrong?* Contemporary Accounting Research ·Douglas F. Prawitt, Nathan Y. Sharp, David Alvra Wood	2012	123
5	Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Corporate Disclosure Journal of Accounting and Economics ·Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, Nathan Y. Sharp	2017	120
6	Using earnings conference calls to identify analysts with superior private information Review of Accounting Studies ·William J. Mayew, Nathan Y. Sharp, Mohan Venkatachalam	2012	116
7	Saving Face: How Exit in Response to Negative Press and Star Analyst Downgrades Reflects Reputation Maintenance by Directors Academy of Management Journal ·Joseph S. Harrison, Steven Boivie, Nathan Y. Sharp, Richard John Gentry	2017	113
8	The activities of buy-side analysts and the determinants of their stock recommendations Journal of Accounting and Economics ·Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, Nathan Y. Sharp	2016	105
9	Whistleblowers and Outcomes of Financial Misrepresentation Enforcement Actions Journal of Accounting Research ·Andrew C. Call, Gerald S. Martin, Nathan Y. Sharp, Jaron H. Wilde	2017	99
10	The Association between Financial Reporting Risk and Audit Fees before and after the Historic Events Surrounding SOX Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory ·Shannon L. Charles, Steven M. Glover, Nathan Y. Sharp	2010	96
11	Reconciling Archival and Experimental Research: Does Internal Audit Contribution Affect the External Audit Fee? Behavioral Research in Accounting ·Douglas F. Prawitt, Nathan Y. Sharp, David Alvra Wood	2011	93
12	Rotational internal audit programs and financial reporting quality: Do compensating controls help? Accounting Organizations and Society ·Margaret H. Christ, Adi Masli, Nathan Y. Sharp, David Alvra Wood	2015	81
13	The Impact of Religion on the Going Concern Reporting Decisions of Local Audit Offices Journal of Business Ethics ·Thomas C. Omer, Nathan Y. Sharp, Dechun Wang	2016	72
14	Detecting and Predicting Accounting Irregularities: A Comparison of Commercial and Academic Risk Measures Accounting Horizons ·Nathan Y. Sharp, David Alvra Wood +1 other	2011	67
15	Empirical Evidence on Repeat Restatements Accounting Horizons ·Rebecca Files, Nathan Y. Sharp, Anne M. Thompson	2013	46
16	Meet the press: Survey evidence on financial journalists as information intermediaries Journal of Accounting and Economics ·Andrew C. Call, Scott A. Emett, Eldar M. Maksymov, Nathan Y. Sharp	2021	41
17	Who’s heard on the Street? Determinants and consequences of financial analyst coverage in the business press Review of Accounting Studies ·Lynn L. Rees, Nathan Y. Sharp, Brady J. Twedt	2014	35
18	Short Selling Around Restatement Announcements Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance ·Michael S. Drake, Linda A. Myers, Susan Scholz, Nathan Y. Sharp	2015	24
19	Managers’ use of humor on public earnings conference calls Review of Accounting Studies ·Andrew C. Call, Rachel W. Flam, Joshua A. Lee, Nathan Y. Sharp	2023	22
20	Working on the Weekend: Do Analysts Strategically Time the Release of Their Recommendation Revisions? Journal of Corporate Finance ·Lynn L. Rees, Nathan Y. Sharp, Paul A. Wong	2013	19

About Nathan Y. Sharp

Nathan Y. Sharp is a scholar working on Accounting, Finance, Communication, Marketing and Information Systems and Management, having authored 26 papers that have together received 3.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (25 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (6 papers), Taxation and Compliance Studies (1 paper), Securities Regulation and Market Practices (1 paper), Gender Diversity and Inequality (1 paper), Corporate Finance and Governance (1 paper), Corporate Identity and Reputation (1 paper) and Academic integrity and plagiarism (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (2.3k citations), Finance (569 citations), Strategy and Management (561 citations), Management Information Systems (121 citations) and Information Systems and Management (77 citations). Nathan Y. Sharp has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Thomas C. Omer, Andrew C. Call, Lawrence D. Brown, Michael B. Clement, Sean T. McGuire, Kathleen A. Bentley‐Goode, David Alvra Wood, Douglas F. Prawitt, Mohan Venkatachalam and William J. Mayew. Their work appears in journals such as Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Corporate Finance.

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