Academic Achievements! 5 Papers are Included in ESI List of Highly Cited Papers | Headline News

Release time：2025-01-04    

By the end of 2024, 5 papers of Fudan International School of Finance were included in the ESI List of Highly Cited Papers (Essential Science Indicators). These research findings were all published in world-class or authoritative academic journals, covering multiple cutting-edge fields in finance, which fully embodies the extraordinary academic competence and global influence of Fudan International School of Finance.

The ESI List of Highly Cited Papers refers to papers published within the last decade with the number of citations ranking in the top 1% globally in corresponding disciplinary fields. It has become a critical indicator to measure and evaluate national or regional scientific research levels, academic reputations of institutions, disciplinary levels and scientists’ academic influence.

The five papers included in the list are:

• Dissecting the Long-term Performance of the Chinese Stock Market by Jun Qian, Executive Dean and Professor in Finance at Fudan International School of Finance, Lei Zhu, Professor in Accounting, and other co-authors, published in the world-class, Journal of Finance (in 2024).

• The Real Effect of Smoking Bans: Evidence from Corporate Innovation by Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean and Professor in Finance at Fudan International School of Finance, and other co-authors, published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (in 2020).

• Individual Investors’ Trading Behavior and Gender Difference in Tolerance of Sex Crimes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment by Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean and Professor in Finance at Fudan International School of Finance, Chunliu Yang, Assistant Professor in Finance, with several co-authors, published in the Journal of Empirical Finance (in 2023).

• Patent Pledgeability, Trade Secrecy, and Corporate Patenting by Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean and Professor in Finance at Fudan International School of Finance, Yongqin Wang, Chair Professor, Yan Gu, Researcher at Macro Financial Center, and other co-authors, published in the Journal of Corporate Finance (in 2024).

• Retail Trading and Return Predictability in China by Donghui Shi, Vice President of Fudan University China Institute for Rule of Law in Finance, with several co-authors, published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (in 2024).

The highly cited papers mentioned above cover multiple cutting-edge fields like the capital market performance, corporate finance, behavioral finance and China’s market trading mechanism, fully embodying the depth and width of the school’s studies in the international academic circle.

Ever since its establishment, Fudan International School of Finance has upheld the school motto of “Excellence, Responsibility, Innovation” and kept probing into professional fields. In the future, it will further enhance its academic foundation, promote the transformation of research findings and facilitate high-quality economic and social development.