100,000 Citations on Google Scholar
McCombs finance professor among those with the highest research impact in the field
McCombs School of Business Professor of Finance Sheridan Titman has achieved a milestone that places him among a select few in the academic world: His work has garnered more than 100,000 citations on Google Scholar.
There are fewer than 10 finance academics who have received this many citations.
“Being cited 100,000 times in finance is the equivalent of being an Olympic athlete,” said Clemens Sialm, chair of McCombs’ Department of Finance.
Google Scholar is a free extension of the web search engine Google that indexes scholarly publications and working papers and organizes them for easy access. It also tracks which researchers cite each other’s work and publicly displays the number of citations a given paper receives. Whenever researchers cite a paper, they refer to the source of an idea, finding, or methodology. Being cited more frequently means that the research has a more significant impact on the industry.
The milestone highlights Titman’s profound impact on the finance industry through extensive work during the past four decades, Sialm said.
This work has covered a vast range of topics, including theoretical and empirical articles on asset pricing, corporate finance, energy finance, real estate, and urban economics. Titman has authored more than 100 research articles, most of which have been published in highly selective finance journals. His most significant projects include studies on momentum effects in equity prices, the determinants of firm capital structure, and the evaluation of mutual fund performance.
He also serves on numerous editorial boards of leading academic journals and as president of the Western Finance Association, the American Finance Association, and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Included in his list of accolades is the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize, a prestigious award given biennially to recognize outstanding quantitative research that has contributed to a particular innovation in the practice of finance, which he won for his research with Narasimhan Jegadeesh on momentum effects in equity prices.
“Our research is built on the shoulders of giants, and Sheridan is one of these giants,” Sialm said. “We are very lucky and proud to have him on our faculty.”
