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Kenneth French

Global rank #470 99%

Institution: Dartmouth College

Primary Field: Finance (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kfrench

First Publication: 1980

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pfr33 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 2.01 1.01 0.00 5.03
Last 10 Years 0.00 6.03 1.01 0.00 13.07
All Time 2.68 40.55 1.01 0.00 92.84

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 41
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 44.43

Publications (41)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Michael C. Jensen’s empirical work Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2025 House Prices and Rents The Review of Financial Studies A 2
2021 Book values and stock returns. The Chicago MBA:A Review of Asset Pricing Studies B 2
2020 Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models The Review of Financial Studies A 2
2018 Choosing factors Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2017 International tests of a five-factor asset pricing model Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2016 Dissecting Anomalies with a Five-Factor Model The Review of Financial Studies A 2
2015 A five-factor asset pricing model Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2015 Incremental variables and the investment opportunity set Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2012 Size, value, and momentum in international stock returns Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2010 Luck versus Skill in the Cross‐Section of Mutual Fund Returns Journal of Finance A 2
2008 Presidential Address: The Cost of Active Investing Journal of Finance A 1
2008 Dissecting Anomalies Journal of Finance A 2
2008 Average Returns, B/M, and Share Issues Journal of Finance A 2
2007 Disagreement, tastes, and asset prices Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2006 The Value Premium and the CAPM Journal of Finance A 2
2006 Profitability, investment and average returns Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2005 Financing decisions: who issues stock? Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2004 New lists: Fundamentals and survival rates Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2002 The Equity Premium Journal of Finance A 2
2001 Disappearing dividends: changing firm characteristics or lower propensity to pay? Journal of Financial Economics A 2
2000 Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929 to 1997 Journal of Finance A 3
1999 The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment Journal of Finance A 2
1997 Industry costs of equity Journal of Financial Economics A 2
1996 Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies. Journal of Finance A 2
1996 The CAPM Is Wanted, Dead or Alive. Journal of Finance A 2
1995 Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns. Journal of Finance A 2
1993 Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds Journal of Financial Economics A 2
1992 The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns. Journal of Finance A 2
1991 Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets. American Economic Review S 2
1991 Were Japanese stock prices too high? Journal of Financial Economics A 2
1989 Business conditions and expected returns on stocks and bonds Journal of Financial Economics A 2
1988 Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1988 Dividend yields and expected stock returns Journal of Financial Economics A 2
1987 Expected stock returns and volatility Journal of Financial Economics A 3
1986 Stock return variances : The arrival of information and the reaction of traders Journal of Financial Economics A 2
1984 Anomalies in Security Returns and the Specification of the Market Model: Discussion. Journal of Finance A 1
1983 Taxes and the Pricing of Stock Index Futures. Journal of Finance A 2
1983 A comparison of futures and forward prices Journal of Financial Economics A 1
1983 Effects of Nominal Contracting on Stock Returns. Journal of Political Economy S 3
1980 Stock returns and the weekend effect Journal of Financial Economics A 1