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Record W4411860903 · doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101693

A bibliometric analysis of research on forensic accounting from 2006 to 2024

2025· article· en· W4411860903 on OpenAlex
Sunil Kumar, Shiran Khan, Reena Yadav

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Sciences & Humanities Open · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForensic accountingForensic scienceAccountingData scienceComputer scienceBusinessHistoryArchaeologyAudit

Abstract

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This study examines the key trends, impacts, and contributions of research on forensic accounting from 2006 to 2024. Data were extracted from the Scopus database, and 109 research papers were filtered by applying the PRISMA framework, followed by a bibliometric analysis using the ‘biblioshiny’ tool of the R-studio package. The leading universities and institutions are Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Debrecen, in which research on forensic accounting is carried over time. Following the h-index and g-index criteria, the most impactful authors were the O.E. Akinbowale, A.D. Alves, C.T. Dang, T.T. Nguyen, Q. Fu, G. Judge, M.E. Lokanan, T. Ownes. Accounting Research Journal, Cogent Business and Management, Journal of Financial Crime, and Journal of Governance and Regulations are the most impactful sources of publication in forensic accounting. The results revealed that the UK, USA, Canada, and Germany are prominent countries in single-country publications, as well as multiple-country publications. The conceptual analysis disclosed subthemes as per the contemporary requirements of the field, such as forensic accounting techniques, fraud identification and risk assessment, and the role of certified public accountants in forensic accounting. This paper highlights the important sources, authors, and publications which will help research scholars summarise their literature review in the future and suggest upcoming areas of research in this field.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesBibliometrics
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.482
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0580.240
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.102
GPT teacher head0.383
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it