Robert has played an influential role in the politics of Armenia and Bosnia, where he has drafted the accounting law for both countries, has assisted the Finance Ministries to convert their countries to International Financial Reporting Standards and has assisted all the major universities in both countries to upgrade their accounting curriculum to international standards.
He was also responsible for reviewing the accounting law for Mozambique.
Due to work and family commitments he was an external student at the University of Sunderland; still he describes his experience at the Institution as very enjoyable and he remembers his visits here fondly.
“Since I am from the United States, and since some of my ancestors came from England, I have always been interested in this country, its history and culture. Visiting Sunderland allowed me to drink all that in.”
He also explains what attracted him to the University: “In the US system students are stuck with the professors who are on the faculty. Oftentimes, they have to choose a topic that a professor is interested in. However, with the British system I was able to shop around and find a professor at the University of Sunderland who was interested in my topic. I did not have to compromise and research a topic that did not interest me.”
Robert has published more than 60 nonfiction books.
He said: “My degree in Politics provided me with the background I needed to do research in the field but also to write political thrillers as well as scholarly books and papers in the field. My first novel, Justifiable Homicide: A Political Thriller, made the Amazon Best-Seller list in the Mystery and Thriller category. My second novel, Annie and the Senator, also made the Amazon Best-Seller in this same category."
Several studies have ranked Robert #1 in the world for accounting ethics and business ethics research. He has also competed in karate tournaments in both the Shukokai (Japanese) and Taekwondo (Korean) styles and won, at age 70, in a single weekend, world championships in 3 styles – taekwondo (Korean), kung fu (Chinese), and karate (Japanese), and silver medaled in tai chi. He is now 76 and is a world champion in karate, taekwondo, kung fu and tai chi (both Yang and Sun styles).
Robert was inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame in July 2017. And his career gold medal count is 1020 as of February 2024.
In May 2023 an article studied the research impact among the top 1000 economist researchers. Robert ranked #9 in the world in terms of research impact, ahead of 80 of the 84 Nobel Prize winners included in the survey.
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Rankings
Ranked #1 in the world for tax evasion scholarship between 1975-2022 [47 years]. Barbu, L., Horobeț, A., Belașcu, L., & Ilie, A. G. (2024). Approaches to tax evasion: a bibliometric and mapping analysis of Web of Science indexed studies. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 25(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2024.20691
Ranked #1 in North America for accounting scholars publishing ethics research for the twenty-five-year period 1991-2015. Also 10-year period 2006-2015 and 20-year period 1996-2015 [Alexandra L. Ferrentino, Meghan L. Maliga, Richard A. Bernardi & Susan M. Bosco, Ranking Accounting Scholars Publishing Ethics Research in Accounting and Business Ethics Journals, Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting 20:163-215 (2016)].
Ranked #1 in North America for accounting scholars publishing ethics research for the twenty-three year period 1986-2008 [Richard A. Bernardi and David F. Bean (2010). Ranking North American Accounting Scholars Publishing Ethics Research: 1986 Through 2008. Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting, 14:139-174].
Ranked #1 in the world in accounting ethics scholarship for the 35-year period 1968-2002. Richard A. Bernardi, Accounting Authors Publishing in Ethics Journals, Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting 10:63-93 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1574-0765(05)10003-X
Ranked #1 in the world for business ethics scholarship for the five-year period 1995-1999 [Murray Sabrin, A Ranking of the Most Productive Business Ethics Scholars, Journal of Business Ethics 36: 355-379 (2002), https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014432004643 ]
Ranked #1 in the world for tax evasion research (2009-2018). Alkausar, B., Soemarsono, P.N., & Pengesti, N.G. (2021). A bibliometric analysis of tax aggressiveness through tax evasion issues in last decade. TIJAB (The International Journal of Applied Business), 5(2), 193-202.
Ranked #1 in the world for tax evasion research in 14 languages for the 70-year period [1952-2022]. Mansour, A. Z., Ahmi, A., Alkhuzaie, A. S. H., Alhmood, M. A., Popoola, O. M. J., & Altarawneh, M. (2023). State of art in tax evasion research: A bibliometric review. Review of Education, 11, e3422. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3422
Ranked #2 in the world for tax evasion citations in 14 languages for the 70-year period [1952-2022]. Mansour, A. Z., Ahmi, A., Alkhuzaie, A. S. H., Alhmood, M. A., Popoola, O. M. J., & Altarawneh, M. (2023). State of art in tax evasion research: A bibliometric review. Review of Education, 11, e3422. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3422
Ranked #2 in the world among top 25 business school authors in terms of productivity. P.S. Aithal and Shubhrajyotsna Aithal, Comparison of Research Output and Fee Charging Strategies of Some Top Global and Indian Business Schools, International Journal of Case Studies in Business, IT and Education, 1(1): 53-66 (2017).
Ranked #2 in the world among accounting professors for both downloads and citations. Feiwei Chen and Ashiqullah Pardisi, A Ranking of the 100 Most Prolific Accounting Scholars, Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy, 23(4), 673-704 (2022).
Top 10 economists in the world in terms of research impact. Aashay Singhal and Kamalakar Karlapalem, “hp-frac: An index to determine Awarded Researchers, WWW ’23 Companion, April 30–May 04, 2023, Austin, TX, USA, pp. 813-819. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3543873.3587597
Ranked #1 All-Time in the world among accounting professors (Social Science Research Network, November, 2023).