The phrase "authoritative study of the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a research work or analysis that is considered reliable and credible on a specific subject.
Example: "The authoritative study of the effects of climate change provides compelling evidence for immediate action."
Alternatives: "definitive research on the" or "reliable analysis of the".
A graceful and authoritative study of the siblings' 27-year partnership.
He wrote three books about the island, as well as an authoritative study of the shearwater species of seabird.
An authoritative study of the last presidential election in 2012 estimated that, as a result of long lines, up to 700,000 Americans were unable to cast their vote.
Barker carried out a government-commissioned review of housing supply for Gordon Brown in 2004, which has come to be regarded as the authoritative study of the subject, but few of her recommendations were acted on.
According to most sources, including Robert Hughes's recent, authoritative study of the artist, Goya died at 2 a.m. on April 16, 1828, in Bordeaux, France, after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier.
The 20th-century American critic Edmund Wilson's survey of the Symbolist movement, Axel's Castle (1931), is considered a classic of modern literary analysis and the authoritative study of the movement.
"They really look at their work as groundwork that will pay off in centuries," said Christophe Jaffrelot, a Paris University professor whose book "The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India" (Columbia University Press, 1996) is widely regarded as the authoritative study of these groups.
But one of the few authoritative studies of the method, conducted in California from 1985 to 2001, found that those who entered relapse prevention treatment were slightly more likely to offend again than those who got no therapy at all.
The continuing disputes over the consequences of the Chernobyl accident make it essential that a major international organization be created to support authoritative studies of the long-term effects of the world's biggest nuclear accident.
This authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments.
In an authoritative study of innovation in the telecommunications industry, he finds IP (Internet Protocol) telephony, among all candidate technologies, to be the only one with the "potential to be a powerful disruptive catalyst with seismic effects".
