Ranking economists by their publications in top journals
| Rank | Name | Institution | Field | First Pub | S (4x) | A (2x) | B (1x) | C (½x) | Total ↓ | Pubs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
100%
|
Daron Acemoglu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Theory | 1995 | 4.28 | 2.83 | 2.25 | 0.00 | 25.05 | 22 |
|
2
99%
|
Peter C. B. Phillips | Singapore Management University | Econometrics | 1973 | 0.00 | 7.58 | 5.67 | 0.00 | 20.83 | 34 |
|
3
99%
|
David E. Card | University of California-Berkeley | Labor | 1982 | 2.83 | 3.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.50 | 16 |
|
4
99%
|
Alexander Wolitzky | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Theory | 2009 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.00 | 10 |
|
5
99%
|
Christopher Roth | Universität zu Köln | Public | 2018 | 1.87 | 4.17 | 2.07 | 0.00 | 17.87 | 23 |
|
6
99%
|
Unknown | - | Health | 1987 | 1.83 | 4.08 | 1.83 | 0.00 | 17.33 | 17 |
|
7
99%
|
Yuriy Gorodnichenko | University of California-Berkeley | Macro | 2007 | 1.86 | 3.31 | 2.83 | 0.00 | 16.89 | 29 |
|
8
99%
|
Magne Mogstad | University of Chicago | Public | 2010 | 2.78 | 2.44 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 16.60 | 22 |
|
9
99%
|
Jesse Shapiro | Harvard University | Urban | 2002 | 3.20 | 0.92 | 1.33 | 0.00 | 15.97 | 11 |
|
10
99%
|
Charles I. Jones | Stanford University | Macro | 1994 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 14.50 | 5 |
|
11
99%
|
Lutz Kilian | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Econometrics | 1998 | 0.00 | 5.50 | 3.50 | 0.00 | 14.50 | 17 |
|
12
99%
|
Liangjun Su | Tsinghua University | Econometrics | 2006 | 0.00 | 6.78 | 0.83 | 0.00 | 14.40 | 24 |
|
13
99%
|
Patrick Kline | University of California-Berkeley | Econometrics | 2010 | 3.25 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 14.00 | 9 |
|
14
99%
|
Ufuk Akcigit | University of Chicago | Macro | 2015 | 2.42 | 1.78 | 0.75 | 0.00 | 13.98 | 15 |
|
15
99%
|
Christopher Ross Walters | University of California-Berkeley | Labor | 2010 | 2.67 | 1.17 | 0.83 | 0.00 | 13.83 | 13 |
|
16
99%
|
David Powell | RAND | Health | 2012 | 1.45 | 2.92 | 2.17 | 0.00 | 13.80 | 13 |
|
17
99%
|
Thomas Sargent | Hoover Institution on War Revolution | Macro | 1969 | 1.50 | 2.58 | 2.58 | 0.00 | 13.75 | 13 |
|
18
99%
|
Holger Strulik | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Growth | 1997 | 0.00 | 0.67 | 12.00 | 0.00 | 13.33 | 22 |
|
19
99%
|
Emmanuel Farhi | - | Finance | 2006 | 3.25 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.25 | 9 |
|
20
99%
|
Yuya Sasaki | Vanderbilt University | Econometrics | 2015 | 0.00 | 5.42 | 2.42 | 0.00 | 13.25 | 19 |
|
21
99%
|
Oliver Bruce Linton | University of Cambridge | Econometrics | 1993 | 0.50 | 4.79 | 1.65 | 0.00 | 13.22 | 24 |
|
22
99%
|
Narayana Kocherlakota | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Macro | 1990 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 | 7 |
|
23
99%
|
Javier Bianchi | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Macro | 2010 | 2.33 | 1.83 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.00 | 9 |
|
24
99%
|
David Mckenzie | World Bank Group | Development | 2003 | 1.17 | 3.00 | 2.20 | 0.00 | 12.87 | 19 |
|
25
99%
|
George-Marios Angeletos | Northwestern University | Macro | 2002 | 3.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.67 | 7 |
|
26
99%
|
Joshua D Angrist | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Labor | 1990 | 2.08 | 2.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.67 | 10 |
|
27
99%
|
Unknown | - | Labor | 1993 | 1.53 | 3.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.63 | 15 |
|
28
99%
|
John List | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Public | 1998 | 2.15 | 1.23 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 12.57 | 19 |
|
29
99%
|
Nguyen Viet Cuong | Mekong Development Research Institute | Development | 2011 | 0.00 | 2.33 | 7.83 | 0.00 | 12.50 | 18 |
|
30
99%
|
Peter Hull | Brown University | General | - | 2.53 | 0.83 | 0.67 | 0.00 | 12.47 | 13 |
|
31
99%
|
Dimitrios Xefteris | University of Cyprus | Theory | 2012 | 0.50 | 2.50 | 5.42 | 0.00 | 12.42 | 23 |
|
32
99%
|
Unknown | - | Health | 2014 | 1.50 | 3.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.33 | 7 |
|
33
99%
|
Rohan Kekre | University of California-Berkeley | Macro | 2022 | 2.33 | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.33 | 6 |
|
34
99%
|
Hanzhe Zhang | Michigan State University | Theory | 2013 | 1.75 | 0.53 | 4.25 | 0.00 | 12.32 | 13 |
|
35
99%
|
Steven Ongena | Universität Zürich | Finance | 2000 | 0.00 | 1.17 | 9.77 | 0.00 | 12.10 | 42 |
|
36
99%
|
Iftekhar Hasan | Fordham University | Finance | 1998 | 0.00 | 1.75 | 8.58 | 0.00 | 12.08 | 39 |
|
37
99%
|
Unknown | - | Urban | 2015 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 | 4 |
|
38
99%
|
Jan Eeckhout | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) | Theory | 1999 | 2.25 | 1.25 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 12.00 | 9 |
|
39
99%
|
Mikkel Plagborg-Moller | University of Chicago | Econometrics | 2012 | 1.83 | 2.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 | 8 |
|
40
99%
|
Michael Weber | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Finance | 2014 | 1.31 | 2.95 | 0.67 | 0.00 | 11.81 | 18 |
|
41
99%
|
Abhijit Banerjee | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Development | 1991 | 1.62 | 2.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.53 | 15 |
|
42
99%
|
Jiti GAO | Monash University | Econometrics | 2004 | 0.00 | 5.03 | 1.42 | 0.00 | 11.48 | 22 |
|
43
99%
|
John van Reenen | London School of Economics (LSE) | Industrial Organization | 1993 | 1.92 | 1.89 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.45 | 13 |
|
44
99%
|
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | Finance | 2005 | 1.17 | 3.08 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 11.42 | 15 |
|
45
99%
|
Hans Koster | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Urban | 2012 | 0.00 | 4.42 | 2.58 | 0.00 | 11.42 | 15 |
|
46
99%
|
Unknown | - | Finance | 2018 | 1.83 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.33 | 7 |
|
47
99%
|
Parag Pathak | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Public | 2005 | 1.92 | 1.67 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 11.25 | 12 |
|
48
99%
|
Giovanni Peri | University of California-Davis | Urban | 1998 | 0.25 | 3.94 | 2.33 | 0.00 | 11.22 | 20 |
|
49
99%
|
Bard Harstad | Stanford University | Public | 2005 | 1.00 | 3.33 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 11.17 | 6 |
|
50
99%
|
Carlos Alós-Ferrer | Lancaster University | Theory | 1999 | 0.33 | 2.83 | 4.17 | 0.00 | 11.17 | 17 |