| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 510460 | 273 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 280718 | 227 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 246437 | 338 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 135125 | 39 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 96361 | 121 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 77965 | 83 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 74893 | 42 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74451 | 111 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 72822 | 145 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 62334 | 33 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 59877 | 31 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 59161 | 104 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 55692 | 34 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51316 | 23 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 51043 | 102 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45570 | 28 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 44135 | 12 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42523 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 39686 | 33 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39070 | 29 |
| (20) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 39029 | 33 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 37425 | 34 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 36058 | 31 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 35238 | 30 |
| 23 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 34989 | 48 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34011 | 17 |
| 24 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 33380 | 46 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 32670 | 30 |
| 26 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 31815 | 60 |
| 27 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 31485 | 55 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 30706 | 46 |
| 29 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 30352 | 41 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29943 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 29723 | 36 |
| 32 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 29511 | 63 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 29390 | 28 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 28973 | 30 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28408 | 37 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 28360 | 49 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 27838 | 23 |
| 38 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 27833 | 53 |
| (38) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27391 | 41 |
| 39 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27285 | 12 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 27046 | 30 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26731 | 15 |
| 42 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 26601 | 14 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25925 | 19 |
| 44 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25840 | 16 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 25490 | 21 |
| 46 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 24927 | 74 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24659 | 30 |
| 48 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 24188 | 28 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24128 | 21 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 23834 | 30 |
| 51 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 23827 | 24 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 23827 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 23517 | 35 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 23124 | 24 |
| 54 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23049 | 14 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22903 | 27 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 22806 | 51 |
| 56 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22132 | 21 |
| 57 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 22118 | 45 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 21937 | 47 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 21659 | 27 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 21372 | 36 |
| (60) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21215 | 13 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 21055 | 25 |
| 62 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21050 | 15 |
| 63 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 21023 | 11 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 20137 | 23 |
| 65 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 19967 | 37 |
| 66 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 19558 | 33 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19422 | 13 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19246 | 28 |
| 68 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 19201 | 43 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 18973 | 15 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18964 | 19 |
| (70) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 18886 | 11 |
| 71 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18683 | 27 |
| 72 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 18313 | 45 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18292 | 19 |
| (72) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18272 | 11 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 17905 | 27 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17883 | 35 |
| 75 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17840 | 17 |
| 76 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17821 | 28 |
| 77 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 17786 | 94 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17664 | 21 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 17535 | 29 |
| 80 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 17478 | 28 |
| 81 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 17173 | 24 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16946 | 36 |
| 83 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 16466 | 64 |
| 84 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 16424 | 21 |
| 85 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 16370 | 5 |
| (85) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16195 | 5 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 15621 | 36 |
| (86) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15607 | 39 |
| 87 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 15560 | 8 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 14994 | 22 |
| 89 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14986 | 35 |
| 90 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 14757 | 29 |
| 91 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 14754 | 38 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 14611 | 12 |
| 93 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 14555 | 25 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 14311 | 39 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 14240 | 38 |
| 96 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 14079 | 30 |
| 97 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 14024 | 8 |
| 98 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14004 | 25 |
| 99 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 13955 | 29 |
| 100 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 13921 | 24 |
| 101 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13746 | 6 |
| (101) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13723 | 14 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 13642 | 7 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 13616 | 9 |
| (103) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13527 | 4 |
| 104 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13407 | 7 |
| (104) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13403 | 3 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13358 | 22 |
| 106 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 13338 | 59 |
| 107 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 13276 | 44 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13243 | 20 |
| (108) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 13201 | 9 |
| 109 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13140 | 16 |
| 110 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13055 | 3 |
| 111 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13016 | 13 |
| 112 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 12986 | 27 |
| (112) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12933 | 6 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12875 | 25 |
| (113) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12818 | 16 |
| 114 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 12799 | 43 |
| 115 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12545 | 13 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 12537 | 21 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12521 | 11 |
| 117 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 12486 | 29 |
| 118 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 12323 | 10 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12221 | 6 |
| (118) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12175 | 3 |
| 119 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 11953 | 18 |
| (119) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11922 | 6 |
| 120 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 11847 | 19 |
| 121 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 11753 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 11741 | 19 |
| 123 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 11630 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11620 | 11 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 11573 | 26 |
| 126 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 11538 | 38 |
| 127 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 11527 | 38 |
| 128 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 11508 | 27 |
| 129 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11406 | 23 |
| (129) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11372 | 9 |
| (129) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 11312 | 40 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 11297 | 59 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 11275 | 20 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11196 | 15 |
| (132) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 11069 | 27 |
| 132 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 11069 | 27 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 11046 | 24 |
| 135 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10885 | 26 |
| 136 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 10825 | 42 |
| 137 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 10783 | 18 |
| 138 | Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 10777 | 38 |
| 139 | Centro Richerche Nord Sud (CRENoS), Università degli Studi di Cagliari | Cagliari, Italy | 10578 | 30 |
| 140 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10567 | 18 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10567 | 13 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 10566 | 15 |
| 143 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 10511 | 19 |
| (143) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 10407 | 24 |
| 144 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 10386 | 34 |
| (144) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10372 | 19 |
| 145 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 10358 | 25 |
| (145) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 10291 | 17 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 10280 | 34 |
| (146) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 10207 | 31 |
| 147 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 10156 | 19 |
| 148 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 10140 | 30 |
| 149 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 10080 | 15 |
| (149) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10052 | 5 |
| 150 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 9954 | 39 |
| 151 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 9950 | 26 |
| 152 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 9872 | 10 |
| 153 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9803 | 25 |
| 154 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9796 | 12 |
| (154) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9796 | 17 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 9785 | 23 |
| (155) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 9783 | 14 |
| 156 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9772 | 16 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9738 | 12 |
| (157) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9685 | 15 |
| 158 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 9635 | 9 |
| 159 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9604 | 10 |
| 160 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9584 | 38 |
| 161 | Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) | Milano, Italy | 9439 | 25 |
| 162 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9423 | 24 |
| 163 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9403 | 51 |
| 164 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9402 | 13 |
| 165 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 9396 | 47 |
| (165) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9360 | 15 |
| (165) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9337 | 15 |
| 166 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 9300 | 18 |
| (166) | Solvay Business School, Centre Emile Bernheim, Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 9278 | 35 |
| 167 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9245 | 27 |
| (167) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9224 | 8 |
| 168 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 9168 | 30 |
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