| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 76084 | 273 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 32156 | 227 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 25867 | 338 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19215 | 39 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12775 | 42 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9200 | 111 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8198 | 33 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8056 | 34 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7809 | 23 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7758 | 28 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7501 | 31 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7396 | 145 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6603 | 83 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5909 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5763 | 102 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5691 | 29 |
| 17 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5636 | 121 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5635 | 30 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5614 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 5597 | 30 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5385 | 31 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5038 | 34 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5018 | 36 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4821 | 17 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4644 | 46 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4445 | 15 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4295 | 41 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4153 | 28 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4059 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3987 | 25 |
| 28 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3986 | 30 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3980 | 30 |
| 30 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3884 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3770 | 19 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3741 | 19 |
| 33 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3719 | 12 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3496 | 16 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3468 | 55 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3380 | 13 |
| (36) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3353 | 11 |
| 37 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3351 | 28 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3197 | 35 |
| 39 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3158 | 30 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3143 | 14 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3067 | 24 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3063 | 37 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3044 | 15 |
| 44 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2944 | 48 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2935 | 51 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2913 | 60 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2837 | 27 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2802 | 36 |
| 49 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2797 | 24 |
| (49) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2797 | 23 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2793 | 14 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2736 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2702 | 21 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2636 | 21 |
| 54 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2627 | 11 |
| 55 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2622 | 63 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2583 | 27 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2491 | 27 |
| 58 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2487 | 17 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2468 | 33 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2398 | 10 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2375 | 15 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2361 | 41 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2350 | 19 |
| 63 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2334 | 13 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 2297 | 36 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2271 | 11 |
| 65 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2225 | 104 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2211 | 11 |
| 67 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2205 | 13 |
| 68 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2192 | 7 |
| (68) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2163 | 14 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2160 | 35 |
| (69) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2152 | 5 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 2046 | 22 |
| (70) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2013 | 27 |
| 70 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2013 | 27 |
| (71) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2004 | 9 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1951 | 28 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1939 | 22 |
| (72) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1910 | 33 |
| (72) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1834 | 16 |
| 73 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1825 | 74 |
| (73) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1824 | 6 |
| 74 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1803 | 49 |
| 75 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1799 | 6 |
| 76 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1760 | 38 |
| 77 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1696 | 3 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1671 | 15 |
| 79 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1658 | 28 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1647 | 23 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1582 | 39 |
| 82 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1543 | 25 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1542 | 30 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1510 | 25 |
| (84) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1503 | 27 |
| (84) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1483 | 4 |
| 85 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1456 | 8 |
| (85) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1453 | 5 |
| 86 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1448 | 43 |
| 87 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1446 | 64 |
| 88 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1442 | 13 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1431 | 21 |
| 90 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1416 | 27 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1407 | 7 |
| 92 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1405 | 8 |
| 93 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1370 | 94 |
| (93) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1369 | 11 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1360 | 9 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1350 | 14 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1344 | 13 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1339 | 10 |
| 96 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1339 | 29 |
| (97) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1335 | 6 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1327 | 24 |
| 99 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1323 | 46 |
| 99 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 1323 | 33 |
| (100) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1309 | 6 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1306 | 20 |
| 102 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1267 | 15 |
| (102) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1251 | 9 |
| (102) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1238 | 39 |
| (102) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1236 | 5 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1228 | 9 |
| 103 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1226 | 59 |
| (103) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1210 | 40 |
| (103) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1202 | 3 |
| 104 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1190 | 24 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1184 | 9 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1181 | 24 |
| 107 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1176 | 38 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1149 | 19 |
| (108) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1147 | 2 |
| 109 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1144 | 38 |
| 110 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1131 | 10 |
| 111 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1128 | 24 |
| 112 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1113 | 14 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1109 | 19 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1097 | 20 |
| (114) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1080 | 15 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1076 | 44 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1065 | 12 |
| (116) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1064 | 17 |
| 117 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1052 | 17 |
| 118 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1048 | 30 |
| (118) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1044 | 5 |
| (118) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1034 | 3 |
| 119 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 1026 | 51 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1025 | 27 |
| 120 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1025 | 35 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1023 | 53 |
| (122) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1014 | 3 |
| 123 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1005 | 9 |
| 124 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1000 | 38 |
| 125 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 990 | 12 |
| 126 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 987 | 45 |
| 127 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 984 | 13 |
| 128 | Banco de España | Madrid, Spain | 982 | 25 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 978 | 14 |
| (129) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 975 | 3 |
| (129) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 970 | 2 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 968 | 19 |
| 131 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 963 | 10 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 962 | 36 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 961 | 31 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 955 | 13 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Houston | Houston, Texas (USA) | 942 | 7 |
| 135 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 936 | 27 |
| 136 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 933 | 26 |
| 137 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 931 | 25 |
| 138 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 929 | 42 |
| 139 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 928 | 12 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 925 | 16 |
| 141 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 921 | 26 |
| (141) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 920 | 8 |
| 142 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 918 | 7 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 907 | 15 |
| 143 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 907 | 6 |
| 145 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 905 | 18 |
| 146 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 903 | 8 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 899 | 10 |
| 148 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 885 | 19 |
| 149 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 864 | 11 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 856 | 11 |
| 151 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 855 | 13 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 846 | 11 |
| (152) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 845 | 2 |
| 153 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 844 | 12 |
| 154 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 843 | 15 |
| 155 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 838 | 6 |
| 156 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 835 | 18 |
| 157 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 832 | 24 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 820 | 23 |
| 159 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 819 | 39 |
| 160 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 817 | 21 |
| 161 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 810 | 8 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 805 | 15 |
| (162) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 804 | 7 |
| 163 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 799 | 8 |
| 164 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 793 | 9 |
| (164) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 793 | 3 |
| 165 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 789 | 3 |
| 165 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 789 | 7 |
| 167 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 784 | 17 |
| 168 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 780 | 30 |
| 168 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 780 | 13 |
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