| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78161 | 274 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 33204 | 230 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 26406 | 340 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19587 | 38 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12838 | 43 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9355 | 112 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8444 | 34 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8404 | 33 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7995 | 23 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7931 | 27 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7667 | 31 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7594 | 145 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7142 | 31 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6839 | 84 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6273 | 32 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6171 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5936 | 105 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 5754 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5733 | 29 |
| 20 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5673 | 123 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5559 | 34 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5395 | 37 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5113 | 35 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4966 | 19 |
| 23 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4942 | 17 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4799 | 46 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4519 | 15 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4344 | 42 |
| 26 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4155 | 31 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4140 | 26 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4110 | 31 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4096 | 26 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4091 | 22 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3969 | 30 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3836 | 20 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3835 | 19 |
| 34 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3562 | 11 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3479 | 54 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3434 | 13 |
| 36 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3434 | 26 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3413 | 11 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3273 | 34 |
| 39 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3255 | 31 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3245 | 14 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3194 | 24 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3175 | 38 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3141 | 15 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3138 | 28 |
| 45 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3101 | 48 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3068 | 22 |
| 47 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3025 | 60 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3024 | 51 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2872 | 14 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2866 | 37 |
| 51 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2846 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2781 | 22 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2757 | 21 |
| 54 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2724 | 11 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2705 | 28 |
| 56 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2702 | 63 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2572 | 12 |
| 58 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2550 | 17 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2548 | 27 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2527 | 32 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2506 | 42 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2446 | 16 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2438 | 19 |
| 63 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2392 | 13 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2328 | 11 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 2309 | 33 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2285 | 36 |
| (65) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2276 | 10 |
| 66 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2270 | 103 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2257 | 11 |
| 68 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2244 | 13 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2242 | 7 |
| (69) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2201 | 5 |
| (69) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2188 | 14 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 2093 | 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 | 2071 | 27 |
| 70 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2071 | 27 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2043 | 28 |
| (71) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2022 | 34 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1986 | 22 |
| 73 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 1928 | 27 |
| 74 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1909 | 74 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1898 | 16 |
| (74) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1889 | 6 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1851 | 41 |
| 76 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1839 | 6 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1814 | 48 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1732 | 3 |
| 79 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1700 | 28 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1700 | 15 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1680 | 44 |
| 82 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1627 | 26 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1604 | 22 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1592 | 40 |
| 85 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1587 | 22 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1583 | 25 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1581 | 30 |
| (87) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1542 | 27 |
| 88 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1527 | 28 |
| (88) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1522 | 5 |
| (88) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1509 | 4 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1507 | 10 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1495 | 11 |
| 91 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1487 | 8 |
| 92 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1475 | 65 |
| 93 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1459 | 13 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1446 | 7 |
| 95 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1431 | 8 |
| 96 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 1425 | 19 |
| 97 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1408 | 15 |
| (97) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1402 | 14 |
| (97) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1393 | 11 |
| (97) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1384 | 6 |
| 98 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1376 | 94 |
| 99 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 1369 | 33 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1363 | 23 |
| 101 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1360 | 47 |
| (101) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1353 | 6 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1333 | 20 |
| (102) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1300 | 39 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1284 | 20 |
| 104 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1283 | 60 |
| 105 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1280 | 15 |
| (105) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1275 | 9 |
| (105) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1261 | 5 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1258 | 9 |
| (105) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1232 | 3 |
| (105) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1231 | 41 |
| 106 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1229 | 24 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1214 | 28 |
| 108 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1209 | 38 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1204 | 9 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1192 | 20 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1191 | 23 |
| 112 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1167 | 38 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1167 | 15 |
| 114 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1161 | 10 |
| (114) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1157 | 2 |
| 115 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1155 | 24 |
| 116 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1145 | 14 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1136 | 20 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1114 | 44 |
| 119 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1107 | 17 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1106 | 12 |
| (120) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1096 | 16 |
| (120) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1089 | 17 |
| (120) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1076 | 3 |
| 121 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1071 | 30 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1066 | 36 |
| 123 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1054 | 9 |
| (123) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1054 | 5 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1053 | 53 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1051 | 27 |
| 126 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 1046 | 51 |
| (126) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1044 | 4 |
| 127 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1040 | 12 |
| 128 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 1031 | 13 |
| 129 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1027 | 46 |
| 130 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1014 | 37 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1008 | 36 |
| 132 | Banco de España | Madrid, Spain | 1001 | 25 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 999 | 13 |
| 134 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 997 | 10 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 997 | 32 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 990 | 19 |
| (135) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 990 | 2 |
| (135) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 975 | 3 |
| 136 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 974 | 27 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Houston | Houston, Texas (USA) | 972 | 8 |
| 138 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 965 | 27 |
| 139 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 960 | 25 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 950 | 8 |
| 140 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 949 | 13 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 943 | 16 |
| 142 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 941 | 42 |
| 143 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 938 | 26 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 937 | 15 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 936 | 10 |
| 146 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 935 | 19 |
| 146 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 935 | 8 |
| 148 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 931 | 7 |
| 149 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 930 | 6 |
| 150 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 893 | 19 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 891 | 11 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 891 | 12 |
| 153 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 886 | 15 |
| 154 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 872 | 6 |
| 155 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 870 | 6 |
| 156 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 867 | 24 |
| 157 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 865 | 12 |
| (157) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 863 | 2 |
| 158 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 852 | 42 |
| 159 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 851 | 15 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 847 | 15 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 845 | 23 |
| 161 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 845 | 8 |
| 163 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 844 | 16 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 841 | 16 |
| (164) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 839 | 7 |
| 165 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 827 | 10 |
| 166 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 820 | 9 |
| 167 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 810 | 8 |
| 168 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 809 | 3 |
| (168) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 808 | 3 |
| (168) | Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 804 | 8 |
| 168 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 804 | 13 |
| 170 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 802 | 18 |
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