| Rank | Score | W.Rank | Author | Affiliated with (in this region) |
| 1. | 1.81 | [1] | John Haltiwanger | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 2. | 1.96 | [2] | Carmen M. Reinhart | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 3. | 2.65 | [4] | Robert Moffitt | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 4. | 2.83 | [3] | Christopher Carroll | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 5. | 5.56 | [5] | Enrique G. Mendoza | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 6. | 7.26 | [6] | Allan Drazen | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 7. | 8.36 | [7] | Vojislav Maksimovic | Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 8. | 9.31 | [8] | Carlos A. Végh | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 9. | 9.59 | [9] | Wallace E. Oates | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 10. | 9.63 | [11] | Peter Cramton | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 11. | 10.18 | [10] | Katharine Gail Abraham | University of Maryland |
| 12. | 10.73 | [12] | John Rust | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 13. | 10.98 | [13] | Marc Nerlove | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 14. | 11.22 | [14] | Joseph E. Harrington Jr. | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 15. | 14.27 | [15] | Maureen L. Cropper | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 16. | 16.88 | [16] | Peter Murrell | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), University of Maryland, College Park |
| 17. | 17.13 | [17] | Richard E. Just | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 18. | 20.08 | [21] | Ramon Lopez | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 19. | 20.17 | [18] | Louis John Maccini | Johns Hopkins University |
| 20. | 20.31 | [23] | Robert G Chambers | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 21. | 20.42 | [20] | Thomas Mathiasen Selden | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Government of the United States, Rockville |