| Rank | Score | W.Rank | Author | Affiliated with (in this region) |
| 1. | 1.96 | [1] | John Haltiwanger | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 2. | 2.27 | [2] | Carmen M. Reinhart | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 3. | 2.68 | [4] | Robert Moffitt | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 4. | 2.96 | [3] | Laurence Ball | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Johns Hopkins University |
| 5. | 3.71 | [5] | Christopher Carroll | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 6. | 6.41 | [6] | Enrique G. Mendoza | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 7. | 8.74 | [7] | Allan Drazen | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 8. | 9.31 | [8] | Olivier Jeanne | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 9. | 10.09 | [9] | Vojislav Maksimovic | Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 10. | 11.01 | [10] | Carlos A. Végh | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 11. | 11.11 | [11] | Wallace E. Oates | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 12. | 11.58 | [14] | Peter Cramton | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 13. | 11.82 | [13] | John Rust | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 14. | 12.28 | [12] | Katharine Gail Abraham | University of Maryland |
| 15. | 12.55 | [16] | Joseph E. Harrington Jr. | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| 16. | 12.81 | [15] | Marc Nerlove | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 17. | 15.25 | [17] | Maureen L. Cropper | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 18. | 19.05 | [18] | Peter Murrell | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), University of Maryland, College Park |
| 19. | 19.31 | [19] | Richard E. Just | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 20. | 20.9 | [23] | Robert G Chambers | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 21. | 21.6 | [22] | Ramon Lopez | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |