Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Sports and Economics, as of January 2026

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The rankings

Top 10% authors in the field of Sports and Economics

For Sports and Economics, these are 172 authors affiliated with 1135 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Stefan Szymanski	1.27
2	Brad Humphreys Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia (USA)	2.46
3	Lawrence Kahn CESifo, München, Germany National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER), Brisbane/Sydney, Australia	4.41
4	Michael Lechner School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland	5.16
5	Jan van Ours Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	5.78
6	Dennis Coates Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)	7.21
7	Young Hoon Lee College of Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea	8.16
8	Craig A. Depken II Department of Economics, Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (USA)	8.27
9	Wolfgang Maennig Institut für Außenhandel und Wirtschaftsintegration, Fachbereich Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany	10.51
10	Victor Matheson Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts (USA)	11.15
11	Egon Peter Franck Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland	11.41
12	Stefan L.J. Kesenne †	12.8
13	Luc Arrondel Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	13.19
14	J James Reade Department of Economics, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom	13.21
15	Thomas Johannes Dohmen Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany	17.9
16	Karl Whelan School of Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland	18.73
17	Alison Lee Booth Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia	21.73

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