Top Institutions and Economists in East South Central States (United States), as of March 2026

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There are 9296 institutions with 73242 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For East South Central States (United States), these are 74 institutions with 401 members with a total share of 380.21.

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Alabama (United States), Kentucky (United States), Mississippi (United States), Tennessee (United States), This region is part of the United States.

Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	1	41	39.64
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	2.09	32	29.52
3	[3]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.10	32	30.89
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.35	19	18.51
4	[4]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.73	33	28.96
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	4.24	22	20.44
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.40	25	16.26
4	[5]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	5.40	30	28.46
6	[6]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	6.49	6	5.40
7	[7]	University of Mississippi → Department of Economics, University, Mississippi (United States)	8.18	11	11
8	[8]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	8.84	8	7.99
9	[9]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	9.54	22	21.50

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	1.14	41	10
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	1.80	32	10
3	[3]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.24	32	10
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.27	19	10
4	[4]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.39	33	10
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	4.99	22	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.07	25	10
5	[5]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	6.89	8	7.99
6	[7]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.55	11	10
7	[6]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	7.71	30	10
8	[8]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	8.19	14	10
9	[9]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	8.24	22	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.16
2	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	4.38
3	[4]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.63
4	[3]	John J. Siegfried	6.11
5	[5]	Peter Rousseau	6.38
6	[6]	David Wildasin	6.44
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	7.48
8	[9]	Walter Enders	8.70
9	[14]	Gregory W. Huffman	9.10
10	[12]	James P. Ziliak	12.67
11	[13]	John Allan Weymark	14.16
12	[15]	Eric W. Bond	14.70
13	[20]	Junsoo Lee	14.87
14	[11]	Kenneth R. Troske	14.91
15	[10]	Myrna Wooders	15.72
16	[16]	Per G. Fredriksson	15.78
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	16.86
18	[17]	Michael K. Price	18.76
19	[21]	David Parsley	19.22
20	[19]	William J. Collins	20.05
21	[22]	Mark A. Cohen	20.41
22	[18]	Andrew F. Daughety	22.25
23	[23]	Benjamin Eden	23.01
24	[25]	Tong Li	24.20
25	[24]	Cary A. Deck	24.51
26	[31]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	25.11
27	[26]	Kevin X.d. Huang	26.63
28	[27]	Christopher Bollinger	26.76
29	[30]	Aaron Yelowitz	27.22
30	[28]	Mattias K Polborn	28.16
31	[32]	Charles Courtemanche	28.81
32	[40]	Matthew Serfling	29.44
33	[34]	Howard J. Wall	31.05
34	[33]	David Neil Laband	31.35
35	[29]	Daniel J. Henderson	31.55
36	[37]	Christian Allen Vossler	33.21
37	[36]	Michael T. Belongia	34.66
38	[38]	Yuya Sasaki	35.75
39	[39]	Paul Pecorino	36.46
40	[41]	Bradford D. Jordan	36.98
41	[44]	Georg Schaur	40.79
42	[43]	Keith H. Coble	40.81
43	[46]	Andrea Moro	44.00
44	[47]	Thomas Garrett	45.71
45	[45]	J. S. Butler	46.00
46	[42]	Carlos Lamarche	46.81
47	[48]	Glenn Blomquist	48.65
48	[54]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	48.99
49	[50]	Joseph Haslag	49.52
50	[52]	William Neilson	51.18
51	[51]	John Conley	51.43

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Blandin	3.89
2	[4]	W Kip Viscusi	3.90
3	[3]	James P. Ziliak	4.92
4	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	4.96
5	[10]	Christian Allen Vossler	6.37
6	[5]	Felipe Benguria	6.40
7	[6]	Charles Courtemanche	6.87
8	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	8.30
9	[9]	Lala Ma	8.71
10	[11]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	10.16
11	[16]	Philip T. Roundy	11.62
12	[8]	Brian Beach	13.10
13	[18]	Matthew Serfling	15.23
14	[20]	Jonathan Daines Hall	16.50
15	[14]	William J. Collins	16.70
16	[12]	Kamal Saggi	16.88
17	[19]	Aaron Yelowitz	17.65
18	[15]	Michael K. Price	18.50
19	[13]	Peter Rousseau	18.83
20	[22]	Cary A. Deck	20.70
21	[21]	Christopher Bollinger	20.90
22	[17]	Richard J. Cebula	21.86
23	[25]	William C. Gerken	22.98
24	[24]	Andrea Moro	24.02
25	[23]	Carlos Lamarche	24.35
26	[27]	Per G. Fredriksson	26.33
27	[28]	Georg Schaur	26.60
28	[29]	Matthew C. Harris	27.51
29	[30]	J Scott Holladay	29.03
30	[31]	Tong Li	31.28
31	[32]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	31.49
32	[37]	Mattias K Polborn	33.72
33	[33]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	34.35
34	[35]	Luke Petach	34.67
35	[34]	Robert G. Hammond	34.75
36	[39]	Joshua Hendrickson	36.17
37	[36]	Valentina Hartarska	37.20
38	[38]	Peter Brummund	39.17
39	[40]	Junsoo Lee	39.29
40	[42]	Xiaochun Liu	40.22
41	[45]	Jamin Speer	40.74
42	[41]	Steven Lugauer	41.47
43	[43]	Kevin X.d. Huang	42.43
44	[47]	Charles Sims	42.43
45	[44]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	44.43
46	[52]	Caroline Weber	44.77
47	[53]	Byung-Cheol Kim	44.85
48	[51]	Joel Rodrigue	46.34
49	[46]	Daniel J. Henderson	46.58
50	[57]	Thomas E. Lambert	48.55
51	[63]	Peter Lin	48.72
52	[56]	Michael T. Belongia	48.77
53	[62]	Panka Bencsik	49.73
54	[55]	Hyeongwoo Kim	50.41
55	[65]	Md Rafayet Alam	50.84
56	[49]	Mark A. Cohen	51.14
57	[58]	Yong Chao	51.28
58	[64]	Jeremy Atack	51.94
59	[61]	Elif E. Demiral	53.19
60	[59]	Eric W. Bond	53.27
61	[60]	Todd R. Jones	53.84
62	[67]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	54.67
63	[68]	Babu George	55.66
64	[66]	David M. Zimmer	56.62
65	[72]	Yuqing Zheng	57.13
66	[69]	Daniel Weagley	57.37
67	[73]	Keith H. Coble	57.47
68	[70]	Ruiqing Miao	57.51
69	[74]	Duha Tore Altindag	61.27
70	[75]	Laura Razzolini	62.29
71	[71]	John Allan Weymark	62.39
72	[76]	Kathleen McKiernan	64.60
73	[80]	Traviss Cassidy	64.73
74	[79]	John J. Siegfried	66.30
75	[78]	Christopher Biolsi	66.37
76	[82]	Hasibul Islam	68.44
77	[81]	John A. Dove	69.72
78	[85]	Weihua Zhao	70.58
79	[86]	Karen Lewis DeLong	72.69
80	[84]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	73.46
81	[88]	David M. Kemme	75.11
82	[91]	Daniel R. Petrolia	78.06
83	[95]	William F. Fox	79.35
84	[90]	Michael Reed	80.05
85	[89]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	80.06
86	[94]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	81.73
87	[97]	Gerard Domènech-Arumí (Gerard Domenech-Arumi)	83.75
88	[93]	Paul Pecorino	84.24
89	[96]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	85.76
90	[50]	Brandyn F. Churchill	86.29
91	[92]	Henry Thompson	87.16
92	[99]	John Conley	87.95
93	[98]	Colin Cannonier	88.79
94	[102]	Frank Goetzke	89.63
95	[103]	Richard Alan Seals Jr.	90.71
96	[106]	Barry J. Barnett	94.20
97	[107]	Luiz Renato Regis de Oliveira Lima	95.69
98	[113]	Tian Qiu	96.21
99	[101]	Chris Vickers	97.39
100	[105]	Tigran Melkonyan	97.75
101	[114]	David A. Anderson (David Anton Anderson)	98.34

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Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
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