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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Resource Economics, as of April 2026

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  • There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
  • For Resource Economics, these are 257 institutions and 211 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.1130.52
2Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.8340.53
3Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)3.07142.06
4National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)4.24170.77
5Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden4.8093.31
6University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)6.0430.24
7Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom7.1220.27
8Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)8.0720.18
9London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom9.6250.59
10Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)9.8310.38
-Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)9.8310.38
11University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)10.3610.19
-Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden10.7572.09
12Paris School of Economics, Paris, France11.4260.64
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom11.7430.13
13University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)12.9120.48
14Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy13.8220.46
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)14.1820.14
15University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)15.1710.10
16University of Missouri → Department of Economics, Columbia, Missouri (United States)16.1810.10
17Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)16.7520.09
-Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Environment for Development, Göteborg, Sweden17.4031.03
18Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)18.2510.08
-Oxford University → Department of Economics → Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Oxford, United Kingdom18.7810.10
19University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)19.3610.11
20Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)19.7110.16
-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)20.3710.11
21Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland22.0910.25
22University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)22.6810.19
23Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)23.1110.13
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland23.1310.25
24World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)23.2550.63
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)24.3010.13
25Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)24.4410.06

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Martin L. Weitzman1.11
2Richard Schmalensee3.14
3Robert S. Pindyck
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
4.17
4Robert Norman Stavins
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
5.26
5Philippe Aghion
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
5.37
6Matthew Kahn
University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
5.53
7William D. Nordhaus
Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
7.50
8Michael Greenstone
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
7.72
9Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Oxford, United Kingdom
8.75
10Michael Hanemann
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
9.72
11William A. Brock
University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
University of Missouri → Department of Economics, Columbia, Missouri (United States)
9.91
12Jeffrey Alexander Frankel
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
12.80
13Anastasios Xepapadeas
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy
12.94
14Joseph S. Shapiro13.19
15W. Reed Walker15.00
16Don Fullerton
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
16.15
17Gilbert Metcalf
Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)
16.38
18Fredrik Carlsson
Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden
16.96
19Anthony J. Venables
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
18.66
20Thomas Sterner
Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden
Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Environment for Development, Göteborg, Sweden
19.04
21Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
20.07
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