Top Institutions and Economists in Colorado (United States), as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For a listing of all economics institutions in Colorado (United States), see EDIRC
For Colorado (United States), these are 23 institutions with 160 members with a total share of 147.09.

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Entity	Full ranking		Last 10 years		10 best authors		Last 10 years, 10 best authors		Top 5% authors		More
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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)	1	40	37.78
2	[2]	Colorado State University → Department of Economics, Fort Collins, Colorado (United States)	2.58	19	17.42
3	[3]	Colorado State University → Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Fort Collins, Colorado (United States)	2.93	27	25.44
4	[5]	University of Colorado Denver → Economics Department, Denver, Colorado (United States)	3.97	11	8.83
5	[4]	Colorado School of Mines → Division of Economics and Business, Golden, Colorado (United States)	4.05	11	10.90

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)	1	40	10
2	[2]	Colorado State University → Department of Economics, Fort Collins, Colorado (United States)	2.26	19	10
3	[3]	Colorado State University → Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Fort Collins, Colorado (United States)	3.26	27	10
4	[4]	University of Colorado Denver → Economics Department, Denver, Colorado (United States)	3.34	11	8.83
5	[5]	Colorado School of Mines → Division of Economics and Business, Golden, Colorado (United States)	5.21	11	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	James R. Markusen	1.39
2	[3]	Miles Spencer Kimball	2.10
3	[5]	Edward B. Barbier	3.30
4	[8]	Yongmin Chen	4.60
5	[9]	Ann Huff Stevens	5.26
6	[7]	Keith E. Maskus	5.28
7	[10]	John Loomis	8.06
8	[4]	Wolfgang Keller	10.09
9	[12]	Daniel I. Rees	12.09
10	[13]	John T. Cuddington	12.72
11	[14]	Francisco Rodríguez (Francisco Rodriguez)	14.40
12	[20]	Michael J. Stutzer	15.51
13	[15]	Francisca M. Antman	16.31
14	[16]	Jian Yang	16.75
15	[17]	John Elder	18.03
16	[19]	Xiaodong Liu	18.42
17	[18]	Jack Strauss	18.76
18	[21]	Jeffrey Zax	19.71
19	[22]	Stephen B. Billings	20.66
20	[23]	Terra McKinnish	22.69
21	[25]	Carol Hua Shiue	23.87
22	[26]	Daniel Kaffine	24.66
23	[32]	Charles de Bartolome	26.90
24	[27]	Carol A. Dahl	27.37
25	[28]	Edward R. Morey	28.24
26	[29]	Sergey Nigai	28.62
27	[31]	Robert McNown	29.26
28	[33]	Dawn D. Thilmany	30.48
29	[35]	Brian C. Cadena	30.65
30	[38]	Graham Anthony Davis	31.66
31	[37]	Scott James Savage	32.41
32	[36]	Nicholas E. Flores	33.07
33	[34]	Hani Mansour	33.96
34	[44]	Adam McCloskey	34.62
35	[40]	E. Woodrow Eckard	34.94
36	[39]	Jeronimo Carballo	35.42
37	[41]	Jared C. Carbone	36.16
38	[43]	Haider Khan	36.34
39	[42]	Liang Peng	38.51
40	[11]	Murat F. Iyigun	39.08
41	[47]	Jonathan Edward Hughes	39.81

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Edward B. Barbier	1.71
2	[4]	Ryan Brown	3.88
3	[7]	Adam McCloskey	7.46
4	[8]	Daniel Kaffine	7.62
5	[6]	Yongmin Chen	8.47
6	[10]	Stephen B. Billings	8.55
7	[15]	Robert McNown	9.77
8	[12]	Chloe N. East	9.87
9	[11]	Francisca M. Antman	10.47
10	[9]	James R. Markusen	10.57
11	[14]	Dale Manning	10.82
12	[16]	Constantin Gurdgiev	11.47
13	[13]	Daniele Tavani	11.88
14	[19]	Jeronimo Carballo	13.16
15	[18]	Marwil Jhonatan Dávila-Fernández (Marwil Jhonatan Davila-Fernandez)	13.76
16	[20]	Daniel I. Rees	14.60
17	[17]	Miles Spencer Kimball	15.01
18	[22]	Xiaodong Liu	15.02
19	[24]	Sergey Nigai	16.26
20	[26]	Hong Miao	17.40
21	[27]	Richard K. Mansfield	17.55
22	[25]	Jian Yang	18.95
23	[29]	Joanne C. Burgess	19.17
24	[30]	Taylor Jaworski	19.41
25	[31]	Ben Gilbert	20.13
26	[5]	Andrea Velasquez	21.12
27	[28]	Nicholas Magnan	21.27
28	[32]	Tianyang Wang	21.49
29	[33]	Dawn D. Thilmany	27.35
30	[37]	Ian Andrew Lange	28.51
31	[3]	Wolfgang Keller	29.39
32	[34]	Matt Woerman	29.87
33	[38]	Terra McKinnish	30.64
34	[36]	Hani Mansour	31.87
35	[40]	Jordan F. Suter	31.91
36	[41]	Ramaa Vasudevan	32.63
37	[42]	Steven Michael Smith	33.00
38	[35]	Keith E. Maskus	33.80
39	[45]	Jude Bayham	34.56
40	[49]	J. Anthony Cookson	35.15
41	[44]	Mo Alloush	35.47

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