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

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For East South Central States (United States), these are 74 institutions with 404 members with a total share of 385.71.

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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	33	30.52
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)	3.32	20	19.51
4	[4]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.73	33	30.46
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	4.28	22	20.44
5	[5]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	5.40	30	28.46
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.52	25	17.01
6	[6]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	6.45	6	5.40
7	[7]	University of Mississippi → Department of Economics, University, Mississippi (United States)	8.22	11	11
8	[8]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	8.75	8	7.99
9	[9]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	9.61	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	33	10
3	[3]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.27	33	10
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.27	20	10
4	[4]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.35	32	10
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	5.02	22	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.10	25	10
5	[5]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	6.76	8	7.99
6	[6]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.71	11	10
7	[7]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	7.81	30	10
8	[9]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	8.28	22	10
9	[8]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	8.29	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.08
2	[5]	Atsushi Inoue	4.23
3	[4]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.62
4	[3]	John J. Siegfried	6.20
5	[6]	David Wildasin	6.47
6	[7]	Peter Rousseau	6.55
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	7.98
8	[9]	Walter Enders	8.79
9	[14]	Gregory W. Huffman	9.84
10	[12]	James P. Ziliak	12.00
11	[10]	Kenneth R. Troske	14.07
12	[13]	John Allan Weymark	14.28
13	[20]	Junsoo Lee	14.54
14	[15]	Eric W. Bond	14.65
15	[16]	Per G. Fredriksson	15.01
16	[11]	Myrna Wooders	15.54
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	16.77
18	[17]	Michael K. Price	18.46
19	[21]	David Parsley	19.41
20	[19]	William J. Collins	19.56
21	[22]	Mark A. Cohen	20.94
22	[18]	Andrew F. Daughety	22.31
23	[24]	Cary A. Deck	23.79
24	[23]	Benjamin Eden	24.02
25	[25]	Christopher Bollinger	25.25
26	[29]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	25.47
27	[27]	Tong Li	26.24
28	[26]	Kevin X.d. Huang	27.27
29	[31]	Aaron Yelowitz	27.66
30	[39]	Matthew Serfling	28.03
31	[32]	Charles Courtemanche	28.60
32	[30]	Mattias K Polborn	28.87
33	[33]	Howard J. Wall	30.36
34	[28]	Daniel J. Henderson	31.80
35	[34]	David Neil Laband	32.05
36	[36]	Christian Allen Vossler	32.23
37	[37]	Michael T. Belongia	35.80
38	[38]	Yuya Sasaki	35.82
39	[40]	Paul Pecorino	36.62
40	[41]	Bradford D. Jordan	38.22
41	[44]	Georg Schaur	41.54
42	[42]	Keith H. Coble	41.74
43	[45]	Andrea Moro	44.37
44	[43]	J. S. Butler	46.32
45	[47]	Thomas Garrett	47.53
46	[54]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	48.18
47	[46]	Carlos Lamarche	49.28
48	[49]	Glenn Blomquist	50.29
49	[48]	John Conley	50.90
50	[51]	William Neilson	51.28
51	[52]	Joseph Haslag	51.82

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Blandin	4.13
2	[4]	W Kip Viscusi	4.58
3	[3]	James P. Ziliak	4.73
4	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	4.76
5	[10]	Christian Allen Vossler	6.33
6	[5]	Felipe Benguria	6.88
7	[6]	Charles Courtemanche	7.29
8	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	7.70
9	[11]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	8.68
10	[12]	Philip T. Roundy	8.68
11	[8]	Lala Ma	9.39
12	[9]	Brian Beach	13.32
13	[16]	Matthew Serfling	14.69
14	[20]	Jonathan Daines Hall	16.79
15	[13]	Kamal Saggi	16.93
16	[15]	William J. Collins	17.09
17	[19]	Aaron Yelowitz	18.38
18	[14]	Peter Rousseau	18.74
19	[17]	Michael K. Price	19.00
20	[21]	Christopher Bollinger	20.71
21	[22]	Cary A. Deck	21.07
22	[18]	Richard J. Cebula	21.96
23	[27]	William C. Gerken	22.51
24	[25]	Andrea Moro	24.77
25	[26]	Per G. Fredriksson	24.99
26	[23]	Carlos Lamarche	25.27
27	[28]	Georg Schaur	27.59
28	[29]	Matthew C. Harris	28.39
29	[30]	J Scott Holladay	30.17
30	[32]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	30.27
31	[31]	Tong Li	30.77
32	[36]	Mattias K Polborn	34.03
33	[33]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	34.74
34	[35]	Luke Petach	34.79
35	[34]	Robert G. Hammond	35.11
36	[38]	Joshua Hendrickson	36.42
37	[88]	Matthew N. Murray	37.47
38	[37]	Valentina Hartarska	37.66
39	[40]	Junsoo Lee	39.11
40	[42]	Xiaochun Liu	40.52
41	[39]	Peter Brummund	40.89
42	[45]	Jamin Speer	42.02
43	[43]	Steven Lugauer	42.83
44	[41]	Daniel J. Henderson	43.47
45	[44]	Kevin X.d. Huang	43.58
46	[48]	Charles Sims	43.93
47	[50]	Byung-Cheol Kim	44.04
48	[49]	Caroline Weber	44.51
49	[47]	Hyeongwoo Kim	46.66
50	[46]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	46.80
51	[54]	Joel Rodrigue	48.35
52	[55]	Thomas E. Lambert	48.92
53	[58]	Panka Bencsik	50.30
54	[57]	Michael T. Belongia	50.80
55	[60]	Yong Chao	52.50
56	[53]	Mark A. Cohen	52.60
57	[67]	Md Rafayet Alam	53.98
58	[59]	Eric W. Bond	54.80
59	[64]	Jeremy Atack	55.01
60	[61]	Todd R. Jones	55.56
61	[69]	Yuqing Zheng	55.83
62	[63]	Babu George	55.89
63	[62]	Elif E. Demiral	56.26
64	[68]	Daniel Weagley	56.40
65	[66]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	57.34
66	[70]	Ruiqing Miao	57.43
67	[65]	David M. Zimmer	57.87
68	[75]	Keith H. Coble	60.26
69	[73]	Peter Lin	61.43
70	[72]	Duha Tore Altindag	61.47
71	[74]	Peter Z Lin	62.17
72	[76]	Laura Razzolini	63.37
73	[71]	John Allan Weymark	64.04
74	[78]	Traviss Cassidy	64.08
75	[77]	Kathleen McKiernan	64.35
76	[82]	Hasibul Islam	67.51
77	[81]	John J. Siegfried	67.73
78	[79]	Christopher Biolsi	68.50
79	[83]	Weihua Zhao	69.37
80	[85]	David M. Kemme	70.61
81	[84]	John A. Dove	71.72
82	[87]	Karen Lewis DeLong	72.06
83	[86]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	74.02
84	[91]	Daniel R. Petrolia	79.33
85	[92]	Michael Reed	81.43
86	[97]	William F. Fox	82.34
87	[93]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	83.52
88	[99]	John Conley	84.75
89	[95]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	84.88
90	[94]	Paul Pecorino	85.25
91	[90]	Henry Thompson	85.36
92	[96]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	86.06
93	[98]	Gerard Domènech-Arumí (Gerard Domenech-Arumi)	86.88
94	[52]	Brandyn F. Churchill	89.09
95	[100]	Colin Cannonier	92.10
96	[103]	Richard Alan Seals Jr.	93.00
97	[107]	Frank Goetzke	93.04
98	[102]	Wenying Li	95.65
99	[106]	Tigran Melkonyan	98.32
100	[115]	Tian Qiu	98.52
101	[108]	Luiz Renato Regis de Oliveira Lima	98.82
102	[114]	David Wildasin	99.06

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