Top Institutions and Economists in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts (United States), see EDIRC
- For Massachusetts (United States), these are 103 institutions with 1476 members with a total share of 1008.44.
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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years
Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years
| Rank | W.Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | Author Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [1] | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1 | 564 | 10 |
| 2 | [2] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 2.26 | 62 | 10 |
| 3 | [3] | Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 2.61 | 73 | 10 |
| 4 | [4] | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.38 | 91 | 10 |
| 5 | [5] | Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.88 | 73 | 10 |
| 6 | [6] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 5.92 | 61 | 10 |
| 7 | [7] | Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 7.19 | 73 | 10 |
| 8 | [8] | Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 7.58 | 46 | 10 |
| 9 | [9] | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 9.06 | 77 | 10 |
| 10 | [10] | Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 9.69 | 31 | 10 |
| 11 | [11] | Boston University → Questrom School of Business, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 11.17 | 25 | 10 |
| 12 | [13] | Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States) | 12.64 | 32 | 10 |
| 13 | [12] | University of Massachusetts-Amherst → Department of Economics, Amherst, Massachusetts (United States) | 12.84 | 23 | 10 |
| - | [-] | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston → Economic Research, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 12.86 | 47 | 10 |
| 14 | [14] | Brandeis University → Department of Economics, International Business School, Waltham, Massachusetts (United States) | 13.53 | 34 | 10 |
| 15 | [15] | Wellesley College → Department of Economics, Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States) | 14.08 | 21 | 10 |
| - | [-] | Boston University → Questrom School of Business → Department of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 15.34 | 9 | 8.37 |
| 16 | [16] | Amherst College → Economics Department, Amherst, Massachusetts (United States) | 16.44 | 18 | 10 |
| - | [-] | Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 17.01 | 5 | 4.05 |
| - | [-] | Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 18.24 | 10 | 7.69 |
| 17 | [17] | Boston College → Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 18.96 | 16 | 10 |
| - | [-] | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School → Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 19.26 | 7 | 3.64 |
| 18 | [18] | Clark University → Economics Department, Worcester, Massachusetts (United States) | 20.17 | 12 | 10 |
| 19 | [19] | Bentley University → Department of Economics, Waltham, Massachusetts (United States) | 21.16 | 9 | 7.84 |
| 20 | [20] | Harvard University → Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 21.62 | 14 | 8.29 |
| 21 | [21] | Smith College → Department of Economics, Northampton, Massachusetts (United States) | 21.69 | 10 | 10 |
| 22 | [22] | Northeastern University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 22.31 | 13 | 10 |
| 23 | [26] | University of Massachusetts-Amherst → Department of Resource Economics, Amherst, Massachusetts (United States) | 23.68 | 10 | 9.47 |
| - | [-] | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School → Center for International Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 23.68 | 19 | 8.44 |
| 24 | [25] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Center for Real Estate, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 23.98 | 5 | 2.24 |
| 25 | [23] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 23.99 | 27 | 2.91 |
Top authors, all publications years
Top authors, publications last 10 years
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