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

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank W.Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1[1]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.388976.95
2[2]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.505248.82
3[3]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)3.193533.90
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)3.653125.95
4[4]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)3.854844.54
5[5]University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)4.955548.49
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.68109.97
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.833028.12
6[6]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.563331.90
7[8]Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)7.372320.20
8[7]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)7.402421.77
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)8.4274.43
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)8.472827.40
-[-]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)9.241714.94
9[9]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)9.51119.65
10[11]Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.261614.56
11[10]Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.6254.05
12[13]Temple University → Economics Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.682321.20
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.7111
13[12]University of Pittsburgh → Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)12.8398.90
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics → Center for Global Policy Analysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.0554.95
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Management Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.7844
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Pension Research Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.9521
14[14]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)14.401515
15[15]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)14.7498.49
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)14.98107.71
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Penn Institute for Economic Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.0010.75
16[16]Lafayette College → Department of Economics, Easton, Pennsylvania (United States)15.151716.25
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → Department of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.8943.50
17[17]Swarthmore College → Department of Economics, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (United States)16.691313
-[-]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration → Laboratory for Economics Management and Auctions (LEMA), State College, Pennsylvania (United States)16.7011
18[18]Villanova University → School of Business, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)17.381313
-[-]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics → Economics Department, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)19.7687.49
-[-]Villanova University → School of Business → Economics Department, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)19.83119.50
19[19]University of Pennsylvania → Perelman School of Medicine → Division of Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)19.9910.99
20[23]University of Pennsylvania → Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)21.0663.92
21[20]University of Pittsburgh → Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)21.1085.55
22[21]Gettysburg College → Economics Department, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)21.31109.70
23[22]Bucknell University → Economics Department, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (United States)21.4588

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

Rank W.Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1[1]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.148910
2[2]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.835210
3[3]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)34810
4[4]University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)4.175510
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)4.273010
5[5]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)4.793310
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.013110
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.242810
6[6]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)6.303510
7[7]Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)6.452310
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.46109.97
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics → Center for Global Policy Analysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)7.5554.95
8[8]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)8.542410
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.49107.71
-[-]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.231710
9[9]Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.5654.05
10[11]Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.671610
11[10]University of Pennsylvania → Perelman School of Medicine → Division of Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.7410.99
12[12]Temple University → Economics Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.162310
13[13]Villanova University → School of Business, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)13.731310
14[14]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)13.801510
15[15]Swarthmore College → Department of Economics, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (United States)16.171310
16[16]Lafayette College → Department of Economics, Easton, Pennsylvania (United States)17.581710
17[17]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)17.61119.65
18[21]University of Pennsylvania → Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.5631.43
19[20]Gettysburg College → Economics Department, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)18.60109.70
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → Department of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.6343.50
-[-]Villanova University → School of Business → Economics Department, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)18.90119.50
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)19.0011
20[22]University of Pennsylvania → Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)19.0711
21[19]University of Pittsburgh → Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)19.4285.55
22[18]University of Pittsburgh → Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)19.5198.90
23[23]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)19.9998.49

Top authors, all publications years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[1]Francis Diebold1.50
2[2]Allen N. Berger3.89
3[3]Robert F. Stambaugh4.49
4[5]Jere Richard Behrman5.31
5[4]Jeremy Greenwood5.39
6[6]Enrique G. Mendoza6.72
7[8]Petra Elisabeth Todd6.81
8[9]George Loewenstein7.08
9[10]Gilles Duranton9.05
10[12]Andrew Abel9.18
11[11]Frank Schorfheide10.68
12[17]Andrew Postlewaite11.02
13[16]Russell Cooper12.32
14[14]Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde13.89
15[13]Dirk Krueger14.80
16[19]Harold Linh Cole18.62
17[22]Alex Edmans19.00
18[18]Joseph Gyourko19.58
19[21]Dennis Epple19.71
20[20]George J. Mailath20.82
21[23]Sidney Graham Winter Jr.21.81
22[7]Olivia Mitchell22.71
23[25]Hanming Fang22.84
24[42]Nicholas S Souleles24.28
25[26]Lise Vesterlund24.59
26[24]Mark J. Roberts24.75
27[15]José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)25.81
28[37]Yoto V. Yotov28.44
29[28]Neil Wallace29.28
30[30]Jonah B. Gelbach31.51
31[34]Wilfred John Ethier31.54
32[33]A. Ronald Gallant32.19
33[36]Satyajit Chatterjee34.38
34[40]Michael R. Roberts37.80
35[47]Ram Mudambi39.87
36[38]Kenneth Burdett39.90
37[39]Gary E. Bolton39.97
38[41]Kala Krishna43.73
39[49]Jean-Francois Richard45.23
40[43]Jessica A. Wachter45.40
41[44]Benjamin J. Keys45.91
42[48]Iourii Manovskii46.58
43[46]Lowell Taylor47.32
44[55]John Cummins48.99
45[50]Ioana Elena Marinescu49.70
46[51]Vijay Krishna50.30
47[56]Guillermo L. Ordonez51.54
48[52]Fernando V. Ferreira51.63
49[59]Gerald A. Carlino51.94
50[45]Martin Gaynor52.71
51[57]Lee G. Branstetter53.29
52[53]Charles H. Whiteman53.53
53[58]Donald B. Keim53.89
54[61]Esther Gal-Or57.72
55[27]Stephen Ross Yeaple58.83
56[60]Steven A. Matthews60.00
57[71]James Joseph McAndrews60.37
58[62]Fernando Parro60.55
59[67]Michelle Lowry61.28
60[78]Marc Flandreau61.80
61[73]Constantinos Syropoulos63.04
62[72]Herman J. Bierens63.92
63[69]David Powell64.94
64[68]Lorin Moultrie Hitt65.04
65[63]Shawkat Hammoudeh65.15
66[79]Witold Jerzy Henisz66.09
67[32]Urban Joseph Jermann67.43
68[75]James Vickery67.63
69[31]James R. Tybout67.76
70[66]Randall Phillip Walsh68.09
71[70]Chris Telmer68.38
72[74]Keisuke Hirano68.79
73[77]Todd Sinai71.33
74[76]João F Gomes (Joao)71.33
75[80]Susan M. Wachter71.55
76[35]Karen Kay Lewis72.51
77[88]Leonard I. Nakamura74.11
78[85]Brent W. Ambrose74.61
79[81]Karen B. Clay76.13
80[82]Makoto Nakajima77.90
81[83]Brian K. Kovak77.94
82[86]Enghin Atalay82.33
83[96]Dean P. Foster84.91
84[91]Kathleen Weiss Hanley85.86
85[90]Shigeru Fujita85.93
86[92]Patrik Guggenberger86.10
87[98]Patricia M. Danzon86.13
88[100]Julapa A. Jagtiani86.89
89[95]Nicholas Z. Muller86.97
90[99]Daniel Berkowitz87.94
91[101]Jeffrey Lin93.99
92[102]Stephen Spear94.78
93[94]Amelie Constant97.52
94[110]Martin J. Conyon97.60
95[106]Steven Huddart98.03
96[112]Sudipta Basu98.43
97[104]Andre Kurmann98.86
98[105]Kent Smetters99.54
99[115]Bang Nam Jeon101.25
100[118]Johanna Catherine Maclean102.59
101[107]Joris Pinkse104.05
102[103]Thomas H. McInish104.11
103[109]Alex Rees-Jones104.97
104[108]David N. DeJong105.15
105[117]Stephan J. Goetz106.16
106[111]Burton Hollifield106.58
107[113]Thomas George Rawski108.82
108[54]Amir Yaron109.64
109[97]Benjamin R. Lester110.17
110[119]Jon P. Nelson110.61
111[129]Pornsit Jiraporn111.66
112[114]Douglas Hanley111.91
113[128]Cristina Bicchieri112.80
114[116]Burcu Eyigungor114.62
115[124]Wenli Li114.98
116[121]Pablo N. D'Erasmo115.07
117[122]Anna Paulson116.94
118[130]Robert Hunt117.74
119[125]Michael D. Smith119.13
120[120]Christopher C. Geczy119.54
121[139]Christopher Kilby119.59
122[89]Shing-Yi Wang121.94
123[127]Shawn Thomas122.84
124[126]Pavel Gregory Savor122.88
125[123]Daniele Coen-Pirani123.02
126[143]Daniel R. Sanches123.91
127[136]Canlin Li124.55
128[134]Michael Schwert124.62
129[64]Nikolai Roussanov128.07
130[135]Marc Henry128.35
131[150]Jeremy Glenn Weber128.91
132[138]Marla Ripoll129.80
133[133]Osea Giuntella131.92
134[146]Jingzhi Huang132.38
135[144]Roc Armenter133.08
136[142]Daniel Rock133.15
137[141]Susan L. Averett133.64
138[162]Sanya Carley133.90
139[145]Alessandro Acquisti134.68
140[140]Benjamin B Lockwood134.90
141[148]Bradley Setzler136.75
142[137]Robert Strauss (Robert Philip Strauss)136.86
143[149]Krishna Ramaswamy136.88
144[156]Keith Sill137.43
145[151]Mitchell Berlin137.51
146[164]James Samuel Shortle138.90
147[152]Fallaw Sowell140.33
148[155]Alex Imas140.91
149[158]David Stifel142.02
150[161]Karen Fisher-Vanden143.13
151[147]Luca Rigotti143.20
152[157]Bryan Andrew Stuart143.23
153[171]Chad D. Meyerhoefer144.49
154[183]Thomas C. Chiang (Thomas Chi-Nan Chiang)144.86

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[1]Yoto V. Yotov2.11
2[2]Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde2.15
3[3]Dirk Krueger4.73
4[5]Robert F. Stambaugh5.22
5[4]Ioana Elena Marinescu5.92
6[6]David Powell6.51
7[7]Daniel Rock8.91
8[8]Hanming Fang9.38
9[12]Michael Schwert13.51
10[11]Alex Edmans13.56
11[10]Bradley Setzler15.94
12[24]Ram Mudambi17.07
13[13]Gilles Duranton17.61
14[14]Frank Schorfheide18.76
15[17]Alex Rees-Jones18.96
16[19]George Loewenstein19.14
17[15]Benjamin J. Keys19.58
18[27]Julapa A. Jagtiani20.14
19[20]Bryan Andrew Stuart21.13
20[21]Jessie Handbury21.51
21[16]Benjamin B Lockwood21.62
22[25]Guillermo L. Ordonez22.34
23[22]Osea Giuntella23.99
24[43]Jere Richard Behrman24.11
25[26]Diane Alexander24.30
26[23]J. Aislinn Bohren25.84
27[35]Sanya Carley26.07
28[40]Johanna Catherine Maclean26.12
29[32]Constantinos Syropoulos26.24
30[18]Jeremy Greenwood26.72
31[44]Nicholas Z. Muller29.07
32[37]Petra Elisabeth Todd29.49
33[36]James Vickery29.63
34[31]Lise Vesterlund30.08
35[34]Brian K. Kovak30.63
36[42]Francis Diebold30.83
37[41]Michelle Lowry31.00
38[38]Ben Sprung-Keyser31.61
39[47]Daniel R. Sanches33.68
40[9]Olivia Mitchell34.02
41[39]Andrew Garin36.50
42[50]Cristina Bicchieri37.57
43[46]Marc Henry38.38
44[48]Enghin Atalay39.84
45[49]Joseph Gyourko40.13
46[45]Enrique G. Mendoza40.36
47[52]Minchul Shin41.03
48[53]Andre Kurmann43.07
49[54]Alistair Wilson45.19
50[30]Shing-Yi Wang48.07
51[51]Harold Linh Cole48.39
52[60]Francesco Agostinelli51.74
53[55]Satyajit Chatterjee51.90
54[56]Fernando Parro52.11
55[59]Simon Freyaldenhoven52.31
56[61]Thorsten Drautzburg52.60
57[67]Akshaya Jha54.12
58[33]José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)55.40
59[71]J. Daniel Kim58.51
60[64]Joachim Hubmer58.77
61[70]Lester Robert Lusher59.30
62[73]Karen B. Clay59.72
63[66]Iourii Manovskii62.28
64[69]Eduardo M. Azevedo63.62
65[28]Andreas Ferrara63.94
66[76]Makoto Nakajima64.66
67[83]Mariaflavia Harari65.97
68[72]Randall Phillip Walsh66.28
69[57]Benjamin R. Lester67.30
70[29]Eugen Dimant70.06
71[80]Alex Imas70.30
72[78]Jeffrey Lin70.52
73[82]Christopher Severen70.80
74[68]Atul Gupta71.09
75[91]Daniel Aaron Brent71.96
76[81]Pablo N. D'Erasmo72.87
77[79]Dennis Epple73.12
78[92]Brent W. Ambrose76.46
79[87]Shigeru Fujita76.46
80[86]Richard Van Weelden79.04
81[85]Douglas Hanley80.61
82[89]Laura Liu80.88
83[93]Kevin He82.78
84[77]Martin Gaynor83.14
85[90]Allison Shertzer83.74
86[88]Saurabh Bhargava84.64
87[99]Lee G. Branstetter88.96
88[102]Jeremy Glenn Weber89.70
89[96]Daniel Brady Jones90.22
90[94]Jason Sockin92.01
91[121]Chad D. Meyerhoefer92.20
92[95]David Danz92.99
93[114]Sondès Kahouli (Sondes Kahouli)93.51
94[105]Syon Pandya Bhanot93.63
95[97]Maisy Wong95.68
96[101]Burcu Eyigungor98.96
97[98]Fernando V. Ferreira98.96
98[109]Andrew Postlewaite99.45
99[104]Rania Gihleb99.66
100[103]Daniel G Garrett100.79
101[107]Edison G Yu100.81
102[116]Gaurav Kankanhalli102.19
103[133]Sutirtha Bagchi102.19
104[113]Stephen A Karolyi104.71
105[108]Sean Myers106.90
106[117]Gerald A. Carlino107.90
107[111]Leena Rudanko110.91
108[115]Karam Kang111.23
109[106]George J. Mailath111.29
110[58]Urban Joseph Jermann112.09
111[63]Winston Wei Dou112.55
112[123]Vincent Glode112.96
113[122]Juan Camilo Castillo113.37
114[141]Bang Nam Jeon113.41
115[129]John Sedunov, III114.32
116[120]Kala Krishna114.51
117[126]Kyle Roy Myers115.57
118[119]Mark J. Roberts116.93
119[150]Pornsit Jiraporn117.08
120[125]Yuhta Ishii119.41
121[131]Pedro Silos121.38
122[156]David Stifel122.25
123[128]Sébastien Bradley (Sebastien Bradley)122.36
124[137]Pavel Gregory Savor122.50
125[149]Beibei Li123.41
126[127]Lowell Taylor124.09
127[65]Nikolai Roussanov125.38
128[134]Susanna Berkouwer125.71
129[130]Sergio Cristian Salgado Ibáñez, Sr. (Sergio Salgado I.)125.83
130[140]Jingzhi Huang126.93
131[142]Katherine L. Milkman127.89
132[155]Tristan L. Potter128.57
133[170]Susan M. Wachter128.86
134[153]Gorkem Bostanci129.78
135[151]Leonard I. Nakamura130.03
136[132]Mark Stehr131.27
137[145]Shawn Thomas131.49
138[135]Gabriel Tourek131.64
139[146]Yiru Wang131.72
140[174]Stephan J. Goetz133.64
141[204]Matías Vernengo (Matias Vernengo)135.50
142[166]Martin J. Conyon136.14
143[136]Marla Ripoll136.23
144[138]João F Gomes (Joao)138.03
145[74]Francesc Dilme140.50
146[165]Karen Fisher-Vanden141.35
147[154]David S. Abrams141.61
148[148]Paolo Martellini141.75
149[160]Jeffrey C. Brinkman143.09
150[147]Sophie Calder-Wang143.46
151[162]Amanda Bayer145.16
152[144]Daniele Coen-Pirani146.20
153[173]Daniel Berkowitz146.39
154[167]Mireia Gine146.40
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