Top Institutions and Economists in Tennessee (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 Tennessee (United States), see EDIRC
For Tennessee (United States), these are 26 institutions with 170 members with a total share of 162.14.

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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]	Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	1	41	39.64
2	[2]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	2.00	33	30.46
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.10	25	17.01
3	[3]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	3.30	6	5.40
4	[4]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	4.65	22	21.50
5	[5]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	4.67	11	11
6	[6]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	5.21	15	12.90

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	41	10
2	[2]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	2.00	33	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.07	25	10
3	[3]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	3.75	11	10
4	[4]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	4.07	15	10
5	[5]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	4.27	22	10
-	[-]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	5.20	11	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.62	8	5.70
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business → Department of Finance and Economics, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	5.77	8	8
6	[7]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	6.64	6	5.40

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.05
2	[5]	Atsushi Inoue	3.41
3	[4]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.02
4	[6]	Peter Rousseau	5.00
5	[3]	John J. Siegfried	5.43
6	[7]	Kamal Saggi	6.05
7	[10]	Gregory W. Huffman	8.03
8	[9]	John Allan Weymark	10.05
9	[11]	Eric W. Bond	10.20
10	[8]	Myrna Wooders	11.22
11	[14]	David Parsley	12.49
12	[15]	Mark A. Cohen	12.81
13	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	12.84
14	[13]	William J. Collins	13.40
15	[12]	Andrew F. Daughety	15.61
16	[18]	Joni Hersch	16.80
17	[19]	Tong Li	16.89
18	[16]	Benjamin Eden	17.53
19	[25]	Matthew Serfling	17.55
20	[17]	Kevin X.d. Huang	18.00
21	[20]	Mattias K Polborn	18.08
22	[21]	Howard J. Wall	18.85
23	[23]	Christian Allen Vossler	19.45
24	[24]	Yuya Sasaki	23.62
25	[26]	Georg Schaur	24.35
26	[27]	Andrea Moro	26.38
27	[33]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	27.30
28	[28]	Marcus Dillender	27.57
29	[31]	Felipe Barrera-Osorio	28.10
30	[30]	William Neilson	30.21
31	[29]	John Conley	30.55
32	[32]	Jeremy Atack	30.92
33	[36]	Joel Rodrigue	32.17
34	[35]	Adam Blandin	32.99
35	[40]	Charles L. Baum, II	33.34
36	[37]	William Gary Christie	33.45
37	[41]	Luke Froeb	35.29
38	[39]	Donald Bruce	35.35
39	[58]	Matthew N. Murray	35.84
40	[34]	Robert A. Driskill	35.89
41	[38]	Carolyn Heinrich	39.59
42	[47]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	40.53
43	[45]	Jamin Speer	41.35

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Blandin	3.00
2	[4]	W Kip Viscusi	3.55
3	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	3.86
4	[5]	Atsushi Inoue	4.59
5	[7]	Christian Allen Vossler	4.86
6	[3]	Marcus Dillender	5.02
7	[8]	Philip T. Roundy	6.96
8	[6]	Brian Beach	8.48
9	[12]	Matthew Serfling	9.34
10	[11]	William J. Collins	10.51
11	[9]	Kamal Saggi	12.87
12	[10]	Peter Rousseau	13.57
13	[14]	Andrea Moro	13.82
14	[15]	Felipe Barrera-Osorio	15.63
15	[13]	Richard J. Cebula	16.01
16	[16]	Georg Schaur	16.23
17	[17]	Matthew C. Harris	16.78
18	[18]	J Scott Holladay	16.93
19	[20]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	16.95
20	[19]	Tong Li	17.75
21	[21]	Luke Petach	19.91
22	[22]	Mattias K Polborn	20.77
23	[45]	Matthew N. Murray	21.29
24	[23]	Kevin X.d. Huang	23.22
25	[26]	Charles Sims	23.66
26	[24]	Jamin Speer	24.32
27	[25]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	25.44
28	[31]	Panka Bencsik	26.40
29	[29]	Joel Rodrigue	27.16
30	[36]	Md Rafayet Alam	27.97
31	[28]	Mark A. Cohen	28.50
32	[34]	Jeremy Atack	28.94
33	[32]	Eric W. Bond	29.30
34	[35]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	29.67
35	[33]	Elif E. Demiral	29.88
36	[37]	Daniel Weagley	32.76
37	[38]	John Allan Weymark	32.81
38	[41]	John J. Siegfried	34.00
39	[39]	Kathleen McKiernan	34.17
40	[42]	David M. Kemme	35.39
41	[44]	Karen Lewis DeLong	36.26
42	[43]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	38.73
43	[49]	William F. Fox	41.59

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Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.

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