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

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
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For Virginia (United States), these are 52 institutions with 407 members with a total share of 383.92.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	1.13	40	34.25
2	[2]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	2.13	31	31.03
3	[3]	George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	2.61	51	40.69
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	3.66	19	17.53
4	[4]	University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	4.26	23	18.72
5	[5]	George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	5.67	19	15.73
6	[7]	College of William and Mary → Department of Economics, Williamsburg, Virginia (United States)	6.95	30	28.26
7	[6]	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	7.11	11	9.51
8	[10]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	7.66	51	49.65
9	[8]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	7.73	24	23.90
10	[9]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.52	17	16.77
-	[-]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business → Economics Department, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.74	23	22.90
-	[-]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business → Department of Economics, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	9.59	15	14.78
11	[11]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	10.98	18	16.27
12	[12]	Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	11.54	28	19.97
-	[-]	George Mason University → Economics Department → Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), Arlington, Virginia (United States)	13.18	17	9.45
-	[-]	George Mason University → Economics Department → Center for the Study of Public Choice (CSPC), Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	13.67	8	4.46
13	[13]	Old Dominion University → Strome College of Business, Norfolk, Virginia (United States)	14.11	12	11.50

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	1.24	31	10
2	[2]	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	1.61	40	10
3	[3]	George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	3.07	51	10
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	3.19	19	10
4	[5]	College of William and Mary → Department of Economics, Williamsburg, Virginia (United States)	5.29	30	10
5	[4]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	5.40	24	10
6	[6]	University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	6.20	23	10
7	[7]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	6.36	51	10
-	[-]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business → Economics Department, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	6.56	23	10
8	[8]	George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	8.46	19	10
9	[9]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	9.09	17	10
10	[10]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Pamplin College of Business, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	9.13	5	4.34
11	[11]	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	10.07	11	9.51
12	[12]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	10.31	18	10
-	[-]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business → Department of Economics, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	10.44	15	10
13	[13]	Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	11.90	28	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Christopher Ruhm	2.15
2	[4]	Eric M. Leeper	2.41
3	[5]	Charles A. Holt	2.72
4	[6]	Simon Anderson	5.74
5	[7]	Anton Korinek	8.17
6	[2]	Eric van Wincoop	8.21
7	[8]	Francis Warnock	10.31
8	[1]	Zoltan J. Acs	11.04
9	[9]	Thomas Lubik	12.87
10	[12]	John Bailey Jones	15.16
11	[11]	Kevin McCabe	15.62
12	[15]	James Harrigan	16.35
13	[13]	Andreas Hornstein	16.90
14	[18]	Peter T. Leeson	17.62
15	[14]	Daniel Houser	18.41
16	[19]	Eric R. Young	18.58
17	[16]	Pierre Daniel Sarte	18.88
18	[20]	Anna Kovner	18.91
19	[21]	William R. Johnson	19.98
20	[26]	Kenneth John Button	20.09
21	[23]	Alexander L. Wolman	20.14
22	[25]	Marina Azzimonti (Marina Daniela Azzimonti Renzo)	20.46
23	[17]	Thomas Stratmann	22.61
24	[33]	Nuno Garoupa	22.82
25	[28]	Maurice Kugler	23.92
26	[24]	Dean Croushore	23.94
27	[27]	Kevin F. Hallock	25.25
28	[32]	Dennis Tao Yang	27.83
29	[30]	Amalia Rebecca Miller	29.16
30	[31]	John Earle	29.49
31	[36]	Cesar Martinelli	29.79
32	[38]	Mark Koyama	29.89
33	[34]	Huberto M. Ennis	30.27
34	[37]	Horacio Sapriza	30.82
35	[41]	Alfredo Marvao Pereira	31.50
36	[40]	Thomas Zylkin	32.24
37	[111]	Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli	32.38
38	[39]	Kevin J. Boyle	33.87
39	[35]	Peter J. Boettke	34.88
40	[82]	Bryan Caplan	36.76
41	[42]	John V. Pepper	37.62
42	[45]	Daniel Patrick Murphy	37.73
43	[48]	Peter A. Savelyev	38.63
44	[44]	Isaac M. Mbiti	39.20
45	[47]	Jay P. Shimshack	40.58
46	[46]	Douglas D. Davis	41.96
47	[10]	John Edward McLaren	43.10
48	[55]	Sita Nataraj Slavov	45.95
49	[53]	Sandip Sukhtankar	49.17
50	[52]	Leora Friedberg	49.43
51	[51]	Federico Ciliberto	50.21
52	[137]	John Robert Walter	51.02
53	[54]	Noel D. Johnson	51.56
54	[50]	Sergio Correia	53.07
55	[49]	Julie Holland Mortimer	53.81
56	[57]	Alexander Tabarrok	54.96
57	[56]	Lisa R. Anderson	56.34
58	[59]	Lee M. Lockwood	57.53
59	[62]	Nicholas Trachter	59.65
60	[29]	Sarah Elizabeth Turner	60.85
61	[63]	Christopher J. Coyne	61.30
62	[64]	John Weinberg	62.10
63	[65]	Donald F. Larson	64.74
64	[70]	David E. Mills	65.47
65	[61]	Jennifer M. Mellor	65.50
66	[68]	John Doukas	65.90
67	[72]	Jeffrey Alwang	66.60
68	[71]	Edgar O. Olsen	69.04
69	[73]	Maxim Peter Engers	70.35
70	[67]	Michael F. Gallmeyer	70.86
71	[58]	Michael J. Seiler	71.10
72	[76]	Ana Fostel	71.94
73	[75]	Bradford Franklin Mills	72.44
74	[78]	Lawrence H. White	73.42
75	[81]	David M. Levy	74.45
76	[77]	A. Kerem Coşar (A. Kerem Cosar)	75.14
77	[79]	James Wyckoff	75.53
78	[86]	Grey Gordon	77.41
79	[85]	Aris Spanos	77.42
80	[80]	Denis Nekipelov	78.49
81	[83]	Molly Lipscomb	78.49
82	[88]	Fei Xie	78.71
83	[87]	Sheetal Sekhri	78.83
84	[69]	David Orden	79.32
85	[84]	Jonathan Colmer	82.10
86	[89]	Richard Ashley	82.25
87	[60]	Sudipta Sarangi	84.60
88	[90]	Toan Phan	85.38
89	[93]	William Skimmyhorn	87.94
90	[74]	Leslie Sundt Stratton	88.09
91	[92]	David W. Harless	88.38
92	[94]	Oleg Korenok	89.61
93	[91]	Richard Wagner	89.83
94	[95]	Gerald A. Hanweck, Sr.	90.31
95	[106]	Minchul Yum	91.25
96	[98]	Tim Jay Groseclose	91.93
97	[100]	Charlene Marie Kalenkoski	92.88
98	[96]	Carlos Ramirez (Carlos D. Ramirez)	93.93
99	[104]	Borys Grochulski	94.09
100	[102]	Ruta Aidis	94.47
101	[99]	Ariel BenYishay	95.15
102	[101]	Nathaniel A. Throckmorton	95.38

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Anton Korinek	2.20
2	[2]	Thomas Zylkin	3.16
3	[4]	Mark Koyama	3.61
4	[3]	Sergio Correia	4.23
5	[6]	Christopher Ruhm	9.52
6	[9]	Eric R. Young	10.13
7	[10]	Anna Kovner	10.68
8	[7]	Jonathan Colmer	11.05
9	[13]	John Bailey Jones	11.54
10	[11]	Marina Azzimonti (Marina Daniela Azzimonti Renzo)	11.89
11	[12]	Toan Phan	12.38
12	[15]	Kevin J. Boyle	12.65
13	[14]	Noel D. Johnson	13.84
14	[16]	Minchul Yum	14.25
15	[21]	Ariel BenYishay	15.76
16	[18]	Horacio Sapriza	16.13
17	[5]	Zoltan J. Acs	16.43
18	[17]	Pierre Daniel Sarte	16.60
19	[19]	Nicholas Trachter	16.74
20	[22]	Alexander MacKay	17.65
21	[23]	Sandip Sukhtankar	19.93
22	[24]	Daniel Houser	21.12
23	[25]	Felipe E. Saffie	22.99
24	[8]	Timothy James Layton	24.23
25	[26]	Lee M. Lockwood	27.05
26	[35]	Sattar Mansi	27.23
27	[29]	Sita Nataraj Slavov	29.29
28	[32]	Leland E. Farmer	30.43
29	[31]	Cesar Martinelli	30.89
30	[30]	Tsz-Nga Wong	31.06
31	[37]	Molly Lipscomb	31.59
32	[28]	Simon Anderson	32.42
33	[27]	Amalia Rebecca Miller	32.53
34	[65]	Haiwen Zhou	37.24
35	[55]	Jeffrey Alwang	37.32
36	[33]	Paul Ho	37.53
37	[39]	Jonathan F. Schulz	37.87
38	[51]	Daniel Patrick Murphy	39.32
39	[58]	Richard Hunt	39.65
40	[41]	Peter T. Leeson	39.96
41	[50]	Peter Grajzl	41.02
42	[44]	Charles A. Holt	41.77
43	[43]	William Skimmyhorn	42.62
44	[47]	Alexander Tabarrok	42.78
45	[70]	Nuno Garoupa	43.34
46	[45]	Marios Karabarbounis	43.36
47	[52]	Isaac M. Mbiti	44.59
48	[40]	Federico Ciliberto	45.27
49	[54]	Sheetal Sekhri	45.64
50	[57]	Thomas Lubik	45.84
51	[63]	Suqin Ge	46.33
52	[59]	Tate Twinam	46.34
53	[140]	Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli	46.49
54	[53]	Felipe Schwartzman	46.51
55	[61]	Andrea Waddle	48.03
56	[60]	Andreas Hornstein	48.48
57	[62]	Grey Gordon	48.64
58	[46]	A. Kerem Coşar (A. Kerem Cosar)	49.96
59	[56]	Nathaniel A. Throckmorton	50.05
60	[48]	Eric M. Leeper	50.77
61	[64]	Thomas Ruchti	51.84
62	[69]	John Lopresti	53.25
63	[71]	Maurice Kugler	56.78
64	[67]	Andrew Dustan	58.73
65	[49]	Sudipta Sarangi	62.03
66	[66]	Michael J. Seiler	63.51
67	[73]	Daniel Sebastian Tello-Trillo	63.85
68	[75]	Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp	64.73
69	[78]	Xi He	67.28
70	[74]	Filippo Curti	68.04
71	[72]	John Earle	68.80
72	[38]	Eric van Wincoop	68.95
73	[36]	John Edward McLaren	70.96
74	[88]	Alfredo Marvao Pereira	73.47
75	[77]	Christopher Michael Herrington	73.72
76	[76]	Chunbei Wang	74.37
77	[85]	Peter J. Boettke	75.32
78	[82]	Nicolas Morales	76.73
79	[83]	Kwok Ping Tsang	77.00
80	[106]	George W. Norton	77.29
81	[80]	John Michael Parman	78.24
82	[84]	Huberto M. Ennis	79.95
83	[97]	Shaowen Luo	82.54
84	[109]	Kenneth John Button	84.00
85	[91]	John V. Pepper	84.77
86	[89]	Emily Grazia Moschini (Eg Moschini)	84.90
87	[81]	Thomas Stratmann	86.27
88	[98]	Wei Zhang	86.50
89	[86]	Santiago Miguel Pinto	86.58
90	[93]	Carlos Ramirez (Carlos D. Ramirez)	87.28
91	[100]	Klaus Moeltner	87.74
92	[42]	Kinda Hachem	88.08
93	[87]	Peter McHenry	89.92
94	[94]	Desiree A. Desierto	91.32
95	[92]	Oleg Korenok	91.49
96	[103]	Claudia Macaluso	93.05
97	[102]	Karim Chalak	94.33
98	[105]	Eric Bahel	95.19
99	[111]	M. Saif Mehkari	95.21
100	[95]	Peter A. Savelyev	95.63
101	[99]	Andrew Simon	96.10
102	[101]	Urvi Neelakantan	96.35

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