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

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There are 9321 institutions with 73501 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For East South Central States (United States), these are 74 institutions with 405 members with a total share of 386.16.

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Alabama (United States), Kentucky (United States), Mississippi (United States), Tennessee (United States), This region is part of the United States.

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)	1.00	41	39.64
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	2.18	33	30.52
3	[3]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.04	32	30.89
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.37	20	19.51
4	[4]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.61	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
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.36	25	17.01
5	[5]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	5.43	30	28.46
6	[6]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	6.64	6	5.40
7	[7]	University of Mississippi → Department of Economics, University, Mississippi (United States)	8.33	11	11
8	[8]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	8.79	23	21.95
9	[9]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	8.81	8	7.99

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)	1.19	41	10
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	1.85	33	10
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.24	20	10
3	[3]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.25	33	10
4	[4]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.30	32	10
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	4.92	22	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.09	25	10
5	[6]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	6.95	8	7.99
6	[5]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	7.34	23	10
7	[8]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	7.70	30	10
8	[7]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.80	11	10
9	[9]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	8.35	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.19
2	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	4.71
3	[4]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.93
4	[5]	Peter Rousseau	6.60
5	[6]	David Wildasin	7.04
6	[3]	John J. Siegfried	7.38
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	7.47
8	[9]	Walter Enders	9.10
9	[14]	Gregory W. Huffman	10.13
10	[13]	James P. Ziliak	11.62
11	[11]	John Allan Weymark	13.99
12	[17]	Junsoo Lee	14.25
13	[16]	Per G. Fredriksson	14.59
14	[15]	Eric W. Bond	14.73
15	[12]	Kenneth R. Troske	14.74
16	[10]	Myrna Wooders	15.08
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	16.13
18	[18]	Michael K. Price	17.76
19	[19]	William J. Collins	18.70
20	[25]	David Parsley	18.92
21	[23]	Mark A. Cohen	19.70
22	[21]	Andrew F. Daughety	20.69
23	[24]	Cary A. Deck	22.01
24	[36]	Matthew Serfling	22.29
25	[20]	Benjamin Eden	22.36
26	[22]	Tong Li	23.50
27	[27]	Christopher Bollinger	24.28
28	[32]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	24.65
29	[29]	Charles Courtemanche	25.48
30	[26]	Kevin X.d. Huang	26.24
31	[33]	Aaron Yelowitz	27.48
32	[30]	Mattias K Polborn	27.61
33	[39]	Christian Allen Vossler	29.19
34	[31]	Paul Pecorino	29.64
35	[35]	Howard J. Wall	29.85
36	[28]	Daniel J. Henderson	31.00
37	[38]	Yuya Sasaki	31.96
38	[40]	David Neil Laband	33.09
39	[37]	Michael T. Belongia	33.36
40	[41]	Keith H. Coble	33.78
41	[42]	Bradford D. Jordan	34.95
42	[44]	Adam Blandin	38.67
43	[48]	Georg Schaur	40.07
44	[64]	Felipe Benguria	42.82
45	[49]	Andrea Moro	44.30
46	[47]	J. S. Butler	44.78
47	[45]	Thomas Garrett	44.79
48	[60]	Hyeongwoo Kim	45.83
49	[57]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	45.95
50	[43]	Glenn Blomquist	46.03
51	[52]	Joseph Haslag	48.42

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[4]	James P. Ziliak	4.81
2	[3]	Adam Blandin	4.88
3	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	4.91
4	[2]	W Kip Viscusi	5.19
5	[7]	Felipe Benguria	6.69
6	[9]	Charles Courtemanche	7.17
7	[11]	Atsushi Inoue	7.91
8	[8]	Christian Allen Vossler	8.49
9	[17]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	9.72
10	[13]	Lala Ma	9.80
11	[16]	Philip T. Roundy	10.17
12	[14]	Brian Beach	13.30
13	[19]	Matthew Serfling	13.49
14	[15]	Jonathan Daines Hall	14.26
15	[18]	William J. Collins	15.92
16	[10]	Peter Rousseau	16.44
17	[23]	Aaron Yelowitz	17.39
18	[12]	Kamal Saggi	17.40
19	[22]	Cary A. Deck	18.06
20	[21]	Michael K. Price	19.32
21	[25]	Christopher Bollinger	20.42
22	[27]	William C. Gerken	20.66
23	[6]	Richard J. Cebula	21.50
24	[28]	Carlos Lamarche	24.19
25	[30]	Per G. Fredriksson	24.32
26	[29]	Andrea Moro	24.51
27	[31]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	26.89
28	[38]	Georg Schaur	27.98
29	[36]	Matthew C. Harris	28.04
30	[26]	Luke Petach	28.35
31	[37]	Mattias K Polborn	29.04
32	[34]	Valentina Hartarska	30.18
33	[40]	J Scott Holladay	30.25
34	[5]	Tong Li	30.25
35	[32]	Joshua Hendrickson	31.12
36	[39]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	32.14
37	[42]	Robert G. Hammond	33.12
38	[44]	Xiaochun Liu	36.42
39	[33]	Thomas E. Lambert	36.69
40	[35]	Babu George	37.71
41	[89]	Matthew N. Murray	38.15
42	[43]	Junsoo Lee	38.38
43	[45]	Hyeongwoo Kim	38.56
44	[46]	Jamin Speer	38.65
45	[51]	Charles Sims	40.12
46	[52]	Byung-Cheol Kim	40.24
47	[47]	Peter Brummund	40.94
48	[41]	Daniel J. Henderson	40.98
49	[54]	Kevin X.d. Huang	43.08
50	[49]	Daniel Weagley	43.57
51	[59]	Caroline Weber	43.71
52	[57]	Steven Lugauer	44.16
53	[55]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	45.29
54	[20]	Dale Manning	45.61
55	[61]	Joel Rodrigue	46.11
56	[64]	Panka Bencsik	46.31
57	[48]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	46.36
58	[56]	Mark A. Cohen	46.86
59	[71]	Peter Lin	47.83
60	[50]	David M. Zimmer	48.67
61	[63]	Eric W. Bond	49.14
62	[65]	Yuqing Zheng	49.88
63	[69]	Michael T. Belongia	51.04
64	[66]	Yong Chao	51.27
65	[68]	Md Rafayet Alam	52.13
66	[70]	Ruiqing Miao	52.34
67	[75]	Jeremy Atack	53.04
68	[53]	John A. Dove	54.12
69	[78]	Hasibul Islam	54.15
70	[72]	Todd R. Jones	54.63
71	[74]	Elif E. Demiral	55.49
72	[76]	Traviss Cassidy	55.52
73	[77]	Karen Lewis DeLong	55.82
74	[80]	Keith H. Coble	56.03
75	[79]	John J. Siegfried	56.10
76	[81]	Kathleen McKiernan	58.42
77	[60]	John Allan Weymark	58.94
78	[82]	Duha Tore Altindag	61.61
79	[83]	Laura Razzolini	62.46
80	[73]	Paul Pecorino	62.77
81	[84]	Christopher Biolsi	63.86
82	[90]	Weihua Zhao	67.35
83	[86]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	67.42
84	[85]	Henry Thompson	67.59
85	[92]	David M. Kemme	70.81
86	[93]	John Conley	73.79
87	[96]	Joshua D. Pitts	74.53
88	[91]	Daniel R. Petrolia	75.63
89	[101]	Gerard Domènech-Arumí (Gerard Domenech-Arumi)	78.18
90	[94]	Michael Reed	79.79
91	[95]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	80.54
92	[97]	William F. Fox	80.95
93	[100]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	81.67
94	[99]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	82.93
95	[103]	Andrew Muhammad	83.30
96	[102]	Burton C. English	85.22
97	[58]	Brandyn F. Churchill	86.25
98	[106]	Chris Vickers	86.59
99	[98]	Owen A Tidwell	86.64
100	[109]	Colin Cannonier	88.44
101	[108]	Wenying Li	88.55
102	[111]	Richard Alan Seals Jr.	90.53

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