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Top Institutions and Economists in Pennsylvania (United States), as of May 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)1.428976.95
2[2]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.555248.82
3[3]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)3.243533.90
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)3.763125.95
4[4]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)3.834844.54
5[6]University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)4.885548.49
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.72109.97
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.803028.12
6[5]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.933331.90
7[8]Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)7.292320.20
8[7]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)7.432522.77
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)7.682827.40
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)8.0974.43
-[-]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)9.141714.94
9[9]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)9.36119.65
10[11]Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.041614.56
11[10]Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.7054.05
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics → Center for Global Policy Analysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)11.1154.95
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.5411
12[13]Temple University → Economics Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.572321.20
13[12]University of Pittsburgh → Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)12.6298.90
14[14]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)13.861515
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Pension Research Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.8721
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Management Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.8844
15[15]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)14.6498.49
16[16]Lafayette College → Department of Economics, Easton, Pennsylvania (United States)14.961716.25
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Penn Institute for Economic Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)14.9710.75
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.01107.71
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → Department of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.7343.50
-[-]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration → Laboratory for Economics Management and Auctions (LEMA), State College, Pennsylvania (United States)16.4111
17[17]Swarthmore College → Department of Economics, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (United States)16.481313
18[18]Villanova University → School of Business, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)16.851313
-[-]Villanova University → School of Business → Economics Department, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)19.41119.50
19[19]University of Pennsylvania → Perelman School of Medicine → Division of Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)19.4910.99
-[-]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics → Economics Department, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)19.5987.49
20[23]Bucknell University → Economics Department, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (United States)20.9488
21[22]University of Pennsylvania → Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)20.9563.92
22[21]University of Pittsburgh → Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)21.0085.55
23[20]Gettysburg College → Economics Department, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)21.23109.70

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)1.258910
2[2]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.745210
3[4]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)2.994810
4[5]University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)4.135510
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)4.283010
5[3]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)4.513310
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.053110
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.872810
6[7]Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)6.362310
7[6]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)6.403510
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.47109.97
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics → Center for Global Policy Analysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)7.0154.95
8[8]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)8.492510
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.86107.71
-[-]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.321710
9[9]Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.6454.05
10[11]Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.651610
11[10]University of Pennsylvania → Perelman School of Medicine → Division of Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.7710.99
12[12]Temple University → Economics Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)11.972310
13[13]Villanova University → School of Business, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)13.401310
14[14]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)13.821510
15[15]Swarthmore College → Department of Economics, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (United States)16.061310
16[16]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)17.05119.65
17[17]Lafayette College → Department of Economics, Easton, Pennsylvania (United States)17.091710
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → Department of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.5143.50
-[-]Villanova University → School of Business → Economics Department, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)18.13119.50
18[21]University of Pennsylvania → Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.2331.43
19[18]University of Pittsburgh → Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)18.2398.90
20[20]Gettysburg College → Economics Department, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)18.39109.70
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.4011
21[22]University of Pennsylvania → Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.7611
22[19]University of Pittsburgh → Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)19.0185.55
23[23]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)19.5198.49

Top authors, all publications years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[1]Francis Diebold1.92
2[3]Allen N. Berger4.55
3[4]Robert F. Stambaugh4.60
4[7]Jeremy Greenwood5.59
5[5]Jere Richard Behrman6.04
6[8]Enrique G. Mendoza6.48
7[9]Petra Elisabeth Todd7.01
8[10]George Loewenstein7.18
9[11]Gilles Duranton8.82
10[12]Andrew Abel9.60
11[13]Frank Schorfheide10.80
12[19]Andrew Postlewaite11.68
13[18]Russell Cooper12.04
14[15]Dirk Krueger12.31
15[16]Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde12.72
16[25]Alex Edmans17.39
17[22]Dennis Epple18.03
18[23]Harold Linh Cole19.36
19[24]Joseph Gyourko19.53
20[21]George J. Mailath20.27
21[6]Olivia Mitchell20.37
22[2]Yoto V. Yotov20.52
23[27]Sidney Graham Winter Jr.21.28
24[29]Hanming Fang22.38
25[30]Lise Vesterlund23.53
26[28]Mark J. Roberts23.61
27[43]Nicholas S Souleles23.84
28[14]José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)24.82
29[17]Jonah B. Gelbach28.63
30[20]Neil Wallace29.09
31[34]Wilfred John Ethier29.30
32[33]A. Ronald Gallant30.15
33[40]Gary E. Bolton34.38
34[39]Satyajit Chatterjee34.59
35[41]Michael R. Roberts34.96
36[50]Ram Mudambi36.23
37[32]Constantinos Syropoulos37.40
38[38]Kala Krishna38.85
39[42]Kenneth Burdett38.89
40[55]John Cummins39.38
41[44]Jean-Francois Richard42.95
42[47]Jessica A. Wachter43.30
43[48]Guillermo L. Ordonez43.68
44[62]Esther Gal-Or44.18
45[49]Benjamin J. Keys45.01
46[51]Iourii Manovskii45.62
47[56]Ioana Elena Marinescu47.50
48[53]Lowell Taylor48.07
49[45]Martin Gaynor48.45
50[64]Gerald A. Carlino49.56
51[52]Vijay Krishna49.88
52[54]Fernando V. Ferreira51.14
53[60]Michelle Lowry51.86
54[46]Charles H. Whiteman51.89
55[72]James Joseph McAndrews52.26
56[77]Brent W. Ambrose52.29
57[63]Lee G. Branstetter52.43
58[61]Donald B. Keim52.45
59[80]Marc Flandreau53.60
60[65]David Powell54.24
61[58]Steven A. Matthews55.62
62[31]Stephen Ross Yeaple57.07
63[67]Lorin Moultrie Hitt57.46
64[69]Herman J. Bierens57.48
65[66]Fernando Parro58.95
66[82]Susan M. Wachter59.49
67[57]Shawkat Hammoudeh60.52
68[76]Witold Jerzy Henisz61.02
69[83]Leonard I. Nakamura63.78
70[73]James Vickery64.51
71[71]Chris Telmer65.15
72[35]Urban Joseph Jermann65.98
73[36]James R. Tybout66.38
74[74]Keisuke Hirano66.84
75[75]Randall Phillip Walsh68.62
76[37]Karen Kay Lewis69.76
77[79]João F Gomes (Joao)72.30
78[78]Todd Sinai72.68
79[81]Karen B. Clay73.58
80[85]Brian K. Kovak76.03
81[87]Makoto Nakajima76.28
82[84]Enghin Atalay76.92
83[100]Julapa A. Jagtiani78.70
84[90]Patrik Guggenberger79.19
85[96]Patricia M. Danzon79.22
86[89]Kathleen Weiss Hanley80.50
87[92]Nicholas Z. Muller80.55
88[102]Daniel Berkowitz83.22
89[119]Stephan J. Goetz84.02
90[108]Sudipta Basu84.38
91[98]Dean P. Foster85.17
92[94]Shigeru Fujita85.42
93[116]Jon P. Nelson87.10
94[95]Amelie Constant90.90
95[104]Kent Smetters90.93
96[101]Daniel Rock91.07
97[99]Stephen Spear91.34
98[105]Jeffrey Lin91.64
99[110]Martin J. Conyon92.08
100[115]Johanna Catherine Maclean92.29
101[103]Thomas H. McInish92.58
102[109]Andre Kurmann93.33
103[107]Steven Huddart94.22
104[120]Bang Nam Jeon96.48
105[152]James Samuel Shortle98.70
106[134]Christopher Kilby99.72
107[123]Pornsit Jiraporn100.64
108[111]Burton Hollifield101.08
109[106]David N. DeJong101.78
110[114]Thomas George Rawski101.96
111[113]Alex Rees-Jones103.65
112[117]Douglas Hanley104.62
113[59]Amir Yaron104.67
114[112]Joris Pinkse104.68
115[129]Wenli Li106.07
116[121]Michael Schwert108.02
117[138]Cristina Bicchieri108.84
118[97]Benjamin R. Lester109.17
119[124]Michael D. Smith110.48
120[132]Robert Hunt111.69
121[122]Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke111.96
122[118]Daniele Coen-Pirani112.14
123[125]Burcu Eyigungor112.50
124[136]Anna Paulson113.36
125[131]Pablo N. D'Erasmo113.80
126[126]Pavel Gregory Savor114.26
127[130]Shawn Thomas116.20
128[128]Christopher C. Geczy116.53
129[142]Daniel R. Sanches116.60
130[139]Canlin Li117.57
131[217]Matías Vernengo (Matias Vernengo)120.60
132[133]Marla Ripoll121.38
133[93]Shing-Yi Wang121.76
134[141]Alessandro Acquisti121.85
135[68]Nikolai Roussanov122.23
136[158]Sanya Carley122.69
137[154]Jeremy Glenn Weber124.57
138[144]Lester Robert Lusher125.04
139[145]Krishna Ramaswamy125.23
140[137]Marc Henry125.52
141[149]Susan L. Averett126.87
142[140]Osea Giuntella126.97
143[153]Jingzhi Huang127.45
144[148]Bradley Setzler128.11
145[147]Roc Armenter128.77
146[165]Keith Sill130.13
147[164]Mitchell Berlin131.95
148[151]Fallaw Sowell132.11
149[178]Richard P. Voith133.06
150[167]David Stifel133.13
151[146]Benjamin B Lockwood133.25
152[157]Bryan Andrew Stuart134.84
153[150]Vincent Glode135.66
154[174]Thomas C. Chiang (Thomas Chi-Nan Chiang)136.33
155[135]Robert Strauss (Robert Philip Strauss)136.54

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[2]Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde2.52
2[1]Yoto V. Yotov2.61
3[3]Dirk Krueger5.49
4[5]Ioana Elena Marinescu6.00
5[6]David Powell6.45
6[4]Robert F. Stambaugh6.80
7[10]Hanming Fang9.73
8[9]Daniel Rock10.13
9[16]Alex Edmans13.15
10[12]Guillermo L. Ordonez13.47
11[14]Michael Schwert13.60
12[15]Bradley Setzler15.56
13[22]Ram Mudambi16.84
14[23]Gilles Duranton17.98
15[21]Alex Rees-Jones18.17
16[26]George Loewenstein18.42
17[18]Frank Schorfheide18.62
18[19]Benjamin J. Keys18.81
19[29]Julapa A. Jagtiani19.07
20[25]Bryan Andrew Stuart20.07
21[41]Jere Richard Behrman20.26
22[24]Jessie Handbury20.51
23[7]Constantinos Syropoulos20.70
24[20]Benjamin B Lockwood20.75
25[13]Jeremy Greenwood23.12
26[31]Osea Giuntella23.20
27[42]Johanna Catherine Maclean23.43
28[32]Diane Alexander23.93
29[27]J. Aislinn Bohren23.98
30[44]Sanya Carley25.06
31[35]Michelle Lowry25.10
32[37]James Vickery25.45
33[33]Petra Elisabeth Todd26.12
34[28]Ben Sprung-Keyser26.14
35[46]Nicholas Z. Muller26.47
36[38]Lise Vesterlund28.13
37[45]Brian K. Kovak29.90
38[8]Francis Diebold31.32
39[11]Olivia Mitchell31.94
40[39]Andrew Garin32.86
41[50]Daniel R. Sanches33.67
42[47]Marc Henry35.36
43[48]Enghin Atalay35.57
44[53]Cristina Bicchieri36.01
45[36]Enrique G. Mendoza38.03
46[56]Minchul Shin39.74
47[52]Joseph Gyourko40.12
48[54]Andre Kurmann41.20
49[49]Harold Linh Cole42.27
50[51]Lester Robert Lusher42.90
51[57]Alistair Wilson43.96
52[60]Francesco Agostinelli46.86
53[59]Satyajit Chatterjee47.18
54[63]Simon Freyaldenhoven48.83
55[43]Shing-Yi Wang49.16
56[17]José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)49.26
57[62]Fernando Parro50.95
58[68]Thorsten Drautzburg51.02
59[72]Akshaya Jha52.09
60[74]J. Daniel Kim53.71
61[95]Brent W. Ambrose56.83
62[79]Karen B. Clay56.86
63[76]Joachim Hubmer59.31
64[73]Eduardo M. Azevedo60.10
65[71]Iourii Manovskii60.25
66[124]Sutirtha Bagchi61.18
67[81]Mariaflavia Harari61.53
68[34]Andreas Ferrara61.89
69[80]Makoto Nakajima62.18
70[87]Christopher Severen62.94
71[82]Randall Phillip Walsh63.49
72[98]Daniel Aaron Brent65.19
73[40]Eugen Dimant65.60
74[67]Atul Gupta65.70
75[58]Martin Gaynor66.46
76[78]Dennis Epple66.49
77[84]Alex Imas66.51
78[65]Benjamin R. Lester66.77
79[85]Jeffrey Lin68.73
80[86]Pablo N. D'Erasmo70.61
81[88]Shigeru Fujita71.74
82[83]Ohyun Kwon76.04
83[90]Richard Van Weelden76.06
84[93]Jason Sockin76.77
85[96]Kevin He77.61
86[89]Allison Shertzer78.27
87[94]Saurabh Bhargava79.64
88[91]Douglas Hanley80.49
89[100]Laura Liu81.12
90[121]Syon Pandya Bhanot83.37
91[109]Sondès Kahouli (Sondes Kahouli)83.41
92[119]Jeremy Glenn Weber86.02
93[128]Chad D. Meyerhoefer86.21
94[110]Daniel Brady Jones86.21
95[154]Susan M. Wachter86.40
96[69]George J. Mailath86.56
97[112]Lee G. Branstetter87.17
98[92]Andrew Postlewaite87.91
99[120]Edison G Yu88.64
100[135]Yiru Wang88.99
101[104]Maisy Wong90.02
102[101]David Danz92.64
103[105]Daniel G Garrett92.98
104[113]Burcu Eyigungor93.30
105[115]Rania Gihleb95.52
106[102]Fernando V. Ferreira97.00
107[103]Karam Kang97.60
108[126]Gaurav Kankanhalli97.95
109[114]Stephen A Karolyi98.42
110[160]Witold Jerzy Henisz99.47
111[140]Sébastien Bradley (Sebastien Bradley)101.61
112[132]Beibei Li101.65
113[201]Matías Vernengo (Matias Vernengo)101.65
114[55]Winston Wei Dou103.16
115[116]Sean Myers103.19
116[106]Leena Rudanko103.49
117[143]Katherine L. Milkman104.04
118[127]Gerald A. Carlino104.06
119[117]Vincent Glode104.11
120[139]John Sedunov, III105.27
121[61]Urban Joseph Jermann105.96
122[152]Bang Nam Jeon108.20
123[153]Jingzhi Huang109.04
124[134]Kyle Roy Myers109.16
125[172]David Stifel109.78
126[151]Pornsit Jiraporn110.28
127[136]Tristan L. Potter110.40
128[130]Juan Camilo Castillo112.11
129[118]Mark J. Roberts112.18
130[111]Kala Krishna112.54
131[148]Pavel Gregory Savor114.06
132[64]Nikolai Roussanov116.39
133[156]Gorkem Bostanci116.41
134[133]Yuhta Ishii116.52
135[141]Sergio Cristian Salgado Ibáñez, Sr. (Sergio Salgado I.)119.33
136[165]Martin J. Conyon119.36
137[150]Pedro Silos120.88
138[158]Leonard I. Nakamura122.93
139[122]Marla Ripoll123.47
140[142]Lowell Taylor123.96
141[146]Susanna Berkouwer124.36
142[145]Mark Stehr125.33
143[162]Shawn Thomas125.53
144[182]Stephan J. Goetz128.62
145[147]Gabriel Tourek129.68
146[184]Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke130.94
147[70]Francesc Dilme131.26
148[144]João F Gomes (Joao)131.32
149[177]Daniel Berkowitz131.76
150[157]Sophie Calder-Wang135.73
151[176]Mireia Gine137.07
152[171]David S. Abrams137.52
153[137]Daniele Coen-Pirani138.42
154[219]Christopher Kilby138.93
155[168]Jeffrey C. Brinkman139.60
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