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

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There are 9321 institutions with 73501 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
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For Virginia (United States), these are 53 institutions with 408 members with a total share of 383.93.

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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)	1.20	40	34.25
2	[2]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	2.02	31	31.03
3	[3]	George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	2.58	50	39.70
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	3.68	19	17.53
4	[4]	University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	4.40	23	18.72
5	[5]	George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	5.68	19	15.73
6	[7]	College of William and Mary → Department of Economics, Williamsburg, Virginia (United States)	6.87	30	28.26
7	[6]	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	7.13	11	9.51
8	[9]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	7.14	51	49.65
9	[8]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	7.66	24	23.90
10	[10]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.34	17	16.77
-	[-]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business → Economics Department, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.68	23	22.90
-	[-]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business → Department of Economics, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	9.43	15	14.78
11	[11]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	10.75	18	16.27
12	[12]	Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	11.50	28	19.97
-	[-]	George Mason University → Economics Department → Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), Arlington, Virginia (United States)	13.17	17	9.45
-	[-]	George Mason University → Economics Department → Center for the Study of Public Choice (CSPC), Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	13.43	8	4.46
13	[13]	Old Dominion University → Strome College of Business, Norfolk, Virginia (United States)	13.97	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)	1.28	31	10
2	[2]	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	1.60	40	10
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	3.07	19	10
3	[3]	George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	3.68	50	10
4	[4]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	4.94	24	10
5	[5]	College of William and Mary → Department of Economics, Williamsburg, Virginia (United States)	5.14	30	10
6	[7]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	6.05	51	10
7	[6]	University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	6.06	23	10
-	[-]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business → Economics Department, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	6.13	23	10
8	[8]	George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	8.31	19	10
9	[10]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Pamplin College of Business, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	8.73	5	4.34
10	[9]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.92	17	10
11	[12]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	10.02	18	10
12	[11]	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	10.07	11	9.51
-	[-]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business → Department of Economics, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	10.34	15	10
13	[13]	Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	11.69	28	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[4]	Eric M. Leeper	2.63
2	[3]	Christopher Ruhm	2.74
3	[5]	Charles A. Holt	2.86
4	[7]	Simon Anderson	5.71
5	[8]	Anton Korinek	7.59
6	[2]	Eric van Wincoop	8.93
7	[1]	Zoltan J. Acs	10.19
8	[9]	Francis Warnock	10.37
9	[12]	Thomas Lubik	13.55
10	[17]	John Bailey Jones	14.70
11	[11]	Kevin McCabe	15.41
12	[18]	Andreas Hornstein	15.96
13	[14]	Eric R. Young	16.06
14	[20]	James Harrigan	16.58
15	[13]	Peter T. Leeson	16.74
16	[19]	Pierre Daniel Sarte	17.60
17	[21]	Daniel Houser	17.74
18	[25]	Anna Kovner	18.15
19	[10]	Kenneth John Button	18.52
20	[23]	Nuno Garoupa	18.88
21	[29]	Marina Azzimonti (Marina Daniela Azzimonti Renzo)	19.31
22	[26]	Alexander L. Wolman	19.39
23	[28]	William R. Johnson	19.82
24	[16]	Thomas Stratmann	20.89
25	[24]	Kevin F. Hallock	23.03
26	[32]	Maurice Kugler	23.09
27	[27]	Dean Croushore	23.37
28	[30]	Peter J. Boettke	25.68
29	[40]	Thomas Zylkin	26.15
30	[33]	John Earle	26.45
31	[34]	Amalia Rebecca Miller	26.61
32	[39]	Huberto M. Ennis	26.94
33	[41]	Cesar Martinelli	27.22
34	[37]	Dennis Tao Yang	27.38
35	[38]	Alfredo Marvao Pereira	27.59
36	[42]	Horacio Sapriza	27.91
37	[6]	Sergio Correia	29.76
38	[123]	Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli	30.91
39	[44]	Kevin J. Boyle	31.10
40	[91]	Bryan Caplan	34.84
41	[47]	Daniel Patrick Murphy	34.92
42	[48]	Peter A. Savelyev	35.61
43	[49]	Isaac M. Mbiti	35.96
44	[46]	John V. Pepper	36.85
45	[54]	Sita Nataraj Slavov	37.26
46	[124]	John Robert Walter	37.64
47	[52]	Jay P. Shimshack	37.92
48	[45]	John Weinberg	38.95
49	[50]	Douglas D. Davis	40.06
50	[15]	John Edward McLaren	43.27
51	[53]	Leora Friedberg	44.82
52	[31]	Michael J. Seiler	45.78
53	[57]	David Orden	46.00
54	[58]	Sandip Sukhtankar	46.04
55	[55]	Federico Ciliberto	47.99
56	[51]	Julie Holland Mortimer	48.27
57	[56]	Noel D. Johnson	49.58
58	[59]	Lisa R. Anderson	50.40
59	[62]	Lee M. Lockwood	50.46
60	[63]	Alexander Tabarrok	52.67
61	[65]	Nicholas Trachter	54.15
62	[64]	Christopher J. Coyne	54.48
63	[67]	Jeffrey Alwang	54.99
64	[70]	Donald F. Larson	59.44
65	[36]	Sarah Elizabeth Turner	60.43
66	[66]	David M. Levy	60.87
67	[71]	Aris Spanos	61.15
68	[68]	Jennifer M. Mellor	61.15
69	[76]	David E. Mills	62.00
70	[74]	Maxim Peter Engers	62.26
71	[75]	John Doukas	64.30
72	[82]	Sheetal Sekhri	64.55
73	[84]	Fei Xie	66.47
74	[72]	Michael F. Gallmeyer	66.55
75	[79]	Edgar O. Olsen	66.77
76	[69]	Lawrence H. White	67.16
77	[78]	Bradford Franklin Mills	68.29
78	[83]	Jonathan Colmer	68.98
79	[94]	Felipe E. Saffie	69.29
80	[89]	Haiwen Zhou	69.42
81	[81]	Denis Nekipelov	69.72
82	[60]	Sudipta Sarangi	71.96
83	[86]	Ana Fostel	73.03
84	[92]	Grey Gordon	74.11
85	[88]	James Wyckoff	74.27
86	[80]	A. Kerem Coşar (A. Kerem Cosar)	75.08
87	[93]	Molly Lipscomb	76.06
88	[77]	Peter Grajzl	77.57
89	[87]	Richard Wagner	79.58
90	[101]	Minchul Yum	79.59
91	[95]	Richard Ashley	81.21
92	[115]	Craig Volden	81.58
93	[98]	Oleg Korenok	82.64
94	[97]	Toan Phan	82.69
95	[99]	David W. Harless	82.99
96	[104]	Gerald A. Hanweck, Sr.	84.62
97	[103]	Borys Grochulski	84.83
98	[102]	William Skimmyhorn	84.99
99	[111]	George C. Davis	85.04
100	[105]	Ruta Aidis	85.30
101	[100]	Carlos Ramirez (Carlos D. Ramirez)	86.70
102	[112]	George W. Norton	86.97
103	[106]	Zhu Wang	87.04

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Anton Korinek	2.33
2	[3]	Thomas Zylkin	4.79
3	[2]	Sergio Correia	4.95
4	[7]	Christopher Ruhm	9.08
5	[8]	Eric R. Young	9.20
6	[13]	Anna Kovner	9.22
7	[11]	Jonathan Colmer	10.09
8	[14]	John Bailey Jones	10.11
9	[12]	Marina Azzimonti (Marina Daniela Azzimonti Renzo)	10.61
10	[15]	Toan Phan	11.68
11	[16]	Minchul Yum	12.76
12	[10]	Kevin J. Boyle	12.83
13	[17]	Noel D. Johnson	13.70
14	[19]	Ariel BenYishay	14.71
15	[18]	Pierre Daniel Sarte	14.71
16	[21]	Horacio Sapriza	14.85
17	[23]	Nicholas Trachter	15.40
18	[4]	Zoltan J. Acs	16.37
19	[25]	Alexander MacKay	16.54
20	[29]	Daniel Houser	17.18
21	[20]	Lee M. Lockwood	18.25
22	[26]	Felipe E. Saffie	18.78
23	[28]	Sandip Sukhtankar	19.82
24	[9]	Timothy James Layton	21.08
25	[30]	Sita Nataraj Slavov	23.77
26	[40]	Sattar Mansi	25.41
27	[27]	Haiwen Zhou	25.99
28	[24]	Peter Grajzl	26.03
29	[35]	Cesar Martinelli	27.77
30	[32]	Amalia Rebecca Miller	28.51
31	[41]	Leland E. Farmer	28.67
32	[37]	Tsz-Nga Wong	28.78
33	[52]	Jeffrey Alwang	30.09
34	[36]	Nuno Garoupa	30.16
35	[44]	Molly Lipscomb	30.29
36	[34]	Simon Anderson	30.30
37	[42]	Jonathan F. Schulz	31.74
38	[50]	Richard Hunt	33.71
39	[39]	Paul Ho	34.28
40	[48]	Peter T. Leeson	35.30
41	[57]	Thomas Lubik	36.34
42	[53]	Charles A. Holt	36.94
43	[47]	Isaac M. Mbiti	37.34
44	[60]	Daniel Patrick Murphy	37.45
45	[51]	Thomas Ruchti	37.68
46	[66]	Tate Twinam	40.74
47	[63]	Alexander Tabarrok	40.82
48	[59]	Sheetal Sekhri	41.10
49	[31]	Michael J. Seiler	41.13
50	[46]	Federico Ciliberto	41.62
51	[58]	Marios Karabarbounis	41.69
52	[56]	William Skimmyhorn	41.89
53	[61]	Grey Gordon	42.15
54	[145]	Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli	42.19
55	[68]	Suqin Ge	42.93
56	[64]	Felipe Schwartzman	43.10
57	[33]	Eric M. Leeper	43.58
58	[62]	Andreas Hornstein	43.74
59	[49]	A. Kerem Coşar (A. Kerem Cosar)	44.88
60	[55]	Nathaniel A. Throckmorton	45.40
61	[65]	Andrea Waddle	45.68
62	[73]	John Lopresti	50.81
63	[74]	Maurice Kugler	52.53
64	[70]	Andrew Dustan	53.05
65	[69]	Andrew Simon	53.94
66	[86]	Kenneth John Button	54.07
67	[54]	Sudipta Sarangi	55.73
68	[75]	Peter J. Boettke	56.17
69	[80]	Xi He	56.59
70	[71]	John Earle	56.76
71	[81]	Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp	61.60
72	[79]	Chunbei Wang	62.66
73	[78]	Daniel Sebastian Tello-Trillo	62.89
74	[89]	Alfredo Marvao Pereira	62.97
75	[97]	George W. Norton	63.26
76	[84]	Santiago Miguel Pinto	64.01
77	[93]	Kwok Ping Tsang	65.90
78	[77]	Aris Spanos	66.63
79	[38]	John Edward McLaren	66.70
80	[43]	Eric van Wincoop	66.95
81	[83]	Filippo Curti	67.15
82	[76]	Christopher Michael Herrington	68.31
83	[88]	Desiree A. Desierto	68.38
84	[85]	Emily Grazia Moschini (Eg Moschini)	72.62
85	[94]	Shaowen Luo	72.76
86	[82]	Thomas Stratmann	73.37
87	[91]	Nicolas Morales	75.23
88	[92]	Huberto M. Ennis	75.42
89	[90]	John Michael Parman	75.84
90	[45]	Kinda Hachem	80.19
91	[105]	Carlos Ramirez (Carlos D. Ramirez)	80.28
92	[109]	Wei Zhang	80.63
93	[132]	Jadrian J. Wooten	81.80
94	[98]	John V. Pepper	82.13
95	[106]	Klaus Moeltner	83.49
96	[96]	Peter McHenry	84.63
97	[100]	Eric Bahel	85.62
98	[114]	Davide Tomio	85.74
99	[134]	Sheryl B. Ball	85.98
100	[116]	KimMarie McGoldrick	86.15
101	[112]	Claudia Macaluso	86.88
102	[113]	M. Saif Mehkari	87.82
103	[107]	Zhu Wang	88.05

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