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

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There are 9337 institutions with 73707 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For East South Central States (United States), these are 75 institutions with 406 members with a total share of 387.71.

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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	42	40.64
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	2.15	32	29.52
3	[3]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.08	32	30.89
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.37	19	18.51
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)	8.35	11	11
8	[8]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	8.67	23	21.95
9	[9]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	8.83	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)	1.12	42	10
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	1.93	32	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 Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.33	19	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)	7.06	8	7.99
6	[5]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	7.37	23	10
7	[7]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.75	11	10
8	[8]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	7.85	30	10
9	[9]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	8.19	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.23
2	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	4.74
3	[5]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.98
4	[4]	Peter Rousseau	6.49
5	[6]	David Wildasin	7.05
6	[3]	John J. Siegfried	7.32
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	8.10
8	[9]	Walter Enders	9.18
9	[14]	Gregory W. Huffman	10.25
10	[10]	James P. Ziliak	11.08
11	[11]	John Allan Weymark	14.03
12	[19]	Junsoo Lee	14.11
13	[13]	Kenneth R. Troske	14.44
14	[17]	Per G. Fredriksson	14.66
15	[15]	Eric W. Bond	15.39
16	[12]	Myrna Wooders	15.84
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	16.06
18	[18]	William J. Collins	17.95
19	[21]	Michael K. Price	17.95
20	[25]	David Parsley	19.32
21	[22]	Mark A. Cohen	19.42
22	[16]	Andrew F. Daughety	20.41
23	[37]	Matthew Serfling	21.86
24	[20]	Benjamin Eden	22.10
25	[24]	Cary A. Deck	22.48
26	[26]	Christopher Bollinger	23.40
27	[23]	Tong Li	24.01
28	[32]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	24.16
29	[28]	Charles Courtemanche	25.15
30	[27]	Kevin X.d. Huang	26.43
31	[31]	Mattias K Polborn	27.40
32	[33]	Aaron Yelowitz	27.64
33	[30]	Paul Pecorino	29.30
34	[40]	Christian Allen Vossler	29.82
35	[36]	Howard J. Wall	30.51
36	[34]	Yuya Sasaki	30.74
37	[38]	David Neil Laband	32.16
38	[29]	Daniel J. Henderson	32.23
39	[41]	Keith H. Coble	33.70
40	[39]	Michael T. Belongia	33.94
41	[42]	Bradford D. Jordan	36.02
42	[43]	Adam Blandin	36.64
43	[47]	Georg Schaur	39.50
44	[64]	Felipe Benguria	43.17
45	[50]	Andrea Moro	44.34
46	[46]	Thomas Garrett	44.49
47	[56]	Hyeongwoo Kim	45.31
48	[58]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	45.36
49	[48]	J. S. Butler	45.71
50	[45]	Glenn Blomquist	46.98
51	[44]	Carlos Lamarche	47.34

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Adam Blandin	4.32
2	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	4.73
3	[5]	James P. Ziliak	5.21
4	[2]	W Kip Viscusi	5.48
5	[6]	Felipe Benguria	6.80
6	[10]	Charles Courtemanche	7.67
7	[11]	Atsushi Inoue	8.40
8	[8]	Christian Allen Vossler	8.51
9	[17]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	9.68
10	[12]	Lala Ma	10.22
11	[16]	Philip T. Roundy	10.52
12	[18]	Michelle Marcus	12.83
13	[20]	Matthew Serfling	13.36
14	[14]	Brian Beach	14.32
15	[15]	Jonathan Daines Hall	14.90
16	[9]	Peter Rousseau	16.03
17	[21]	Dale Manning	16.68
18	[19]	William J. Collins	16.75
19	[13]	Kamal Saggi	18.38
20	[23]	Cary A. Deck	18.85
21	[24]	Aaron Yelowitz	19.36
22	[25]	Christopher Bollinger	20.56
23	[22]	Michael K. Price	20.79
24	[7]	Richard J. Cebula	21.91
25	[28]	William C. Gerken	22.52
26	[29]	Carlos Lamarche	25.49
27	[30]	Andrea Moro	25.63
28	[32]	Per G. Fredriksson	26.08
29	[37]	Georg Schaur	27.79
30	[38]	Matthew C. Harris	28.14
31	[31]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	28.19
32	[27]	Luke Petach	28.98
33	[39]	Mattias K Polborn	29.73
34	[36]	Valentina Hartarska	31.54
35	[33]	Joshua Hendrickson	32.40
36	[4]	Tong Li	32.76
37	[41]	J Scott Holladay	32.95
38	[40]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	34.12
39	[43]	Robert G. Hammond	35.08
40	[34]	Babu George	36.83
41	[35]	Thomas E. Lambert	38.26
42	[46]	Xiaochun Liu	38.68
43	[90]	Matthew N. Murray	38.80
44	[42]	Hyeongwoo Kim	39.06
45	[44]	Junsoo Lee	40.04
46	[49]	Jamin Speer	41.60
47	[52]	Charles Sims	43.03
48	[47]	Peter Brummund	43.17
49	[56]	Byung-Cheol Kim	43.43
50	[45]	Daniel J. Henderson	43.85
51	[57]	Kevin X.d. Huang	45.24
52	[50]	Mark A. Cohen	46.04
53	[58]	Steven Lugauer	46.12
54	[51]	Daniel Weagley	46.18
55	[60]	Caroline Weber	46.64
56	[48]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	48.19
57	[59]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	48.32
58	[67]	Panka Bencsik	48.61
59	[64]	Joel Rodrigue	49.47
60	[53]	David M. Zimmer	51.22
61	[76]	Peter Lin	51.67
62	[65]	Todd R. Jones	51.88
63	[70]	Ruiqing Miao	51.90
64	[68]	Eric W. Bond	52.06
65	[63]	Dong Wei	52.27
66	[66]	Yuqing Zheng	52.31
67	[71]	Yong Chao	53.90
68	[75]	Michael T. Belongia	54.67
69	[73]	Elif E. Demiral	55.25
70	[74]	Md Rafayet Alam	55.46
71	[77]	Jeremy Atack	55.48
72	[78]	John J. Siegfried	55.92
73	[80]	Hasibul Islam	56.22
74	[55]	John A. Dove	56.33
75	[79]	Karen Lewis DeLong	56.66
76	[82]	Keith H. Coble	57.36
77	[81]	Traviss Cassidy	59.98
78	[61]	John Allan Weymark	61.42
79	[69]	Paul Pecorino	61.69
80	[85]	Kathleen McKiernan	63.12
81	[84]	Laura Razzolini	64.44
82	[86]	Duha Tore Altindag	64.72
83	[88]	Christopher Biolsi	67.42
84	[83]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	67.87
85	[92]	Weihua Zhao	71.10
86	[87]	Henry Thompson	71.18
87	[94]	David M. Kemme	72.33
88	[96]	Joshua D. Pitts	75.49
89	[99]	John Conley	77.42
90	[93]	Daniel R. Petrolia	77.51
91	[97]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	78.38
92	[98]	Andrew Muhammad	78.63
93	[95]	Michael Reed	81.31
94	[107]	Gerard Domènech-Arumí (Gerard Domenech-Arumi)	82.86
95	[102]	William F. Fox	83.12
96	[100]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	83.40
97	[101]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	83.58
98	[54]	Brandyn F. Churchill	83.70
99	[104]	Chris Vickers	85.79
100	[109]	Colin Cannonier	86.91
101	[103]	Owen A Tidwell	88.36
102	[105]	Burton C. English	89.13

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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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