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

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There are 9347 institutions with 73835 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For East South Central States (United States), these are 75 institutions with 409 members with a total share of 390.21.

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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	43	41.64
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	2.13	32	29.52
3	[3]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.10	32	30.89
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.32	19	18.51
4	[4]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.73	33	30.46
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	4.40	22	20.44
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.40	25	17.01
4	[5]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	5.40	30	28.46
6	[6]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	6.48	6	5.40
7	[7]	University of Mississippi → Department of Economics, University, Mississippi (United States)	8.37	11	11
8	[9]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	8.91	23	21.95
9	[8]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	8.96	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)	1.11	43	10
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	1.91	32	10
3	[3]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.27	33	10
-	[-]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	3.27	19	10
4	[4]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.35	32	10
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	5.02	22	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.07	25	10
5	[5]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	7.14	23	10
6	[6]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	7.25	8	7.99
7	[7]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.68	11	10
8	[8]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	7.80	30	10
9	[9]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	8.24	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.11
2	[6]	Atsushi Inoue	4.34
3	[4]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.68
4	[3]	John J. Siegfried	6.15
5	[7]	David Wildasin	6.54
6	[5]	Peter Rousseau	6.55
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	7.79
8	[9]	Walter Enders	9.08
9	[15]	Gregory W. Huffman	10.21
10	[12]	James P. Ziliak	11.61
11	[18]	Junsoo Lee	14.24
12	[11]	Kenneth R. Troske	14.57
13	[13]	John Allan Weymark	14.66
14	[14]	Eric W. Bond	15.13
15	[16]	Per G. Fredriksson	15.27
16	[10]	Myrna Wooders	15.96
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	16.72
18	[17]	Michael K. Price	17.89
19	[21]	Mark A. Cohen	19.14
20	[22]	David Parsley	19.60
21	[20]	William J. Collins	20.90
22	[19]	Andrew F. Daughety	22.76
23	[23]	Cary A. Deck	23.75
24	[25]	Tong Li	24.27
25	[37]	Matthew Serfling	24.61
26	[29]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	24.97
27	[24]	Benjamin Eden	25.47
28	[27]	Christopher Bollinger	26.24
29	[31]	Charles Courtemanche	27.16
30	[26]	Kevin X.d. Huang	27.29
31	[32]	Aaron Yelowitz	28.20
32	[30]	Mattias K Polborn	29.02
33	[33]	Yuya Sasaki	30.09
34	[35]	Howard J. Wall	31.99
35	[38]	Christian Allen Vossler	32.05
36	[28]	Daniel J. Henderson	32.37
37	[36]	David Neil Laband	33.54
38	[39]	Michael T. Belongia	35.79
39	[40]	Paul Pecorino	36.39
40	[41]	Bradford D. Jordan	38.53
41	[44]	Georg Schaur	40.90
42	[43]	Keith H. Coble	41.54
43	[45]	Andrea Moro	45.53
44	[46]	J. S. Butler	47.25
45	[47]	Thomas Garrett	48.54
46	[42]	Carlos Lamarche	49.05
47	[55]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	49.31
48	[54]	Adam Blandin	49.68
49	[48]	Glenn Blomquist	50.42
50	[49]	William Neilson	51.77
51	[52]	Joseph Haslag	52.14
52	[51]	John Conley	52.37

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Blandin	3.84
2	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	3.90
3	[3]	James P. Ziliak	5.09
4	[4]	W Kip Viscusi	5.16
5	[5]	Felipe Benguria	6.29
6	[10]	Christian Allen Vossler	6.74
7	[6]	Charles Courtemanche	7.80
8	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	8.69
9	[14]	Philip T. Roundy	8.77
10	[8]	Lala Ma	9.02
11	[11]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	9.51
12	[13]	Michelle Marcus	13.58
13	[16]	Matthew Serfling	14.25
14	[9]	Brian Beach	14.62
15	[18]	Dale Manning	16.98
16	[12]	Peter Rousseau	17.00
17	[22]	Jonathan Daines Hall	17.92
18	[17]	William J. Collins	18.43
19	[15]	Kamal Saggi	18.99
20	[23]	Aaron Yelowitz	20.31
21	[21]	Christopher Bollinger	20.73
22	[20]	Michael K. Price	21.20
23	[24]	Cary A. Deck	21.62
24	[19]	Richard J. Cebula	22.33
25	[29]	William C. Gerken	25.15
26	[26]	Carlos Lamarche	26.46
27	[28]	Per G. Fredriksson	27.07
28	[27]	Andrea Moro	27.74
29	[30]	Georg Schaur	28.25
30	[31]	Matthew C. Harris	29.72
31	[34]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	33.66
32	[32]	Tong Li	33.76
33	[33]	J Scott Holladay	34.81
34	[35]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	34.97
35	[39]	Mattias K Polborn	35.18
36	[36]	Luke Petach	35.46
37	[38]	Robert G. Hammond	37.22
38	[37]	Valentina Hartarska	37.98
39	[40]	Joshua Hendrickson	39.51
40	[41]	Junsoo Lee	40.52
41	[90]	Matthew N. Murray	40.54
42	[43]	Xiaochun Liu	42.18
43	[42]	Peter Brummund	44.69
44	[45]	Steven Lugauer	45.44
45	[47]	Kevin X.d. Huang	45.90
46	[49]	Byung-Cheol Kim	46.29
47	[51]	Charles Sims	46.84
48	[46]	Daniel J. Henderson	47.16
49	[52]	Jamin Speer	47.80
50	[44]	Mark A. Cohen	47.94
51	[55]	Caroline Weber	49.22
52	[53]	Hyeongwoo Kim	50.25
53	[59]	Panka Bencsik	51.00
54	[50]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	51.62
55	[54]	Todd R. Jones	52.12
56	[58]	Joel Rodrigue	52.31
57	[68]	Peter Lin	54.12
58	[56]	Babu George	54.34
59	[60]	Elif E. Demiral	55.11
60	[64]	Ruiqing Miao	55.30
61	[63]	Yong Chao	56.16
62	[67]	Michael T. Belongia	56.96
63	[62]	Eric W. Bond	57.50
64	[65]	Daniel Weagley	57.61
65	[69]	Jeremy Atack	58.38
66	[66]	Dong Wei	58.73
67	[73]	Md Rafayet Alam	59.71
68	[72]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	60.17
69	[74]	Hasibul Islam	60.88
70	[70]	Yuqing Zheng	60.89
71	[76]	Keith H. Coble	61.27
72	[71]	David M. Zimmer	62.42
73	[79]	John J. Siegfried	65.85
74	[77]	Laura Razzolini	66.20
75	[81]	Traviss Cassidy	66.94
76	[80]	Duha Tore Altindag	67.74
77	[78]	Thomas E. Lambert	68.35
78	[75]	John Allan Weymark	68.64
79	[84]	Karen Lewis DeLong	72.24
80	[82]	Kathleen McKiernan	72.40
81	[86]	Weihua Zhao	72.53
82	[88]	David M. Kemme	74.36
83	[87]	Christopher Biolsi	74.36
84	[83]	John A. Dove	76.52
85	[89]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	78.18
86	[91]	Paul Pecorino	79.68
87	[94]	Daniel R. Petrolia	81.23
88	[96]	William F. Fox	82.67
89	[95]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	83.37
90	[97]	Michael Reed	85.00
91	[99]	John Conley	86.21
92	[98]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	86.72
93	[48]	Brandyn F. Churchill	87.62
94	[92]	Henry Thompson	89.80
95	[105]	Alecia Cassidy	91.33
96	[104]	Colin Cannonier	92.44
97	[101]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	92.59
98	[100]	Tigran Melkonyan	92.75
99	[102]	Gerard Domènech-Arumí (Gerard Domenech-Arumi)	92.88
100	[106]	Wenying Li	92.98
101	[110]	Donald Bruce	95.74
102	[103]	Andrew Muhammad	96.47
103	[111]	Brian Blank	97.31

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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.
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