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

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There are 9374 institutions with 74391 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For East South Central States (United States), these are 75 institutions with 417 members with a total share of 398.21.

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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	51	49.64
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)	4.36	22	20.44
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.40	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)	6.54	6	5.40
7	[7]	University of Mississippi → Department of Economics, University, Mississippi (United States)	8.37	11	11
8	[8]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	8.71	8	7.99
9	[9]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	8.88	23	21.95

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	51	10
2	[2]	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	2.09	32	10
3	[3]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	3.27	32	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 Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	3.35	33	10
-	[-]	University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa → Culverhouse College of Business → Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States)	5.01	22	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.10	25	10
5	[6]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	7.11	23	10
6	[7]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	7.14	8	7.99
7	[5]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.57	11	10
8	[8]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	7.86	30	10
9	[9]	University of Memphis → Fogelman College of Business and Economics, Memphis, Tennessee (United States)	8.30	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.14
2	[6]	Atsushi Inoue	4.38
3	[4]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.63
4	[3]	John J. Siegfried	6.21
5	[5]	Peter Rousseau	6.23
6	[7]	David Wildasin	6.91
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	8.27
8	[9]	Walter Enders	9.59
9	[15]	Gregory W. Huffman	10.39
10	[11]	James P. Ziliak	11.64
11	[16]	Per G. Fredriksson	14.61
12	[12]	Kenneth R. Troske	15.07
13	[13]	John Allan Weymark	15.36
14	[14]	Eric W. Bond	15.64
15	[18]	Junsoo Lee	15.78
16	[10]	Myrna Wooders	16.22
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	16.41
18	[17]	Michael K. Price	18.52
19	[23]	David Parsley	19.49
20	[22]	Mark A. Cohen	20.27
21	[19]	William J. Collins	20.64
22	[20]	Andrew F. Daughety	23.10
23	[38]	Matthew Serfling	23.15
24	[24]	Tong Li	23.85
25	[21]	Cary A. Deck	23.99
26	[29]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	24.83
27	[28]	Benjamin Eden	25.71
28	[26]	Christopher Bollinger	25.75
29	[36]	Christopher Carpenter	27.05
30	[27]	Kevin X.d. Huang	28.01
31	[31]	Charles Courtemanche	28.29
32	[30]	Mattias K Polborn	29.53
33	[32]	Aaron Yelowitz	30.07
34	[34]	Howard J. Wall	31.98
35	[33]	Christian Allen Vossler	32.53
36	[39]	Yuya Sasaki	33.66
37	[25]	Daniel J. Henderson	33.75
38	[37]	David Neil Laband	33.80
39	[40]	Michael T. Belongia	36.24
40	[41]	Paul Pecorino	37.91
41	[42]	Bradford D. Jordan	39.98
42	[45]	Georg Schaur	40.66
43	[46]	Keith H. Coble	41.16
44	[47]	Marcus Dillender	41.94
45	[44]	Andrea Moro	47.04
46	[48]	J. S. Butler	49.18
47	[55]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	49.26
48	[49]	Thomas Garrett	50.05
49	[43]	Carlos Lamarche	51.33
50	[50]	Glenn Blomquist	52.06
51	[58]	Adam Blandin	52.97
52	[53]	John Conley	53.47
53	[51]	William Neilson	54.13

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	4.67
2	[3]	Adam Blandin	4.89
3	[5]	Felipe Benguria	5.20
4	[6]	W Kip Viscusi	5.67
5	[4]	James P. Ziliak	5.73
6	[2]	Marcus Dillender	5.81
7	[10]	Christian Allen Vossler	6.77
8	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	8.13
9	[9]	Lala Ma	8.58
10	[14]	Philip T. Roundy	8.68
11	[8]	Charles Courtemanche	9.14
12	[12]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	10.83
13	[16]	Matthew Serfling	14.22
14	[13]	Michelle Marcus	14.22
15	[11]	Brian Beach	16.12
16	[18]	Dale Manning	17.49
17	[15]	Peter Rousseau	19.51
18	[19]	William J. Collins	20.41
19	[23]	Jonathan Daines Hall	20.93
20	[17]	Kamal Saggi	21.28
21	[21]	Michael K. Price	22.19
22	[20]	Richard J. Cebula	22.88
23	[26]	Aaron Yelowitz	22.99
24	[25]	Cary A. Deck	23.21
25	[24]	Christopher Bollinger	23.31
26	[28]	Tong Li	25.60
27	[29]	Andrea Moro	26.74
28	[31]	William C. Gerken	27.70
29	[30]	Per G. Fredriksson	27.83
30	[27]	Carlos Lamarche	29.55
31	[32]	Georg Schaur	31.05
32	[33]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	31.29
33	[34]	Christopher Carpenter	31.65
34	[35]	Matthew C. Harris	34.49
35	[37]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	36.98
36	[38]	Luke Petach	37.74
37	[36]	J Scott Holladay	38.89
38	[39]	Robert G. Hammond	40.12
39	[40]	Valentina Hartarska	41.09
40	[41]	Mattias K Polborn	41.89
41	[96]	Matthew N. Murray	42.61
42	[42]	Joshua Hendrickson	43.43
43	[43]	Junsoo Lee	44.04
44	[46]	Xiaochun Liu	45.60
45	[44]	Peter Brummund	48.69
46	[49]	Steven Lugauer	49.25
47	[50]	Kevin X.d. Huang	49.51
48	[56]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	49.90
49	[53]	Charles Sims	49.90
50	[54]	Byung-Cheol Kim	49.97
51	[51]	Hyeongwoo Kim	50.50
52	[45]	Daniel J. Henderson	50.65
53	[63]	Traviss Cassidy	51.37
54	[48]	Mark A. Cohen	52.12
55	[61]	Peter Lin	52.23
56	[57]	Caroline Weber	52.34
57	[60]	Jamin Speer	52.38
58	[55]	Sarah Quincy	52.93
59	[52]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	53.39
60	[59]	Babu George	54.24
61	[64]	Panka Bencsik	55.54
62	[70]	Ruiqing Miao	57.28
63	[76]	Hasibul Islam	57.46
64	[66]	Joel Rodrigue	58.07
65	[62]	Todd R. Jones	58.08
66	[65]	Daniel Weagley	59.24
67	[68]	Eric W. Bond	59.96
68	[73]	Michael T. Belongia	60.20
69	[71]	Dong Wei	60.32
70	[72]	Yong Chao	60.32
71	[67]	Elif E. Demiral	60.46
72	[74]	Jeremy Atack	62.21
73	[79]	Keith H. Coble	64.33
74	[77]	Md Rafayet Alam	65.17
75	[75]	David M. Zimmer	66.06
76	[78]	Yuqing Zheng	67.71
77	[80]	Duha Tore Altindag	68.45
78	[84]	John J. Siegfried	68.78
79	[81]	Laura Razzolini	69.76
80	[82]	Thomas E. Lambert	72.95
81	[85]	Karen Lewis DeLong	74.26
82	[89]	Kirill S. Evdokimov	75.44
83	[83]	John Allan Weymark	75.44
84	[86]	Mitchell VanVuren	76.04
85	[88]	David M. Kemme	76.10
86	[87]	Kathleen McKiernan	76.56
87	[92]	Weihua Zhao	78.41
88	[97]	Tian Qiu	79.29
89	[91]	John A. Dove	81.62
90	[95]	Christopher Biolsi	82.47
91	[93]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	82.63
92	[100]	Paul Pecorino	85.80
93	[90]	Henry Thompson	86.00
94	[98]	Tigran Melkonyan	87.12
95	[104]	William F. Fox	87.67
96	[103]	Daniel R. Petrolia	88.36
97	[101]	Christopher Li	89.28
98	[47]	Brandyn F. Churchill	90.20
99	[105]	Michael Reed	90.54
100	[102]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	90.90
101	[108]	John Conley	94.07
102	[106]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	94.97
103	[107]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	97.39
104	[114]	Wenying Li	98.09
105	[109]	Colin Cannonier	98.11

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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.
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Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
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