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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Big Data, as of September 2026

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  • For Big Data, these are 544 institutions and 607 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)130.67
2Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)2.1340.61
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)3.0120.75
4Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)4.4031.11
5University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada5.4430.39
6University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.7731.11
7Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland6.7761.76
8National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)8.16170.23
9Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain9.2653.06
10Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)9.3720.61
11European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany11.4082.30
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain11.4620.76
12Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland11.5940.50
13Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)13.6851.99
14London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom14.3770.68
15University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)14.7710.16
16Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)15.5310.06
17Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy17.7440.76
18Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)19.6420.46
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)20.0220.47
19Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy20.4040.75
20University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom20.9520.41
-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Milano, Italy21.4140.75
21Banco de España, Madrid, Spain22.9194.47
22University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)22.9220.28
23World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)25.3092.01
24University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)25.3220.54
25BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway26.1541.89
26Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)26.7120.07
27Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom27.7610.31
28Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)27.8630.36
29Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)28.6030.66
30Paris School of Economics, Paris, France29.4230.25
31Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg29.45201.00
32Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia30.9152.26
33Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland31.0420.68
34University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand31.8830.73
35Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland33.4541.09
-University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand34.3630.68
36Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)34.6310.06
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland35.5431.06
37European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain36.29166.75
38Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom37.9110.15
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom38.4340.16
39Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)38.6731.59
40Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France39.0240.19
41Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany39.7410.80
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France39.8910.20
41Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France39.8910.20
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France41.3520.16
-Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland41.9120.29
41Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland41.9120.29
44London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom42.2610.07
-Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada42.6320.91
44Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Montréal, Canada42.6320.91
-London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom43.3010.07
46University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)44.8710.10
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia45.3620.73
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy46.5720.13
47Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)47.7320.13
48Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France47.9130.86
49Georgia Institute of Technology → School of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)48.6621.26
50Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)48.9610.16
51Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France49.8741.01
52Banque de France, Paris, France50.8840.69
53Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China53.9910.31
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg54.39180.16
54Universiteit Gent → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Gent, Belgium54.9330.34

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Whitney Newey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
1.59
2Sendhil Mullainathan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
2.27
3Victor Chernozhukov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
3.42
4Melissa Dell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
4.82
5Christian Hansen
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.94
6Susan Athey
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
7.02
7Dacheng Xiu
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
9.11
8Jianqing Fan
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
10.01
9Guido Imbens
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
10.02
10Michael Lechner
Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
10.38
11Erik Brynjolfsson12.95
12Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
14.44
13Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
16.38
14Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
17.62
15Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
20.77
16Frank Rafael Smets
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
21.02
17Oliver Hinz
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
21.71
18Hannes Felix Mueller
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
21.82
19Christopher Rauh
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
22.04
20Mark Schaffer
Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
25.52
21Jann Spiess
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
25.66
22Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
26.67
23João M.c. Santos Silva (Joao M.c. Santos Silva)
University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom
27.02
24Stephen Hansen
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
27.39
25Ajay K. Agrawal
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
27.71
26Peter C. B. Phillips
Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand
30.63
27David Neumark
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
30.98
28Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
31.78
29Luc Laeven
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
32.66
30Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
32.96
31Martin Huber
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland
33.12
32Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
33.23
33Stelios Michalopoulos
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
33.44
34Massimiliano Marcellino
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
33.62
35Michele Lenza
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
37.89
36Anton Korinek
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
39.47
37Elias Papaioannou
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
40.58
38Wim Naudé (Wim Naude)
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Aachen, Germany
41.38
39Domenico Giannone
Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
43.93
40Rafał Weron (Rafal Weron)
Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland
44.10
41Lin William Cong
Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)
44.85
42Aman Ullah
University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)
45.04
43Ke Tang
Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China
45.86
44Mohammad Abdullah
University of Southampton → Southampton Business School, Southampton, United Kingdom
45.99
45Leonardo Gambacorta
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
47.85
46Tarek Alexander Hassan
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
48.38
47Shunsuke Managi
Kyushu University → Urban Institute, Fukuoka, Japan
50.39
48John Gibson
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
55.57
49David Y. Yang
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
56.01
50Rangan Gupta
University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa
56.17
51Andrew Michael Jones
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
57.11
52Guy Michaels
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
57.55
53Paul Anton Raschky
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
57.65
54Zhentao Shi
Georgia Institute of Technology → School of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
59.11
55Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah
University of Ghana → Business School → Department of Finance, Legon, Ghana
59.48
56Dean Karlan
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
59.71
57Philippe Goulet Coulombe
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada
60.85
58Marco Vivarelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Milano, Italy
63.67
59Lindsey Rebecca Raymond
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
64.41
60George Kapetanios
King's College London → Business School, London, United Kingdom
64.87
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