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

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  • For Big Data, these are 540 institutions and 595 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)120.45
2University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)2.0030.94
3Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)340.61
4Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)4.2131.14
5National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)5.37170.25
6University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada5.9730.39
7University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.7131.11
8Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland7.8351.57
9Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)9.5520.67
10European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany10.5782.30
11Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain11.9752.86
12Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)12.6352.00
13London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom12.8970.68
14University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)13.5210.16
15Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)13.9510.06
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain16.3320.57
16Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy18.0840.75
17Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy18.2440.76
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)18.3920.54
-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Milano, Italy19.0940.75
18University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom19.8020.41
19University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)20.5720.28
20Banco de España, Madrid, Spain22.6494.47
21University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)23.0120.54
22Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg23.04211.00
23Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)23.8020.07
24World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)24.4192.01
25BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway24.6441.90
26Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland26.5930.45
27Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)27.4030.66
28Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland28.2220.68
29Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)28.9030.36
30Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom29.2310.30
31Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)29.5210.13
32Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia29.7252.26
33University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand30.0530.73
34Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland32.0041.09
-University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand32.6730.68
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland33.8831.06
35Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom34.9710.15
36European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain35.48166.75
37Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)35.5710.06
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France36.7310.21
37Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France36.7310.21
39Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France37.3840.19
40Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany39.3010.80
41Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)39.4131.59
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France40.3520.16
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom40.7340.16
-Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland40.8920.69
41Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland40.8920.69
43Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Montréal, Canada41.1020.91
-Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada41.1020.91
44London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom41.2010.07
-London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom42.2410.07
45University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)42.3110.10
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia44.0320.73
46Georgia Institute of Technology → School of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)45.4621.46
47Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France45.7930.88
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg46.87190.16
48Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)48.0110.16
49Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France49.1841.01
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy49.2320.13
50University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom50.2820.15
51Banque de France, Paris, France50.3340.70
52Paris School of Economics, Paris, France51.2320.20
53Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China53.3710.31
54Brandeis University → Department of Economics, International Business School, Waltham, Massachusetts (United States)53.3920.49

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Whitney Newey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
1.66
2Sendhil Mullainathan
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
2.32
3Victor Chernozhukov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
3.38
4Melissa Dell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
4.81
5Christian Hansen
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.54
6Susan Athey
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
6.93
7Dacheng Xiu
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
9.00
8Michael Lechner
Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
10.01
9Jianqing 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)
10.24
10Guido Imbens
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
10.46
11Erik Brynjolfsson12.40
12Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
14.16
13Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
16.64
14Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
17.19
15Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
19.37
16Oliver Hinz
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
21.57
17Christopher Rauh
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
22.17
18Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
23.87
19Mark Schaffer
Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
24.20
20João M.c. Santos Silva (Joao M.c. Santos Silva)
University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom
25.32
21Hannes Felix Mueller
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
26.53
22Ajay K. Agrawal
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
26.59
23Jann Spiess
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
26.74
24Peter C. B. Phillips27.31
25Stephen Hansen
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
28.57
26Luc Laeven
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
29.14
27David Neumark
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
30.22
28Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
30.46
29Martin Huber
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland
31.90
30Stelios Michalopoulos
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
32.46
31Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
32.89
32Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
33.48
33Anton Korinek
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
35.95
34Elias Papaioannou
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
38.01
35Michele Lenza
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
40.66
36Wim Naudé (Wim Naude)
Universidade do Coimbra → Faculdade de Economia → Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), Coimbra, Portugal
40.92
37Massimiliano 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
41.26
38Rafał Weron (Rafal Weron)
Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland
42.38
39Leonardo Gambacorta
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
42.62
40Lin William Cong
Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
43.57
41Aman Ullah
University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)
44.61
42Ke Tang
Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China
44.91
43Domenico Giannone
Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
46.32
44Shunsuke Managi
Kyushu University → Urban Institute, Fukuoka, Japan
47.95
45Tarek Alexander Hassan
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
51.64
46Mohammad Abdullah
University of Southampton → Southampton Business School, Southampton, United Kingdom
51.82
47Rangan Gupta
University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa
52.37
48John Gibson
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
53.15
49Paul Anton Raschky
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
53.17
50David Y. Yang
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
53.49
51Guy Michaels
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
54.41
52Andrew Michael Jones
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
54.52
53Dean Karlan
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
54.97
54Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah
University of Ghana → Business School → Department of Finance, Legon, Ghana
56.24
55Zhentao Shi
Georgia Institute of Technology → School of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
57.38
56Marco Vivarelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Milano, Italy
60.64
57Philippe Goulet Coulombe
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada
60.78
58George Kapetanios
King's College London → Business School, London, United Kingdom
61.74
59Noam Yuchtman
London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom
62.92
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