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

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  • For Big Data, these are 536 institutions and 589 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.0020.45
2University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)230.94
3Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)3.0040.61
4Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)4.2331.14
5National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)5.47170.26
6University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada5.9030.39
7University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.7831.11
8Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland7.7451.57
9Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)9.7020.67
10European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany10.6582.30
11Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain11.6152.86
12Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)12.4152.00
13London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom12.8570.68
14University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)13.4810.16
15Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)14.2410.06
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain15.7820.57
16Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy17.6040.75
17Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy18.1840.76
-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Milano, Italy18.6140.75
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)19.0720.54
18University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom19.6020.41
19University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)20.2820.28
20Banco de España, Madrid, Spain21.5094.48
21World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)22.1892.02
22University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)22.6920.54
23Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg23.62211.01
24BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway24.3141.90
25Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)24.3620.07
26Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland26.0030.45
27European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain27.46166.75
28Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)27.9130.66
29Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland28.5920.68
30Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia29.0852.26
31Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)29.1310.13
32University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand29.2730.73
33Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom29.5510.30
34Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)29.8030.36
35Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany31.1710.80
36Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland31.7941.09
-University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand32.3830.68
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland33.5931.06
37Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)34.3810.06
38Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom34.8310.15
39Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France37.0340.19
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France37.2810.21
39Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France37.2810.21
41Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)38.0931.59
-Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada39.7020.93
41Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Montréal, Canada39.7020.93
43Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland39.7520.69
-Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland39.7520.69
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France40.5420.16
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom40.8640.16
44London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom41.1010.07
45University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)41.6810.10
-London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom42.1410.07
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia43.9220.73
46Georgia Institute of Technology → School of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)44.7521.46
47Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France44.7530.88
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg46.85190.16
48Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)48.0410.16
49Banque de France, Paris, France48.9840.70
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy49.3020.13
50University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom49.3320.15
51Paris School of Economics, Paris, France51.1020.20
52Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark51.6631.72
53Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France51.9040.99

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Whitney Newey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
1.88
2Sendhil Mullainathan
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
2.52
3Victor Chernozhukov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
3.36
4Melissa Dell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
4.90
5Christian Hansen
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.68
6Susan Athey
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
7.09
7Jianqing 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)
9.30
8Dacheng Xiu
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
9.48
9Michael Lechner
Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
9.59
10Guido Imbens
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
10.83
11Erik Brynjolfsson11.59
12Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
13.86
13Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
16.90
14Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
16.93
15Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
17.91
16Mark Schaffer
Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
18.26
17Oliver Hinz
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
19.03
18Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
20.84
19Christopher Rauh
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
21.37
20João M.c. Santos Silva (Joao M.c. Santos Silva)
University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom
23.57
21Hannes Felix Mueller
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
24.90
22Jann Spiess
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
26.99
23Ajay K. Agrawal
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
27.54
24Peter C. B. Phillips27.82
25Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
28.46
26Luc Laeven
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
28.53
27Stephen Hansen
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
28.93
28David Neumark
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
29.40
29Stelios Michalopoulos
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
30.02
30Martin Huber
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland
30.42
31Wim Naudé (Wim Naude)
Universidade do Coimbra → Faculdade de Economia → Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), Coimbra, Portugal
32.23
32Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
33.16
33Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
33.64
34Anton Korinek
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
35.97
35Elias Papaioannou
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
36.49
36Rafał Weron (Rafal Weron)
Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland
37.88
37Michele Lenza
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
38.31
38Leonardo Gambacorta
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
38.58
39Massimiliano 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
38.99
40Shunsuke Managi
Kyushu University → Urban Institute, Fukuoka, Japan
41.72
41Mohammad Abdullah
University of Southampton → Southampton Business School, Southampton, United Kingdom
42.22
42Lin William Cong
Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
42.47
43Domenico Giannone
Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
43.49
44Aman Ullah
University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)
43.72
45Tarek Alexander Hassan
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
44.13
46Ke Tang
Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China
44.79
47Dean Fantazzini
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University → Moscow School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
45.53
48Rangan Gupta
University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa
47.50
49Robert Ślepaczuk (Robert Slepaczuk)
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
47.56
50Zhentao Shi
Georgia Institute of Technology → School of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
50.29
51John Gibson
University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand
50.57
52David Y. Yang
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
51.49
53Paul Anton Raschky
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
51.63
54Christian Pierdzioch
Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg → Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg, Germany
51.88
55Guy Michaels
London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
52.76
56Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah
University of Ghana → Business School → Department of Finance, Legon, Ghana
53.21
57Andrew Michael Jones
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
53.89
58Jean-Fabrice Lebraty
Université Jean Moulin (Lyon 3) → Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE), Lyon, France
54.38
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