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

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There are 9358 institutions with 74012 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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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)	4.32	22	20.44
5	[5]	Auburn University → Department of Economics, Auburn, Alabama (United States)	5.43	30	28.46
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.44	25	17.01
6	[6]	Vanderbilt University → Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	6.45	6	5.40
7	[7]	University of Mississippi → Department of Economics, University, Mississippi (United States)	8.30	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)	8.98	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	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)	4.97	22	10
-	[-]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	5.10	25	10
5	[7]	University of Louisville → Economics Department, Louisville, Kentucky (United States)	7.15	8	7.99
6	[6]	University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	7.17	23	10
7	[5]	University of Tennessee-Chattanooga → College of Business, Chattanooga, Tennessee (United States)	7.66	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)	8.28	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	W Kip Viscusi	1.08
2	[5]	Atsushi Inoue	4.23
3	[3]	Jennifer Reinganum	4.58
4	[4]	John J. Siegfried	6.52
5	[7]	David Wildasin	6.60
6	[6]	Peter Rousseau	6.65
7	[8]	Kamal Saggi	8.14
8	[9]	Walter Enders	9.01
9	[15]	Gregory W. Huffman	10.30
10	[11]	James P. Ziliak	12.00
11	[12]	Kenneth R. Troske	14.43
12	[13]	John Allan Weymark	14.80
13	[17]	Per G. Fredriksson	15.13
14	[18]	Junsoo Lee	15.38
15	[14]	Eric W. Bond	15.52
16	[10]	Myrna Wooders	16.38
17	[2]	Richard J. Cebula	17.07
18	[16]	Michael K. Price	18.71
19	[23]	David Parsley	19.73
20	[22]	Mark A. Cohen	20.38
21	[19]	William J. Collins	21.51
22	[20]	Andrew F. Daughety	23.81
23	[25]	Benjamin Eden	23.85
24	[40]	Matthew Serfling	24.03
25	[21]	Cary A. Deck	24.48
26	[28]	Tong Li	24.70
27	[29]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	24.99
28	[24]	Christopher Bollinger	25.86
29	[27]	Kevin X.d. Huang	27.77
30	[36]	Christopher Carpenter	27.86
31	[31]	Charles Courtemanche	28.43
32	[32]	Aaron Yelowitz	29.10
33	[30]	Mattias K Polborn	30.37
34	[34]	Howard J. Wall	31.33
35	[35]	Yuya Sasaki	31.62
36	[33]	Christian Allen Vossler	32.68
37	[26]	Daniel J. Henderson	33.73
38	[38]	David Neil Laband	34.53
39	[39]	Michael T. Belongia	36.14
40	[41]	Paul Pecorino	37.36
41	[44]	Bradford D. Jordan	40.39
42	[46]	Keith H. Coble	41.35
43	[45]	Georg Schaur	41.50
44	[47]	Marcus Dillender	42.28
45	[43]	Andrea Moro	45.92
46	[48]	Thomas Garrett	49.06
47	[49]	J. S. Butler	49.66
48	[55]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	50.11
49	[42]	Carlos Lamarche	50.65
50	[56]	Adam Blandin	51.32
51	[51]	John Conley	51.82
52	[50]	Glenn Blomquist	52.41
53	[53]	William Neilson	53.85

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Blandin	4.37
2	[1]	Yuya Sasaki	4.71
3	[6]	W Kip Viscusi	5.24
4	[4]	James P. Ziliak	5.84
5	[5]	Felipe Benguria	5.97
6	[3]	Marcus Dillender	6.35
7	[11]	Christian Allen Vossler	6.92
8	[7]	Atsushi Inoue	8.14
9	[14]	Philip T. Roundy	8.25
10	[8]	Charles Courtemanche	8.54
11	[12]	Ana María Herrera (Ana Maria Herrera)	9.99
12	[9]	Lala Ma	10.19
13	[17]	Matthew Serfling	14.91
14	[13]	Michelle Marcus	15.06
15	[10]	Brian Beach	16.15
16	[16]	Analisa Packham	16.43
17	[19]	Dale Manning	17.97
18	[15]	Peter Rousseau	20.53
19	[24]	Jonathan Daines Hall	20.98
20	[20]	William J. Collins	21.13
21	[18]	Kamal Saggi	21.30
22	[22]	Michael K. Price	22.70
23	[21]	Richard J. Cebula	23.05
24	[23]	Christopher Bollinger	23.09
25	[25]	Aaron Yelowitz	23.15
26	[26]	Cary A. Deck	23.64
27	[29]	Andrea Moro	27.05
28	[30]	William C. Gerken	27.32
29	[31]	Per G. Fredriksson	29.88
30	[28]	Carlos Lamarche	30.79
31	[32]	Georg Schaur	31.86
32	[34]	Christopher Carpenter	32.30
33	[33]	Matthew C. Harris	34.27
34	[35]	Claudia Williamson Kramer	34.81
35	[36]	Tong Li	37.62
36	[40]	Luke Petach	38.14
37	[38]	Haipeng (Allan) Chen	38.20
38	[37]	J Scott Holladay	38.44
39	[39]	Valentina Hartarska	39.93
40	[41]	Mattias K Polborn	40.52
41	[42]	Robert G. Hammond	41.96
42	[96]	Matthew N. Murray	42.58
43	[43]	Joshua Hendrickson	43.38
44	[44]	Junsoo Lee	44.71
45	[46]	Xiaochun Liu	46.13
46	[59]	Sarah Quincy	48.45
47	[45]	Peter Brummund	48.74
48	[50]	Kevin X.d. Huang	49.91
49	[49]	Steven Lugauer	50.46
50	[62]	Traviss Cassidy	50.70
51	[54]	Byung-Cheol Kim	50.93
52	[52]	Hyeongwoo Kim	50.94
53	[47]	Daniel J. Henderson	51.30
54	[53]	Jamin Speer	51.54
55	[58]	Charles Sims	51.96
56	[56]	Caroline Weber	52.77
57	[48]	Mark A. Cohen	53.13
58	[57]	Babu George	54.53
59	[63]	Panka Bencsik	55.43
60	[55]	Carl Magnus Bjuggren	56.53
61	[64]	Joel Rodrigue	57.58
62	[60]	Todd R. Jones	57.74
63	[71]	Ruiqing Miao	59.19
64	[68]	Michael T. Belongia	59.82
65	[66]	Eric W. Bond	60.02
66	[75]	Peter Lin	60.87
67	[70]	Yong Chao	60.95
68	[67]	Dong Wei	61.06
69	[65]	Elif E. Demiral	61.16
70	[77]	Wisarut Suwanprasert	62.26
71	[72]	Jeremy Atack	62.36
72	[80]	Hasibul Islam	63.16
73	[73]	Daniel Weagley	63.47
74	[78]	Kirill S. Evdokimov	64.28
75	[81]	Keith H. Coble	65.55
76	[74]	Yuqing Zheng	66.04
77	[79]	Md Rafayet Alam	66.06
78	[76]	David M. Zimmer	66.45
79	[83]	Laura Razzolini	70.07
80	[86]	John J. Siegfried	71.18
81	[84]	Duha Tore Altindag	72.48
82	[82]	John Allan Weymark	75.39
83	[89]	Karen Lewis DeLong	76.10
84	[85]	Thomas E. Lambert	76.88
85	[92]	David M. Kemme	77.57
86	[87]	Kathleen McKiernan	78.13
87	[90]	Weihua Zhao	78.41
88	[98]	Tian Qiu	78.51
89	[91]	John A. Dove	80.73
90	[95]	Christopher Biolsi	80.77
91	[94]	Mitchell VanVuren	81.20
92	[88]	Marianne Hinds Wanamaker	81.74
93	[100]	Paul Pecorino	84.21
94	[103]	Daniel R. Petrolia	87.27
95	[105]	William F. Fox	88.97
96	[97]	Henry Thompson	89.26
97	[102]	Jose Manuel Fernandez	89.50
98	[101]	Christopher Li	89.56
99	[104]	Michael Reed	90.22
100	[109]	John Conley	92.60
101	[51]	Brandyn F. Churchill	93.58
102	[106]	Enda Patrick Hargaden	94.70
103	[107]	Tigran Melkonyan	95.79
104	[108]	Tun-hsiang Edward Yu	96.61
105	[111]	Alecia Cassidy	97.38

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