Top Institutions and Economists in Virginia (United States), as of March 2026

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There are 9296 institutions with 73242 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
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For Virginia (United States), these are 52 institutions with 404 members with a total share of 380.91.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	1.14	39	33.92
2	[2]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	2.13	31	31.03
3	[3]	George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	2.45	52	41.44
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	3.84	19	17.53
4	[4]	University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	4.28	21	17.39
5	[5]	George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	5.56	19	15.63
6	[7]	College of William and Mary → Department of Economics, Williamsburg, Virginia (United States)	7.04	29	27.26
7	[6]	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	7.11	11	9.51
8	[10]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	7.66	50	48.65
9	[8]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	7.70	24	23.90
10	[9]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.65	17	16.77
-	[-]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business → Economics Department, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	8.71	23	22.90
-	[-]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business → Department of Economics, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	9.68	15	14.78
11	[11]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	11.02	18	16.27
12	[12]	Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	11.51	28	19.97
-	[-]	George Mason University → Economics Department → Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), Arlington, Virginia (United States)	13.12	17	9.45
-	[-]	George Mason University → Economics Department → Center for the Study of Public Choice (CSPC), Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	13.67	8	4.46
13	[13]	Old Dominion University → Strome College of Business, Norfolk, Virginia (United States)	14.15	12	11.50

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	1.17	31	10
2	[2]	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	1.73	39	10
3	[3]	George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)	2.95	52	10
-	[-]	Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	3.31	19	10
4	[5]	College of William and Mary → Department of Economics, Williamsburg, Virginia (United States)	5.06	29	10
5	[4]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	5.40	24	10
6	[7]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	6.47	50	10
-	[-]	University of Richmond → Robins School of Business → Economics Department, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	6.55	23	10
7	[6]	University of Virginia → Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	6.58	21	10
8	[8]	George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	8.25	19	10
9	[9]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	9.04	17	10
10	[10]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Pamplin College of Business, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	9.06	5	4.34
11	[11]	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	10.07	11	9.51
12	[12]	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) → Department of Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia (United States)	10.44	18	10
-	[-]	Virginia Commonwealth University → School of Business → Department of Economics, Richmond, Virginia (United States)	10.49	15	10
13	[13]	Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia (United States)	11.87	28	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Christopher Ruhm	2.15
2	[4]	Eric M. Leeper	2.42
3	[5]	Charles A. Holt	2.73
4	[6]	Simon Anderson	5.74
5	[2]	Eric van Wincoop	8.18
6	[8]	Anton Korinek	8.36
7	[9]	Francis Warnock	10.34
8	[1]	Zoltan J. Acs	11.31
9	[10]	Thomas Lubik	13.29
10	[7]	Michael A. Clemens	14.51
11	[13]	John Bailey Jones	14.89
12	[12]	Kevin McCabe	15.63
13	[14]	James Harrigan	16.93
14	[15]	Andreas Hornstein	17.37
15	[20]	Peter T. Leeson	18.78
16	[18]	Eric R. Young	18.81
17	[16]	Daniel Houser	19.10
18	[19]	Pierre Daniel Sarte	19.47
19	[24]	William R. Johnson	20.13
20	[22]	Anna Kovner	20.34
21	[21]	Alexander L. Wolman	20.50
22	[26]	Marina Azzimonti (Marina Daniela Azzimonti Renzo)	20.87
23	[28]	Kenneth John Button	21.23
24	[17]	Thomas Stratmann	22.98
25	[34]	Nuno Garoupa	23.61
26	[29]	Maurice Kugler	24.59
27	[25]	Dean Croushore	25.23
28	[27]	Kevin F. Hallock	25.27
29	[33]	Dennis Tao Yang	28.79
30	[30]	John Earle	28.82
31	[38]	Cesar Martinelli	29.55
32	[36]	Horacio Sapriza	29.85
33	[31]	Amalia Rebecca Miller	29.95
34	[39]	Mark Koyama	30.58
35	[35]	Huberto M. Ennis	30.95
36	[41]	Alfredo Marvao Pereira	32.40
37	[40]	Kevin J. Boyle	33.74
38	[37]	Peter J. Boettke	35.64
39	[42]	Thomas Zylkin	36.48
40	[81]	Bryan Caplan	36.99
41	[44]	John V. Pepper	38.86
42	[47]	Daniel Patrick Murphy	39.78
43	[49]	Peter A. Savelyev	39.91
44	[120]	Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli	39.95
45	[46]	Isaac M. Mbiti	40.26
46	[45]	Jay P. Shimshack	40.46
47	[48]	Douglas D. Davis	43.94
48	[11]	John Edward McLaren	44.69
49	[57]	Sita Nataraj Slavov	48.22
50	[54]	Sandip Sukhtankar	49.72
51	[53]	Leora Friedberg	50.16
52	[52]	Federico Ciliberto	51.27
53	[136]	John Robert Walter	53.13
54	[56]	Noel D. Johnson	53.41
55	[51]	Sergio Correia	54.76
56	[55]	Lisa R. Anderson	55.21
57	[50]	Julie Holland Mortimer	55.42
58	[58]	Alexander Tabarrok	57.79
59	[61]	Lee M. Lockwood	59.05
60	[62]	Nicholas Trachter	59.90
61	[64]	Christopher J. Coyne	62.00
62	[65]	John Weinberg	62.76
63	[32]	Sarah Elizabeth Turner	63.68
64	[66]	Donald F. Larson	65.90
65	[67]	John Doukas	66.20
66	[63]	Jennifer M. Mellor	67.60
67	[71]	Jeffrey Alwang	67.62
68	[70]	David E. Mills	67.74
69	[72]	Maxim Peter Engers	70.55
70	[76]	Edgar O. Olsen	72.28
71	[68]	Michael F. Gallmeyer	72.33
72	[75]	Lawrence H. White	73.08
73	[74]	Ana Fostel	73.09
74	[59]	Michael J. Seiler	73.40
75	[73]	A. Kerem Coşar (A. Kerem Cosar)	75.09
76	[78]	Bradford Franklin Mills	75.18
77	[82]	David M. Levy	75.42
78	[79]	Denis Nekipelov	76.82
79	[85]	Aris Spanos	77.68
80	[84]	Grey Gordon	77.90
81	[80]	James Wyckoff	78.89
82	[83]	Molly Lipscomb	78.93
83	[86]	Sheetal Sekhri	79.71
84	[89]	Fei Xie	80.84
85	[69]	David Orden	80.85
86	[88]	Richard Ashley	81.77
87	[87]	Jonathan Colmer	84.01
88	[60]	Sudipta Sarangi	85.22
89	[93]	William Skimmyhorn	87.23
90	[90]	Toan Phan	87.63
91	[91]	David W. Harless	89.05
92	[98]	Borys Grochulski	90.18
93	[95]	Gerald A. Hanweck, Sr.	90.68
94	[77]	Leslie Sundt Stratton	90.81
95	[100]	Zhu Wang	90.88
96	[101]	Felipe E. Saffie	91.51
97	[111]	Minchul Yum	91.65
98	[92]	Richard Wagner	91.98
99	[99]	Tim Jay Groseclose	92.22
100	[96]	Oleg Korenok	92.41
101	[105]	Ruta Aidis	94.62
102	[103]	Charlene Marie Kalenkoski	94.74

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Anton Korinek	2.32
2	[2]	Thomas Zylkin	3.16
3	[5]	Mark Koyama	3.91
4	[3]	Sergio Correia	4.21
5	[4]	Michael A. Clemens	7.41
6	[7]	Christopher Ruhm	10.29
7	[9]	Eric R. Young	10.38
8	[10]	Anna Kovner	11.07
9	[11]	John Bailey Jones	11.82
10	[8]	Jonathan Colmer	11.96
11	[12]	Marina Azzimonti (Marina Daniela Azzimonti Renzo)	12.41
12	[14]	Kevin J. Boyle	12.46
13	[13]	Toan Phan	13.27
14	[16]	Minchul Yum	14.94
15	[15]	Noel D. Johnson	14.96
16	[17]	Pierre Daniel Sarte	16.88
17	[18]	Horacio Sapriza	16.93
18	[19]	Nicholas Trachter	17.43
19	[6]	Zoltan J. Acs	17.46
20	[21]	Ariel BenYishay	17.71
21	[22]	Alexander MacKay	18.13
22	[24]	Daniel Houser	21.06
23	[23]	Sandip Sukhtankar	21.06
24	[25]	Felipe E. Saffie	21.32
25	[27]	Lee M. Lockwood	27.81
26	[33]	Sattar Mansi	28.81
27	[29]	Sita Nataraj Slavov	30.26
28	[31]	Leland E. Farmer	30.49
29	[28]	Simon Anderson	31.00
30	[30]	Tsz-Nga Wong	31.11
31	[32]	Cesar Martinelli	31.76
32	[35]	Molly Lipscomb	32.05
33	[26]	Amalia Rebecca Miller	32.10
34	[52]	Jeffrey Alwang	37.41
35	[34]	Paul Ho	37.78
36	[65]	Haiwen Zhou	37.78
37	[46]	Daniel Patrick Murphy	39.61
38	[56]	Richard Hunt	40.10
39	[48]	Peter Grajzl	41.06
40	[42]	Charles A. Holt	41.80
41	[41]	William Skimmyhorn	42.26
42	[45]	Peter T. Leeson	42.81
43	[49]	Marios Karabarbounis	43.65
44	[51]	Isaac M. Mbiti	43.81
45	[50]	Alexander Tabarrok	44.07
46	[61]	Suqin Ge	44.73
47	[57]	Thomas Lubik	45.36
48	[70]	Nuno Garoupa	45.67
49	[55]	Felipe Schwartzman	45.75
50	[39]	Federico Ciliberto	45.85
51	[54]	Sheetal Sekhri	45.86
52	[58]	Tate Twinam	46.15
53	[53]	Nathaniel A. Throckmorton	48.14
54	[60]	Andrea Waddle	48.57
55	[59]	Andreas Hornstein	48.65
56	[63]	Thomas Ruchti	48.71
57	[62]	Grey Gordon	48.97
58	[140]	Omar Ahmad Al-Ubaydli	49.05
59	[44]	Eric M. Leeper	49.24
60	[43]	A. Kerem Coşar (A. Kerem Cosar)	49.37
61	[66]	Jonathan F. Schulz	54.71
62	[71]	John Lopresti	55.34
63	[69]	Maurice Kugler	56.48
64	[67]	Andrew Dustan	57.62
65	[47]	Sudipta Sarangi	61.51
66	[74]	Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp	62.37
67	[73]	Daniel Sebastian Tello-Trillo	63.24
68	[64]	Michael J. Seiler	64.86
69	[75]	Filippo Curti	66.42
70	[68]	John Earle	67.06
71	[78]	Xi He	67.94
72	[38]	Eric van Wincoop	68.50
73	[87]	Alfredo Marvao Pereira	70.00
74	[77]	Christopher Michael Herrington	72.09
75	[76]	Chunbei Wang	73.54
76	[37]	John Edward McLaren	75.02
77	[85]	Peter J. Boettke	75.15
78	[101]	George W. Norton	75.36
79	[80]	Nicolas Morales	75.38
80	[83]	Kwok Ping Tsang	78.01
81	[79]	John Michael Parman	78.29
82	[84]	Huberto M. Ennis	79.93
83	[86]	Emily Grazia Moschini (Eg Moschini)	81.35
84	[93]	Shaowen Luo	82.58
85	[106]	Kenneth John Button	83.13
86	[91]	John V. Pepper	84.20
87	[95]	Wei Zhang	84.57
88	[81]	Thomas Stratmann	84.71
89	[40]	Kinda Hachem	85.36
90	[88]	Santiago Miguel Pinto	87.83
91	[100]	Carlos Ramirez (Carlos D. Ramirez)	90.27
92	[94]	Desiree A. Desierto	90.70
93	[89]	Peter McHenry	91.25
94	[102]	Claudia Macaluso	91.84
95	[96]	Oleg Korenok	92.59
96	[107]	Klaus Moeltner	92.67
97	[99]	Karim Chalak	93.04
98	[90]	Peter A. Savelyev	93.31
99	[105]	Eric Bahel	93.73
100	[97]	Andrew Simon	94.68
101	[108]	M. Saif Mehkari	95.49
102	[103]	Zhu Wang	95.68

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