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2,422 researchers in the United States whose main field is Economics & Business are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 102 countries in the field. 2,286 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). National Bureau of Economic Research has the most (108), followed by University of California, Berkeley (42) and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (41). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

2,422

3.3% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

2,286

94.4% of them

Country rank in the field

of 102 countries in Economics & Business

Highest-ranked

#22

Teece, David J.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	National Bureau of Economic Research	108	105	#1	Barro, Robert T. #573
2	University of California, Berkeley	42	36	#3	Teece, David J. #22
3	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	41	41	#4	Grant, Adam M. #785
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	38	38	#5	Acemoglu, Daron #29
5	Harvard University	32	32	#6	Shleifer, Andrei #168
6	Columbia University	32	32	#7	Stiglitz, Joseph E. #741
7	Harvard Business School	31	30	#8	Porter, Michael E. #169
8	Stanford University	30	30	#9	Bloom, Nicholas Dagen #322
9	Michigan State University	30	28	#10	Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. #754
10	MIT Sloan School of Management	27	25	#11	Myers, Stewart C. #2,255
11	Stanford Graduate School of Business	26	25	#12	Imbens, Guido W. #247
12	The University of Chicago	26	26	#13	Heckman, James J. #283
13	Arizona State University	25	24	#16	Ashforth, Blake E. #1,016
14	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	25	24	#17	Weick, Karl E. #2,752
15	Northwestern University	25	25	#18	Manski, Charles F. #3,111
16	Duke University	24	24	#19	Bollerslev, Tim #811
17	Princeton University	23	22	#21	Krueger, Alan B. #2,721
18	The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	21	21	#25	Fama, Eugene F. #323
19	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	21	21	#26	Engle, Robert F. #746
20	Yale University	21	20	#27	Nordhaus, William D. #1,175
21	Cornell University	21	20	#28	Barrett, Christopher B. #1,450
22	New York University	21	20	#29	Morrison, Elizabeth Wolfe #1,547
23	Texas A&M University	21	20	#30	Hitt, Michael A. #2,842
24	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	18	17	#34	Cao, Jason (Jason) #4,461
25	University of California, Los Angeles	18	16	#35	Welch, Ivo #4,815
26	Boston College	17	17	#36	Pratt, Michael G. #3,498
27	College of Engineering	17	8	#38	Chen, Zhenhua #23,764
28	University of Pennsylvania	16	16	#41	Diebold, Francis X. #1,404
29	University of Maryland, College Park	15	14	#43	Locke, Edwin A. #1,210
30	The World Bank, USA	15	13	#45	Ravallion, Martin #2,952
31	University of California, Davis	15	13	#46	Handy, Susan L. #3,590
32	W. P. Carey School of Business	15	14	#47	LePine, Jeffery A. #5,892
33	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	15	14	#48	Newman, Daniel A. #8,832
34	Haas School of Business	14	14	#51	Levine, Ross L. #266
35	USC Marshall School of Business	14	14	#52	Fiss, Peer C. #1,347
36	The University of Texas at Austin	14	11	#53	Bhat, Chandra R. #2,542
37	International Food Policy Research Institute	14	14	#50	Quisumbing, Agnes R. #12,226
38	University of Florida	14	14	#59	Flannery, Mark J. #20,606
39	Stephen M. Ross School of Business	13	13	#60	Bagozzi, Richard P. #230
40	Florida State University	13	12	#66	Ferris, Gerald R. #12,577
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	12	12	#70	Hansen, Bruce E. #757
42	Fisher College of Business	12	12	#72	Judge, Timothy A. #967
43	University of California, San Diego	12	10	#73	Hamilton, James D. #2,061
44	Columbia Business School	12	11	#75	Jones, Charles I. #2,402
45	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	12	12	#76	Steenkamp, Jan Benedict Em M. #2,855
46	Foster School of Business	12	12	#77	Harford, Jarrad V.T. #7,155
47	University of Washington	11	10	#80	Avolio, Bruce J. #1,550
48	University of South Carolina	11	11	#81	Berger, Allen N. #1,592
49	NC State University	11	9	#82	Xu, Xiaojie #1,659
50	UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School	11	11	#83	Edwards, Jeffrey R. #1,732
51	University of Southern California	11	11	#84	Kozinets, Robert V. #2,159
52	Pennsylvania State University	11	11	#85	Grandey, Alicia A. #2,306
53	Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth	11	11	#87	French, Kenneth R. #2,368
54	Questrom School of Business	11	11	#93	Kahn, William A. #6,379
55	Penn State Smeal College of Business	10	10	#98	Hambrick, Donald C. #338
56	University of Virginia	10	10	#101	Freeman, R. Edward #551
57	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	10	10	#107	Stock, James H. #1,776
58	Kelley School of Business	10	10	#114	MacKenzie, Scott Bradley #3,453
59	George Mason University	10	9	#115	Ács, Zoltán J. #3,864
60	Boston University	10	10	#116	Fisman, Raymond J. #4,661
61	Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	10	10	#120	Jones, Benjamin F. #7,380
62	University of Georgia	10	8	#121	Woosnam, Kyle Maurice #7,385
63	Johns Hopkins University	10	10	#128	Sutcliffe, Kathleen M. #20,238
64	D'Amore-McKim School of Business	9	9	#132	Aguilera, Ruth V. #2,477
65	Babson College	9	9	#133	Davenport, Thomas H. #2,609
66	Brown University	9	9	#135	La Porta, Rafael L. #2,961
67	University of Central Florida	9	9	#137	Abdel-Aty, M. A. #4,507
68	College of Business	9	9	#141	Bilgihan, Anil #6,957
69	UCLA Anderson School of Management	9	9	#143	Sorenson, Olav #10,083
70	Purdue University	9	9	#144	Lehto, Xinran You #12,854
71	Isenberg School of Management	9	9	#147	Uysal, Muzaffer S. #14,737
72	The Ohio State University	9	8	#150	Greenberg, Jerald #18,798
73	University of California, Santa Barbara	8	7	#154	Leonardi, Paul M. #945
74	University of Colorado Boulder	8	7	#157	Cropanzano, Russell S. #2,916
75	University of Houston	8	7	#158	Eisenberger, Robert #3,203
76	Georgia Institute of Technology	8	6	#160	Mokhtarian, Patricia Lyon #4,484
77	Auburn University	8	8	#167	Ketchen, David J. #8,744
78	Rosen College of Hospitality Management	8	8	#171	Tasci, Asli D.A. #12,572
79	Mays Business School	8	8	#174	Varadarajan, Rajan #14,945
80	Rice University	8	8	#176	Sonenshein, Scott #17,763
81	Indiana University Bloomington	7	7	#184	Ostrom, Elinor #34
82	University of Notre Dame	7	7	#185	Shepherd, Dean A. #310
83	John F. Kennedy School of Government	7	7	#186	Rodrik, Dani #331
84	Georgetown University	7	6	#187	George, Gerard #992
85	Fox School of Business	7	7	#193	Banker, Rajiv D. #3,201
86	Texas Christian University	7	7	#195	Uhl-Bien, Mary #4,657
87	The George Washington University	7	6	#196	Carayannis, Elias George #4,767
88	Broad College of Business	7	7	#198	M. Hult, G. Tomas #6,520
89	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	7	6	#202	Cardon, Melissa S. #7,696
90	Owen Graduate School of Management	7	7	#204	Oliver, Richard L. #8,376
91	Georgia State University	7	7	#211	Cavusgil, S. Tamer #13,570
92	Robert H. Smith School of Business	7	7	#212	Chen, Gilad #13,868
93	Darden School of Business	7	7	#217	Liedtka, Jeanne M. #19,399
94	University of Oregon	7	6	#222	Brown, Anne E. #41,969
95	Carlson School of Management	6	6	#224	Zahra, Shaker A. #170
96	Warrington College of Business	6	6	#225	Podsakoff, Philip M. #745
97	Price College of Business	6	6	#226	Vargo, Stephen Louis #1,007
98	Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business	6	6	#230	Sirgy, Joseph M. #1,972
99	Goizueta Business School	6	6	#231	Sheth, Jagdish N. #2,566
100	Villanova University	6	5	#234	Patel, Pankaj C. #3,066
101	Carnegie Mellon University	6	5	#238	Argote, Linda M. #4,330
102	Mitch Daniels School of Business	6	6	#239	Faccio, Mara #4,424
103	Washington University in St. Louis	6	6	#240	North, Douglass C. #5,075
104	The University of Oklahoma	6	6	#241	Mumford, Michael D. #6,305
105	University of California, Irvine	6	5	#243	Feldman, Martha S. #6,955
106	Olin Business School	6	6	#246	Thakor, Anjan V. #8,877
107	Henry B. Tippie College of Business	6	5	#249	Schmidt, Frank L. #10,408
108	Fuqua School of Business	6	6	#257	Moorman, Christine #13,958
109	Brigham Young University	6	6	#259	Godfrey, Paul C. #15,407
110	Cornell SC Johnson College of Business	6	6	#260	Karolyi, G. Andrew #16,712
111	Portland State University	6	6	#261	Erdogan, Berrin #18,743
112	University of Massachusetts Amherst	6	6	#263	Folbre, Nancy R. #18,984
113	The World Bank Group	6	6	#265	Kraay, Aart C. #20,115
114	Florida International University	6	6	#268	Yilmazkuday, Hakan #23,638
115	International Monetary Fund	6	6	#275	Topalova, Petia #30,395
116	McCombs School of Business	6	6	#278	Martins, Luis L. #40,647
117	University of Kansas	6	5	#281	DeYoung, Robert E. #59,747
118	The University of Utah	5	5	#282	Barney, Jay Bryan #54
119	Jones Graduate School of Business	5	5	#287	Van Knippenberg, Daan #991
120	Mendoza College of Business	5	4	#289	Colquitt, Jason A. #1,686
121	Carroll School of Management	5	5	#291	Woodside, Arch G. #2,027
122	University of Miami	5	5	#292	Parasuraman, A. #2,208
123	University of South Florida, Tampa	5	5	#294	Greene, William H. #2,489
124	Santa Fe Institute	5	4	#297	Jackson, Matthew O. #3,027
125	Illinois State University	5	5	#300	Patten, Dennis M. #4,371
126	Northeastern University	5	5	#301	Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro #4,509
127	Yale School of Management	5	5	#303	Shiller, Robert J. #4,707
128	University of Connecticut	5	5	#306	Mathieu, John E. #6,498
129	University of Colorado Denver	5	5	#322	Cascio, Wayne F. #15,096
130	The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	5	5	#330	Banks, George Christopher #16,658
131	American University	5	5	#335	Krueger, Norris F. #17,791
132	Texas Tech University	5	5	#336	Hunt, Shelby D. #18,042
133	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	5	4	#340	Baloglu, Seyhmus #20,027
134	The University of Vermont	5	5	#341	Sharma, Pramodita #20,143
135	Santa Clara University	5	5	#344	Statman, Meir #23,005
136	McDonough School of Business	5	5	#345	Bali, Turan G. #25,684
137	University of Illinois at Chicago	5	4	#356	Wayne, Sandy J. #50,652
138	Oklahoma State University	4	4	#368	Baron, Robert Alan #1,518
139	Gies College of Business	4	3	#372	Ocasio, William #2,878
140	University of Pittsburgh	4	4	#375	Bass, Bernard M. #3,693
141	Vanderbilt University	4	4	#381	Iacobucci, Dawn #5,048
142	Eller College of Management	4	4	#383	Lusch, Robert Frank #5,772
143	Hoover Institution	4	3	#385	Cochrane, John H. #5,879
144	Tufts University	4	4	#390	Doss, Cheryl R. #7,468
145	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	4	4	#392	Buehler, Ralph #7,825
146	Bowling Green State University	4	4	#396	Min, Hokey #9,124
147	Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick	4	4	#407	Barnett, Michael L. #11,642
148	Wisconsin School of Business	4	4	#409	Baker, Scott R. #12,200
149	Darla Moore School of Business	4	4	#411	Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd #13,186
150	UCI Paul Merage School of Business	4	4	#413	Rindova, Violina P. #13,489
151	Drexel University	4	4	#417	Yotov, Yoto V. #15,247
152	BYU Marriott School of Business	4	3	#420	Dyer, Jeffrey H. #16,589
153	Dartmouth College	4	4	#422	Dollar, David #18,263
154	Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business	4	4	#423	Denis, David J. #18,864
155	College of Health and Human Sciences	4	4	#428	Jang, Soocheong (Shawn) #20,088
156	Hankamer School of Business	4	4	#432	Gundersen, Craig G. #22,419
157	Temple University	4	4	#437	Funk, Daniel C. #24,817
158	C. T. Bauer College of Business	4	4	#444	Lobo, Gerald J. #32,823
159	Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering	4	2	#460	Ukkusuri, Satish V. #55,156
160	Old Dominion University	4	3	#461	Liu-Thompkins, Yuping #55,869
161	Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations	4	3	#464	Greenbaum, Rebecca L. #58,870
162	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	3	3	#469	Sarkis, Joseph #189
163	NBER	3	3	#284	Glaeser, Edward #417
164	Muma College of Business	3	3	#471	Spector, Paul E. #436
165	Colorado State University	3	3	#473	Barbier, Edward B. #466
166	Case Western Reserve University	3	3	#475	Shane, Scott A. #729
167	Washington State University Pullman	3	3	#477	Gursoy, Dogan #855
168	Princeton School of Public and International Affairs	3	3	#478	Krugman, Paul R. #974
169	The University of Texas at Dallas	3	3	#480	Peng, Michael W. #1,217
170	The University of Akron	3	3	#485	Goodell, John W. #1,604
171	Terry College of Business	3	3	#490	Carroll, Archie B. #2,372
172	Rady School of Management	3	3	#492	Markowitz, Harry M. #2,757
173	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	3	3	#495	Bloom, David E. #3,305
174	Virginia Commonwealth University	3	3	#507	Cortina, José M. #6,152
175	Mississippi State University	3	3	#508	Chrisman, James J. #6,472
176	Martin J. Whitman School of Management	3	3	#515	Wiklund, Johan #8,624
177	The University of Arizona	3	3	#516	Podsakoff, Nathan P. #9,061
178	Clemson University	3	3	#517	Simsek, Zeki #9,172
179	Claremont McKenna College	3	3	#518	Day, David V. #9,306
180	State University of New York Albany	3	3	#519	Yukl, Gary A. #9,321
181	College of Arts & Sciences	3	2	#522	Perron, Pierre #10,264
182	The Naveen Jindal School of Management	3	3	#523	Tsang, Eric W.K. #10,305
183	San Jose State University	3	3	#528	Xu, Xun #12,062
184	Pepperdine University	3	2	#530	Agus Harjoto, Maretno Agus #12,211
185	University of North Texas	3	3	#532	Short, Jeremy Collin #12,736
186	Tulane University	3	3	#533	Alm, James R. #12,937
187	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	3	2	#536	Shaheen, Susan A. #13,089
188	Culverhouse College of Business	3	3	#537	Harms, Peter D. #13,113
189	CEPR	3	3	#162	Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen #14,684
190	Oregon State University	3	3	#547	Färe, Rolf G. #14,854
191	University of California, Riverside	3	3	#557	Campbell, Margaret C. #18,889
192	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	3	2	#562	Love, Inessa #21,579
193	University of Cincinnati	3	2	#566	Fairhurst, Gail Theus #22,813
194	Rutgers University-Newark	3	3	#567	Baker, Ted #22,839
195	Baruch College	3	3	#573	Sen, Sankar #24,502
196	LeBow College of Business	3	3	#574	Hammoudeh, Shawkat M. #24,655
197	College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences	3	1	#581	Wilson, Paul W. #27,256
198	SMU Cox School of Business	3	3	#586	VandeWalle, Don #29,107
199	Colorado State University System	3	3	#587	Nikolaev, Boris N. #30,027
200	NC State College of Engineering	3	2	#593	Underwood, Benjamin Shane #31,623
201	University of Massachusetts Boston	3	3	#602	Levy, David L. #34,434
202	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	3	3	#605	Mazumder, Bhashkar #36,197
203	University of Central Florida College of Business	3	3	#620	Combs, James G. #42,127
204	University of Louisville	3	3	#645	Shuck, Brad M. #64,157
205	The Grainger College of Engineering	3	2	#648	Al-Qadi, Imad L. #65,825
206	The University of New Mexico	3	2	#650	Neumeyer, Xaver #67,139
207	NYU Tandon School of Engineering	3	2	#652	Carr, Peter P. #68,350
208	Louisiana State University	3	3	#654	Pace, R. Kelley #71,420
209	Bryan School of Business and Economics	3	3	#655	Nakata, Cheryl C. #71,706
210	College of Engineering and Computer Science	3	1	#660	Eluru, Naveen #76,992
211	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	3	1	#668	Yan, Xiang Jacob #98,855

The top 100 in Economics & Business in the United States, in order

1
Teece, David J.
University of California, Berkeley
2
Acemoglu, Daron
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
3
Ostrom, Elinor
Indiana University BloomingtonNobel laureate
4
Hair, Joseph Franklin
University of South Alabama
5
Barney, Jay Bryan
The University of Utah
6
Shleifer, Andrei
Harvard University
7
Porter, Michael E.
Harvard Business School
8
Zahra, Shaker A.
Carlson School of Management
9
Audretsch, David B.
Indiana University Bloomington
10
Sarkis, Joseph
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
11
Bagozzi, Richard P.
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
12
Imbens, Guido W.
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessNobel laureate
13
Levine, Ross L.
Haas School of Business
14
Edmondson, Amy C.
Harvard Business School
15
Heckman, James J.
The University of ChicagoNobel laureate
16
Shepherd, Dean A.
University of Notre Dame
17
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
Stanford University
18
Fama, Eugene F.
The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessNobel laureate
19
Autor, David H.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20
Rodrik, Dani
John F. Kennedy School of Government
21
Hambrick, Donald C.
Penn State Smeal College of Business
22
Thaler, Richard H.
The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessNobel laureate
23
Glaeser, Edward
NBER
24
Spector, Paul E.
Muma College of Business
25
Luthans, F.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
26
Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.
Stanford University
27
Barbier, Edward B.
Colorado State University
28
Freeman, R. Edward
University of Virginia
29
Barro, Robert T.
National Bureau of Economic Research
30
Duflo, Esther
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
31
Shane, Scott A.
Case Western Reserve University
32
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Columbia UniversityNobel laureate
33
Podsakoff, Philip M.
Warrington College of Business
34
Engle, Robert F.
Leonard N. Stern School of BusinessNobel laureate
35
Wooldridge, Jeffrey M.
Michigan State University
36
Hansen, Bruce E.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
37
Grant, Adam M.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
38
Lusardi, Annamaria
Stanford Graduate School of Business
39
Amabile, Teresa M.
Harvard Business School
40
Nambisan, Satish
Weatherhead School of Management
41
Bollerslev, Tim
Duke University
42
Alesina, Alberto F.
National Bureau of Economic Research
43
Angrist, Joshua D.
National Bureau of Economic ResearchNobel laureate
44
Gursoy, Dogan
Washington State University Pullman
45
Card, David E.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
46
Aguinis, Herman
School of Engineering and Applied Science
47
Jensen, Michael C.
Harvard Business School
48
Leonardi, Paul M.
University of California, Santa Barbara
49
Judge, Timothy A.
Fisher College of Business
50
Abadie, Alberto
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
51
Krugman, Paul R.
Princeton School of Public and International AffairsNobel laureate
52
Camerer, Colin F.
California Institute of Technology
53
Gioia, Dennis A.Denny
Penn State Smeal College of Business
54
Van Knippenberg, Daan
Jones Graduate School of Business
55
George, Gerard
Georgetown University
56
Vargo, Stephen Louis
Price College of Business
57
Ashforth, Blake E.
Arizona State University
58
Sen, Amartya K.
Harvard UniversityNobel laureate
59
Bai, Jushan
Columbia University
60
Deaton, Angus S.
Princeton School of Public and International AffairsNobel laureate
61
Chetty, Raj A.J.
Harvard University
62
Stein, Jeremy C.
Harvard University
63
Nordhaus, William D.
Yale UniversityNobel laureate
64
Locke, Edwin A.
University of Maryland, College Park
65
Campbell, John Y.
Harvard University
66
Peng, Michael W.
The University of Texas at Dallas
67
Rousseau, Denise M.
Tepper School of Business
68
Rajan, Raghuram G.
The University of Chicago
69
Cervero, Robert B.
University of California, Berkeley
70
Kilian, Lutz
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
71
Fiss, Peer C.
USC Marshall School of Business
72
Zingales, Luigi
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
73
Stulz, René M.
Fisher College of Business
74
Flammer, Caroline
Columbia University
75
Diebold, Francis X.
University of Pennsylvania
76
Barrett, Christopher B.
Cornell University
77
Graham, John R.
Duke University
78
Banerjee, Abhijit V.
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
79
Baron, Robert Alan
Oklahoma State University
80
Akerlof, George A.
Georgetown UniversityNobel laureate
81
Bertrand, Marianne
National Bureau of Economic Research
82
Morrison, Elizabeth Wolfe
New York University
83
Avolio, Bruce J.
University of Washington
84
Allcott, Hunt
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
85
Altman, Edward I.
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
86
Berger, Allen N.
University of South Carolina
87
Goodell, John W.
The University of Akron
88
Gereffi, Gary Allan
Duke University
89
Etzkowitz, Henry
Triple Helix Institute
90
Xu, Xiaojie
NC State University
91
Colquitt, Jason A.
Mendoza College of Business
92
Edwards, Jeffrey R.
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
93
Lucas, Robert E.
The University of ChicagoNobel laureate
94
Stock, James H.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
95
Hirshleifer, David
National Bureau of Economic Research
96
Lerner, Josh
National Bureau of Economic Research
97
Williamson, Oliver E.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
98
Saez, Emmanuel
University of California, Berkeley
99
Sirgy, Joseph M.
Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business
100
Woodside, Arch G.
Carroll School of Management

2,422 listed scientists in Economics & Business in the United States

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