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621 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Economics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.8% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 59 countries in the subfield. 619 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 (79), followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (26) and Harvard University (24). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

621

0.8% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

619

99.7% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 59 countries in Economics

Highest-ranked

#29

Acemoglu, Daron

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	National Bureau of Economic Research	79	78	#1	Barro, Robert T. #573
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	26	26	#3	Acemoglu, Daron #29
3	Harvard University	24	24	#4	Shleifer, Andrei #168
4	University of California, Berkeley	23	23	#5	Card, David E. #875
5	The University of Chicago	21	21	#6	Heckman, James J. #283
6	Stanford University	20	20	#7	Bloom, Nicholas Dagen #322
7	Columbia University	17	17	#8	Stiglitz, Joseph E. #741
8	Yale University	17	17	#9	Nordhaus, William D. #1,175
9	Princeton University	17	17	#10	Krueger, Alan B. #2,721
10	Northwestern University	13	13	#11	Manski, Charles F. #3,111
11	New York University	13	12	#12	Easterly, William R. #4,788
12	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	10	10	#14	Page, Scott E. #8,021
13	Duke University	10	10	#15	Kuran, Timur #21,193
14	The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	9	9	#16	Thaler, Richard H. #382
15	MIT Sloan School of Management	9	9	#17	Pindyck, Robert S. #11,120
16	The World Bank, USA	8	8	#18	Ravallion, Martin #2,952
17	Brown University	8	8	#19	La Porta, Rafael L. #2,961
18	John F. Kennedy School of Government	7	7	#21	Rodrik, Dani #331
19	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	7	7	#23	Stock, James H. #1,776
20	University of California, San Diego	7	7	#24	Hamilton, James D. #2,061
21	Johns Hopkins University	7	7	#30	Carroll, Christopher D. #23,150
22	Cornell University	7	7	#31	Aker, Jenny C. #27,905
23	University of Pennsylvania	6	6	#34	Behrman, Jere Richard #23,275
24	International Monetary Fund	6	6	#35	Topalova, Petia #30,395
25	University of California, Los Angeles	6	6	#36	Bailey, Martha J. #34,463
26	Stanford Graduate School of Business	5	5	#38	Lusardi, Annamaria #789
27	Boston University	5	5	#39	Fisman, Raymond J. #4,661
28	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	5	5	#40	Duranton, Gilles #7,280
29	University of Maryland, College Park	5	5	#43	Oates, Wallace E. #38,156
30	Haas School of Business	4	4	#44	Levine, Ross L. #266
31	Georgetown University	4	4	#45	Akerlof, George A. #1,534
32	Columbia Business School	4	4	#47	Jones, Charles I. #2,402
33	Boston College	4	4	#50	Romer, Paul M. #4,832
34	Harvard Business School	4	4	#51	Kerr, William R. #6,755
35	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	4	#54	Fletcher, Jason M. #17,942
36	NBER	3	3	#37	Glaeser, Edward #417
37	Carnegie Mellon University	3	3	#58	Loewenstein, George F. #524
38	Princeton School of Public and International Affairs	3	3	#59	Krugman, Paul R. #974
39	Santa Fe Institute	3	3	#60	Jackson, Matthew O. #3,027
40	Hoover Institution	3	3	#63	Cochrane, John H. #5,879
41	University of Virginia	3	3	#65	Ruhm, Christopher J. #9,688
42	CEPR	3	3	#20	Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen #14,684
43	The University of Texas at Austin	3	3	#67	Coibion, Olivier #16,841
44	Dartmouth College	3	3	#68	Dollar, David #18,263
45	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	3	3	#69	Croson, Rachel T.A. #18,739
46	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	3	3	#70	Baumol, William J. #20,329
47	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	3	3	#81	Mazumder, Bhashkar #36,197
48	Purdue University	3	3	#83	Hummels, David L. #40,503
49	Georgia State University	3	3	#84	Stephan, Paula E. #40,655
50	UCLA Anderson School of Management	3	3	#85	Benjamin, Daniel J. #46,670
51	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	3	3	#89	Deryugina, Tatyana #55,903
52	University of Notre Dame	3	3	#90	Johnson, Robert C. #56,187
53	Texas A&M University	3	3	#92	Eckel, Catherine C. #60,303

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

1
Acemoglu, Daron
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
2
Shleifer, Andrei
Harvard University
3
Levine, Ross L.
Haas School of Business
4
Heckman, James J.
The University of ChicagoNobel laureate
5
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
Stanford University
6
Autor, David H.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7
Rodrik, Dani
John F. Kennedy School of Government
8
Thaler, Richard H.
The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessNobel laureate
9
Glaeser, Edward
NBER
10
Loewenstein, George F.
Carnegie Mellon University
11
Barro, Robert T.
National Bureau of Economic Research
12
Duflo, Esther
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
13
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Columbia UniversityNobel laureate
14
Lusardi, Annamaria
Stanford Graduate School of Business
15
Alesina, Alberto F.
National Bureau of Economic Research
16
Angrist, Joshua D.
National Bureau of Economic ResearchNobel laureate
17
Card, David E.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
18
Abadie, Alberto
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
19
Krugman, Paul R.
Princeton School of Public and International AffairsNobel laureate
20
Camerer, Colin F.
California Institute of Technology
21
Sen, Amartya K.
Harvard UniversityNobel laureate
22
Deaton, Angus S.
Princeton School of Public and International AffairsNobel laureate
23
Chetty, Raj A.J.
Harvard University
24
Stein, Jeremy C.
Harvard University
25
Nordhaus, William D.
Yale UniversityNobel laureate
26
Campbell, John Y.
Harvard University
27
Rajan, Raghuram G.
The University of Chicago
28
Kilian, Lutz
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
29
Zingales, Luigi
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
30
Banerjee, Abhijit V.
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
31
Akerlof, George A.
Georgetown UniversityNobel laureate
32
Bertrand, Marianne
National Bureau of Economic Research
33
Allcott, Hunt
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
34
Lucas, Robert E.
The University of ChicagoNobel laureate
35
Stock, James H.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
36
Lerner, Josh
National Bureau of Economic Research
37
Williamson, Oliver E.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
38
Saez, Emmanuel
University of California, Berkeley
39
Sachs, Jeffrey David
Columbia University
40
Spence, A. Michael
Stanford UniversityNobel laureate
41
Hamilton, James D.
University of California, San Diego
42
Athey, Susan
Stanford University
43
Hanushek, Eric A.
Stanford University
44
Currie, Janet M.
Yale University
45
Esparza-Rodríguez, Saúl Alfonso
The Brookings Institution
46
Jones, Charles I.
Columbia Business School
47
Greene, William H.
University of South Florida, Tampa
48
Krueger, Alan B.
Princeton University
49
List, John A.
The University of Chicago
50
Goldin, Claudia Dale
Harvard UniversityNobel laureate
51
Ravallion, Martin
The World Bank, USA
52
La Porta, Rafael L.
Brown University
53
Jackson, Matthew O.
Santa Fe Institute
54
Manski, Charles F.
Northwestern University
55
Blanchard, Olivier Jean
National Bureau of Economic Research
56
Moretti, Enrico
National Bureau of Economic Research
57
Gabaix, Xavier
Harvard University
58
Bloom, David E.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
59
Gentzkow, Matthew A.
Stanford University
60
Kahn, Matthew E.
University of Southern California
61
Greenstone, Michael
The University of Chicago
62
Mullainathan, Sendhil
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
63
Arrow, Kenneth J.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
64
Grossman, Gene M.
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
65
Gneezy, Uri
Rady School of Management
66
Hall, Bronwyn H.
University of California, Berkeley
67
Diamond, Douglas W.
National Bureau of Economic ResearchNobel laureate
68
Melitz, Marc J.
National Bureau of Economic Research
69
Rogoff, Kenneth S.
Harvard University
70
Fisman, Raymond J.
Boston University
71
Shiller, Robert J.
Yale School of ManagementNobel laureate
72
Easterly, William R.
New York University
73
Hsiang, Solomon M.
National Bureau of Economic Research
74
Woodford, Michael
Columbia UniversityNobel laureate
75
Romer, Paul M.
Boston CollegeNobel laureate
76
Mckenzie, David J.
The World Bank, USA
77
Bénabou, Roland
Princeton University
78
Brunnermeier, Markus K.
Princeton University
79
Olken, Benjamin A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
80
Solow, Robert M.
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
81
Cochrane, John H.
Hoover Institution
82
Fairlie, Robert W.
National Bureau of Economic Research
83
Malmendier, Ulrike M.
Haas School of Business
84
McFadden, Daniel L.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
85
Kerr, William R.
Harvard Business School
86
Miguel, Edward A.
University of California, Berkeley
87
Jaffe, Adam B.
Brandeis University
88
Sims, Christopher A.
Princeton UniversityNobel laureate
89
Laibson, David I.
Harvard University
90
LeSage, James Paul
Texas State University
91
Duranton, Gilles
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
92
Andreoni, James
University of California, San Diego
93
Goodman-Bacon, Andrew J.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
94
Jones, Benjamin F.
Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University
95
Wernerfelt, Birger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
96
Varian, Hal R.
Google LLC
97
Oster, Emily F.
Brown University
98
Roth, Alvin E E.
Stanford UniversityNobel laureate
99
Jayachandran, Seema
Princeton University
100
Weingast, Barry R.
Stanford University

621 listed scientists in Economics in the United States

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