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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Finance?

213 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Finance are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 47 countries in the subfield. 213 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 (23), followed by Leonard N. Stern School of Business (9) and Harvard Business School (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
213
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
213
100.0% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 47 countries in Finance
Highest-ranked
#323
Fama, Eugene F.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1National Bureau of Economic Research2323#1Hirshleifer, David #1,810
2Leonard N. Stern School of Business99#2Altman, Edward I. #1,587
3Harvard Business School66#3Jensen, Michael C. #918
4MIT Sloan School of Management55#4Myers, Stewart C. #2,255
5Stanford Graduate School of Business55#5Duffie, J. Darrell #12,470
6The University of Chicago Booth School of Business44#6Fama, Eugene F. #323
7Fisher College of Business44#7Stulz, René M. #1,363
8Columbia University44#8Bekaert, Geert #12,057
9University of Florida44#9Flannery, Mark J. #20,606
10Santa Clara University44#10Statman, Meir #23,005
11University of California, Los Angeles33#13Welch, Ivo #4,815
12The University of Chicago33#15Kaplan, Steven N. #6,807
13Olin Business School33#16Thakor, Anjan V. #8,877
14Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania33#17Goldstein, Itay #10,844
15UCLA Anderson School of Management33#18Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar #14,022
16Cornell SC Johnson College of Business33#19Karolyi, G. Andrew #16,712
17USC Marshall School of Business33#20DeAngelo, Linda Elizabeth #17,732
18Carroll School of Management33#21Duchin, Ran #22,173
19Princeton University33#23Yogo, Motohiro #25,384
20UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School33#25Shivdasani, Anil #78,245

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

  1. 1
    Fama, Eugene F.
    The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessNobel laureate
  2. 2
    Jensen, Michael C.
    Harvard Business School
  3. 3
    Stulz, René M.
    Fisher College of Business
  4. 4
    Graham, John R.
    Duke University
  5. 5
    Altman, Edward I.
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  6. 6
    Berger, Allen N.
    University of South Carolina
  7. 7
    Goodell, John W.
    The University of Akron
  8. 8
    Hirshleifer, David
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  9. 9
    Myers, Stewart C.
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  10. 10
    Douglas J. Cumming, Douglas J.
    Stevens Institute of Technology
  11. 11
    Acharya, Viral V.
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  12. 12
    French, Kenneth R.
    Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
  13. 13
    Markowitz, Harry M.
    Rady School of ManagementNobel laureate
  14. 14
    Harvey, Campbell R.
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  15. 15
    Yermack, David L.
    New York University
  16. 16
    Merton, Robert C.
    MIT Sloan School of ManagementNobel laureate
  17. 17
    Faccio, Mara
    Mitch Daniels School of Business
  18. 18
    Amihud, Yakov
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  19. 19
    Lo, Andrew W.
    Santa Fe Institute
  20. 20
    Welch, Ivo
    University of California, Los Angeles
  21. 21
    Titman, Sheridan D.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  22. 22
    Odean, Terrance
    Haas School of Business
  23. 23
    Gompers, Paul A.
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  24. 24
    Barberis, Nicholas C.
    School of Management
  25. 25
    Hassan, Mohammad Kabir
    University of New Orleans
  26. 26
    Kaplan, Steven N.
    The University of Chicago
  27. 27
    Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli
    Center for Global Development
  28. 28
    Harford, Jarrad V.T.
    Foster School of Business
  29. 29
    Petersen, Mitchell A.
    Northwestern University
  30. 30
    Starks, Laura T.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  31. 31
    Loughran, Tim
    Mendoza College of Business
  32. 32
    Weisbach, Michael S.
    Fisher College of Business
  33. 33
    Thakor, Anjan V.
    Olin Business School
  34. 34
    Kumar, Alok
    Miami Herbert Business School
  35. 35
    Ritter, Jay R.
    Warrington College of Business
  36. 36
    Chava, Sudheer
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  37. 37
    Campello, Murillo
    Warrington College of Business
  38. 38
    Whited, Toni M.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  39. 39
    Karpoff, Jonathan M.
    Foster School of Business
  40. 40
    Goldstein, Itay
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  41. 41
    Roll, Richard W.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  42. 42
    Pástor, Ľuboš
    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  43. 43
    Stambaugh, Robert F.
    University of Pennsylvania
  44. 44
    Bekaert, Geert
    Columbia University
  45. 45
    Agus Harjoto, Maretno Agus
    Pepperdine University
  46. 46
    Nagel, Stefan
    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  47. 47
    Wurgler, Jeffrey
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  48. 48
    Duffie, J. Darrell
    Stanford Graduate School of Business
  49. 49
    Ross, Stephen A.
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  50. 50
    Tetlock, Paul C.
    Columbia Business School
  51. 51
    Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar
    UCLA Anderson School of Management
  52. 52
    Lins, Karl V.
    The University of Utah
  53. 53
    Schwert, G. William
    Simon Business School
  54. 54
    Schoar, Antoinette
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  55. 55
    Manso, Gustavo
    Haas School of Business
  56. 56
    Black, Fischer
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  57. 57
    Karolyi, G. Andrew
    Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
  58. 58
    O'Hara, Maureen
    Cornell University
  59. 59
    Klapper, Leora F.
    The World Bank, USA
  60. 60
    Jegadeesh, Narasimhan
    Goizueta Business School
  61. 61
    DeAngelo, Linda Elizabeth
    USC Marshall School of Business
  62. 62
    Barber, Brad M.
    University of California, Davis
  63. 63
    Denis, David J.
    Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  64. 64
    Hong, Harrison
    Columbia University
  65. 65
    Roberts, Michael R.
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  66. 66
    Flannery, Mark J.
    University of Florida
  67. 67
    Lee, Charles M.C.
    Stanford University
  68. 68
    Love, Inessa
    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  69. 69
    Hasan, Iftekhar
    Fordham University
  70. 70
    Duchin, Ran
    Carroll School of Management
  71. 71
    Villalonga, Belén
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  72. 72
    Seru, Amit
    Stanford Graduate School of Business
  73. 73
    Jiang, Wei
    Goizueta Business School
  74. 74
    Zhou, Guofu
    Olin Business School
  75. 75
    Statman, Meir
    Santa Clara University
  76. 76
    Hoberg, Gerard
    USC Marshall School of Business
  77. 77
    Longstaff, Francis A.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  78. 78
    Yogo, Motohiro
    Princeton University
  79. 79
    Bali, Turan G.
    McDonough School of Business
  80. 80
    Hou, Kewei
    Fisher College of Business
  81. 81
    Sharpe, William F.
    Stanford Graduate School of BusinessNobel laureate
  82. 82
    Greenwood, Robin M.
    Harvard Business School
  83. 83
    Megginson, William Leon Bill
    The University of Oklahoma
  84. 84
    Almeida, Heitor V.
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  85. 85
    Baker, Malcolm P.
    Harvard Business School
  86. 86
    Kelly, Bryan T.
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  87. 87
    Mitton, Todd
    Brigham Young University
  88. 88
    Ivashina, Victoria
    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  89. 89
    Chiang, Thomas Chinan
    LeBow College of Business
  90. 90
    He, Zhiguo
    Stanford Graduate School of Business
  91. 91
    Matsa, David A.
    Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University
  92. 92
    Ang, Andrew
    Black Rock Inc
  93. 93
    Scharfstein, David S.
    Harvard University
  94. 94
    Jiraporn, Pornsit
    Penn State Great Valley
  95. 95
    Puri, Manju
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  96. 96
    Moskowitz, Tobias J.
    Yale School of Management
  97. 97
    Klein, April
    Leonard N. Stern School of Business
  98. 98
    Guedhami, Omrane
    Darla Moore School of Business
  99. 99
    DeAngelo, Harry
    USC Marshall School of Business
  100. 100
    Howell, Sabrina T.
    National Bureau of Economic Research

213 listed scientists in Finance in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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