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National Bureau of Economic Research

In research, National Bureau of Economic Research stands highest in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#47 of 1,775 worldwide), Social Sciences (#416 of 10,521 worldwide) and Economics and Econometrics (#70 of 1,272 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Finance, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Economics, Econometrics and Finance — Finance is 33.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,288
of 28,054 · #759 all time
Rank in United States
#345
of 4,192
Research works
13k
▲ 11% vs 2013–17
Citations
1M
77.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
77%
world 28%

What is National Bureau of Economic Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #47 of 1,775 17.6%595 #1
Social SciencesDomain #416 of 10,521 17.8%1,186 #44
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #70 of 1,272 20.7%350 #1
Social SciencesField #796 of 6,365 20.4%319 #179
General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield #12 of 80 14.4%99 #1
Health SciencesDomain #2,478 of 11,982 28.9%121 #851
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #591 of 2,578 21.3%107 #125
AccountingSubfield #97 of 389 14.5%86 #2
Business, Management and AccountingField #706 of 2,578 14.1%190 #25
FinanceSubfield #41 of 135 12.2%146 #1

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Bureau of Economic Research sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1 #47
  2. Social Sciences#44 #416
  3. Economics and Econometrics#1 #70
  4. Social Sciences#179 #796
  5. General Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1 #12
  6. Health Sciences#851 #2,478
  7. Sociology and Political Science#125 #591
  8. Accounting#2 #97
  9. Business, Management and Accounting#25 #706
  10. Finance#1 #41
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does National Bureau of Economic Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Finance takes 33.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. FinanceSubfield · 146.5 works33×
  2. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 98.6 works27×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 595.2 works19×
  4. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 350.2 works15×
  5. AccountingSubfield · 86.1 works9.7×
  6. Gender StudiesSubfield · 37.5 works7.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.28× its world share, 32 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.57× its world share, 21 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.50× its world share, 36 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.81× its world share, 14 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.75× its world share, 68 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 50 worksMedicineNursing: 0.37× its world share, 3 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.04× its world share, 190 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.50× its world share, 50 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19.01× its world share, 595 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.48× its world share, 21 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 319 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 19.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at National Bureau of Economic Research?

Ranked on the composite score, Simon Kuznets, Steven Shavell and David Autor lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Bureau of Economic Research.

  1. 1 Simon Kuznets United States · #198 worldwide 2.5k citations · 124 works
  2. 2 Steven Shavell United States · #1,827 worldwide 1.4k citations · 85 works
  3. 3 David Autor United States · #2,293 worldwide 3k citations · 73 works
  4. 4 David Hirshleifer United States · #3,188 worldwide 2k citations · 73 works
  5. 5 Michael C. Jensen United States · #3,626 worldwide 8.2k citations · 62 works
  6. 6 Frederic S. Mishkin United States · #3,699 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
  7. 7 Anna J. Schwartz United States · #3,743 worldwide 834 citations · 87 works
  8. 8 Claudia Goldin United States · #3,894 worldwide 777 citations · 82 works
  9. 9 Charles Yuji Horioka United States · #4,664 worldwide 839 citations · 66 works
  10. 10 Lucian A. Bebchuk United States · #4,717 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
All ranked researchers at National Bureau of Economic Research

Which keywords describe research at National Bureau of Economic Research?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Monetary Policy, Economic Development, Fiscal Policy, Liquidity, Labor Market, Structural Change and Regulation.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Growth211▲ 17×28 topics
  2. Monetary Policy134▲ 38×11 topics
  3. Economic Development94▲ 7.9×23 topics
  4. Fiscal Policy89▲ 28×6 topics
  5. Globalization83▲ 2.9×64 topics
  6. Liquidity73▲ 66×3 topics
  7. Labor Market73▲ 17×13 topics
  8. Structural Change71▲ 71×2 topics
  9. Innovation70▲ 4.5×23 topics
  10. Regulation70▲ 8.9×11 topics
  11. Corporate Governance68▲ 6.3×18 topics
  12. Asset Pricing59▲ 46×3 topics
  13. Inequality58▲ 17×10 topics
  14. Income Inequality55▲ 26×7 topics
  15. Consumer Behavior52▲ 5.6×9 topics
  16. Income Tax50▲ 42×2 topics
  17. Financial Stability47▲ 16×7 topics
  18. Health Outcomes47▲ 12×8 topics
  19. Capital Flows46▲ 85×2 topics
  20. Unemployment46▲ 36×3 topics
  21. Panel Data Analysis45▲ 19×3 topics
  22. Exchange Rate Regimes44▲ 98×1 topic
  23. Financial Integration44▲ 95×1 topic
  24. Gender Inequality43▲ 21×6 topics
  25. R&D43▲ 36×3 topics
  26. Financial Development42▲ 19×2 topics
  27. Political Economy42▲ 11×12 topics
  28. Technological Change42▲ 74×2 topics
  29. Finance41▲ 15×4 topics
  30. Financial Crisis41▲ 25×11 topics
  31. Labor Force Participation40▲ 59×2 topics
  32. Business Cycles37▲ 64×1 topic
  33. Interest Rates37▲ 64×1 topic
  34. Asset Allocation37▲ 56×2 topics
  35. Banking36▲ 57×1 topic
  36. Credit36▲ 57×1 topic
  37. Behavioral Economics35▲ 44×2 topics
  38. Investment Decisions35▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Industrialization34▲ 39×2 topics
  40. Aggregate Demand34▲ 79×1 topic

Which research topics does National Bureau of Economic Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Financial Crisis and Policies, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency and Economic Theory and Policy.

Global Financial Crisis …44Global Financial Crisis and Policies: 44 fractional worksMonetary Policy and Econ…37Monetary Policy and Economic Impact: 37 fractional worksBanking stability, regulation, efficiency: 36 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Policy: 34 fractional worksEconomic theories and models: 30 fractional worksFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies: 29 fractional worksFinancial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis: 28 fractional worksLabor market dynamics an…27Labor market dynamics and wage inequality: 27 fractional worksHousing Market and Economics: 26 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 25 fractional works
FinanceGeneral Economics, Econometrics and FinanceEconomics and EconometricsAccounting

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 44 works
  2. 2 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 37 works
  3. 3 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 36 works
  4. 4 Economic Theory and Policy General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 34 works
  5. 5 Economic theories and models Economics and Econometrics 30 works
  6. 6 Financial Markets and Investment Strategies Finance 29 works
  7. 7 Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis Accounting 28 works
  8. 8 Labor market dynamics and wage inequality Economics and Econometrics 27 works
  9. 9 Housing Market and Economics Economics and Econometrics 26 works
  10. 10 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 25 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available76.7%not open23.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.0%domestic only66.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Bureau of Economic Research's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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