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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Robert C. Merton

Robert C. Merton publishes mostly in Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Accounting, on topics such as Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies and Economic theories and models.

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World rank
#56,131
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#21,694
of 1,627,098
Works
223
Citations
76k
Citations per work
341.1
h-index
63
i10-index 109Top 0.4% in Finance
Robert C. Merton

What does Robert C. Merton research?

Robert C. Merton's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (67%), Business, Management and Accounting (18%), Decision Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 197 works · 88.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 150 works · 67.4% of their workFinance: 96 works · 42.9% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 49 works · 21.8% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 works · 2.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 40 works · 18.0% of their workAccounting: 25 works · 11.2% of their workStrategy and Management: 15 works · 6.8% of their workDecision Sciences: 7 works · 3.0% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 26 works · 11.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert C. Merton223works
Social Sciences88%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance15067.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting4018.0%
    3. Decision Sciences73.0%
  2. Everything else2611.6%
  1. 1Finance43% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics22% of their works
  3. 3Accounting11% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management7% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research3% of their works
  6. 6General Economics, Econometrics and Finance3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert C. Merton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Liquidity, Asset Pricing, Banking, Finance, Market Efficiency, Stock Returns, Competitive Economy and Monetary Equilibrium.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Liquidity1233 topics
  2. Asset Pricing942 topics
  3. Banking531 topic
  4. Finance531 topic
  5. Market Efficiency511 topic
  6. Stock Returns511 topic
  7. Competitive Economy431 topic
  8. Monetary Equilibrium431 topic
  9. Option Pricing391 topic
  10. Stochastic Calculus391 topic
  11. Credit Spread Changes271 topic
  12. Default Risk271 topic
  13. Economic Value Added241 topic
  14. Shareholder Value241 topic
  15. Financial Literacy231 topic
  16. Investment Under Uncertainty231 topic
  17. Real Options231 topic
  18. Retirement Planning231 topic

Where does Robert C. Merton work?

Robert C. Merton's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert C. Merton have?

OpenAlex counts 223 works and 76,064 citations for Robert C. Merton, an h-index of 63, ranking #56,131 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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