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Researcher · Cato Institute · United States

William A. Niskanen

William A. Niskanen publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Fiscal Policies and Political Economy and Economic Theory and Policy.

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World rank
#778,863
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#260,589
of 1,627,098
Works
169
Citations
8.9k
Citations per work
52.8
h-index
23
i10-index 37Top 8.5% in Economics and Econometrics
William A. Niskanen

What does William A. Niskanen research?

William A. Niskanen's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (43%), Social Sciences (24%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%).

Social Sciences: 121 works · 71.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 72 works · 42.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 54 works · 31.9% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 works · 7.1% of their workFinance: 6 works · 3.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 24.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 works · 14.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 9.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 works · 4.6% of their workAccounting: 8 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 28.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam A.Niskanen169works
Social Sciences72%

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 Finance7242.7%
    2. Social Sciences4124.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting84.6%
  2. Everything else4828.5%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics32% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  4. 4General Economics, Econometrics and Finance7% of their works
  5. 5Accounting5% of their works
  6. 6Finance4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Niskanen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Economic Growth, Fiscal Policy, Infrastructure, Political Economy, Taxation, Political Budget Cycles, Public Debt and Financial Crisis.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Economic Growth724 topics
  2. Fiscal Policy462 topics
  3. Infrastructure291 topic
  4. Political Economy292 topics
  5. Taxation291 topic
  6. Political Budget Cycles171 topic
  7. Public Debt171 topic
  8. Financial Crisis141 topic
  9. Income Distribution141 topic
  10. Fiscal Decentralization121 topic
  11. Governance121 topic
  12. Economic Institutions101 topic
  13. Institutional Economics101 topic
  14. Corporate Tax91 topic
  15. Tax Avoidance91 topic
  16. American founding81 topic
  17. Capital Flows81 topic
  18. Constitutional government81 topic
  19. Financial Integration81 topic

Where does William A. Niskanen work?

William A. Niskanen's main affiliation in the publication record is Cato Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Niskanen have?

OpenAlex counts 169 works and 8,920 citations for William A. Niskanen, an h-index of 23, ranking #778,863 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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