Subfield · Development
Top Development Researchers
Michael E. Porter ranks first, out of 3,239 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 Michael E. Porter United States · #19 worldwide 4.7k citations · 226 works
- 2 Francis Fukuyama United States · #30 worldwide 4.1k citations · 158 works
- 3 William Diebold United States · #33 worldwide 3.8k citations · 208 works
- 4 Paúl Krugman United States · #35 worldwide 4.4k citations · 167 works
- 5 Robert J. Barro United States · #36 worldwide 7.9k citations · 165 works
- 6 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States · #43 worldwide 7.4k citations · 383 works
- 7 G. John Ikenberry United States · #57 worldwide 3k citations · 159 works
- 8 Richard N. Cooper United States · #109 worldwide 2.7k citations · 185 works
- 9 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
- 10 Lawrence H. Summers United States · #195 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works
- 11 Alejandro Portes United States · #247 worldwide 4.7k citations · 108 works
- 12 Manuel Castells United States · #259 worldwide 1.1k citations · 160 works
- 13 Jeffrey A. Frankel United States · #341 worldwide 3.3k citations · 181 works
- 14 Barry Buzan United Kingdom · #391 worldwide 1.6k citations · 116 works
- 15 Robert O. Keohane United States · #454 worldwide 2.7k citations · 103 works
- 16 Gail M. Gerhart United States · #627 worldwide 1.7k citations · 102 works
- 17 Dani Rodrik United States · #698 worldwide 2.6k citations · 111 works
- 18 Lucian W. Pye United States · #809 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
- 19 Andrew J. Pierre United States · #944 worldwide 951 citations · 155 works
- 20 John H. Dunning United Kingdom · #999 worldwide 2.3k citations · 94 works
- 21 Donald S. Zagoria United States · #1,072 worldwide 758 citations · 142 works
- 22 Jagdish N. Bhagwati United States · #1,407 worldwide 1.5k citations · 176 works
- 23 Anthony J. Venables United Kingdom · #1,541 worldwide 2.3k citations · 96 works
- 24 John Agnew United States · #1,593 worldwide 1.2k citations · 99 works
- 25 Joseph S. Nye United States · #1,752 worldwide 685 citations · 101 works
- 26 Jeffrey D. Sachs United States · #1,789 worldwide 1.6k citations · 204 works
- 27 Robert G. Eccles United Kingdom · #2,100 worldwide 1.3k citations · 82 works
- 28 Thomas Pogge United States · #2,108 worldwide 909 citations · 100 works
- 29 Paul Collier United Kingdom · #2,139 worldwide 1.5k citations · 80 works
- 30 Arnold Zellner United States · #2,464 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 31 Lant Pritchett United States · #2,824 worldwide 1.9k citations · 75 works
- 32 John Stephens United States · #2,853 worldwide 810 citations · 88 works
- 33 Ian Scoones United Kingdom · #2,957 worldwide 864 citations · 88 works
- 34 Abraham F. Lowenthal United States · #3,031 worldwide 532 citations · 79 works
- 35 Martin Ravallion United States · #3,172 worldwide 1.7k citations · 132 works
- 36 Tarun Khanna United States · #3,189 worldwide 1.5k citations · 78 works
- 37 Roland Robertson United States · #3,284 worldwide 665 citations · 79 works
- 38 Thomas Risse Germany · #3,395 worldwide 980 citations · 69 works
- 39 Susan Strange United Kingdom · #3,722 worldwide 655 citations · 82 works
- 40 Robert H. Bates United States · #4,119 worldwide 707 citations · 85 works
- 41 William Easterly United States · #4,275 worldwide 2.7k citations · 61 works
- 42 Barbara Kitchenham United Kingdom · #4,380 worldwide 1.7k citations · 67 works
- 43 Barry Bosworth United States · #4,661 worldwide 1.1k citations · 68 works
- 44 J. A. Emerton United States · #5,198 worldwide 285 citations · 99 works
- 45 André Joyal Canada · #5,534 worldwide 375 citations · 95 works
- 46 Jaime de Mélo Switzerland · #5,745 worldwide 858 citations · 103 works
- 47 Jong‐Wha Lee South Korea · #5,793 worldwide 1.2k citations · 67 works
- 48 Arvind Subramanian United States · #6,092 worldwide 839 citations · 71 works
- 49 Todd Sandler United States · #6,213 worldwide 1k citations · 119 works
- 50 Alí A. Mazrui Uganda · #6,412 worldwide 395 citations · 113 works
- 51 Daniele Archibugi United Kingdom · #6,609 worldwide 626 citations · 84 works
- 52 Richard Baldwin Switzerland · #6,774 worldwide 1.2k citations · 165 works
- 53 Stephan Haggard United States · #6,785 worldwide 464 citations · 83 works
- 54 Barry Eichengreen United States · #6,821 worldwide 2.1k citations · 318 works
- 55 Michael Watts United States · #6,981 worldwide 1.1k citations · 127 works
- 56 James N. Rosenau United States · #7,351 worldwide 453 citations · 66 works
- 57 Nicolas van de Walle United States · #7,504 worldwide 464 citations · 63 works
- 58 Larry Diamond United States · #7,507 worldwide 441 citations · 76 works
- 59 Gunnar Myrdal Sweden · #7,545 worldwide 776 citations · 55 works
- 60 Claude E. Welch United States · #7,578 worldwide 545 citations · 159 works
- 61 Sebastián Edwards United States · #7,995 worldwide 1.2k citations · 157 works
- 62 James D. Sidaway Singapore · #8,089 worldwide 626 citations · 61 works
- 63 Andy Stirling United Kingdom · #8,103 worldwide 830 citations · 83 works
- 64 Zoltán J. Ács United States · #8,160 worldwide 1.9k citations · 139 works
- 65 Sanjaya Lall United Kingdom · #8,335 worldwide 692 citations · 88 works
- 66 Peter Newell United Kingdom · #8,452 worldwide 726 citations · 84 works
- 67 Frank Biermann Netherlands · #8,563 worldwide 583 citations · 78 works
- 68 Dahua Lin Hong Kong · #8,861 worldwide 2.5k citations · 188 works
- 69 Matthew Andrews United States · #9,307 worldwide 729 citations · 66 works
- 70 Stanley Fischer United States · #9,439 worldwide 1.1k citations · 144 works
- 71 Adam Przeworski United States · #9,594 worldwide 518 citations · 76 works
- 72 Mary Kaldor United Kingdom · #9,669 worldwide 360 citations · 70 works
- 73 Sven Wunder Indonesia · #10,269 worldwide 1.3k citations · 63 works
- 74 Mick Moore United Kingdom · #10,396 worldwide 525 citations · 59 works
- 75 Frances Stewart United Kingdom · #10,799 worldwide 692 citations · 108 works
- 76 David Held United States · #11,054 worldwide 910 citations · 93 works
- 77 David Hulme United States · #11,135 worldwide 574 citations · 113 works
- 78 Pranab Bardhan United States · #11,306 worldwide 715 citations · 82 works
- 79 Michael Storper United States · #11,572 worldwide 628 citations · 54 works
- 80 Wilfred J. Ethier United States · #11,664 worldwide 929 citations · 48 works
- 81 John Williamson United States · #12,137 worldwide 939 citations · 123 works
- 82 Oran R. Young United States · #12,390 worldwide 606 citations · 86 works
- 83 Javier Gutiérrez Puebla Spain · #12,521 worldwide 455 citations · 55 works
- 84 Tanja A. Börzel Germany · #12,620 worldwide 486 citations · 73 works
- 85 Arturo Escobar Cuba · #13,534 worldwide 620 citations · 102 works
- 86 Philippe Le Billon Canada · #14,414 worldwide 669 citations · 46 works
- 87 Douglas C. Schmidt United States · #14,474 worldwide 1.1k citations · 141 works
- 88 Alex de Waal United States · #14,522 worldwide 320 citations · 69 works
- 89 John Friedmann United States · #14,923 worldwide 452 citations · 60 works
- 90 Vaclav Smil Canada · #15,173 worldwide 538 citations · 100 works
- 91 Peter Drysdale Australia · #15,175 worldwide 376 citations · 50 works
- 92 Helen V. Milner United States · #15,293 worldwide 648 citations · 44 works
- 93 David Shambaugh United States · #15,544 worldwide 267 citations · 69 works
- 94 Alan Burns United Kingdom · #15,768 worldwide 772 citations · 104 works
- 95 Eric Helleiner Canada · #15,877 worldwide 334 citations · 61 works
- 96 Ignasi Brunet Icart Spain · #16,028 worldwide 202 citations · 72 works
- 97 Walter Brueggemann United States · #16,062 worldwide 124 citations · 101 works
- 98 Andréa Cornwall United Kingdom · #16,065 worldwide 716 citations · 44 works
- 99 Évelyne Huber United States · #16,322 worldwide 644 citations · 43 works
- 100 Daniel Boyarín United States · #16,358 worldwide 177 citations · 74 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Development, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.