Subfield · Economics and Econometrics
Most cited papers in Economics and Econometrics
What are the most cited papers in Economics and Econometrics?
The most cited paper in Economics and Econometrics is "Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries" (Freddie Bray, Jacques Ferlay, Isabelle Soerjomataram et al., 2018), with 88,280 citations. Next come "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure" (72,158) and "PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation" (43,960).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 8,655 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries Freddie Bray, Jacques Ferlay, Isabelle Soerjomataram et al. · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 12 Sep 2018 | 88,280 |
| 2 | Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling · Journal of Financial Economics | Oct 1976 | 72,158 |
| 3 | PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation Andrea C. Tricco et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 3 Sep 2018 | 43,960 |
| 4 | Meta-analysis in clinical trials Rebecca DerSimonian, Nan M. Laird · Controlled Clinical Trials | Sep 1986 | 40,073 |
| 5 | Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage Jay Bryan Barney · Advances in strategic management | 19 May 2004 | 38,420 |
| 6 | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 18 Aug 2009 | 38,212 |
| 7 | The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials Julian P. T. Higgins, Doug G. Altman, Peter Christian Gøtzsche et al. · BMJ | 18 Oct 2011 | 34,881 |
| 8 | Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations Manuel Arellano, Stephen Bond · The Review of Economic Studies | Apr 1991 | 33,547 |
| 9 | RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials Jonathan A C Sterne et al. · BMJ | 28 Aug 2019 | 33,250 |
| 10 | Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 25 Mar 1988 | 32,957 |
| 11 | Dynamic capabilities and strategic management David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen · Strategic Management Journal | Aug 1997 | 32,830 |
| 12 | A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth Robert M. Solow · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1956 | 24,386 |
| 13 | GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations Gordon Henry Guyatt, Andrew David Oxman, Gunn Elisabeth Vist et al. · BMJ | 24 Apr 2008 | 23,388 |
| 14 | Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root David Alan Dickey, Wayne Arthur Fuller · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1979 | 23,250 |
| 15 | Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity Tim Bollerslev · Journal of Econometrics | Apr 1986 | 22,677 |
| 16 | Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models Richard W. Blundell, Stephen Bond · Journal of Econometrics | Nov 1998 | 22,634 |
| 17 | The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al. · Nature | May 1997 | 22,491 |
| 18 | Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning James G. March · Organization Science | Feb 1991 | 21,902 |
| 19 | Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital Jenell S. Coleman · Elsevier eBooks | 2000 | 21,799 |
| 20 | An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Brian J. Loasby, Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter · The Economic Journal | Sep 1983 | 21,667 |
| 21 | Cancer statistics, 2020 Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2020 | 21,499 |
| 22 | Cancer statistics, 2019 Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2019 | 21,058 |
| 23 | Bounds testing approaches to the analysis of level relationships M. Hashem Pesaran, Yongcheol Shin, Richard J. Smith · Journal of Applied Econometrics | May 2001 | 20,229 |
| 24 | ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions Jonathan A C Sterne et al. · BMJ | 12 Oct 2016 | 20,199 |
| 25 | Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models Manuel Arellano, Olympia Bover · Journal of Econometrics | Jul 1995 | 20,111 |
| 26 | Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Theo Vos et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2020 | 19,980 |
| 27 | Cancer statistics, 2022 Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Hannah E. Fuchs et al. · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2022 | 18,352 |
| 28 | Testing for a unit root in time series regression Peter C.B. Phillips, Pierre Perrón · Biometrika | 1988 | 18,270 |
| 29 | The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration Alessandro Liberati, Doug G. Altman, Jennifer Tetzlaff et al. · BMJ | 21 Jul 2009 | 17,979 |
| 30 | Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary? Alejandro R. Jadad, R Andrew Moore, Dawn M. Carroll et al. · Controlled Clinical Trials | Feb 1996 | 17,767 |
| 31 | CAPITAL ASSET PRICES: A THEORY OF MARKET EQUILIBRIUM UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK* William F. Sharpe · The Journal of Finance | Sep 1964 | 17,476 |
| 32 | Cancer statistics, 2018 Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2018 | 17,066 |
| 33 | ESTIMATING F -STATISTICS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POPULATION STRUCTURE Bruce S Weir, C. Clark Cockerham · Evolution | Nov 1984 | 17,021 |
| 34 | Statistical analysis of cointegration vectors Søren Johansen · Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | Jun 1988 | 16,966 |
| 35 | The National Comprehensive Cancer Network William T. McGivney · Cancer | 15 May 1998 | 16,882 |
| 36 | Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis Rajiv D. Banker, A. Charnes, William White Cooper · Management Science | Sep 1984 | 16,797 |
| 37 | Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Indexes for Testing Measurement Invariance Gordon W. Cheung, Roger B. Rensvold · Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal | Apr 2002 | 16,242 |
| 38 | Cancer statistics, 2016 Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2016 | 16,202 |
| 39 | Job Market Signaling Michael J. Spence · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1973 | 16,197 |
| 40 | Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search David Lawrence Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison et al. · Nature | 26 Jan 2016 | 16,121 |
| 41 | A BEHAVIORAL MODEL OF RATIONAL CHOICE Herbert A. Simon · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1955 | 15,700 |
| 42 | Prediction of Creatinine Clearance from Serum Creatinine Donald W. Cockcroft, Henry Gault · The Nephron journals/Nephron journals | 28 Nov 2008 | 15,456 |
| 43 | A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth N. Gregory Mankiw, Daniel Römer, David Nathan Weil · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1992 | 15,301 |
| 44 | Testing for unit roots in heterogeneous panels Kyung So Im, M. Hashem Pesaran, Yongcheol Shin · Journal of Econometrics | 30 Apr 2003 | 15,285 |
| 45 | Cancer statistics, 2017 Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal · CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2017 | 15,021 |
| 46 | The Economic Institutions of Capitalism William M. Dugger · Journal of Economic Issues | Mar 1987 | 14,958 |
| 47 | QUADAS-2: A Revised Tool for the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies Penny F. Whiting, Anne W.S. Rutjes, Marie E. Westwood et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 18 Oct 2011 | 14,541 |
| 48 | Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Spencer Lewis James et al. · The Lancet | Nov 2018 | 14,263 |
| 49 | MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE ON COINTEGRATION — WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE DEMAND FOR MONEY Søren Johansen, Katarina Jusélius · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics | May 1990 | 14,204 |
| 50 | A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk Jason P. Fine, Malcolm H. Ray · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1999 | 13,914 |
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