Top General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Researchers
Michael E. Porter ranks first, out of 5,048 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 Kenneth J. Arrow United States · #26 worldwide 5.4k citations · 176 works
- 3 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
- 4 William Diebold United States · #33 worldwide 3.8k citations · 208 works
- 5 Paúl Krugman United States · #35 worldwide 4.4k citations · 167 works
- 6 Robert J. Barro United States · #36 worldwide 7.9k citations · 165 works
- 7 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States · #43 worldwide 7.4k citations · 383 works
- 8 G. John Ikenberry United States · #57 worldwide 3k citations · 159 works
- 9 M. Hashem Pesaran United States · #64 worldwide 9.1k citations · 161 works
- 10 Paul A. Samuelson United States · #91 worldwide 3.6k citations · 170 works
- 11 Henri Guitton United States · #101 worldwide 6.9k citations · 122 works
- 12 Daron Acemoğlu United States · #106 worldwide 5.7k citations · 213 works
- 13 William J. Baumöl United States · #108 worldwide 3.6k citations · 187 works
- 14 Richard N. Cooper United States · #109 worldwide 2.7k citations · 185 works
- 15 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
- 16 Richard Blundell United Kingdom · #129 worldwide 5.2k citations · 140 works
- 17 Lawrence H. Summers United States · #195 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works
- 18 Simon Kuznets United States · #198 worldwide 2.5k citations · 124 works
- 19 Clive W. J. Granger United States · #256 worldwide 4.5k citations · 117 works
- 20 James Tobin United States · #336 worldwide 3.1k citations · 172 works
- 21 Jeffrey A. Frankel United States · #341 worldwide 3.3k citations · 181 works
- 22 George J. Stigler United States · #373 worldwide 2k citations · 115 works
- 23 Christopher D. Manning United States · #408 worldwide 4.6k citations · 193 works
- 24 Ben Bernanke United States · #440 worldwide 2.7k citations · 195 works
- 25 Philippe Aghion France · #467 worldwide 3k citations · 139 works
- 26 N. Gregory Mankiw United States · #484 worldwide 2.2k citations · 153 works
- 27 René M. Stulz United States · #485 worldwide 4.4k citations · 112 works
- 28 Alberto Alesina United States · #549 worldwide 2.6k citations · 133 works
- 29 Raghuram G. Rajan United States · #583 worldwide 3.5k citations · 102 works
- 30 Angus Deaton United States · #639 worldwide 3.4k citations · 105 works
- 31 Dani Rodrik United States · #698 worldwide 2.6k citations · 111 works
- 32 Robert E. Hall United States · #724 worldwide 2.3k citations · 108 works
- 33 Andrei Shleifer United States · #806 worldwide 10k citations · 91 works
- 34 Olivier Blanchard United States · #979 worldwide 2.2k citations · 165 works
- 35 John H. Dunning United Kingdom · #999 worldwide 2.3k citations · 94 works
- 36 Kenneth Rogoff United States · #1,060 worldwide 2.1k citations · 106 works
- 37 Donald S. Zagoria United States · #1,072 worldwide 758 citations · 142 works
- 38 Robert F. Engle United States · #1,145 worldwide 8.7k citations · 85 works
- 39 Francis X. Diebold United States · #1,164 worldwide 3.2k citations · 96 works
- 40 Rüdiger Dornbusch United States · #1,165 worldwide 2.1k citations · 93 works
- 41 John Haltiwanger United States · #1,166 worldwide 2.2k citations · 108 works
- 42 Friedrich A. von Hayek United States · #1,238 worldwide 898 citations · 101 works
- 43 John B. Taylor United States · #1,269 worldwide 2.7k citations · 98 works
- 44 Robert M. Solow United States · #1,301 worldwide 1.7k citations · 117 works
- 45 Milton Friedman United States · #1,329 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 46 Jagdish N. Bhagwati United States · #1,407 worldwide 1.5k citations · 176 works
- 47 Kevin Murphy United States · #1,428 worldwide 2.9k citations · 90 works
- 48 Anthony J. Venables United Kingdom · #1,541 worldwide 2.3k citations · 96 works
- 49 Campbell R. Harvey United States · #1,543 worldwide 4.2k citations · 81 works
- 50 Gary Gereffi United States · #1,576 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 51 William D. Nordhaus United States · #1,588 worldwide 2k citations · 107 works
- 52 John Van Reenen United Kingdom · #1,642 worldwide 2.1k citations · 139 works
- 53 Elhanan Helpman Israel · #1,745 worldwide 1.8k citations · 91 works
- 54 James A. Robinson United States · #1,773 worldwide 2.2k citations · 83 works
- 55 Nicholas Bloom United States · #1,781 worldwide 1.9k citations · 89 works
- 56 Jeffrey D. Sachs United States · #1,789 worldwide 1.6k citations · 204 works
- 57 Bengt‐Åke Lundvall Denmark · #1,794 worldwide 1.4k citations · 95 works
- 58 Arie Rip Netherlands · #1,818 worldwide 1.2k citations · 108 works
- 59 Thomas J. Sargent United States · #1,822 worldwide 2.1k citations · 143 works
- 60 Joseph A. Schumpeter Canada · #1,835 worldwide 2.4k citations · 77 works
- 61 James M. Buchanan United States · #1,865 worldwide 1.6k citations · 151 works
- 62 John E. Hunter United States · #2,025 worldwide 2k citations · 120 works
- 63 Charles F. Manski United States · #2,124 worldwide 2.4k citations · 82 works
- 64 Paul Collier United Kingdom · #2,139 worldwide 1.5k citations · 80 works
- 65 Moshe Ben‐Akiva United States · #2,168 worldwide 2.9k citations · 153 works
- 66 Zvi Griliches United States · #2,179 worldwide 2.5k citations · 78 works
- 67 Rob J. Hyndman Australia · #2,182 worldwide 2.5k citations · 84 works
- 68 Michael Woodford United States · #2,232 worldwide 1.7k citations · 102 works
- 69 Henri Theil United States · #2,275 worldwide 1.6k citations · 105 works
- 70 David Autor United States · #2,293 worldwide 3k citations · 73 works
- 71 James H. Stock United States · #2,374 worldwide 2.4k citations · 79 works
- 72 Arnold Zellner United States · #2,464 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 73 Ray Ball United States · #2,554 worldwide 2.8k citations · 72 works
- 74 Edward C. Prescott United States · #2,576 worldwide 2.9k citations · 71 works
- 75 Dale W. Jorgenson United States · #2,598 worldwide 2.4k citations · 166 works
- 76 John Y. Campbell United States · #2,611 worldwide 1.8k citations · 77 works
- 77 Jordi Galı́ Spain · #2,625 worldwide 2.2k citations · 71 works
- 78 Albert O. Hirschman United States · #2,673 worldwide 3k citations · 68 works
- 79 Andrew K. Rose United States · #2,682 worldwide 1.6k citations · 103 works
- 80 Franklin Allen United Kingdom · #2,722 worldwide 1.4k citations · 104 works
- 81 Arvind Krishnamurthy United States · #2,799 worldwide 2k citations · 119 works
- 82 Lant Pritchett United States · #2,824 worldwide 1.9k citations · 75 works
- 83 Patrick J. Kehoe United States · #2,924 worldwide 1.4k citations · 76 works
- 84 Mark W. Watson United States · #2,942 worldwide 2.3k citations · 70 works
- 85 Keith Tribe United Kingdom · #3,003 worldwide 654 citations · 110 works
- 86 Robert J. Shiller United States · #3,018 worldwide 1.7k citations · 107 works
- 87 Guido Tabellini Italy · #3,067 worldwide 1.5k citations · 78 works
- 88 David B. Audretsch United States · #3,109 worldwide 3.7k citations · 222 works
- 89 Martin Ravallion United States · #3,172 worldwide 1.7k citations · 132 works
- 90 Tarun Khanna United States · #3,189 worldwide 1.5k citations · 78 works
- 91 Lars Peter Hansen United States · #3,290 worldwide 1.8k citations · 72 works
- 92 Douglass C. North United States · #3,301 worldwide 1.1k citations · 70 works
- 93 Martin Feldstein United States · #3,341 worldwide 1.8k citations · 208 works
- 94 Gordon Hanson United States · #3,354 worldwide 1.5k citations · 77 works
- 95 Hyun Song Shin Switzerland · #3,383 worldwide 1.6k citations · 108 works
- 96 John Geweke Australia · #3,498 worldwide 2k citations · 69 works
- 97 Lars E.O. Svensson Sweden · #3,633 worldwide 1.3k citations · 106 works
- 98 Frederic S. Mishkin United States · #3,699 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
- 99 Susan Strange United Kingdom · #3,722 worldwide 655 citations · 82 works
- 100 Anna J. Schwartz United States · #3,743 worldwide 834 citations · 87 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 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.