Top 10 researchers in economics and business based on total citations

Num	Scientist	Papers	Citations per paper	Citations
1	Shleifer, Andrei - Harvard University, US	55	4,384	79.71
2	Lopez de Silanes, Florencio - University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands	23	2,811	122.22
3	La Porta, Rafael Tuck - School of Business Dartmouth College, US	21	2,808	133.71
4	Vishny, Robert W., - Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, US	8	1,747	218.38
5	Levine, Ross - Brown University, US	34	1,589	46.74
6	Fehr, Ernst - University of Zurich, Switzerland	36	1,578	43.83
7	Acemoglu, Daron Massachusetts - Institute of Technology, US	51	1,531	30.02
8	Gali, Jordi Pompeu Fabra - University, Spain	24	1,4	59.46
9	Teece, David J., Haas - School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, US	16	1,418	88.62
10	Tirole, Jean, Industrial - Economics Institute, University of Toulouse, France	52	1,401	26.94

The data above were extracted from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators database. This database, currently covering the period January 1997 to October 2007, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Scientific. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and Thomson Scientific’s journal-to-category field definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Naturally, scientists publishing large numbers of papers have a greater likelihood of collecting more citations than scientists publishing fewer papers. This ranking is by total citations. For articles with multiple authors, each author receives full, not fractional, citation credit. Another ranking could be based on citations per paper, which reveals weighted impact. The first four names on the list were frequent co-authors of numerous highly cited papers dealing with law, finance, and governance. Other topics represented in the highly cited papers of the others on the list include theories of growth and development, fair trade, monetary policy and inflation, as well as contracts, strategic management, and knowledge assets. Essential Science Indicators lists authors ranked in the top 1 per cent for a field over a given period, based on total citations. For the current version, 930 authors are listed in the field of economics and business, meaning that a total of about 93,000 author records were reviewed to obtain these results. For more information on Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, see http://scientific.thomson.com/products/esi.