Center for Economic Education Ranks Top 200 Black Academic Economists

New research by the Director of the Turner College's Center for Economic Education, Frank Mixon, and Kamal Upadhyaya of the University of New Haven, provides a citations-based ranking of Black academic economists in the U.S. Based on citations data compiled using the Google Scholar Profile feature in the Publish or Perish open-source software package, the study identifies the top 230 Black academic economists. This group has garnered almost 300,000 citations, with a mean of 1,269 and a standard deviation of 3,200.  The median and mode number of citations for this group are 213 and 16, respectively. The study, which is set to published in a future issue of the Review of Black Political Economy, reports that Caroline Hoxby, the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor at Stanford University ranks first with 25,228 citations.  Hoxby is followed by Cecelia Rouse, the Katzman and Ernst Professor at Princeton University, with 17,397 citations. In the third position is Roland Fryer of Harvard University, who is a prior winner of economics' John Bates Clark Medal. Rounding out the top five are Thomas Sowell of Stanford University and Glenn Loury of Brown University.  These two positions are very closely contested, with citations totals ranging from 15,363 to 15,936.