The first bit of good news is that my own department, the ISEE at Lindenwood University, remains among the top five academic departments in Missouri. Here is the ranking, which is taken from this page at RePEc and excludes the states' two Federal Reserve banks because of different methods for counting people.
Rank | Department | University | Score |
1 | Department of Econ. | Washington U. in St. Louis | 2.76 |
2 | Olin School of Business | Washington U. in St. Louis | 4.01 |
3 | Economics Department | University of Missouri | 5.04 |
4 | ISEE (now the CEE) | Lindenwood University | 8.89 |
5 | CORI | University of Missouri | 9.54 |
The second bit of good news is that my personal ranking has shot up to 17, although this is largely due to there being a 14-way tie for 17th place rather than any great improvement in my research. The reason for so many being tied is that this ranking uses RePEc's Wu-index, which is the most-sensible method that RePEc provides, although it places people into groups instead of calculating the value of each person's research to the second decimal place.
Missouri rank | World rank | Name | Institution | Wu-index |
1 | 151 | Anjan V. Thakor | Washington U. in St. Louis | 8 |
1 | 151 | David Knudsen Levine | Washington U. in St. Louis | 8 |
3 | 222 | Robert A. Pollak | Washington U. in St. Louis | 7 |
4 | 361 | Bruce Clayton Petersen | Washington U. in St. Louis | 6 |
4 | 361 | Costas Azariadis | Washington U. in St. Louis | 6 |
4 | 361 | Michele Boldrin | Washington U. in St. Louis | 6 |
7 | 578 | Douglass C. North | Washington U. in St. Louis | 5 |
7 | 578 | Rodolfo E. Manuelli | Washington U. in St. Louis | 5 |
7 | 578 | Stephen D. Williamson | Washington U. in St. Louis | 5 |
7 | 578 | Steven Mark Fazzari | Washington U. in St. Louis | 5 |
7 | 578 | Werner Ploberger | Washington U. in St. Louis | 5 |
12 | 921 | Christopher Otrok | University of Missouri | 4 |
12 | 921 | Craig S. Hakkio | Kansas City Fed | 4 |
12 | 921 | Michael McCracken | St. Louis Fed | 4 |
12 | 921 | Ping Wang | Washington U. in St. Louis | 4 |
17 | 1583 | Howard J. Wall | Lindenwood University | 3 |
17 | 1583 | B Ravikumar | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Christopher J. Neely | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Cletus C. Coughlin | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Daniel L Thornton | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | David Andolfatto | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Douglas Marcouiller | Saint Louis University | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Glenn MacDonald | Washington U. in St. Louis | 3 |
17 | 1583 | James Bullard | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Jeroen Swinkels | Washington U. in St. Louis | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Jordan Rappaport | Kansas City Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Philip H. Dybvig | Washington U. in St. Louis | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Robert H. Rasche | St. Louis Fed | 3 |
17 | 1583 | Ronald M. Harstad | University of Missouri | 3 |