Economics research in Missouri

If you've seen my previous two posts (here, where I provide the ranks Fed economists, and here, where I create a ranking of Feds), then you already know that I am devoting today's blogging to various rankings of economics research.  Truth be told, the BLS website that I need has been down for maintenance, so I've been fiddling around with these rankings instead.  This particular post is my annual look at economics research rankings for Missouri based on data from RePEc (see previous years' posts: 2011, 2012).

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