BU Economics ranked #12 by RePEc, December 2013
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) releases a monthly report listing the Top 25% US Economics Departments. The rankings are are based on data about authors who have registered with the RePEc Author Service, institutions listed on EDIRC, bibliographic data collected by RePEc, citation analysis performed by CitEc and popularity data compiled by LogEc.
BU Economics was ranked number 12 in the recent December 2013 listing.
RePEc’s Top 25% US Economics Departments, as of December 2013
| Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | Author Shares |
| 1 | Department of Economics, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) |
1.02 | 65 | 51.56 |
| 2 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) |
2.18 | 41 | 32.55 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) |
3.5 | 41 | 34.3 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) |
3.89 | 48 | 35.34 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (USA) |
4.16 | 43 | 33.65 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (USA) |
6.29 | 54 | 40.2 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) |
7.53 | 52 | 40.82 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Stanford University Stanford, California (USA) |
8.36 | 56 | 44.64 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut (USA) |
9.66 | 53 | 31.11 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (USA) |
11.98 | 41 | 38.45 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) |
12.26 | 38 | 33.31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (USA) |
12.37 | 51 | 41.76 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) |
12.99 | 35 | 30.55 |
| 14 | Economics Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) |
13.24 | 69 | 54.15 |
| 15 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) |
14.44 | 26 | 20.56 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) La Jolla, California (USA) |
16.4 | 44 | 36.55 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California (USA) |
17.2 | 42 | 32.57 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) |
20.89 | 30 | 27.27 |
| 19 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin (USA) |
21 | 36 | 24.97 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) |
21.17 | 47 | 41.42 |
BU Today also reported on the ranking: http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/cas-economics-department-ranked-12th-nationally/.