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Jordi Gali 8th Most Cited Scientist in Economics & Business
BSE Affiliated Professor Jordi Galí has emerged as one of the most cited researchers in Economics and Business, according to data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators SM. The ranking is based on total citations from January 1997 to October 2007.
Galí, who is Professor at the UPF and Director and Senior Researcher at CREI in addition to his affiliation with the GSE, appeared in the 8th position on the list, between MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu (7th) and Haas School of Business Professor David J. Teece (9th).
Essential Science Indicators lists authors ranked in the top 1% of a field over a given period, based on total citations. For the current ranking, 930 authors were listed in the field of economics and business, meaning that a total of approximately 93,000 author records were reviewed to obtain the results.
This most recent finding accompanies several previous rankings that reveal the large impact that Professor Galí's research has had on his fields of research. According a study described in “Publishing Performance of Spanish Academics: 1970-2004” by D. Rodriguez, published in the Spanish Economic Review in 2006, Galí tops the list of most productive Spanish researchers from 1990-2004.
UPF Professor, CREI Senior Researcher and BSE Affiliated Professor Jordi Galí
The primary areas of Professor Galí’s research are macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics, His influential findings have had a large impact on a variety of topics, particularly business cycles, inflation, exchange rates and the conduct of monetary policy.
Professor Galí earned his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. Prior to joining the Barcelona economics community, he held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University, and was Visiting Professor at MIT.
He is a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is a Research Fellow at the CEPR, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been consultant to the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve and other central banks.
Scientist Rankings in Economics & Business
Based on total citations. Data from Thomson Scientific's Essential Science IndicatorsSM, January 1997 to October 2007.
| Rank | Scientist | Papers | # Cit | # Cit Per Paper |
| 1 | SHLEIFER, Andrei Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | 55 | 4,384 | 79.71 |
| 2 | LOPEZ DE SILANES, Florencio EDHEC Business School, 06202 Nice Cedex 3, France | 23 | 2,811 | 122.22 |
| 3 | LA PORTA, Rafael Tuck School of Business. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA | 21 | 2,808 | 133.71 |
| 4 | VISHNY, Robert W. Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA | 8 | 1,747 | 218.38 |
| 5 | LEVINE, Ross Brown University, Providence, RI, USA | 34 | 1,589 | 46.74 |
| 6 | FEHR, Ernst University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland | 36 | 1,578 | 43.83 |
| 7 | ACEMOGLU, Daron Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA | 51 | 1,531 | 30.02 |
| 8 | GALI, Jordi Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain | 24 | 1,427 | 59.46 |
| 9 | TEECE, David J. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA | 16 | 1,418 | 88.62 |
| 10 | TIROLE, Jean Industrial Economics Institute, University of Toulouse I, Toulouse, France | 52 | 1,401 | 26.94 |