Scholarly Index

Local Government Finance and Decentralization

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Local Government Finance and Decentralization.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Beatriz Cuadrado‐Ballesteros	98.99	3,257	100
2	Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose	98.86	25,721	392
3	Marco Bisogno	98.31	1,361	144
4	Ana María Ríos	97.82	2,177	78
5	António Afonso	97.37	9,508	372
6	Bernardino Benito	97.25	3,523	160
7	Javier Cifuentes‐Faura	97.09	5,481	217
8	Tom Christensen	96.99	11,032	249
9	Liang Ma	96.98	2,694	125
10	Dongmin Kong	96.71	6,632	213
11	David R. Agrawal	96.46	1,064	89
12	María‐Dolores Guillamón	96.43	1,669	69
13	João Tovar Jalles	96.11	3,938	256
14	Jorge Martínez-Vázquez	95.89	6,707	224
15	Iuliia Shybalkina	94.89	220	20
16	Kumba Digdowiseiso	94.31	549	374
17	Hoyong Jung	94.10	135	56
18	Ryota Nakatani	94.07	450	39
19	Boqiang Lin	93.94	54,516	952
20	Hongtao Yi	93.80	3,110	110
21	Mildred E. Warner	93.43	8,913	199
22	Yicheng Zhou	93.25	2,136	93
23	Bernhard Reinsberg	93.11	2,045	110
24	David Y. Yang	93.09	3,719	87
25	Ting Gong	93.05	1,781	107
26	Jinsol Park	92.91	1,124	16
27	B. Guy Peters	92.77	12,976	256
28	Germà Bel	92.58	7,877	280
29	Giliberto Capano	92.43	4,747	168
30	Vanessa van den Boogaard	92.04	411	34
31	Claudia N. Avellaneda	91.32	2,363	62
32	Laurence Ferry	90.92	2,131	123
33	Weijie Luo	90.42	750	37
34	Ricardo A. Bello-Gómez	90.26	1,560	21
35	Whitney B. Afonso	90.22	417	42
36	Lingyi Zhou	90.22	258	30
37	Keshav K. Acharya	90.12	278	32
38	Thanh Dinh Su	89.37	4,262	93
39	Daniel Klimovský	88.85	749	63
40	Santiago Lago Peñas	88.45	2,609	261
41	Brian Dollery	88.34	8,235	622
42	Youlang Zhang	87.80	1,202	50
43	Tahir Yousaf	87.63	221	22
44	Benedict S. Jimenez	87.51	704	52
45	José Alves	87.27	469	71
46	Xufeng Zhu	87.21	2,209	101
47	Joseph Drew	87.20	1,793	126
48	Rik Peeters	87.08	1,349	57
49	Qurat ul Ain	87.05	697	70
50	Khoirunurrofik Khoirunurrofik	86.87	365	100