Scholarly Index

Private Equity and Venture Capital

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Private Equity and Venture Capital.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	David B. Audretsch	99.92	60,676	583
2	Silvio Vismara	99.45	10,348	236
3	Douglas J. Cumming	99.41	21,958	571
4	Paul P. Momtaz	99.15	2,463	102
5	Joern Block	99.10	13,325	321
6	Maksim Belitski	98.94	8,272	159
7	Dominik K. Kanbach	98.80	5,052	122
8	Maribel Guerrero	98.72	9,131	169
9	Ciro Troise	98.63	2,490	114
10	Sabrina T Howell	98.57	3,057	68
11	Andrew W. Lo	98.45	33,710	448
12	Shaker A. Zahra	98.19	71,425	342
13	Christian Fisch	97.86	5,003	100
14	Per Davidsson	97.72	14,380	342
15	Philip T. Roundy	97.50	3,957	108
16	Dean A. Shepherd	97.39	48,624	313
17	Elisa Ughetto	97.32	3,177	101
18	Sofia Johan	97.05	4,723	183
19	Sascha Kraus	96.88	41,033	533
20	Marc Cowling	96.60	6,930	177
21	David Urbano	96.32	15,301	322
22	Colin Mason	96.24	11,998	266
23	Lars Hornuf	96.17	4,101	176
24	Robyn Owen	96.08	968	62
25	Vincenzo Corvello	96.01	4,158	92
26	Pankaj C. Patel	95.92	18,977	416
27	Massimo G. Colombo	95.88	13,937	292
28	Richard Harrison	95.84	14,740	310
29	Michael Ewens	95.78	2,324	58
30	Boqiang Lin	95.38	54,516	952
31	Fatima Shuwaikh	95.27	314	26
32	Richard T. Thakor	95.24	692	54
33	Josh Lerner	94.90	33,288	477
34	Daniel Prokop	94.75	852	37
35	Indu Khurana	94.17	678	30
36	Victor Tiberius	94.07	4,629	92
37	Luca Grilli	94.06	6,886	194
38	Ross Brown	93.96	5,663	108
39	Stratos Ramoglou	93.83	1,164	48
40	Simon Kleinert	93.59	836	20
41	Sophie Manigart	93.41	6,131	192
42	Christina Theodoraki	93.20	1,350	68
43	Richard A. Hunt	93.09	4,639	190
44	Tiago Botelho	93.05	954	35
45	Jerry Coakley	93.03	3,279	133
46	Simon Mayer	92.86	2,030	187
47	Annalisa Croce	92.84	2,120	82
48	Cristiano Bellavitis	92.78	2,023	63
49	Armin Schwienbacher	92.76	10,367	176
50	Will Gornall	92.61	1,603	22