Scholarly Index

Private Equity and Venture Capital

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Private Equity and Venture Capital.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Mike Wright	99.99	67,118	558
2	Josh Lerner	99.95	33,288	477
3	David B. Audretsch	99.95	60,676	583
4	Shaker A. Zahra	99.91	71,425	342
5	Douglas J. Cumming	99.91	21,958	571
6	Dean A. Shepherd	99.91	48,624	313
7	Scott Shane	99.78	49,240	170
8	Steven N. Kaplan	99.74	22,933	144
9	Massimo G. Colombo	99.70	13,937	292
10	Colin Mason	99.70	11,998	266
11	Paul A. Gompers	99.69	30,328	166
12	Richard Harrison	99.63	14,740	310
13	Jay R. Ritter	99.62	38,402	146
14	Igor Filatotchev	99.59	15,979	305
15	Garry D. Bruton	99.57	21,658	188
16	Jeffrey G. Covin	99.54	37,147	135
17	William L. Megginson	99.54	15,762	214
18	Andy Lockett	99.52	18,117	171
19	Silvio Vismara	99.50	10,348	236
20	Joern Block	99.49	13,325	321
21	Jeffrey J. Reuer	99.46	12,006	207
22	Martín Kenney	99.43	15,587	260
23	William B. Gartner	99.43	24,189	173
24	Per Davidsson	99.42	14,380	342
25	Thomas J. Chemmanur	99.37	10,796	210
26	Olav Sorenson	99.35	17,022	143
27	Donald F. Kuratko	99.31	20,662	185
28	Jay B. Barney	99.30	101,738	211
29	Alexander Ljungqvist	99.30	14,376	113
30	Zoltán J. Ács	99.28	34,426	264
31	Roy Thurik	99.27	31,342	391
32	Armin Schwienbacher	99.24	10,367	176
33	Harry J. Sapienza	99.22	14,629	94
34	Johan Wiklund	99.15	30,416	324
35	Michael S. Weisbach	99.14	29,785	146
36	Bart Clarysse	99.13	12,063	211
37	Kathleen M. Eisenhardt	99.12	154,695	173
38	René M. Stulz	99.09	67,062	378
39	Candida G. Brush	99.09	19,559	163
40	Donald S. Siegel	99.05	48,722	359
41	Sophie Manigart	99.04	6,131	192
42	Mike W. Peng	99.04	41,880	230
43	Paul W. Beamish	99.04	26,462	205
44	Ronald W. Masulis	99.03	21,560	177
45	Paul Westhead	99.03	18,824	172
46	Viral V. Acharya	99.00	33,090	367
47	Lowell W. Busenitz	99.00	16,030	83
48	Luca Grilli	98.98	6,886	194
49	Erkko Autio	98.97	31,266	204
50	Ruth V. Aguilera	98.93	24,526	202