Science Watch ranks the University of Chicago #1 in a new ranking based on the impact of business and economic research. The top four institutions in the ranking are 1) University of Chicago, 2) Harvard, 3) National Bureau of Economic Research, and 4) MIT. A list of the 25 most-cited authors includes Chicago Booth Professors Eugene Fama and Luigi Zingales. The rankings are based on research papers published and cited in nearly 200 academic journals in finance, accounting, management and economics. The rankings cover the ten-year period ending in April 2005 and were published in the November/December 2005 issue.
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