Economics Professor Jere Behrman included in “Highly Cited Researchers"

Jere Behrman

Economics Professor Jere Behrman “Highly Cited Researcher”:  Jere Behrman, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology, Is included in “Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles” in the 13th edition released in January 2021. Behrman has an h index of 102 (102 publications each cited at least 102 times).  At the University of Pennsylvania Behrman is the only faculty member included whose primary appointment is in the social sciences (there are seven in the hard sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences, three each in Engineering and Nursing, and 29 in Medicine).  There are 45 economists  listed, including, inter alia, 18 Economics Nobel Laureates (Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Herbert A. Simon, James J. Heckman, Paul R. Krugman, Elinor Ostrom, Daniel Kahneman, Jean Tirole, Milton Friedman, Oliver E. Williamson, Friedrich Hayek, James M. Buchanan, Paul A. Samuelson, William Nordhaus, Angus Deaton, Gary S. Becker, Douglas C. North, Alvin E. Roth).