to my soon-to-be colleages at Auburn, Steve Caudill and Dan Gropper*:

AUBURN - Economics faculty at Auburn University achieved high rankings in a newly published study in the Southern Economic Journal** that examined research productivity and impact in the area of economic education from 1991-2005.

Economics departments were ranked on total citations and citations per author. Auburn ranked 14th, just ahead of such noted institutions as Princeton and the University of Toronto. The top three ranking universities for research in this discipline were Vanderbilt, Indiana and Wisconsin.

The study also reported the top 50 individual faculty members in the world, ranked on research productivity in this area. John Siegfried of Vanderbilt and William Becker of Indiana University were the most highly cited individual researchers. Steven Caudill and Daniel Gropper of Auburn were tied for 12th with Peter Kennedy of Simon Fraser University and Charles Holt of the University of Virginia. The study reports 14 Auburn-affiliated authors publishing research in this area; citations to Caudill and Gropper’s work accounted for 77 percent of the total citations that Auburn researchers received.

* Congrats also to Dan for recently being awarded the David and Meredith Luck Professorship at Auburn.

** The SEJ study was co-authored by Frank Mixon who has just moved from Southern Miss to Auburn. I am very much looking forward to working with Frank as a part of the Economic Freedom Initiative.