2026 Avner Greif: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	39	5450	5057	2566	2335	121	23839

Avner Greif publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Avner Greif sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 121 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Avner Greif D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Avner Greif sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1998 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Avner Greif is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the social sciences, with significant contributions to economics, econometrics, and finance. The subfields of their work include economics and econometrics, demography, history, sociology and political science, and political science and international relations.

The main topics explored in Greif's research cover culture, economy, and development studies; historical economic and social studies; religion and society interactions; American constitutional law and politics; European political history analysis; taxation and compliance studies; and microfinance and financial inclusion.

Greif's publication record includes numerous recent papers, among which are:

Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages: Removing the Sugar Coating (2020, The Economic Journal)
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England's Constitutional Governance (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England's Constitutional Governance (2024, The Journal of Economic History)
A Theory of Moral Authority (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 (2025, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent collaborators in Greif's work include Jared Rubin, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini, Christian Dippel, and Daniel Trefler.

Their research has been published mainly in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Economic Journal
The Journal of Economic History

Avner Greif has contributed to book publications via Princeton University Press, including:

Analytic Narratives (2020)
Two Paths to Prosperity (2025)

Awards received by Greif include:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Fellows of the Econometric Society (1999)
Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (1998)

Best Publications

Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies

Avner Greif

3742
Citations
Contract enforceability and economic institutions in early trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition

Avner Greif

3648
Citations
Institutions and the path to the modern economy

Avner Greif

2824
Citations
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders

Avner Greif

2036
Citations
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild

Avner Greif;Paul Milgrom;Barry R. Weingast

1767
Citations
Analytic Narratives Revisited

Robert H. Bates;Avner Greif;Margaret Levi;Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

1606
Citations
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

Avner Greif;David D. Laitin

1579
Citations
Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis

Avner Greif

611
Citations
Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared

Avner Greif;Guido Tabellini

467
Citations
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis

Avner Greif

420
Citations
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations

Avner Greif

360
Citations
The clan and the corporation: Sustaining cooperation in China and Europe

Avner Greif;Guido Tabellini

356
Citations
Institutions: Rules or Equilibria?

Avner Greif;Christopher Kingston

355
Citations
Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution

Avner Greif

328
Citations
Commitment, Coercion and Markets: The Nature and Dynamics of Institutions Supporting Exchange

Avner Greif

319
Citations
Organizing Violence

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243
Citations
Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility

Avner Greif

238
Citations
On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Avner Greif

238
Citations
Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa

Avner Greif

188
Citations
The Analytic Narrative Project

Robert H. Bates;Avner Greif;Margaret Levi;Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

168
Citations
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Building a State: Genoa's Rise and Fall

Avner Greif

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Tabellini Bocconi University

Daniel Trefler University of Toronto

Steven Tadelis University of California, Berkeley

Robert H. Bates Harvard University

Margaret Levi Stanford University

Barry R. Weingast Stanford University

Joel Mokyr Northwestern University

David D. Laitin Stanford University

Paul Milgrom Stanford University

John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

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