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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
74
Citations
21604
World Ranking
372
National Ranking
7

Bart Verspagen publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bart Verspagen sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 279 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Bart Verspagen D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bart Verspagen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
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This scientist: 74 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Bart Verspagen is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their scholarly work intersects several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The main topics of Verspagen's research cover a range of areas within economic studies, notably:

  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Economic theories and models
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Economic Theory and Institutions

The scientist has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Related or unrelated diversification: What is smart specialization? (2024), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective (2021), Industrial and Corporate Change
  • R&D-based economic growth in a supermultiplier model (2021), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Job Automation Risk, Economic Structure and Trade: a European Perspective (2021), Research Policy
  • Innovation-diffusion, the economy and contemporary challenges: a comment (2020), Industrial and Corporate Change

Bart Verspagen's work is published frequently in journals and venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics
  • Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Research Policy

Significant co-authors in their research include Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola, Uwe Cantner, Neil Foster-McGregor, and Jan Fagerberg.

Among their book contributions is a forthcoming publication titled Evolutionary Selection and Keynes-Schumpeter Macroeconomics (2025), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Systems of Innovation

    Luc Soete;Bart Verspagen;Bas ter Weel;Bas ter Weel

  • Innovation studies—The emerging structure of a new scientific field

    Jan Fagerberg;Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Knowledge Spillovers in Europe: A Patent Citations Analysis

    Per Botolf Maurseth;Bart Verspagen

  • The Impact of EU Regional Support on Growth and Convergence in the European Union

    Aadne Cappelen;Fulvio Castellacci;Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen

  • The value of European patents

    Alfonso Gambardella;Dietmar Harhoff;Bart Verspagen

  • A NEW EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO CATCHING UP OR FALLING BEHIND

    Bart Verspagen

  • Technology-gaps, innovation-diffusion and transformation:an evolutionary interpretation

    Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey

    Paola Giuri;Myriam Mariani;Stefano Brusoni;Gustavo Crespi

  • Heading for divergence? Regional growth in Europe reconsidered

    Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen

  • Innovation and Economic Development

    Jan Fagerberg;Martin Srholec;Bart Verspagen

  • MAPPING TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AS PATENT CITATION NETWORKS: A STUDY ON THE HISTORY OF FUEL CELL RESEARCH

    B Bart Verspagen

  • Innovation and Economic Development

    Jan Fagerberg;Martin Srholec;Bart Verspagen

  • Innovation and economic growth

    B Bart Verspagen

  • Intellectual property rights, strategic technology agreements and market structure : the case of GSM

    Rna Rudi Bekkers;GM Geert Duysters;B Bart Verspagen

  • Uneven growth between interdependent economies : an evolutionary view on technology gaps, trade and growth

    Bart Verspagen

  • Does it matter where patent citations come from? : inventor versus examiner citations in European patents

    Paola Criscuolo;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Technology, Growth and Unemployment across European Regions

    Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen;Marjolein Caniels

  • Manufacturing and economic growth in developing countries, 1950-2005

    Adam Szirmai;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Measuring intersectoral technology spillovers estimates from the European and US patent office databases

    Bart Verspagen

  • The Small worlds of Strategic Technology Alliances

    B Bart Verspagen;GM Geert Duysters

  • The role of technology in market shares dynamics

    Bruno Amable;Bart Verspagen

  • Systems of Innovation

    Luc Soete;Bart Verspagen;Bas ter Weel;Bas ter Weel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Fagerberg
Jan Fagerberg University of Oslo
Dietmar Harhoff
Dietmar Harhoff Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Luc Soete
Luc Soete Maastricht University
Alfonso Gambardella
Alfonso Gambardella Bocconi University
Bart Los
Bart Los University of Groningen
Marjolein C.J. Caniëls
Marjolein C.J. Caniëls Open University in the Netherlands
Fulvio Castellacci
Fulvio Castellacci University of Oslo
David C. Mowery
David C. Mowery University of California, Berkeley
Bas ter Weel
Bas ter Weel University of Amsterdam
Gustavo Crespi
Gustavo Crespi Inter-American Development Bank

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