2026 Matthew O. Jackson: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	89	176	160	127	113	288	44837

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1998 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Matthew O. Jackson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the interdisciplinary areas encompassing economics, econometrics, finance, sociology, political science, and artificial intelligence. Their work spans various subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, finance, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's recent publications include:

Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility, 2022, Nature
Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness, 2022, Nature
A Turing test of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humans, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: The Role of Social Networks and Homophily, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
Systemic Risk in Financial Networks: A Survey, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors of Matthew O. Jackson include:

Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Qiaozhu Mei
Walter Yuan
Yutong Xie
Agathe Pernoud

Key publication venues where they have contributed notably are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Econometrica

Their research covers a variety of topics including:

Economic theories and models
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Social Capital and Networks
Economic Policies and Impacts
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Game Theory and Applications
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Matthew O. Jackson's academic distinctions recognize contributions to economics and related disciplines. Awards earned include:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005)
Fellow of the Econometric Society (1998)

Best Publications

Social and Economic Networks

Matthew O. Jackson

6797
Citations
A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks

Matthew O. Jackson;Asher Wolinsky

3533
Citations
The Diffusion of Microfinance

Abhijit Banerjee;Arun G. Chandrasekhar;Arun G. Chandrasekhar;Esther Duflo;Matthew O. Jackson;Matthew O. Jackson;Matthew O. Jackson

2136
Citations
The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality

Antoni Calvó-Armengol;Matthew O. Jackson

1561
Citations
Naïve Learning in Social Networks and the Wisdom of Crowds

Benjamin Golub;Matthew O. Jackson

1432
Citations
Financial Networks and Contagion

Matthew Elliott;Benjamin Golub;Matthew O. Jackson

1369
Citations
The Evolution of Social and Economic Networks

Matthew O. Jackson;Alison Watts

1197
Citations
An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation

Sergio Currarini;Matthew O. Jackson;Paolo Pin

1176
Citations
Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Social Networks?

Matthew O. Jackson;Brian W. Rogers

908
Citations
The Stability of Hedonic Coalition Structures

Anna Bogomolnaia;Matthew O. Jackson

892
Citations
Games on networks

Matthew O. Jackson;Matthew O. Jackson;Matthew O. Jackson;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

820
Citations
A Survey of Models of Network Formation: Stability and Efficiency

Matthew O. Jackson

742
Citations
The Economic Consequences of Social-Network Structure

Matthew O. Jackson;Brian W. Rogers;Yves Zenou

584
Citations
Social capital and social quilts : network patterns of favor exchange

Matthew O. Jackson;Tomas Rodriguez-Barraquer;Xu Tan

553
Citations
A Crash Course in Implementation Theory

Matthew O. Jackson

520
Citations
How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best-Response Dynamics

Benjamin Golub;Matthew O. Jackson

505
Citations
An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications

Matthew O. Jackson

495
Citations
Networks in Labor Markets: Wage and Employment Dynamics and Inequality

Antoni Calvó-Armengol;Matthew O. Jackson

494
Citations
On the formation of interaction networks in social coordination games

Matthew O. Jackson;Alison Watts

488
Citations
The Economics of Social Networks

Matthew O. Jackson

409
Citations
Handbook of Social Economics

Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin;Matthew O. Jackson

397
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Esther Duflo MIT

Abhijit Banerjee MIT

Salvador Barberà Autonomous University of Barcelona

Bhaskar Dutta University of Warwick

Yves Zenou Monash University

Ehud Kalai Northwestern University

Daron Acemoglu MIT

Francis Bloch Pantheon-Sorbonne University

Roland G. Fryer Harvard University

Hugo Sonnenschein University of Chicago

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