2026 Roland G. Fryer: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	55	1978	1790	949	847	122	17686

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

1978

1790

949

847

122

17686

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

17686

World Ranking

1978

National Ranking

949

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Roland G. Fryer is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including education, orthopedics and sports medicine, demography, political science and international relations, and health.

Fryer's recent scholarly output covers a range of topics and has been published in several academic venues. Notable papers include:

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents (2023, American Economic Review)
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Response (2020, Journal of Political Economy)
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Framing: A Field Experiment (2022, American Economic Journal Economic Policy)
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
National Running Club Database: Assessing Collegiate Club Athletes' Cross Country Race Results (2025, arXiv (Cornell University))

Their research topics include but are not limited to:

School Choice and Performance
Parental Involvement in Education
Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
Policing Practices and Perceptions
Gun Ownership and Violence Research
Innovations in Educational Methods
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fryer are:

Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Monica Bhatt

Their publication record includes contributions to several prominent journals, with repeated publications in:

American Economic Review
Journal of Political Economy
American Economic Journal Economic Policy
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)

Fryer's recognition in the academic community is reflected in several fellowships, including:

Fellows of the Econometric Society (2018)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (2011)
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007)

Best Publications

Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

1606
Citations
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

925
Citations
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

Roland G Fryer;Steven D Levitt

883
Citations
An empirical analysis of ‘acting white’

Roland G. Fryer;Roland G. Fryer;Paul Torelli

883
Citations
Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Roland G. Fryer

882
Citations
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment

Roland Fryer;Steven Levitt;John List;Sally Sadoff

815
Citations
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force

Roland G Fryer

772
Citations
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence From New York City †

Will Dobbie;Roland G Fryer

727
Citations
Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools

Roland G. Fryer

694
Citations
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade

Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

686
Citations
Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone †

Will Dobbie;Roland G. Fryer Jr.

605
Citations
An Economic Analysis of “Acting White”

David Austen-Smith;Roland G. Fryer

600
Citations
Injecting Charter School Best Practices into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments

Roland G. Fryer

411
Citations
A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions

Federico Echenique;Roland G. Fryer

394
Citations
Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century

Roland G Fryer

336
Citations
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

Roland G Fryer;Glenn C Loury

289
Citations
A Categorical Model of Cognition and Biased Decision Making

Roland Fryer;Matthew O. Jackson

257
Citations
The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

Philip J Cook;Kenneth Dodge;George Farkas;Roland G Fryer

248
Citations
"Acting White": The Social Price Paid by the Best and Brightest Minority Students

Roland G. Fryer

243
Citations
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF CRACK COCAINE

Roland G Fryer;Paul S Heaton;Steven D Levitt;Kevin M Murphy

227
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Steinberg Temple University

George Farkas University of California, Irvine

Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University

Harold A. Pollack University of Chicago

External Links

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