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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
78
Citations
96136
World Ranking
299
National Ranking
3

Thomas Piketty 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 Thomas Piketty sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 313 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Piketty 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 Thomas Piketty 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
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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 France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2020 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 2013 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2013 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award

Overview

Thomas Piketty is affiliated with the Paris School of Economics in France. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences, chiefly focusing on economics, econometrics, and finance. They have published extensively in areas such as economic theory and policy, income, poverty, and inequality, fiscal policy and economic growth, and social policy and reform studies.

The main fields of study in their publications include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Their subfields of study reflect a strong interdisciplinary approach encompassing:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Accounting
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Piketty's research topics cover a range of economic and social dimensions:

  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Economic theories and models
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Piketty include:

  • "Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020: the Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality" (2021), Journal of the European Economic Association
  • "Generalized Pareto Curves: Theory and Applications" (2021), Review of Income and Wealth
  • "Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020" (2021), The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • "Distributional National Accounts Guidelines: Methods and Concepts Used in the World Inequality Database" (2020), HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Rethinking capital and wealth taxation" (2023), Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Amory Gethin
  • Clara Martínez-Toledano
  • Lucas Chancel
  • Bertrand Garbinti
  • Jonathan Goupille-Lebret

Piketty has published books with various presses. Notable academic publishers include Harvard University Press and Yale University Press, as well as Société d'ethnologie eBooks. Key book titles comprise:

  • "A Brief History of Equality" (2022), Harvard University Press
  • "Capital and Ideology" (2020), Harvard University Press
  • "Time for Socialism" (2021), Yale University Press
  • "Nature, culture et inégalités" (2023), Société d'ethnologie eBooks

Common publication venues where Piketty has contributed multiple papers are:

  • Journal of the European Economic Association
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Revue de philosophie économique
  • Review of Income and Wealth
  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Awards received by Piketty include:

  • Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association (2020)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (2013)
  • Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2013)

Best Publications

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Thomas Piketty

  • About Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Thomas Piketty

  • Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998

    Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

    Anthony Barnes Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Le capital au XXIe siècle

    Thomas Piketty

  • World Inequality Report 2018

    Facundo Alvaredo;Lucas Chancel;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics

    Thomas Piketty

  • Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010

    Thomas Piketty;Gabriel Zucman

  • Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States

    Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez;Gabriel Zucman

  • The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective

    Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

    Facundo Alvaredo;Anthony Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast between continental European and English-speaking countries

    Anthony B. Atkinson;Thomas Piketty

  • Inequality in the long run.

    Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities †

    Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez;Stefanie Stantcheva

  • Capital in the 21st Century

    Andrew Haldane;Rachana Shanbhogue;Orazio Attanasio;Timothy J. Besley;Timothy J. Besley;Timothy J. Besley

  • The Top 1% in International and Historical Perspective

    Facundo Alvaredo;Anthony Atkinson;Anthony Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert

    Thomas Piketty

  • The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and the Interest Rate with Credit Rationing

    Thomas Piketty

  • Income Inequality in France, 1901–1998

    Thomas Piketty

  • How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective

    Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Saez
Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel Zucman
Gabriel Zucman University of California, Berkeley
Anthony B. Atkinson
Anthony B. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Stephen P. Jenkins
Stephen P. Jenkins London School of Economics and Political Science
Janet C. Gornick
Janet C. Gornick City University of New York
Anthony C. Atkinson
Anthony C. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science
John Micklewright
John Micklewright University College London

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