2026 Thomas Piketty: 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	78	299	268	3	3	313	96136

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

25800
Citations
About Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

20522
Citations
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

5682
Citations
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

Anthony Barnes Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

3652
Citations
Le capital au XXIe siècle

Thomas Piketty

2634
Citations
World Inequality Report 2018

Facundo Alvaredo;Lucas Chancel;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

2212
Citations
Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics

Thomas Piketty

2011
Citations
Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010

Thomas Piketty;Gabriel Zucman

1804
Citations
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez;Gabriel Zucman

1472
Citations
The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1449
Citations
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

Facundo Alvaredo;Anthony Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1405
Citations
Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast between continental European and English-speaking countries

Anthony B. Atkinson;Thomas Piketty

1330
Citations
Inequality in the long run.

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

1288
Citations
Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities †

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez;Stefanie Stantcheva

1273
Citations
Capital in the 21st Century

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

1246
Citations
The Top 1% in International and Historical Perspective

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

1155
Citations
Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert

Thomas Piketty

994
Citations
The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and the Interest Rate with Credit Rationing

Thomas Piketty

919
Citations
Income Inequality in France, 1901–1998

Thomas Piketty

872
Citations
How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective

Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

758
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley

Anthony B. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science

Abhijit Banerjee MIT

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University

Stephen P. Jenkins London School of Economics and Political Science

Janet C. Gornick City University of New York

John Micklewright University College London

Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science

Rolf Aaberge Statistics Norway

External Links

Personal website of Thomas Piketty

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