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D-Index
60
Citations
46020
World Ranking
791
National Ranking
492

Wallace E. Oates 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 Wallace E. Oates sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 149 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wallace E. Oates 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 Wallace E. Oates 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: 60 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% 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

  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Wallace E. Oates was affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States during their academic career. Their work contributed to the fields of economics, primarily focusing on areas related to public finance and environmental economics.

The scientist held the distinction of being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974, reflecting recognition of contributions to their discipline during that period.

Oates's research did not list specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, or particular venues where their work was predominantly published in the provided data.

Similarly, there was no detailed information regarding specific book publications, subfields of study, or main topics covered in their academic output available in the source data.

Their career legacy is tied to a scholarly presence at a major research university in the United States, with a focus that typically aligned with public economics, although no detailed publications or collaborations were cited here.

Best Publications

  • The theory of environmental policy

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

  • An Essay on Fiscal Federalism

    Wallace E. Oates

  • Environmental Economics: A Survey

    Maureen L. Cropper;Wallace E. Oates

  • Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?

    Karen Palmer;Wallace E. Oates;Paul R. Portney

  • The Effects of Property Taxes and Local Public Spending on Property Values: An Empirical Study of Tax Capitalization and the Tiebout Hypothesis

    Wallace E. Oates

  • The Use of Standards and Prices for Protection of the Environment

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

  • Economic competition among jurisdictions: efficiency enhancing or distortion inducing?

    Wallace E. Oates;Robert M. Schwab

  • Toward A Second-Generation Theory of Fiscal Federalism

    Wallace E. Oates

  • Measuring Peer Group Effects: A Study of Teenage Behavior

    William N. Evans;Wallace E. Oates;Robert M. Schwab

  • Searching for Leviathan: An Empirical Study.

    Wallace E Oates

  • Economics, environmental policy, and the quality of life

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

  • FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    Wallace E. Oates

  • Assistance to the poor in a federal system

    Charles C. Brown;Wallace E. Oates

  • THE RISING COST OF LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME EVIDENCE AND REFLECTIONS

    D. F. Bradford;R. A. Malt;W. E. Oates

  • Decentralization in the Public Sector: An Empirical Study of State and Local Government

    John Joseph Wallis;Wallace E Oates

  • The Political Economy of Environmental Policy

    Wallace E. Oates;Paul R. Portney

  • The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism

    Robert L. Bish;Wallace E. Oates

  • The Analysis of Revenue Sharing in a New Approach to Collective Fiscal Decisions

    David F. Bradford;Wallace E. Oates

  • On marketable air-pollution permits: The case for a system of pollution offsets

    Alan J Krupnick;Wallace E Oates;Eric Van De Verg

  • On The Evolution of Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Institutions

    Wallace E. Oates

  • The theory of environmental policy: Relevance and the theory of externalities

    William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Baumol
William J. Baumol New York University
H. Spencer Banzhaf
H. Spencer Banzhaf North Carolina State University
Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins Harvard University
David F. Bradford
David F. Bradford Princeton University
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
James N. Sanchirico
James N. Sanchirico University of California, Davis
Michael J. Boskin
Michael J. Boskin Stanford University
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University
John Joseph Wallis
John Joseph Wallis University of Maryland, College Park
V. Kerry Smith
V. Kerry Smith Arizona State University

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