Bebchuk Leads SSRN’s 2014 Citation Rankings

Statistics released publicly by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) indicate that, as was the case at the end of each of the seven preceding years, Professor Lucian Bebchuk led SSRN citation rankings for law professors at the end of 2014. As of the end of December 2014, Bebchuk ranked first among all law school professors in all fields in terms of the total number of citations to his work (as well as the total number of downloads of his work on SSRN).

Professor Bebchuk’s papers (available on his SSRN page here) have attracted a total of 4,314 citations. His top ten papers in terms of citations are as follows:

• What Matters in Corporate Governance? (with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell) (463 citations)
• Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried) (320 citations)
• Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem (with Jesse Fried) (295 citations)
• Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried and David Walker) (237 citations)
• Stock Pyramids, Cross-Ownership, and Dual Class Equity: The Creation and Agency Costs of Separating Control from Cash Flow Rights (with Reinier Kraakman and George Triantis) (180 citations)
• A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance (with Mark Roe) (178 citations)
• The Costs of Entrenched Boards (with Alma Cohen) (162 citations)
• A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control (155 citations)
• The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power (129 citations)
• The Growth of Executive Pay (with Yaniv Grinstein) (99 citations)

SSRN is the leading electronic service for social science research, and its electronic library contains (as of December 2014) 482,500 full-text documents by 269,400 authors. SSRN’s rankings in terms of citations are available here and SSRN’s rankings in terms of downloads are available here.