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E-MailStatistics released publicly by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) indicate that, as was the case at the end of each of the eight preceding years, Professor Lucian Bebchuk led SSRN citation rankings for law professors at the end of 2015. As of the end of December 2015, 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 second in 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 4,373 citations. His top ten papers in terms of citations are as follows:
- What Matters in Corporate Governance? (with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell) (442 citations)
- Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried) (310 citations)
- Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem (with Jesse Fried) (283 citations)
- Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried and David Walker) (226 citations)
- A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance (with Mark Roe) (188 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) (178 citations)
- A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control (158 citations)
- The Costs of Entrenched Boards (with Alma Cohen) (152 citations)
- The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power (132 citations)
- The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (with John Coates, IV and Guhan Subramanian) (98 citations)
SSRN is the leading electronic service for social science research, and its electronic library contains (as of December 2015) 539,398 full-text documents by 297,574 authors. SSRN’s rankings in terms of citations are available here and SSRN’s rankings in terms of downloads are available here.
