Statistics released publicly by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) indicate that, as of the end of 2016, Professor Lucian Bebchuk continued to lead SSRN citation rankings for law professors. 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 third in the total number of downloads of his work on SSRN). Bebchuk has led the SSRN citation rankings for law professors at the end of each of the preceding nine years.
Professor Bebchuk’s works (available on his SSRN page here) have attracted a total of 4,413 citations. His top ten studies in terms of citations are as follows:
- What Matters in Corporate Governance? (with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell) (458 citations)
- Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried) (315 citations)
- Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem (with Jesse Fried) (282 citations)
- Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried and David Walker) (233 citations)
- A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance (with Mark Roe) (187 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) (177 citations)
- A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control (157 citations)
- The Costs of Entrenched Boards (with Alma Cohen) (156 citations)
- The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power (134 citations)
- The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (with John Coates, IV and Guhan Subramanian) (102 citations)
Bebchuk also ranks high in terms of downloads of his work. In this respect, as of the end of 2016, he ranked eighth among more than 300,000 authors whose work is available on SSRN. The aggregate number of downloads of his studies available on SSRN at the time was close to 250,000.
SSRN is the leading electronic service for social science research, and its electronic library contains (as of January 2017) 597,994 full-text documents by 327,576 authors. SSRN’s rankings in terms of citations and in terms of downloads are available here and here (sign in is required for the full list).