Bebchuk Leads SSRN’s 2017 Citation Rankings

Statistics released publicly by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) indicate that, as of the end of 2017, 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. Bebchuk has led the SSRN citation rankings for law professors at the end of each of the preceding ten years.

Professor Bebchuk’s works (available on his SSRN page here) have attracted a total of 4,411 citations. His top ten studies in terms of citations are as follows:

• What Matters in Corporate Governance? (with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell) (459 citations)
• Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried) (316 citations)
• Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem (with Jesse Fried) (281 citations)
• Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation (with Jesse Fried and David Walker) (230 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 (157 citations)
• The Costs of Entrenched Boards (with Alma Cohen) (155 citations)
• The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power (133 citations)
• The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Theory, Evidence, and Policy (with John Coates, IV and Guhan Subramanian) (103 citations)

Bebchuk also ranks high in terms of downloads of his work. In this respect, as of the end of 2017, he ranked eleventh among more than 360,000 authors whose work is available on SSRN. The aggregate number of downloads of his studies available on SSRN at the time was more than 260,000.

SSRN is the leading electronic service for social science research, and its electronic library contains (as of January 2018) 657,934 full-text documents by 361,216 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).