Research Collaboration Index · 2026

Boston University

North America · Platinum standing

#71World rank
87.8RCI score
1,129Collaborating institutions
80Partner countries
45,462Joint works, 5 yr
3.58FWCI

Strongest in Economics, Econometrics & Finance, at #43 in the world.

The profile

Collaboration profile

94Influence
86Brokerage
89Reach
90Diversity
89Sustained
93Impact
58International

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The researchers behind the standing

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Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Economics

Kotlikoff is a leading public finance economist whose generational accounting framework changed how governments measure fiscal sustainability. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, his work on inequality, Social Security and personal finance reaches policymakers and households alike through widely used planning tools.

Adnan A. Hyder

Adnan A. Hyder

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Hyder became Dean of Boston University School of Public Health in 2025 after a quarter century improving health systems in low and middle income countries. He pioneered global road safety and injury prevention research across Africa, Asia and Latin America, advising WHO and national governments on saving lives.

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Professor and Director of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Spiliopoulos directs Boston University's statistics programme and works at the interface of probability, stochastic processes and machine learning. His mean field analysis of deep neural networks gives rigorous mathematical foundations to modern AI training, with applications spanning financial risk, multiscale systems and reaction diffusion models in biology.

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