Most-cited Economics papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Power-law distributions in empirical data
   Aaron J. Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi et al. · 2018 · 6,622 citations
2. The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment
   Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · 2018 · 3,101 citations · Free PDF
3. Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2017
   American Diabetes Association · 2018 · 2,531 citations
4. Robots at Work
   Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels · 2018 · 2,006 citations · Free PDF
5. Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change
   Johan Schot, W. Edward Steinmueller · 2018 · 1,806 citations
6. Measuring the Frequency Dynamics of Financial Connectedness and Systemic Risk*
   Jozef Baruník, Tomáš Křehlík · 2018 · 1,792 citations · Free PDF
7. Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
   Dave Donaldson · 2018 · 1,667 citations
8. Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries
   Irene Papanicolas, Liana Woskie et al. · 2018 · 1,633 citations · Free PDF
9. Democracy Does Cause Growth
   Daron Acemoğlu, Suresh Naidu et al. · 2018 · 1,556 citations
10. Mission-oriented innovation policies: challenges and opportunities
    Mariana Mazzucato · 2018 · 1,478 citations
11. Monetary Policy According to HANK
    Greg Kaplan, Benjamin Moll et al. · 2018 · 1,429 citations
12. Really Uncertain Business Cycles
    Nicholas Bloom, Max Floetotto et al. · 2018 · 1,160 citations · Free PDF
13. The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges
    Min Xu, Jeanne M. David et al. · 2018 · 1,151 citations
14. Global Economic Burden of Diabetes in Adults: Projections From 2015 to 2030
    Christian Bommer, Vera Sagalova et al. · 2018 · 1,133 citations
15. Replicating Anomalies
    Kewei Hou, Xue Chen et al. · 2018 · 1,073 citations
16. Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries
    Margaret E. Kruk, Anna Davies Gage et al. · 2018 · 1,046 citations
17. Deconstructing Monetary Policy Surprises: The Role of Information Shocks
    Marek Jarociński, Péter Karádi · 2018 · 1,020 citations
18. Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
    Nancy Fullman, Jamal Akeem Yearwood et al. · 2018 · 1,000 citations · Free PDF
19. Why Is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade
    Joseph Shapiro, Reed Walker · 2018 · 975 citations
20. Understanding Costs of Care in the Operating Room
    Christopher P. Childers, Melinda A Maggard-Gibbons · 2018 · 924 citations
21. The financial burden and distress of patients with cancer: Understanding and stepping‐up action on the financial toxicity of cancer treatment
    Pricivel M. Carrera, Hagop M. Kantarjian et al. · 2018 · 867 citations
22. Returns to investment in education: a decennial review of the global literature
    George Psacharopoulos, Harry Anthony Patrinos · 2018 · 855 citations
23. Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results
    Raphael Silberzahn, Eric Luis Uhlmann et al. · 2018 · 825 citations · Free PDF
24. Catastrophic health spending in Europe: equity and policy implications of different calculation methods
    Jonathan Cylus, Sarah Thomson et al. · 2018 · 821 citations · Free PDF
25. Volatility Is Rough
    Jim Gatheral, Thibault Jaisson et al. · 2018 · 803 citations · Free PDF

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