Thomas Piketty

40.6k total citations · 13 hit papers
146 papers, 19.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Piketty is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Piketty has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 19.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 63 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 41 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in Thomas Piketty's work include Economic Theory and Policy (36 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (32 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (28 papers). Thomas Piketty is often cited by papers focused on Economic Theory and Policy (36 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (32 papers) and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (28 papers). Thomas Piketty collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Thomas Piketty's co-authors include Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Anthony B. Atkinson, Facundo Alvaredo, Stefanie Stantcheva, Lucas Chancel, Li Yang, Abhijit Banerjee, Philippe Aghion and Bertrand Garbinti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Piketty

130 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

Capital in the Twenty-First Century 1995 2026 2005 2015 2014 2003 2011 1995 2014 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    2014 6.5k citations Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press eBooks profile →
  2. Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998
    2003 2.2k citations Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez profile →
  3. Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
    2011 1.3k citations Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez et al. profile →
  4. Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics
    1995 773 citations Thomas Piketty profile →
  5. Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700–2010 *
    2014 654 citations Thomas Piketty et al. profile →
  6. Inequality in the long run
    2014 602 citations Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez profile →
  7. Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States*
    2017 514 citations Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez et al. profile →
  8. Capital in the 21st Century
    2015 481 citations Andrew Haldane, Orazio Attanasio et al. SSRN Electronic Journal profile →
  9. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    2017 417 citations Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press eBooks profile →
  10. The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
    2013 416 citations Facundo Alvaredo, Thomas Piketty et al. profile →
  11. Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities
    2014 368 citations Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez et al. profile →
  12. About Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    2015 275 citations Thomas Piketty profile →
  13. Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015
    2019 255 citations Thomas Piketty et al. profile →

Peers

Thomas Piketty
Edward L. Glaeser United States
Emmanuel Saez United States
Guido Tabellini Italy
Anthony B. Atkinson United Kingdom
Lawrence F. Katz United States
William Easterly United States
Axel Dreher Germany
Michael C. Munger United States
Simon Johnson United States
James A. Robinson United States
Edward L. Glaeser United States
Thomas Piketty
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Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Piketty

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Piketty

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Piketty. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Piketty based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Piketty. Thomas Piketty is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Piketty, Thomas & Yang Li. (2022). Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981–2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 2 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (2021). Time for Socialism. Yale University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Alvaredo, Facundo, et al.. (2018). Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990–2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?. Conicet. 47 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (2017). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press eBooks. 15 indexed citations
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Garbinti, Bertrand, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, & Thomas Piketty. (2017). Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France. Journal of the European Economic Association. 19(1). 620–663. 17 indexed citations
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Haldane, Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Timothy Besley, et al.. (2015). Capital in the 21st Century. SSRN Electronic Journal. 481 indexed citations breakdown →
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Piketty, Thomas. (2015). Capital, Inequality and Justice: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Basic Income Studies. 10(1). 141–156. 3 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (2014). Dynamics of Inequality. New left review. 2(85). 103–116.
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Piketty, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Measuring Top Incomes and Inequality in the Middle East: Data Limitations and Illustration with the Case of Egypt. SSRN Electronic Journal. 22 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (2014). La dinámica de la desigualdad: entrevista. New left review. 107–121. 1 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (2013). III. Les inégalités économiques sur longue période. Cairn.info. 56–78.
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Piketty, Thomas, et al.. (2013). The Return of Capital and the Growth of Inequality. Esprit. 85–95. 1 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas & Emmanuel Saez. (2012). A Theory of Optimal Inheritance Taxation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Landais, Camille, Thomas Piketty, & Emmanuel Saez. (2011). Pour une révolution fiscale : Un impôt sur le revenu pour le XXIe siècle. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Bozio, Antoine & Thomas Piketty. (2008). Pour un nouveau système de retraites: des comptes individuels de cotisations financés en répartition. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas, et al.. (2005). Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland Over the 20th Century. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 24 indexed citations
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Brun, Jean‐François, Patrick Guillaumont, J. Paul Gibson, et al.. (2005). The World Bank economic review 19 (1). The World Bank Economic Review. 19. 1–143. 2 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (2003). The Impact of Divorce on School Performance: Evidence from France, 1968-2002. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 36 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (1999). Les hauts revenus face aux modifications des taux marginaux supérieurs de l'impôt sur le revenu en France, 1970-1996. Économie & prévision. 138(2). 25–60. 13 indexed citations
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Piketty, Thomas. (1994). Inégalités et redistribution: développements théoriques récents.. Revue d économie politique. 104(6). 769–800. 4 indexed citations

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