This paper presents an update of an earlier paper published in the Journal of Finance Literature [Cooley and Heck, 2005] that ranked authors over an earlier 50-year period. There is a remarkable group of prolific authors detailed in this study update: included are 977 prolific authors with 6 or...

The prolific authors identified in this study are truly remarkable: 332 prolific authors in seven leading finance journals, 350 prolific authors in sixteen core finance journals, and 367 prolific authors in all of the 72 finance journals examined. These authors demonstrate great durability in...