Daron Acemoğlu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who is a Turkish economist of Armenian descent living in the U.S., has topped the most influential list of 2,223 economists of the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) for his last 10 years’ of publications, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

Acemoğlu is followed by Andre Shleifer from Harvard University, James J. Heckman from University of Chicago and Robert Barro from Harvard University.

In 2010 Acemoğlu’s name was mentioned for the Nobel Prize.

The economist was born in 1967 in Istanbul. He received his BA in economics from the University of York, along with a Master of Science in mathematical economics and econometrics and PhD in economics at the London School of Economics.