Professor Oskar Harmon has been recognized as among the top five most active and cited researchers publishing in the field of economics education. The ranking appears in the article “Identifying the Rising Stars of Economics Education,” published in The American Economist (2026) by Wayne Geerling, G. Dirk Mateer, and Jadrian Wooten.

The citation-based analysis examined papers published in academic journals endorsed by the American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic Education, with at least ten citations, focusing on topics related to teaching, pedagogy, and instructional practice. To measure recent scholarly impact, the study used citation counts from the five-year period 2020–2024.

Professor Harmon ranked 5th by total economics pedagogy citation count (724 citations) and 1st by citations per article (103).

The article may be accessed at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399996795_Identifying_the_Rising_Stars_of_Economics_Education

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