Alpha in Academia
A curated newsletter featuring recent academic papers on financial markets, economics, and quantitative finance.
- Top in Finance
- #419
- Paid leaderboard
- #512
- Subscribers
- 9.0K
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Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
9.0K on Sep 10, 2026 → 9.0K on Oct 20, 2026
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #419 today · #460 a week ago · #406 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 41 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 80%
- Best rank seen
- #391
- Rank, 7 days
- +41 places
- Rank, 30 days
- −13 places
- Reactions per post
- 11
- Reactions tracked
- 131
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 21, 2026
average, recent posts
across 12 posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: Recent Academic Research — 14 reactions on Aug 24, 2026.
Recent posts
- Why Sophistication Isn't the Edge
- Recent Academic Research
- Where Compute Stopped Depreciating
- Recent Academic Research
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- Recent Academic Research
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- Recent Academic Research
- The Odds Lead the Tape
- Recent Academic Research
- Carry's Zero
- Recent Academic Research
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