# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-nijkamp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:12:38.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-nijkamp"
name: "Peter Nijkamp"
slug: "peter-nijkamp"
description: "Peter Nijkamp is a Dutch economist, Professor of Regional Economics and Economic Geography at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and President of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). He is ranked among the top 100 economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc, and is by far the most prolific economist. Towards the end of his career at the VU university Nijkamp faced accusations of self-plagiarism and VU-appointed investigators have criticised referencing methods in some of his work."
tagline: "Dutch economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Nijkamp%2C_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.675198666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nijkamp"
    title: "Peter Nijkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%DA%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE"
    title: "پيتير نيچكامپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nijkamp"
    title: "Peter Nijkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Нейкамп, Питер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nijkamp"
    title: "Peter Nijkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nijkamp"
    title: "Peter Nijkamp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2077296"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump