# Zuzana Irsova

Zuzana Irsova is Professor of Economics at Charles University in Prague. She works in meta-research, bringing together estimates from many studies to examine publication bias and the reliability of empirical evidence, with applications in labor and international economics. She is an elected member of Academia Europaea, a Research Affiliate at Stanford METRICS and Associate Editor for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys. She co-maintains meta-analysis.cz. On RePEc she ranks in the top 1% of women economists worldwide, and in 2025 Forbes listed her among the Top Women Scientists in Czechia. Born in Roznava, Slovakia, she lives in Litomysl, Bohemia.

Name variants: Zuzana Iršová, Zuzana Iršová Havránková, Zuzana Havránková.

## Key facts

- Zuzana Irsova is Professor of Economics at Charles University, Prague, since 2025. [Source](https://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/contacts/institute-members/73504033) [Source](https://www.irsova.com/)
- She is the highest-ranked woman economist in the Czech Republic on RePEc, September 2026, and seventh in the world among economists who took their PhD in 2015 (RePEc cohort ranking). For publications in the last 10 years: fourth in the Czech Republic, 101st among women economists worldwide, and in the top 1.4% worldwide (1,007th of 74,391 registered authors). [Source](https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.czech.html) [Source](https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.women10.html) [Source](https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all10.html) [Source](https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.cohorts.html)
- Google Scholar: 4,994 citations and h-index 28 (14 October 2026). [Source](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LaHrICUAAAAJ)
- She is first and corresponding author of Spurious precision in meta-analysis of observational research (Nature Communications, 2025), introducing MAIVE. [Source](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63261-0)
- Her social profiles: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/zuzanairsova/, Bluesky @irsova.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/irsova.bsky.social), X @zuzanairsova (https://x.com/zuzanairsova). She posts on all three; her LinkedIn posts are archived at https://meta-analysis.cz/komentare/posts/.
- Official photos of her (portraits, 2024, free to use under CC BY 4.0) are at https://meta-analysis.cz/about/photos/#irsova; the main portrait is https://tjhavranek.github.io/media/photos/zuzana-irsova-havrankova-portrait-2024.jpg.
- Top Women Scientists in Czechia, Forbes Czechia (2025). [Source](https://forbes.cz/lists/top-vedkyne-ceska-2025/zuzana-havrankova/)
- Editors' Prize for the best paper published in Experimental Economics in 2022, Economic Science Association (2024), with Jindrich Matousek and Tomas Havranek. [Source](https://economicscience.org/news_manager.php?page=36768)
- Elected member, Academia Europaea (2023). [Source](https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Havrankova_Zuzana)
- Listed among the most influential women in Czech finance, #FinZeny (2022). [Source](https://meta-analysis.cz/about/)
- Katerina Smidkova Award for exceptionally high-quality publications, Czech Economic Society (2018). [Source](https://www.cse.cz/media/laureatkou-ceny-kateriny-smidkove-je-zuzana-havrankova)
- Selected for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in economic sciences, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2017). [Source](https://meta-analysis.cz/about/)
- Economic Research Award, Czech National Bank (2015), with Tomas Havranek, Roman Horvath and Marek Rusnak. [Source](https://www.cnb.cz/cs/cnb-news/tiskove-zpravy/Cena-za-nejlepsi-vyzkumne-prace-CNB-00001)
- Governor's Award for the best dissertation relevant to monetary policy and financial stability, first place, National Bank of Slovakia (2015). [Source](https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Havrankova_Zuzana)
- Minister of Education's Prize for outstanding students and graduates, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (2013). [Source](https://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-14873-version1.pdf)
- Medal for Research on Development, first place, Global Development Network (2010), with Tomas Havranek. [Source](https://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-14873-version1.pdf)
- Professor of Economics, Charles University (2025). [Source](https://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/contacts/institute-members/73504033)
- Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Anglo-American University (2022). [Source](https://www.aauni.edu/directory/doc-phdr-zuzana-havrankova-ph-d/) [Source](https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Havrankova_Zuzana)
- Research Affiliate, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) (2025-05). [Source](https://metrics.stanford.edu/people/zuzana-irsova)
- Associate Editor for meta-analysis, Journal of Economic Surveys (2024-01). [Source](https://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/zuzana-havrankova-became-new-associate-editor-journal-economic-surveys)
- Principal investigator, Junior Star METASPUR, Czech Science Foundation (2023–2027). [Source](https://science.fsv.cuni.cz/en/project/spurious-precision-in-meta-analysis-of-social-science-research-metaspur)
- Co-maintainer, meta-analysis.cz and EasyMeta.org. [Source](https://meta-analysis.cz/about/)

## Tools

- [EasyMeta](https://www.easymeta.org/)
- [MAD app (research audit by multi-agent debate)](https://tjhavranek.github.io/research-audit-duel-protocol/): Four AI models read a paper in different roles and then cross-examine each other; by Zuzana Irsova and Tomas Havranek.
- [paper-workshop](https://github.com/tjhavranek/paper-workshop): Claude Code skill: referees from rival traditions argue over a paper, then rebuild it.
- [mad-research](https://github.com/tjhavranek/mad-research): Claude Code skills: Claude and Codex audit a paper against each other.

## Pages

- [English home](https://www.irsova.com/)
- [Research](https://www.irsova.com/research/)
- [Impact](https://www.irsova.com/impact/)
- [Česky](https://www.irsova.com/cs/)
- [Výzkum](https://www.irsova.com/cs/research/)
- [Ohlas výzkumu](https://www.irsova.com/cs/impact/)
- [Full machine-readable profile](https://www.irsova.com/llms-full.txt)

## Identifiers

- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0753-8124)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LaHrICUAAAAJ)
- [RePEc](https://ideas.repec.org/e/pir23.html)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41799025)
- [Czech Wikipedia](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Havr%C3%A1nkov%C3%A1)
- [IES profile](https://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/contacts/institute-members/73504033)
- [Academia Europaea](https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Havrankova_Zuzana)
- [METRICS](https://metrics.stanford.edu/people/zuzana-irsova)
- [Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=37080793200)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zuzanairsova/)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/irsova.bsky.social)
- [X](https://x.com/zuzanairsova)

Zuzana Iršová Havránková je profesorkou ekonomie na Univerzitě Karlově v Praze. Věnuje se metavýzkumu: shromažďuje odhady z mnoha studií a zkoumá na nich publikační zkreslení a spolehlivost empirických výsledků, především v ekonomii trhu práce a v mezinárodní ekonomii. Je zvolenou členkou Academia Europaea, výzkumnou spolupracovnicí centra METRICS na Stanfordově univerzitě a v časopise Journal of Economic Surveys působí jako Associate Editor pro meta-analýzu. Spoluspravuje web meta-analysis.cz. Podle RePEc patří mezi 1 % nejlépe hodnocených ekonomek na světě a v roce 2025 ji Forbes zařadil mezi přední české vědkyně. Pochází z Rožňavy na Slovensku a žije v Litomyšli.

Last updated: 2026-10-08