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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Economics?

133 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Economics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 59 countries in the subfield. 131 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). London School of Economics and Political Science has the most (37), followed by University of Oxford (12) and University College London (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
133
0.7% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
131
98.5% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 59 countries in Economics
Highest-ranked
#1,444
Besley, Timothy J.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1London School of Economics and Political Science3737#2Besley, Timothy J. #1,444
2University of Oxford1212#13Hepburn, Cameron J. #12,277
3University College London77#25Mazzucato, Mariana #2,088
4University of Cambridge55#42Pitelis, Christos N. #30,444
5University of Birmingham44#57Strobl, Eric A. #34,760
6UCL33#61Blundell, Richard W. #3,350
7Centre for Economic Policy Research, London33#71Shin, Hyun Song #21,282
8University of Nottingham33#72Gächter, Simon #21,856
9University of Warwick33#74Becker, Sascha O. #28,118
10SOAS University of London33#82Chang, Hajoon #38,971
11London Business School33#88Papaioannou, Elias #55,357

The top 100 in Economics in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Besley, Timothy J.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  2. 2
    Stern, Nicholas H.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  3. 3
    Aghion, Philippe
    London School of Economics and Political ScienceNobel laureate
  4. 4
    Mazzucato, Mariana
    University College London
  5. 5
    Bowles, Samuel
    University College London
  6. 6
    Gozgor, Giray
    University of Bradford School of Management
  7. 7
  8. 8
    Neumayer, Eric
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  9. 9
    Dunning, John H.
    University of Reading
  10. 10
    van Reenen, John V.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  11. 11
    Henderson, J. Vernon
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  12. 12
    Dustmann, Christian
    University College London
  13. 13
    Collier, Paul
    University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government
  14. 14
    Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin
    Loughborough University
  15. 15
    Hepburn, Cameron J.
    University of Oxford
  16. 16
    Manning, Alan
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  17. 17
    Bolton, Patrick
    Imperial College Business School
  18. 18
    Vives, Xavier
    Bayes Business School, City University of London
  19. 19
    Atkinson, Anthony Barnes
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  20. 20
    Stockhammer, Engelbert
    King's College London
  21. 21
    Gollin, Douglas
    University of Oxford
  22. 22
    Djankov, Simeon
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  23. 23
    Dasgupta, Partha Sarathi
    St. John's College Cambridge
  24. 24
    Sugden, Robert
    University of East Anglia, Faculty of Social Sciences
  25. 25
    Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska
    University of Oxford
  26. 26
    David, Paul A.
    University of Oxford
  27. 27
    Parker, Simon Charles
    University of Aberdeen
  28. 28
    Frey, Carl Benedikt
    University of Oxford
  29. 29
    Daly, Mary C.
    University of Oxford
  30. 30
    Venables, Anthony J.
    The University of Manchester
  31. 31
    Pritchett, Lant H.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  32. 32
    Oswald, Andrew J.
    University of Oxford
  33. 33
    Shin, Hyun Song
    Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
  34. 34
    Gächter, Simon
    University of Nottingham
  35. 35
    Wade, Robert Hunter
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  36. 36
    Armstrong, Mark
    University College London
  37. 37
    Nasir, Muhammad Ali
    University of Leeds
  38. 38
    GREEN, FRANCIS
    University College London
  39. 39
    Smith, Ron P.
    Birkbeck, University of London
  40. 40
    Becker, Sascha O.
    University of Warwick
  41. 41
    Persson, Torsten
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  42. 42
    Young, Alwyn
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  43. 43
    Newbery, David Michael G.
    Faculty of Economics
  44. 44
    Éstrin, Saul
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  45. 45
    Pitelis, Christos N.
    University of Cambridge
  46. 46
    Lawson, Tony
    Faculty of Economics
  47. 47
    Fratzscher, Marcel
    Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
  48. 48
    Machin, Stephen J.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  49. 49
    Milanović, Branko
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  50. 50
    Doepke, Matthias
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  51. 51
    Bandiera, Oriana
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  52. 52
    Strobl, Eric A.
    University of Birmingham
  53. 53
    Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard
    University of Cambridge
  54. 54
    Freeman, Christopher
    University of Sussex
  55. 55
    Chang, Hajoon
    SOAS University of London
  56. 56
    Caselli, Francesco
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  57. 57
    Knight, John B.
    University of Oxford
  58. 58
    Ehigiamusoe, Kizito Uyi
    University of Southampton
  59. 59
    Drydakis, Nick
    Anglia Ruskin University
  60. 60
    Adeleye, Bosede Ngozi
    University of Lincoln
  61. 61
    Campiglio, Emanuele
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  62. 62
    Pischke, Jörn-Steffen Steffen
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  63. 63
    Michaels, Guy
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  64. 64
    Hatton, Timothy T.
    University of Essex
  65. 65
    Hoekman, Bernard M.
    Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
  66. 66
    Rikap, Cecilia
    University College London
  67. 67
    Klemperer, Paul D.
    University of Oxford
  68. 68
    Psacharopoulos, G.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  69. 69
    Yao, Shu Jie
    Middlesex University Business School
  70. 70
    Reis, Ricardo
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  71. 71
  72. 72
    Guariglia, Alessandra
    University of Birmingham
  73. 73
    Gibbons, Stephen
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  74. 74
    Rehman, Mobeen Ur
    Keele Business School
  75. 75
  76. 76
    Love, James H.
    Leeds University Business School
  77. 77
    Goodhart, Charles A.E.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  78. 78
    De Grauwe, Paul
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  79. 79
    Papaioannou, Elias
    London Business School
  80. 80
    Ashraf, Nava
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  81. 81
    Eberhardt, Markus
    University of Nottingham
  82. 82
    Griffith, Rachel
    The Institute for Fiscal Studies
  83. 83
    Gathergood, John
    University of Nottingham
  84. 84
    Johnes, Jill
    Huddersfield Business School
  85. 85
    Costa-Font, Joan I.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  86. 86
    Bhalotra, Sonia R.
    University of Warwick
  87. 87
    Crafts, Nicholas F.R.
    University of Sussex
  88. 88
    Tsionas, Efthymios G.
    Lancaster University Management School
  89. 89
    Santos-Silva, João M.C.
    University of Surrey
  90. 90
  91. 91
    Fetzer, Thiemo
    University of Warwick
  92. 92
    Ghatak, Maitreesh
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  93. 93
    Layard, Richard
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  94. 94
    Nickell, Stephen J.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  95. 95
    Reinsberg, Bernhard
    University of Glasgow
  96. 96
    Jaravel, Xavier
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  97. 97
    Petrongolo, Barbara
    University of Oxford
  98. 98
    Cowell, Frank A.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  99. 99
    Mallick, Sushanta Kumar
    Queen Mary University of London
  100. 100
    Tenreyro, Silvana
    London School of Economics and Political Science

133 listed scientists in Economics in the United Kingdom

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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