top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Economics

2025 single-year list · 1,210 listed authors · Economics & Business

1,210 researchers whose main subfield is Economics, part of Economics & Business, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 54,592 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 1,190 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,210
2.22% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
54,592
Median citations
18
top 1% from 620 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#29
Acemoglu, Daron

Top countries

  1. United States62151%
  2. United Kingdom13311%
  3. Germany454%
  4. Australia434%
  5. France383%
  6. China363%
  7. Italy262%
  8. Canada242%
  9. Switzerland232%
  10. Netherlands192%

Top institutions

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research797%
  2. London School of Economics and Political Science373%
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology262%
  4. Harvard University242%
  5. University of California, Berkeley232%
  6. The University of Chicago212%
  7. Stanford University202%
  8. Columbia University171%
  9. Yale University171%
  10. Princeton University171%

1,210 listed scientists in Economics

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