Top institutions for Economics

93 institutions · Economics

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

1,210 researchers 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. National Bureau of Economic Research has the most (79, 6.5%), followed by London School of Economics and Political Science (37) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (26). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1National Bureau of Economic Research United States7978Barro, Robert T. #573
2London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom3737Besley, Timothy J. #1,444
3Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States2626Acemoglu, Daron #29
4Harvard University United States2424Shleifer, Andrei #168
5University of California, Berkeley United States2323Card, David E. #875
6The University of Chicago United States2121Heckman, James J. #283
7Stanford University United States2020Bloom, Nicholas Dagen #322
8Columbia University United States1717Stiglitz, Joseph E. #741
9Yale University United States1717Nordhaus, William D. #1,175
10Princeton University United States1717Krueger, Alan B. #2,721
11Northwestern University United States1313Manski, Charles F. #3,111
12New York University United States1312Easterly, William R. #4,788
13University of Oxford United Kingdom1212Hepburn, Cameron J. #12,277
14University of Michigan, Ann Arbor United States1010Page, Scott E. #8,021
15Duke University United States1010Kuran, Timur #21,193
16The University of Chicago Booth School of Business United States99Thaler, Richard H. #382
17MIT Sloan School of Management United States99Pindyck, Robert S. #11,120
18The World Bank, USA United States88Ravallion, Martin #2,952
19Brown University United States88La Porta, Rafael L. #2,961
20CEPR France88Jordà, Òscar #4,975
21John F. Kennedy School of Government United States77Rodrik, Dani #331
22Toulouse School of Economics - Recherche - (TSE-R) France77Tirole, Jean #1,503
23Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences United States77Stock, James H. #1,776
24University of California, San Diego United States77Hamilton, James D. #2,061
25University College London United Kingdom77Mazzucato, Mariana #2,088
26The University of British Columbia Canada77Nunn, Nathan #2,330
27University of Toronto Canada77Goldfarb, Avi #6,459
28Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Netherlands77Elhorst, Paul Paul #7,872
29The University of Queensland Australia77Coelli, Tim J. #19,014
30Johns Hopkins University United States77Carroll, Christopher D. #23,150
31Cornell University United States77Aker, Jenny C. #27,905
32Monash University Australia66Narayan, Paresh Kumar #1,709
33University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam66Canh, Phuc Nguyen #5,003
34University of Pennsylvania United States66Behrman, Jere Richard #23,275
35International Monetary Fund United States66Topalova, Petia #30,395
36University of California, Los Angeles United States66Bailey, Martha J. #34,463
37NBER United States55Glaeser, Edward #417
38Stanford Graduate School of Business United States55Lusardi, Annamaria #789
39Boston University United States55Fisman, Raymond J. #4,661
40Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania United States55Duranton, Gilles #7,280
41Ecole d’Économie de Paris France55Zucman, Gabriel #13,336
42University of Cambridge United Kingdom55Pitelis, Christos N. #30,444
43University of Maryland, College Park United States55Oates, Wallace E. #38,156
44Haas School of Business United States44Levine, Ross L. #266
45Georgetown University United States44Akerlof, George A. #1,534
46Universität Zürich Switzerland44Fehr, Ernst #1,639
47Columbia Business School United States44Jones, Charles I. #2,402
48Bank for International Settlements Switzerland44Claessens, Stijn #4,186
49CESifo GmbH Germany44Fischbacher, Urs #4,684
50Boston College United States44Romer, Paul M. #4,832
51Harvard Business School United States44Kerr, William R. #6,755
52Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Germany44Klasen, Stephan #10,599
53Universität Bonn Germany44Falk, Armin #10,955
54University of Wisconsin-Madison United States44Fletcher, Jason M. #17,942
55KU Leuven Belgium44Veugelers, Reinhilde #18,996
56UNSW Sydney Australia44Keane, Michael P. #31,007
57University of Birmingham United Kingdom44Strobl, Eric A. #34,760
58Carnegie Mellon University United States33Loewenstein, George F. #524
59Princeton School of Public and International Affairs United States33Krugman, Paul R. #974
60Santa Fe Institute United States33Jackson, Matthew O. #3,027
61UCL United Kingdom33Blundell, Richard W. #3,350
62Universität Basel Switzerland33Frey, Bruno S. #4,404
63Hoover Institution United States33Cochrane, John H. #5,879
64Peking University China33Lin, Justin Yifu #8,551
65University of Virginia United States33Ruhm, Christopher J. #9,688
66Universitetet i Oslo Norway33Fagerberg, Jan #15,497
67The University of Texas at Austin United States33Coibion, Olivier #16,841
68Dartmouth College United States33Dollar, David #18,263
69University of Minnesota Twin Cities United States33Croson, Rachel T.A. #18,739
70Leonard N. Stern School of Business United States33Baumol, William J. #20,329
71Centre for Economic Policy Research, London United Kingdom33Shin, Hyun Song #21,282
72University of Nottingham United Kingdom33Gächter, Simon #21,856
73Korea University South Korea33Lee, Jongwha #25,181
74University of Warwick United Kingdom33Becker, Sascha O. #28,118
75WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria33Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús #29,029
76Département d'Economie Sciences Po France33Guriev, Sergei #31,818
77The Australian National University Australia33Meng, Xin #32,776
78Max Planck Institute for Research On Collective Goods Germany33Sutter, Matthias #33,037
79Sciences Po Paris France33Chaney, Thomas #34,008
80Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel33Lavy, Victor #35,569
81Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago United States33Mazumder, Bhashkar #36,197
82SOAS University of London United Kingdom33Chang, Hajoon #38,971
83Purdue University United States33Hummels, David L. #40,503
84Georgia State University United States33Stephan, Paula E. #40,655
85UCLA Anderson School of Management United States33Benjamin, Daniel J. #46,670
86UBC Sauder School of Business Canada33Head, Keith #47,641
87National University of Singapore Singapore32Vu, Khuong M. #53,488
88London Business School United Kingdom33Papaioannou, Elias #55,357
89University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States33Deryugina, Tatyana #55,903
90University of Notre Dame United States33Johnson, Robert C. #56,187
91The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong33Kung, James Kai Sing #59,476
92Texas A&M University United States33Eckel, Catherine C. #60,303
93Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) Luxembourg33Di Pietro, Giorgio #60,531