Top 5% Top Level Institutions (Last 10 Years Publications), as of March 2025
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This ranking is drawn from 4819 institutions. For more details about the methodology used for classifying institutions, see here.Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | 1 | Federal Reserve System (United States) | 1.14 | 874.11 | 2 | University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 3.12 | 183.16 | 3 | Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.15 | 190.68 | 4 | London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 4.85 | 268.32 | 5 | World Bank Group Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 6.54 | 607.37 | 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 6.64 | 518.96 | 7 | Stanford University Stanford, California (United States) | 7.59 | 127.83 | 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 8.68 | 108.49 | 9 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (United States) | 9.32 | 142.95 | 10 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 9.61 | 120.73 | 11 | European Central Bank Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10.96 | 256.61 | 12 | Yale University New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 14.7 | 103.79 | 13 | Paris School of Economics Paris, France | 15.67 | 186.41 | 14 | Columbia University New York City, New York (United States) | 16.31 | 143.69 | 15 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 19.8 | 146.75 | 16 | Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Basel, Switzerland | 20.33 | 99.27 | 17 | Banca d'Italia Roma, Italy | 21.13 | 333.57 | 18 | Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 21.67 | 59.57 | 19 | Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom | 22.1 | 231.52 | 20 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 22.69 | 157.39 | 21 | Government of the United States Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 23.13 | 479.31 | 22 | Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 23.42 | 96.22 | 23 | New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (United States) | 25.39 | 122.16 | 24 | University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom | 26.46 | 132.53 | 25 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Barcelona, Spain | 26.77 | 162.46 | 26 | Cornell University Ithaca, New York (United States) | 29.13 | 113.22 | 27 | Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn, Germany | 30.76 | 163.74 | 28 | University of Toronto Toronto, Canada | 33.19 | 138.31 | 29 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) | 34.19 | 98.9 | 30 | Sciences Po Paris, France | 34.28 | 95.07 | 31 | European Commission Sevilla, Spain | 34.55 | 355.78 | 32 | Monash University Melbourne, Australia | 34.8 | 160.1 | 33 | Universität Zürich Zürich, Switzerland | 36.3 | 166.8 | 34 | Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 39.67 | 108 | 35 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, California (United States) | 39.95 | 128.78 | 36 | University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom | 40.23 | 138.35 | 37 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Toulouse, France | 43.38 | 158.29 | 37 | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California (United States) | 43.38 | 87.77 | 39 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) La Jolla, California (United States) | 43.89 | 66.67 | 40 | Australian National University Canberra, Australia | 44.3 | 188.57 | 41 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Bologna, Italy | 45.72 | 206 | 42 | Bank of England London, United Kingdom | 46.22 | 209.92 | 43 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. München, Germany | 47.72 | 116.05 | 44 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia Bogotá, Colombia | 47.9 | 113.77 | 45 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST) Palaiseau, France | 51.08 | 90.04 | 46 | University of Texas-Austin Austin, Texas (United States) | 53.71 | 76.67 | 47 | Banque de France Paris, France | 53.73 | 182.77 | 48 | University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom | 55.87 | 116.71 | 49 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 56.28 | 193.08 | 50 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) Paris, France | 57.03 | 238.12 | 51 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States) | 58.65 | 125.73 | 52 | "Sapienza" Università di Roma Roma, Italy | 58.71 | 223.58 | 53 | Duke University Durham, North Carolina (United States) | 59.05 | 76.64 | 54 | Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire (United States) | 59.51 | 52.46 | 55 | Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 60.53 | 64.46 | 56 | Banco de España Madrid, Spain | 60.82 | 150.68 | 57 | Bank of Canada Ottawa, Canada | 62.49 | 182.26 | 58 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) Berlin, Germany | 62.51 | 104.63 | 59 | University of California-Davis Davis, California (United States) | 65.18 | 81.46 | 60 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) London, United Kingdom | 68.24 | 56.07 | 61 | University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana (United States) | 68.36 | 69.16 | 62 | Queen Mary University of London London, United Kingdom | 70.05 | 87.71 | 63 | National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore, Singapore | 70.34 | 96.51 | 64 | Università degli Studi di Torino Torino, Italy | 70.38 | 115.8 | 65 | Københavns Universitet København, Denmark | 70.4 | 109.63 | 66 | Deutsche Bundesbank Frankfurt, Germany | 72.19 | 173.06 | 67 | University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada | 72.72 | 87.77 | 68 | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, Netherlands | 75.85 | 100.24 | 69 | Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China | 76.01 | 42.43 | 70 | University of Maryland College Park, Maryland (United States) | 77.14 | 93.18 | 71 | KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium | 79.01 | 127.02 | 72 | Stockholms Universitet Stockholm, Sweden | 79.9 | 102.74 | 73 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland (United States) | 80.22 | 65.13 | 74 | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands | 81.86 | 156.22 | 75 | Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 82.78 | 106.8 | 76 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) Bergen, Norway | 82.8 | 121.84 | 77 | London Business School (LBS) London, United Kingdom | 83.36 | 29.23 | 78 | Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan (United States) | 85.59 | 119.9 | 79 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin (United States) | 86.5 | 92.04 | 80 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Germany | 88.88 | 83.54 | 81 | Imperial College London, United Kingdom | 89.53 | 52.72 | 82 | University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia | 91.36 | 116.31 | 83 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 91.69 | 122.9 | 84 | University of Sydney Sydney, Australia | 91.83 | 118.68 | 85 | Universitetet i Oslo Oslo, Norway | 92.15 | 79.75 | 86 | Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio (United States) | 95.15 | 86.54 | 87 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain | 96.9 | 110.26 | 88 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy | 99.25 | 89.8 | 89 | University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom | 100.33 | 106.84 | 90 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 102.5 | 93.78 | 91 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Bonn, Germany | 103.33 | 74.99 | 92 | University of Georgia Athens, Georgia (United States) | 103.59 | 73.5 | 93 | Georgetown University Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 104.36 | 74.21 | 94 | University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 106.01 | 75.34 | 95 | Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) Wien, Austria | 106.22 | 54.36 | 96 | University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom | 106.29 | 105.88 | 97 | Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim, Germany | 110.88 | 155.96 | 98 | Texas A&M University College Station, Texas (United States) | 111.99 | 107.46 | 99 | Universiteit van Tilburg Tilburg, Netherlands | 112.02 | 134.06 | 100 | Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands | 112.75 | 74.66 | 101 | Univerzita Karlova v Praze Praha, Czech Republic | 112.9 | 118.61 | 102 | Aarhus Universitet Aarhus, Denmark | 115.16 | 102.31 | 103 | Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 115.64 | 118.78 | 104 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia (United States) | 115.68 | 71.07 | 105 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Madrid, Spain | 116.86 | 28.67 | 106 | Universität Mannheim Mannheim, Germany | 118.13 | 76.32 | 107 | Uniwersytet Warszawski Warszawa, Poland | 118.37 | 188.26 | 108 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, California (United States) | 119.2 | 59.3 | 109 | UNSW Sydney Sydney, Australia | 119.29 | 81.8 | 110 | Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain | 120.68 | 136.48 | 111 | Universiteit Gent Gent, Belgium | 123.19 | 128.04 | 112 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri (United States) | 124.82 | 62.73 | 113 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) Zürich, Switzerland | 127.01 | 83.49 | 113 | Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland | 127.01 | 56.2 | 115 | Aix-Marseille Université Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France | 128 | 114.04 | 116 | Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 128.86 | 78.41 | 117 | WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Wien, Austria | 129.32 | 94.37 | 118 | Emory University Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 130.3 | 31.94 | 119 | Xiamen University Fujian, China | 131.25 | 48.83 | 120 | Tsinghua University Beijing, China | 131.33 | 61.2 | 121 | Lunds Universitet Lund, Sweden | 132.2 | 132.88 | 122 | Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 132.57 | 97.77 | 123 | Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden | 132.62 | 52.6 | 124 | Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands | 134.22 | 139.2 | 125 | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 135.79 | 75.56 | 126 | Inter-American Development Bank Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 135.84 | 168.14 | 127 | Montpellier Business School Montpellier, France | 136.53 | 10.11 | 128 | University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom | 137.4 | 104.67 | 129 | Peking University Beijing, China | 137.47 | 82.69 | 130 | Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" Roma, Italy | 138.81 | 107.29 | 131 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 139.29 | 52.27 | 132 | University of Western Ontario London, Canada | 139.81 | 58.89 | 133 | Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles, Belgium | 140.1 | 149.96 | 134 | HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Jouy-en-Josas, France | 140.4 | 40.85 | 135 | Lebanese American University Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon | 144.76 | 23.08 | 136 | Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Paris, France | 148.84 | 158.25 | 137 | Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal | 149.02 | 141.71 | 138 | University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong | 151.67 | 30.98 | 139 | University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa | 154.42 | 33.81 | 140 | University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia | 155.44 | 107.74 | 141 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) | 155.57 | 39.67 | 142 | National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Moscow, Russia | 155.86 | 469.92 | 143 | Université de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland | 157.3 | 54.26 | 144 | Universität zu Köln Köln, Germany | 158.32 | 59.48 | 145 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) Stockholm, Sweden | 158.42 | 75.31 | 146 | CESifo München, Germany | 159.35 | 43.39 | 147 | Universität St. Gallen Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 160.13 | 98.79 | 148 | Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) Bern/Zürich, Switzerland | 160.63 | 140.34 | 149 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace Stanford, California (United States) | 161.22 | 13.74 | 150 | King's College London London, United Kingdom | 161.73 | 67.8 | 151 | Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) Paris, France | 162.11 | 126.69 | 152 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (United States) | 162.54 | 51.45 | 153 | Università degli Studi di Milano Milano, Italy | 163.79 | 69.41 | 154 | University of Rochester Rochester, New York (United States) | 165.08 | 38.6 | 155 | University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland | 165.47 | 71.87 | 156 | Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona (United States) | 166.2 | 58.07 | 157 | University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) Santa Cruz, California (United States) | 167.28 | 46.85 | 158 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen, Germany | 169.96 | 67.91 | 159 | University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom | 170.22 | 105.62 | 160 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF) Roma, Italy | 174.77 | 23.54 | 161 | BI Handelshøyskolen Oslo, Norway | 174.83 | 51.37 | 162 | Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW) Kiel, Germany | 175.13 | 62.07 | 163 | Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 175.29 | 40.1 | 164 | University of York York, United Kingdom | 176.32 | 104.2 | 165 | University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom | 178.01 | 69.95 | 166 | Deakin University Melbourne, Australia | 181.85 | 75.08 | 167 | University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom | 182.1 | 71.66 | 168 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy | 183.5 | 40.6 | 169 | Università degli Studi di Padova Padova, Italy | 184.07 | 63.1 | 169 | University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom | 184.07 | 50.9 | 171 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States) | 184.25 | 51.42 | 172 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) Nürnberg, Germany | 184.27 | 63.73 | 173 | University of Western Australia Perth, Australia | 188.89 | 50.34 | 174 | University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia | 189.34 | 91.59 | 175 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) Napoli, Italy | 191.85 | 54.13 | 176 | Academia Romana Bucureşti, Romania | 193.41 | 160.21 | 177 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) Chengdu, China | 194.78 | 60.45 | 178 | Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) Bogotá, Colombia | 196.34 | 95.77 | 179 | University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Santa Barbara, California (United States) | 198.14 | 32.67 | 180 | Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Athens, Greece | 198.98 | 93.81 | 181 | Renmin University of China Beijing, China | 199.49 | 95.62 | 182 | de Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, Netherlands | 199.62 | 77.61 | 183 | Queen's University Kingston, Canada | 200.61 | 66.16 | 184 | Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Canada | 202.18 | 64.23 | 185 | George Washington University Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 203.96 | 90.64 | 186 | McGill University Montréal, Canada | 204.72 | 42.26 | 187 | Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 207.28 | 33.33 | 188 | Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz Linz, Austria | 208.01 | 64.59 | 189 | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 208.12 | 37.24 | 190 | African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) Yaoundé, Cameroun | 208.32 | 5.02 | 191 | Universität Bern Bern, Switzerland | 209.33 | 46.02 | 192 | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Venezia, Italy | 209.82 | 142.92 | 193 | Fudan University Shanghai, China | 211.27 | 52.87 | 194 | University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan | 212.87 | 62.63 | 195 | Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti Bucureşti, Romania | 213.11 | 315.03 | 196 | European University Institute Firenze, Italy | 214.84 | 42.65 | 197 | Université de Bordeaux Bordeaux, France | 217.32 | 105.46 | 198 | University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona (United States) | 217.98 | 51.1 | 199 | Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza, Spain | 219.03 | 87.99 | 200 | Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada | 219.83 | 54.93 | 201 | Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) São Paulo, Brazil | 220.16 | 61.58 | 202 | Keio University Tokyo, Japan | 221.57 | 63.78 | 203 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Genève, Switzerland | 222.59 | 54.04 | 204 | University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom | 223.63 | 57.72 | 205 | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Milano, Italy | 224.36 | 71.8 | 206 | University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada | 224.51 | 83.63 | 207 | Uppsala Universitet Uppsala, Sweden | 225.2 | 60.97 | 208 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal | 226.87 | 86.65 | 209 | University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom | 227.65 | 58.19 | 210 | University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom | 227.75 | 69.22 | 211 | Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania (United States) | 228.07 | 61.55 | 212 | University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky (United States) | 228.14 | 64.52 | 213 | Università degli Studi di Firenze Firenze, Italy | 228.37 | 94.05 | 214 | University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut (United States) | 228.4 | 81.8 | 214 | Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 228.4 | 71.48 | 216 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah (United States) | 229.26 | 43.97 | 217 | Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Moscow, Russia | 230.71 | 191.4 | 218 | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) Roma, Italy | 230.95 | 48.97 | 219 | Lille Économie et Management (LEM) Lille, France | 231.78 | 108.87 | 220 | University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand | 232.53 | 44.41 | 221 | HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Montréal, Canada | 233 | 41.89 | 222 | Universität Hamburg Hamburg, Germany | 236.75 | 85.67 | 223 | University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam | 237.63 | 19.68 | 224 | Università degli Studi Roma Tre Roma, Italy | 240.87 | 69.74 | 225 | University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado (United States) | 240.96 | 40.78 | 226 | New York University Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 241.86 | 51.6 | 227 | University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee (United States) | 243.01 | 54.11 | 228 | Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie Warszawa, Poland | 243.23 | 113.43 | 229 | Resources for the Future (RFF) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 245.2 | 48.53 | 230 | University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom | 246.98 | 46.23 | 231 | Swiss Finance Institute Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 251.54 | 12.62 | 232 | Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Moscow, Russia | 252.77 | 97.03 | 233 | Seoul National University Seoul, South Korea | 253.1 | 46.46 | 234 | Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin, Ireland | 253.25 | 67.22 | 235 | Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany | 255.41 | 50.26 | 236 | Universität Wien Wien, Austria | 257.34 | 61.08 | 237 | City University of New York (CUNY) New York City, New York (United States) | 257.38 | 85.6 | 238 | University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece | 258.29 | 68.2 | 239 | Carleton University Ottawa, Canada | 258.65 | 62.98 | 240 | Université de Genève Genève, Switzerland | 259.13 | 37.65 |
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