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Top 5% Top Level Institutions (Last 10 Years Publications), as of January 2025
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For more details about the methodology used for classifying institutions, see here.| Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | 1 | Federal Reserve System (United States) | 1.14 | 868.6 | 2 | University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 3.18 | 182.16 | 3 | Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.01 | 190.73 | 4 | London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 4.79 | 272.32 | 5 | World Bank Group Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 6.59 | 605.96 | 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 6.67 | 512.95 | 7 | Stanford University Stanford, California (United States) | 7.62 | 124.83 | 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 8.64 | 109.48 | 9 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (United States) | 9.32 | 142.45 | 10 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 9.49 | 120.33 | 11 | European Central Bank Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 11.01 | 255.38 | 12 | Yale University New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 14.61 | 99.81 | 13 | Paris School of Economics Paris, France | 16.29 | 184.7 | 14 | Columbia University New York City, New York (United States) | 16.32 | 143.89 | 15 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 19.93 | 144 | 16 | Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Basel, Switzerland | 20.04 | 96.77 | 17 | Banca d'Italia Roma, Italy | 21.54 | 331.07 | 18 | Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 21.61 | 58.53 | 19 | Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom | 21.98 | 230.02 | 20 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 22.63 | 152.39 | 21 | Government of the United States Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 23.1 | 476.31 | 22 | Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 23.7 | 94.72 | 23 | New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (United States) | 25.05 | 121.91 | 24 | University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom | 25.99 | 131.53 | 25 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Barcelona, Spain | 28.48 | 155.21 | 26 | Cornell University Ithaca, New York (United States) | 29.15 | 111.72 | 27 | Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn, Germany | 30.61 | 162.84 | 28 | University of Toronto Toronto, Canada | 31.57 | 140.31 | 29 | European Commission Sevilla, Spain | 33.58 | 350.78 | 30 | Sciences Po Paris, France | 34.43 | 95.06 | 31 | Monash University Melbourne, Australia | 34.71 | 160.6 | 32 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) | 34.76 | 98.4 | 33 | Universität Zürich Zürich, Switzerland | 35.97 | 164.28 | 34 | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California (United States) | 38.57 | 89.78 | 35 | University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom | 39.48 | 139.35 | 36 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, California (United States) | 40.67 | 123.78 | 37 | Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 41.91 | 108 | 38 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Toulouse, France | 43.26 | 160.29 | 39 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) La Jolla, California (United States) | 43.99 | 66.67 | 40 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia Bogotá, Colombia | 44.43 | 115.27 | 41 | Australian National University Canberra, Australia | 45.23 | 188.56 | 42 | Bank of England London, United Kingdom | 45.3 | 208.92 | 43 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. München, Germany | 48.49 | 115.92 | 44 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Bologna, Italy | 49.63 | 184 | 45 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST) Palaiseau, France | 50.03 | 88.84 | 46 | Banque de France Paris, France | 50.36 | 184.47 | 47 | University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom | 54.72 | 118.21 | 48 | University of Texas-Austin Austin, Texas (United States) | 55.53 | 73.67 | 49 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) Paris, France | 56 | 238.37 | 50 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 56.06 | 191.18 | 51 | "Sapienza" Università di Roma Roma, Italy | 57.58 | 222.58 | 52 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States) | 58.07 | 125.73 | 53 | Duke University Durham, North Carolina (United States) | 58.55 | 76.55 | 54 | Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire (United States) | 59.45 | 52.46 | 55 | Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 60.8 | 66.46 | 56 | Banco de España Madrid, Spain | 61.21 | 145.47 | 57 | Bank of Canada Ottawa, Canada | 62.18 | 181.26 | 58 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) Berlin, Germany | 63.61 | 103.52 | 59 | University of California-Davis Davis, California (United States) | 64.39 | 80.46 | 60 | University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana (United States) | 67.84 | 69.66 | 61 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) London, United Kingdom | 68.39 | 56.13 | 62 | Università degli Studi di Torino Torino, Italy | 68.92 | 117 | 63 | National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore, Singapore | 70.03 | 96.18 | 64 | Queen Mary University of London London, United Kingdom | 71.36 | 86.37 | 65 | University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada | 71.44 | 85.77 | 66 | Københavns Universitet København, Denmark | 71.82 | 109.63 | 67 | Deutsche Bundesbank Frankfurt, Germany | 72.48 | 171.57 | 68 | Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China | 74.26 | 42.43 | 69 | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, Netherlands | 75.77 | 98.24 | 70 | KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium | 76.44 | 125.31 | 71 | University of Maryland College Park, Maryland (United States) | 78.26 | 92.78 | 72 | Stockholms Universitet Stockholm, Sweden | 79.67 | 102.24 | 73 | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands | 80.68 | 155.28 | 74 | London Business School (LBS) London, United Kingdom | 82.26 | 28.73 | 75 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland (United States) | 83.03 | 63.8 | 76 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin (United States) | 85.11 | 92.04 | 77 | Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan (United States) | 85.18 | 121.05 | 78 | Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 86.2 | 105.8 | 79 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Germany | 88.76 | 79.61 | 80 | Imperial College London, United Kingdom | 90.27 | 52.72 | 81 | University of Sydney Sydney, Australia | 90.44 | 118.68 | 82 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 91.21 | 123.4 | 83 | Universitetet i Oslo Oslo, Norway | 93.21 | 79.75 | 84 | University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia | 93.51 | 115.31 | 84 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) Bergen, Norway | 93.51 | 114.41 | 86 | Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio (United States) | 94.44 | 86.04 | 87 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy | 94.63 | 97.7 | 88 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain | 94.98 | 109.76 | 89 | University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom | 96.27 | 107.84 | 90 | Georgetown University Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 97.24 | 75.71 | 91 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Bonn, Germany | 101.6 | 72.49 | 92 | University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 102.23 | 74.72 | 93 | University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom | 102.75 | 106.88 | 94 | University of Georgia Athens, Georgia (United States) | 103 | 73.5 | 95 | Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) Wien, Austria | 103.16 | 53.36 | 96 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 109.48 | 93.1 | 97 | Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands | 110.45 | 74.66 | 98 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia (United States) | 112.04 | 72.07 | 99 | Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim, Germany | 112.6 | 154.96 | 100 | Univerzita Karlova v Praze Praha, Czech Republic | 112.89 | 120.36 | 101 | Universiteit van Tilburg Tilburg, Netherlands | 112.98 | 133.56 | 102 | Texas A&M University College Station, Texas (United States) | 112.99 | 105.21 | 103 | Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 115.75 | 116.08 | 104 | Universität Mannheim Mannheim, Germany | 116.28 | 76.22 | 105 | UNSW Sydney Sydney, Australia | 117.79 | 80.8 | 106 | Uniwersytet Warszawski Warszawa, Poland | 118.33 | 179.26 | 107 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, California (United States) | 119.28 | 59.3 | 108 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Madrid, Spain | 120.59 | 28.88 | 109 | Aarhus Universitet Aarhus, Denmark | 120.6 | 99.31 | 110 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri (United States) | 124.33 | 60.24 | 111 | Universiteit Gent Gent, Belgium | 124.34 | 122.99 | 112 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) Zürich, Switzerland | 126.32 | 82.99 | 113 | Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland | 128.15 | 55.7 | 114 | WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Wien, Austria | 128.73 | 94.37 | 115 | Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 129.24 | 78.41 | 116 | Inter-American Development Bank Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 131.97 | 168.14 | 117 | Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 132.11 | 95.27 | 118 | Tsinghua University Beijing, China | 132.24 | 61.2 | 119 | Lunds Universitet Lund, Sweden | 132.5 | 132.09 | 120 | Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands | 133.01 | 137.7 | 121 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 133.13 | 51.22 | 122 | Emory University Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 133.41 | 31.94 | 123 | Montpellier Business School Montpellier, France | 134.14 | 10.11 | 124 | University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom | 134.5 | 104.67 | 125 | Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain | 134.68 | 132.09 | 126 | Xiamen University Fujian, China | 134.98 | 47.83 | 127 | Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden | 134.99 | 52.6 | 127 | Aix-Marseille Université Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France | 134.99 | 113.04 | 129 | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 135.38 | 73.77 | 130 | University of Western Ontario London, Canada | 139.35 | 58.89 | 131 | Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles, Belgium | 140.1 | 148.66 | 132 | Peking University Beijing, China | 140.78 | 81.69 | 133 | Lebanese American University Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon | 141.35 | 23.08 | 134 | HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Jouy-en-Josas, France | 142.67 | 40.85 | 135 | Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal | 146.18 | 140.7 | 136 | Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Paris, France | 149.1 | 160 | 137 | Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" Roma, Italy | 149.14 | 107.29 | 138 | University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa | 150.18 | 33.71 | 139 | University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong | 151.12 | 29.98 | 140 | Universität zu Köln Köln, Germany | 151.67 | 60.31 | 141 | National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Moscow, Russia | 152.87 | 451.92 | 142 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) | 153.99 | 39.67 | 143 | University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia | 154.52 | 107.74 | 144 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) Stockholm, Sweden | 155.4 | 73.83 | 145 | University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) Santa Cruz, California (United States) | 155.89 | 47.44 | 146 | Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) Bern/Zürich, Switzerland | 156.68 | 138.84 | 147 | Université de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland | 157.36 | 53.26 | 148 | CESifo München, Germany | 158.11 | 44.39 | 149 | King's College London London, United Kingdom | 159.44 | 67.8 | 150 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (United States) | 161.07 | 51.46 | 151 | Universität St. Gallen Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 162.75 | 97.79 | 152 | Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona (United States) | 163.5 | 58.07 | 153 | Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) Paris, France | 164.46 | 123.59 | 154 | University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland | 166.77 | 69.37 | 155 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen, Germany | 166.89 | 67.01 | 156 | Università degli Studi di Milano Milano, Italy | 167.29 | 68.45 | 157 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace Stanford, California (United States) | 168.49 | 13.71 | 158 | University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom | 169.35 | 103.95 | 159 | University of Rochester Rochester, New York (United States) | 171.25 | 38.6 | 160 | Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW) Kiel, Germany | 171.52 | 62.07 | 161 | BI Handelshøyskolen Oslo, Norway | 171.77 | 51.37 | 162 | Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 172.44 | 40.1 | 163 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy | 176.28 | 38.39 | 164 | University of York York, United Kingdom | 176.96 | 102.2 | 165 | University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom | 177.5 | 69.95 | 166 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States) | 179.77 | 51.42 | 167 | Deakin University Melbourne, Australia | 180.41 | 74.08 | 168 | Università degli Studi di Padova Padova, Italy | 180.66 | 61.1 | 169 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF) Roma, Italy | 181.03 | 23.54 | 170 | Academia Romana Bucureşti, Romania | 181.17 | 160.21 | 171 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) Nürnberg, Germany | 185.75 | 63.73 | 172 | University of Western Australia Perth, Australia | 186.11 | 49.34 | 173 | University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom | 188.25 | 50.2 | 174 | University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia | 190.49 | 91.59 | 175 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) Napoli, Italy | 192.08 | 54.15 | 176 | Université de Bordeaux Bordeaux, France | 194.44 | 104.34 | 177 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) Chengdu, China | 195.67 | 60.45 | 178 | University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Santa Barbara, California (United States) | 196.04 | 32.67 | 179 | Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) Bogotá, Colombia | 196.21 | 94.77 | 180 | Queen's University Kingston, Canada | 197.63 | 66.16 | 181 | de Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, Netherlands | 198.88 | 75.1 | 182 | Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Athens, Greece | 201.17 | 91.81 | 183 | Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Canada | 201.19 | 61.23 | 184 | Renmin University of China Beijing, China | 201.49 | 94.62 | 185 | George Washington University Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 202.06 | 91.64 | 186 | McGill University Montréal, Canada | 202.31 | 41.27 | 187 | University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand | 203.32 | 47.41 | 188 | African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) Yaoundé, Cameroun | 203.78 | 5.02 | 189 | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 205.55 | 37.24 | 190 | Universität Bern Bern, Switzerland | 206.2 | 46.02 | 191 | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Venezia, Italy | 208.85 | 141.81 | 192 | Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz Linz, Austria | 209.58 | 64.59 | 193 | Fudan University Shanghai, China | 210.54 | 52.87 | 194 | University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan | 211.01 | 62.63 | 195 | Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza, Spain | 211.32 | 87.99 | 196 | European University Institute Firenze, Italy | 213.93 | 40.65 | 197 | Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada | 214.95 | 55.43 | 198 | Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti Bucureşti, Romania | 215.37 | 313.03 | 199 | University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona (United States) | 217.5 | 51.1 | 200 | Keio University Tokyo, Japan | 218.67 | 61.78 | 201 | University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom | 219.81 | 56.72 | 202 | Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) São Paulo, Brazil | 220.09 | 61.57 | 203 | Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 221.89 | 32.33 | 204 | Uppsala Universitet Uppsala, Sweden | 222.59 | 59.46 | 205 | University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky (United States) | 222.9 | 65.02 | 206 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Genève, Switzerland | 223.06 | 53.04 | 207 | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Milano, Italy | 223.87 | 70.33 | 208 | University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada | 224.75 | 82.63 | 209 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal | 224.95 | 85.65 | 210 | University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut (United States) | 225.5 | 82.05 | 211 | Università degli Studi di Firenze Firenze, Italy | 226.04 | 94.05 | 212 | Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 226.24 | 69.48 | 213 | University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom | 227.52 | 68.69 | 214 | University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom | 227.59 | 58.19 | 215 | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) Roma, Italy | 228.17 | 48.97 | 216 | Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania (United States) | 229.85 | 59.22 | 217 | HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Montréal, Canada | 230.28 | 42.79 | 218 | Lille Économie et Management (LEM) Lille, France | 230.35 | 107.87 | 219 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah (United States) | 232.76 | 43.97 | 220 | University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado (United States) | 237.53 | 40.78 | 221 | Universität Hamburg Hamburg, Germany | 238.26 | 83.67 | 222 | Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie Warszawa, Poland | 239.09 | 113.43 | 223 | University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee (United States) | 240.95 | 53.11 | 224 | University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam | 241.2 | 18.68 | 225 | University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom | 244.24 | 46.23 | 226 | Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Moscow, Russia | 245.49 | 189.4 | 227 | Resources for the Future (RFF) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 245.78 | 48.52 | 228 | Università degli Studi Roma Tre Roma, Italy | 246.04 | 68.99 | 229 | Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin, Ireland | 248.58 | 67.22 | 230 | Swiss Finance Institute Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 249.36 | 12.62 | 231 | City University of New York (CUNY) New York City, New York (United States) | 251.13 | 85.6 | 232 | New York University Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 251.69 | 48.6 | 233 | Seoul National University Seoul, South Korea | 251.96 | 46.46 | 234 | Carleton University Ottawa, Canada | 252.38 | 62.98 | 235 | Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany | 252.63 | 50.26 | 236 | Göteborgs Universitet Göteborg, Sweden | 253.53 | 60.25 | 237 | Universität Wien Wien, Austria | 253.93 | 61.08 | 238 | University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom | 255.44 | 71.66 | 239 | University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa | 258.29 | 76.88 |
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