| Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | Author shares |
| 1 | Department of Economics, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1.06 | 76 | 60.48 |
| 2 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2.18 | 53 | 43.7 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (USA) | 3.32 | 56 | 45.84 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3.9 | 76 | 65.09 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5.77 | 55 | 43.18 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Stanford University Stanford, California (USA) | 6.26 | 54 | 43.79 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) | 7.67 | 49 | 39.8 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 9.1 | 54 | 51.48 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (USA) | 10.06 | 54 | 40.89 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10.89 | 47 | 33.69 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 11.65 | 57 | 52.43 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) La Jolla, California (USA) | 14.29 | 48 | 40.27 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 14.7 | 35 | 33.01 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15.05 | 38 | 34.09 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17.09 | 40 | 34.87 |
| 16 | Economics Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 18.92 | 60 | 49.7 |
| 17 | Finance and Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) | 19.07 | 26 | 20.66 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California (USA) | 19.22 | 54 | 43.88 |
| 19 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 19.5 | 38 | 31.65 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 19.92 | 57 | 51.41 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis Davis, California (USA) | 19.95 | 49 | 44.49 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 21.03 | 57 | 52.55 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Georgetown University Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22.75 | 48 | 43.45 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California Los Angeles, California (USA) | 24.3 | 48 | 40.33 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 25.6 | 40 | 37.98 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Duke University Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 27.18 | 45 | 36.83 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Cornell University Ithaca, New York (USA) | 27.62 | 40 | 26.36 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland (USA) | 28.13 | 45 | 35.04 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine Irvine, California (USA) | 28.45 | 47 | 43.73 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 29.03 | 33 | 31.8 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 30.94 | 45 | 43.76 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (USA) | 31.54 | 22 | 18.62 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 36.3 | 36 | 31.34 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 37.36 | 37 | 35.44 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 37.74 | 27 | 22.49 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin Austin, Texas (USA) | 38.29 | 49 | 44.62 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 38.87 | 38 | 35.5 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 39.49 | 17 | 12.09 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana (USA) | 39.78 | 43 | 39.79 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 39.88 | 33 | 27.73 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 41.53 | 38 | 35.28 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 43.27 | 26 | 23.05 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 44.88 | 26 | 22.63 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 45.76 | 72 | 56.41 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, George Washington University Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 47.07 | 65 | 43.9 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Washington Seattle, Washington (USA) | 47.23 | 19 | 17.17 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Texas A&M University College Station, Texas (USA) | 49.82 | 31 | 28.43 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 50.36 | 45 | 42.55 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 51.51 | 21 | 18.43 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (USA) | 51.61 | 49 | 44.14 |
| 51 | Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University Orange, California (USA) | 53.27 | 50 | 31.77 |
| 52 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California (USA) | 53.4 | 17 | 14.7 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Williams College Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA) | 55.54 | 28 | 23.46 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 56.22 | 47 | 39.38 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon (USA) | 59.26 | 24 | 22.55 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 60.56 | 29 | 26 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 61.53 | 32 | 28.08 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 62.2 | 28 | 24.26 |
| 59 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, College of Business and Behavioral Science, Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 62.56 | 34 | 32.38 |
| 60 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 63.8 | 32 | 30.02 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri (USA) | 63.91 | 24 | 21 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 64.16 | 25 | 21.81 |
| 63 | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Los Angeles, California (USA) | 65.02 | 15 | 13.71 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 65.79 | 48 | 43.04 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Houston Houston, Texas (USA) | 68.11 | 22 | 20.6 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University Syracuse, New York (USA) | 69.91 | 20 | 16.03 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 70.23 | 25 | 20.78 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Rochester Rochester, New York (USA) | 72.1 | 18 | 16.14 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 72.26 | 32 | 30.9 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California-Riverside Riverside, California (USA) | 73.09 | 26 | 24.84 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Rice University Houston, Texas (USA) | 73.2 | 18 | 15.44 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 75.75 | 20 | 16.55 |
| 73 | Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware Newark, Delaware (USA) | 78.04 | 40 | 37.01 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona (USA) | 78.41 | 8 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) New York City, New York (USA) | 78.49 | 34 | 19.57 |
| 76 | Economics Department, George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 79.03 | 35 | 24.49 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 79.75 | 25 | 20.16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, College of Business, University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 81.66 | 14 | 13.9 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina (USA) | 82.62 | 26 | 24.45 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Stony Brook University - SUNY Stony Brook, New York (USA) | 83.34 | 23 | 20.8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas (USA) | 83.64 | 28 | 23.92 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, Culverhouse College of Business, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa, Alabama (USA) | 86.06 | 23 | 21.18 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts (USA) | 86.27 | 17 | 15.4 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) | 86.41 | 16 | 16 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) | 88.47 | 22 | 19.99 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa Manoa, Hawaii (USA) | 90.37 | 34 | 27.79 |
| 87 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 90.98 | 7 | 6.5 |
| 88 | School of Economics, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 91.5 | 27 | 25.8 |
| 89 | International Economics Department, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 92.76 | 17 | 12.8 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia Athens, Georgia (USA) | 94.25 | 17 | 15.54 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah (USA) | 95.3 | 23 | 21.79 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Dallas Dallas, Texas (USA) | 95.49 | 10 | 10 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, American University Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 96.08 | 27 | 23.85 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, State University of New York-Albany (SUNY) Albany, New York (USA) | 96.86 | 21 | 19.72 |
| 95 | Economics Department, University of Florida Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 97.78 | 10 | 10 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont (USA) | 98.29 | 18 | 17.24 |
| 97 | Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 99.13 | 13 | 11.28 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina (USA) | 99.27 | 16 | 12.71 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, State University of New York-Binghamton (SUNY) Binghamton, New York (USA) | 100.33 | 17 | 15.95 |
| 100 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 101.42 | 16 | 14.76 |
| 101 | Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College Claremont, California (USA) | 104.71 | 23 | 21.48 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Auburn University Auburn, Alabama (USA) | 105.84 | 24 | 22.45 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, College of William & Mary Williamsburg, Virginia (USA) | 108.14 | 24 | 21.6 |
| 104 | Economics Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 108.72 | 7 | 5.75 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, School of Business, University of Miami Coral Gables, Florida (USA) | 108.79 | 14 | 13.34 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York (USA) | 108.97 | 16 | 14.54 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia (USA) | 110.14 | 21 | 18.78 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina (USA) | 112.98 | 14 | 13.2 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana (USA) | 113.11 | 16 | 15.5 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas (USA) | 114.41 | 11 | 9.41 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 116.11 | 16 | 15.8 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California (USA) | 116.68 | 15 | 13.36 |
| 113 | Department of Economics and Finance, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University Logan, Utah (USA) | 120.32 | 20 | 18.48 |
| 114 | Economics Department, Barnard College, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) | 120.79 | 9 | 8.3 |
| 115 | Economics Department, Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut (USA) | 121.82 | 16 | 14.8 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts (USA) | 122.54 | 23 | 17.79 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue University (IUPUI) Indianapolis, Indiana (USA) | 123.32 | 18 | 17.89 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of California-Merced Merced, California (USA) | 123.74 | 13 | 12.9 |
| 119 | Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) | 124.89 | 16 | 12.25 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado (USA) | 127.48 | 15 | 14.01 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA) | 128.29 | 23 | 22.99 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY) New York City, New York (USA) | 128.59 | 16 | 10.8 |
| 123 | Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado (USA) | 130.98 | 21 | 20.1 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, College of Business, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee (USA) | 131.56 | 20 | 12.85 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 132.12 | 19 | 16.75 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, New School for Social Research, The New School New York City, New York (USA) | 132.64 | 20 | 16.84 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma (USA) | 132.69 | 17 | 16.39 |
| 128 | Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado (USA) | 133.36 | 12 | 11.9 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno Reno, Nevada (USA) | 133.44 | 27 | 25.83 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Hamilton College Clinton, New York (USA) | 133.92 | 12 | 12 |
| 131 | Economics Department, Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 135.1 | 26 | 22.31 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, State University of New York-Buffalo (SUNY) Buffalo, New York (USA) | 135.92 | 13 | 10.36 |
| 133 | Center for Economics and the Environment (CEE), John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise, School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Lindenwood University St. Charles, Missouri (USA) | 137.18 | 6 | 4.95 |