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| Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | Author shares |
| 1 | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2.22 | 29 | 23.95 |
| 2 | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (USA) | 2.33 | 18 | 14.55 |
| 3 | Tinbergen Instituut Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3.3 | 124 | 40.07 |
| 4 | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3.53 | 18 | 14.46 |
| 5 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) Napoli, Italy | 4.85 | 64 | 43.89 |
| 6 | Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 8.14 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China | 8.53 | 33 | 32.24 |
| 8 | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9.09 | 9 | 6.69 |
| 9 | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 10.37 | 9 | 7.5 |
| 10 | Swiss Finance Institute Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 11.62 | 29 | 11.6 |
| 11 | Dipartimento di Finanza, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 11.77 | 28 | 21.24 |
| 12 | Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University Shanghai, China | 13.58 | 6 | 5.47 |
| 13 | Finance Department, London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 14.02 | 12 | 9.89 |
| 14 | Finance Department, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17.42 | 9 | 8.5 |
| 15 | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 19.56 | 14 | 7.52 |
| 16 | Department of Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 19.71 | 10 | 7.5 |
| 17 | Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece | 20.12 | 21 | 18.5 |
| 18 | Department of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden | 20.23 | 9 | 7.72 |
| 19 | Centre d'Économie de l'Université Paris-Nord (CEPN), Université Paris-13 Paris, France | 20.83 | 80 | 73.36 |
| 20 | Department of Economics and Finance, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University Logan, Utah (USA) | 21.58 | 22 | 20.38 |
| 21 | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 22.33 | 7 | 5.01 |
| 22 | Department of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas-Austin Austin, Texas (USA) | 22.35 | 7 | 5.9 |
| 23 | Finance Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California (USA) | 22.59 | 6 | 5 |
| 24 | Finance Department, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 27.95 | 10 | 8.75 |
| 25 | Department of Finance, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) | 28.36 | 9 | 8 |
| 26 | Abteilung Finanzen, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 28.87 | 14 | 10.64 |
| 27 | Department of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 28.96 | 5 | 5 |
| 28 | Department of Banking and Finance, Monash Business School, Monash University Caulfield, Australia | 29.64 | 36 | 35.34 |
| 29 | Institut de Finance de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg Strasbourg, France | 31.83 | 25 | 19.63 |
| 30 | Faculty of Finance, Bayes Business School, City University London, United Kingdom | 33.05 | 17 | 15.96 |
| 31 | Institut für Banking und Finance (Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich Zürich, Switzerland | 33.39 | 16 | 9.8 |
| 32 | School of Banking and Finance, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney Sydney, Australia | 33.72 | 8 | 7.82 |
| 33 | School of Finance, Universität St. Gallen Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 33.94 | 38 | 35.83 |
| 34 | Department of Finance, Rotterdam School of Management (RSM Erasmus University), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands | 34.31 | 12 | 10.95 |
| 35 | Facultatea de Finante, Asigurari, Banci şi Burse de Valori, Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti Bucureşti, Romania | 34.84 | 65 | 59.27 |
| 36 | Finance Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom | 35.31 | 15 | 13.49 |
| 37 | Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada | 35.85 | 12 | 11 |
| 38 | Finance Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada | 36.9 | 6 | 6 |
| 39 | PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University Beijing, China | 37.67 | 10 | 9.58 |
| 40 | Department of Finance, Investment and Banking, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 38.8 | 6 | 5.4 |
| 41 | Institut for Finansiering, Copenhagen Business School København, Denmark | 39.67 | 4 | 1.95 |
| 42 | Institutt for Finans, BI Handelshøyskolen Oslo, Norway | 40.82 | 23 | 22.43 |
| 43 | Department of Finance and Economics, Business, Rutgers University-Newark Newark, New Jersey (USA) | 41.23 | 8 | 7.5 |
| 44 | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 41.77 | 12 | 9.35 |
| 45 | Department of Risk Management and Insurance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 43.18 | 2 | 2 |
| 46 | Leibniz-Institut für Finanzmarktforschung SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe) Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 43.56 | 14 | 8.77 |
| 47 | Department of Finance, Graduate School of Business, DePaul University Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 45.55 | 7 | 5.67 |
| 48 | Volatility Institute, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (USA) | 46.47 | 2 | 0.69 |
| 49 | Finance Group, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (USA) | 46.9 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 50 | Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 48.72 | 10 | 7.72 |
| 51 | Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas e Empresariais (NIPE), Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho Braga, Portugal | 50.22 | 25 | 13.13 |
| 52 | ICMA Centre for Financial Markets, Henley Business School, University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom | 54.36 | 12 | 11 |
| 53 | Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 54.37 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 54 | Department of Finance, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 54.87 | 2 | 2 |
| 55 | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Administration, University of New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) | 55.43 | 3 | 3 |
| 56 | Risk and Sustainable Management Group (RSMG), School of Economics, University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia | 56.05 | 5 | 4.45 |
| 57 | Department of Finance, Questrom School of Business, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 56.16 | 5 | 4.48 |
| 58 | Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Universitetet i Stavanger Stavanger, Norway | 57.88 | 7 | 7 |
| 59 | International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 57.91 | 24 | 23 |
| 60 | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington Seattle, Washington (USA) | 60.17 | 5 | 4.5 |
| 61 | Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland | 60.21 | 8 | 5.27 |
| 62 | Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI), Université de Genève Genève, Switzerland | 60.77 | 7 | 3.51 |
| 63 | Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE), Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 61.15 | 2 | 2 |
| 64 | BAFFI Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 61.55 | 18 | 6.61 |
| 65 | Department of Finance, Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Kowloon, Hong Kong | 61.68 | 4 | 4 |
| 66 | Department of Accounting and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Athens, Greece | 63.42 | 20 | 19.34 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, Georgia (USA) | 65.88 | 11 | 11 |
| 68 | Department of Finance, Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance, Université du Luxembourg Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 66.43 | 26 | 22.69 |
| 69 | Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Prospective Économique (LAPE), Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Économiques, Université de Limoges Limoges, France | 66.63 | 11 | 11 |
| 70 | Department of Finance, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 66.79 | 1 | 1 |
| 71 | Fakulta Financí a Účetnictví, Vysoká Škola Ekonomická v Praze Praha, Czech Republic | 66.94 | 34 | 28.81 |
| 72 | Department of Finance, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana (USA) | 67.82 | 7 | 6.39 |
| 73 | Discipline of Finance, Business School, University of Sydney Sydney, Australia | 68.52 | 9 | 9 |
| 74 | School of Accounting and Finance, University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom | 69.26 | 7 | 6.7 |
| 75 | Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 71.36 | 5 | 2.43 |
| 76 | Department of Finance, Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong | 72.44 | 1 | 1 |
| 77 | Department of Finance, College of Management, Asia University Wufeng, Taiwan | 73.97 | 6 | 5 |
| 78 | European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium | 74.51 | 10 | 1.49 |
| 79 | Department of Finance, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 75.33 | 4 | 3.5 |
| 80 | Department of Finance, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA) | 76.94 | 7 | 6.44 |
| 81 | Louvain Finance, Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 77.89 | 20 | 19.32 |
| 82 | Department of Finance, Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami Coral Gables, Florida (USA) | 79.05 | 4 | 4 |
| 83 | Departamentul Finante, Facultatea de Finante, Asigurari, Banci şi Burse de Valori, Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti Bucureşti, Romania | 83.07 | 45 | 38.84 |
| 84 | Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Management and Economics, Hellenic Mediterranean University Heraklion, Greece | 85.79 | 5 | 5 |
| 85 | Finance Department, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg Tilburg, Netherlands | 86.28 | 6 | 3.18 |
| 86 | Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics (CMFE), Department of Economics, Carleton University Ottawa, Canada | 86.92 | 9 | 3.3 |
| 87 | Stratégie et Dynamiques Financiès (SDFi), Laboratoire d'Économie de Dauphine (LEDa), Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) Paris, France | 88.45 | 12 | 10.6 |
| 88 | Essex Finance Center, Essex Business School, University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom | 89.85 | 6 | 5.45 |
| 89 | Finance and Private Sector Research, World Bank Group Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 90.45 | 10 | 7.02 |
| 90 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Financera i Comptabilitat (CREFC), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Barcelona, Spain | 91.99 | 5 | 3.22 |
| 91 | Capaciteitsgroep Bedrijfseconomie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands | 94.57 | 15 | 10.95 |
| 92 | Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium | 94.71 | 27 | 9.8 |
| 93 | ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney Sydney, Australia | 94.85 | 9 | 2.48 |
| 94 | Department of Accounting and Finance, Management School, Lancaster University Lancaster, United Kingdom | 96.36 | 9 | 7.01 |
| 95 | Department of Finance, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University College Station, Texas (USA) | 96.51 | 6 | 5.92 |
| 96 | Division of International Banking & Finance Studies, Texas A&M International University Laredo, Texas (USA) | 97.02 | 3 | 3 |
| 97 | Money and Finance Research group (Mo.Fi.R.) Ancona, Italy | 99.87 | 15 | 2.54 |
| 98 | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, Texas (USA) | 101.44 | 8 | 7 |
| 99 | Département finance, assurance et immobilier, Faculté des sciences de l'administration, Université Laval Québec, Canada | 101.87 | 5 | 4.63 |
| 100 | Centro Studi di Banca e Finanza (CEFIN), Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy | 101.95 | 16 | 13.6 |
| 101 | Institutt for finans, Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) Bergen, Norway | 103.06 | 6 | 5.18 |
| 102 | Centre for Economics and Financial Econometrics Research (CEFER), Business School, Deakin University Melbourne, Australia | 104.16 | 4 | 4 |
| 103 | Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom | 104.78 | 1 | 0.99 |
| 104 | Kansantaloustieteen laitos, Johtamisen ja talouden tiedekunta, Tampereen Yliopisto Tampere, Finland | 104.8 | 5 | 3.93 |
| 105 | Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance (CRIF), Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University New York City, New York (USA) | 105.62 | 1 | 1 |
| 106 | Department of Finance, College of Business, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (USA) | 107.45 | 2 | 2 |
| 107 | CUNEF Universidad Madrid, Spain | 108.37 | 10 | 9.8 |
| 108 | Department of Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Chu, Taiwan | 108.61 | 12 | 11.12 |
| 109 | Department of Finance and Real Estate, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado (USA) | 108.75 | 3 | 3 |
| 110 | Department of Finance, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 110.24 | 2 | 2 |
| 111 | Center for Research in Finance and Management (CeReFiM), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG), Université de Namur Namur, Belgium | 111.19 | 7 | 4.01 |
| 112 | Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Akron Akron, Ohio (USA) | 111.51 | 3 | 2.13 |
| 113 | Finance Department, Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas (USA) | 112.82 | 2 | 2 |
| 114 | Befektetések és Vállalati Pénzügy Tanszék, Gazdálkodástudományi Kar, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Budapest, Hungary | 112.83 | 25 | 21.41 |
| 115 | Department of Accounting and Finance, Sussex Business School, University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom | 113.05 | 4 | 3.34 |
| 116 | Centrul de Cercetari Financiare si Monetare "Victor Slavescu" (CCFM), Institutul National de Cercetari Economice (INCE), Academia Romana Bucureşti, Romania | 115.43 | 10 | 10 |
| 117 | College of Finance, Feng Chia University Taichung, Taiwan | 115.52 | 2 | 2 |
| 118 | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany | 117.71 | 31 | 15.69 |
| 119 | Area of Finance and Managerial Economics, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas-Dallas Dallas, Texas (USA) | 121.96 | 2 | 2 |
| 120 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom | 123.01 | 5 | 2.79 |