Top 5% Top Level Institutions (Last 10 Years Publications), as of February 2025
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This ranking is drawn from 4808 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 | 874.1 | 2 | University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 3.2 | 183.16 | 3 | Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.08 | 190.73 | 4 | London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 4.76 | 270.32 | 5 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 6.53 | 517.96 | 6 | World Bank Group Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 6.56 | 607.12 | 7 | Stanford University Stanford, California (United States) | 7.61 | 126.83 | 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 8.84 | 109.49 | 9 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (United States) | 9.26 | 142.95 | 10 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 9.45 | 121.72 | 11 | European Central Bank Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 11.09 | 255.88 | 12 | Yale University New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 14.69 | 102.81 | 13 | Columbia University New York City, New York (United States) | 16.27 | 143.7 | 14 | Paris School of Economics Paris, France | 16.73 | 185.7 | 15 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 19.7 | 145.75 | 16 | Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Basel, Switzerland | 20.12 | 96.77 | 17 | Banca d'Italia Roma, Italy | 21.23 | 332.07 | 18 | Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 21.65 | 59.53 | 19 | Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom | 22 | 231.52 | 20 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 22.69 | 156.41 | 21 | Government of the United States Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 23.16 | 478.31 | 22 | Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 24.11 | 95.22 | 23 | New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (United States) | 25.04 | 122.16 | 24 | University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom | 26.38 | 132.53 | 25 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Barcelona, Spain | 27.91 | 154.21 | 26 | Cornell University Ithaca, New York (United States) | 29.09 | 113.22 | 27 | Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn, Germany | 30.51 | 163.35 | 28 | University of Toronto Toronto, Canada | 33.4 | 139.31 | 29 | Sciences Po Paris, France | 34.11 | 95.06 | 30 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) | 34.15 | 98.9 | 31 | European Commission Sevilla, Spain | 34.45 | 354.78 | 32 | Monash University Melbourne, Australia | 35.14 | 160.1 | 33 | Universität Zürich Zürich, Switzerland | 35.71 | 167.3 | 34 | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California (United States) | 39.4 | 88.77 | 35 | University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom | 39.58 | 138.35 | 36 | Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 40.16 | 109 | 37 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, California (United States) | 40.67 | 127.78 | 38 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Toulouse, France | 43.32 | 159.29 | 39 | Australian National University Canberra, Australia | 43.68 | 189.07 | 40 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) La Jolla, California (United States) | 44.09 | 66.67 | 41 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Bologna, Italy | 45.6 | 204.25 | 42 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia Bogotá, Colombia | 45.97 | 113.77 | 43 | Bank of England London, United Kingdom | 46.46 | 208.92 | 44 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. München, Germany | 48.33 | 116.05 | 45 | Banque de France Paris, France | 50.55 | 184.47 | 46 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST) Palaiseau, France | 50.83 | 89.84 | 47 | University of Texas-Austin Austin, Texas (United States) | 55.19 | 74.67 | 48 | University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom | 55.74 | 118.21 | 49 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 55.93 | 193.08 | 50 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) Paris, France | 56.45 | 238.12 | 51 | "Sapienza" Università di Roma Roma, Italy | 57.88 | 222.58 | 52 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States) | 58.76 | 125.73 | 53 | Duke University Durham, North Carolina (United States) | 59.31 | 76.55 | 54 | Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire (United States) | 59.73 | 52.46 | 54 | Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 59.73 | 65.46 | 56 | Banco de España Madrid, Spain | 60.72 | 150.47 | 57 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) Berlin, Germany | 61.23 | 104.28 | 58 | Bank of Canada Ottawa, Canada | 62.54 | 181.26 | 59 | University of California-Davis Davis, California (United States) | 65.1 | 81.46 | 60 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) London, United Kingdom | 68.02 | 55.67 | 61 | University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana (United States) | 68.22 | 69.16 | 62 | Københavns Universitet København, Denmark | 70.21 | 109.63 | 63 | National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore, Singapore | 70.23 | 96.18 | 64 | Queen Mary University of London London, United Kingdom | 70.34 | 87.71 | 65 | Università degli Studi di Torino Torino, Italy | 70.36 | 116.47 | 66 | Deutsche Bundesbank Frankfurt, Germany | 72.3 | 173.06 | 67 | University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada | 72.35 | 87.77 | 68 | Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China | 74.12 | 42.43 | 69 | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, Netherlands | 75.75 | 99.24 | 70 | University of Maryland College Park, Maryland (United States) | 76.42 | 93.18 | 71 | KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium | 79.09 | 127.02 | 72 | Stockholms Universitet Stockholm, Sweden | 80.35 | 102.74 | 73 | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands | 81.68 | 156.22 | 74 | Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 82.5 | 106.8 | 75 | London Business School (LBS) London, United Kingdom | 83.07 | 29.23 | 76 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) Bergen, Norway | 83.47 | 122.25 | 77 | Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan (United States) | 84.93 | 119.9 | 78 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland (United States) | 85.03 | 63.63 | 79 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin (United States) | 86.17 | 92.04 | 80 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Germany | 88.4 | 83.54 | 81 | Imperial College London, United Kingdom | 89.79 | 52.72 | 82 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 91.44 | 123.9 | 83 | University of Sydney Sydney, Australia | 91.64 | 118.18 | 84 | University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia | 92.35 | 116.31 | 85 | Universitetet i Oslo Oslo, Norway | 93.02 | 79.75 | 86 | Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio (United States) | 95.58 | 86.54 | 87 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain | 96.01 | 110.76 | 88 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy | 96.85 | 93.7 | 89 | Georgetown University Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 99.48 | 75.21 | 90 | University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom | 99.92 | 106.84 | 91 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Bonn, Germany | 102.43 | 73.49 | 92 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 104.09 | 93.78 | 93 | University of Georgia Athens, Georgia (United States) | 104.34 | 73.5 | 94 | University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom | 105.22 | 106.88 | 95 | Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) Wien, Austria | 105.6 | 54.36 | 96 | University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 106.15 | 74.34 | 97 | Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands | 111.5 | 74.66 | 98 | Univerzita Karlova v Praze Praha, Czech Republic | 112.51 | 118.61 | 99 | Universiteit van Tilburg Tilburg, Netherlands | 112.54 | 133.06 | 100 | Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim, Germany | 113.16 | 154.96 | 101 | Texas A&M University College Station, Texas (United States) | 113.49 | 107.51 | 102 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia (United States) | 114.49 | 72.07 | 103 | Aarhus Universitet Aarhus, Denmark | 114.82 | 102.31 | 104 | Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 115.82 | 118.78 | 105 | Universität Mannheim Mannheim, Germany | 117.51 | 76.32 | 106 | UNSW Sydney Sydney, Australia | 117.71 | 81.8 | 107 | Uniwersytet Warszawski Warszawa, Poland | 117.8 | 187.26 | 108 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Madrid, Spain | 118 | 28.88 | 109 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, California (United States) | 118.92 | 60.3 | 110 | Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain | 122.24 | 133.98 | 111 | Universiteit Gent Gent, Belgium | 122.78 | 127.04 | 112 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri (United States) | 125.43 | 60.24 | 113 | Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland | 126.33 | 56.2 | 114 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) Zürich, Switzerland | 126.85 | 82.99 | 115 | Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 128.66 | 78.41 | 116 | WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Wien, Austria | 128.85 | 94.37 | 117 | Emory University Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 129.6 | 31.94 | 118 | Tsinghua University Beijing, China | 130.4 | 61.2 | 119 | Xiamen University Fujian, China | 130.58 | 48.83 | 120 | Inter-American Development Bank Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 132.01 | 169.14 | 121 | Aix-Marseille Université Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France | 132.13 | 114.04 | 122 | Lunds Universitet Lund, Sweden | 132.24 | 132.09 | 123 | Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands | 134.02 | 139.2 | 124 | Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 134.1 | 95.27 | 125 | Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden | 134.53 | 52.6 | 126 | University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom | 135.84 | 104.67 | 127 | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 136.02 | 75.56 | 128 | Montpellier Business School Montpellier, France | 136.41 | 10.11 | 129 | Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles, Belgium | 138.41 | 148.96 | 130 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) | 138.6 | 52.27 | 131 | University of Western Ontario London, Canada | 140.53 | 58.89 | 132 | Peking University Beijing, China | 141.69 | 81.69 | 133 | HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Jouy-en-Josas, France | 144.29 | 40.85 | 134 | Lebanese American University Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon | 146.35 | 23.08 | 135 | Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal | 148.1 | 141.71 | 136 | University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa | 148.78 | 33.81 | 137 | Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" Roma, Italy | 148.86 | 107.54 | 138 | University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong | 150.33 | 30.98 | 139 | Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Paris, France | 150.4 | 158.25 | 140 | University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) | 155.88 | 39.67 | 141 | National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Moscow, Russia | 156.16 | 467.92 | 142 | University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia | 157.05 | 107.74 | 143 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) Stockholm, Sweden | 157.31 | 74.81 | 144 | Universität zu Köln Köln, Germany | 157.88 | 59.48 | 145 | Université de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland | 158.11 | 54.26 | 146 | University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) Santa Cruz, California (United States) | 158.39 | 47.44 | 147 | Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) Bern/Zürich, Switzerland | 158.91 | 140.84 | 148 | CESifo München, Germany | 158.97 | 44.39 | 149 | Universität St. Gallen Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 160.03 | 98.79 | 150 | King's College London London, United Kingdom | 161.26 | 67.8 | 151 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (United States) | 162.7 | 51.46 | 152 | University of Rochester Rochester, New York (United States) | 165.05 | 38.6 | 153 | Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona (United States) | 165.23 | 58.07 | 154 | University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland | 166.5 | 69.87 | 155 | Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) Paris, France | 166.6 | 125.69 | 156 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen, Germany | 168.8 | 67.91 | 157 | Università degli Studi di Milano Milano, Italy | 168.99 | 68.41 | 158 | University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom | 170.32 | 104.62 | 159 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace Stanford, California (United States) | 170.55 | 13.74 | 160 | BI Handelshøyskolen Oslo, Norway | 173.65 | 51.37 | 161 | Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 174.3 | 40.1 | 162 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF) Roma, Italy | 174.48 | 23.54 | 163 | Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW) Kiel, Germany | 174.56 | 62.07 | 164 | University of York York, United Kingdom | 175.89 | 104.2 | 165 | University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom | 177.44 | 69.95 | 166 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy | 178.86 | 41.39 | 167 | Deakin University Melbourne, Australia | 180.88 | 75.08 | 168 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States) | 181.22 | 51.42 | 169 | Università degli Studi di Padova Padova, Italy | 183.3 | 62.1 | 170 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) Nürnberg, Germany | 185.06 | 63.73 | 171 | University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom | 185.8 | 50.2 | 172 | University of Western Australia Perth, Australia | 186.15 | 50.34 | 173 | Academia Romana Bucureşti, Romania | 187.8 | 160.21 | 174 | University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia | 187.93 | 91.59 | 175 | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) Chengdu, China | 191.33 | 60.45 | 176 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) Napoli, Italy | 191.42 | 54.13 | 177 | Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) Bogotá, Colombia | 195.71 | 95.77 | 178 | Renmin University of China Beijing, China | 197.8 | 94.62 | 179 | Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Athens, Greece | 198.11 | 93.81 | 180 | University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Santa Barbara, California (United States) | 198.73 | 32.67 | 181 | Queen's University Kingston, Canada | 199.79 | 66.16 | 182 | de Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, Netherlands | 200.26 | 77.61 | 183 | Université d'Ottawa Ottawa, Canada | 201.17 | 64.23 | 184 | McGill University Montréal, Canada | 203.54 | 42.26 | 185 | George Washington University Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 203.7 | 90.64 | 186 | African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) Yaoundé, Cameroun | 205.83 | 5.02 | 187 | Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz Linz, Austria | 207.68 | 64.59 | 188 | Universität Bern Bern, Switzerland | 208.81 | 46.02 | 189 | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 209.21 | 37.24 | 190 | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Venezia, Italy | 209.46 | 142.92 | 191 | Fudan University Shanghai, China | 210.02 | 52.87 | 192 | University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan | 210.25 | 62.63 | 193 | European University Institute Firenze, Italy | 213.57 | 42.65 | 194 | Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza, Spain | 214.71 | 87.99 | 195 | University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand | 215.83 | 45.41 | 196 | Université de Bordeaux Bordeaux, France | 217.22 | 105.46 | 197 | Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 218.58 | 33.33 | 198 | Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti Bucureşti, Romania | 218.76 | 315.03 | 199 | Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada | 218.91 | 53.93 | 200 | University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona (United States) | 219.89 | 51.1 | 201 | Keio University Tokyo, Japan | 220.39 | 63.78 | 202 | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Milano, Italy | 221.4 | 71.13 | 203 | Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) São Paulo, Brazil | 221.84 | 61.58 | 204 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Genève, Switzerland | 221.92 | 54.04 | 205 | University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom | 222.24 | 57.72 | 206 | Uppsala Universitet Uppsala, Sweden | 223.53 | 60.47 | 207 | University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada | 225.89 | 82.63 | 208 | University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky (United States) | 225.92 | 64.52 | 209 | University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut (United States) | 226.4 | 81.8 | 210 | University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom | 226.64 | 69.22 | 211 | Università degli Studi di Firenze Firenze, Italy | 226.66 | 94.3 | 212 | Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania (United States) | 226.69 | 60.22 | 213 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah (United States) | 227.02 | 43.97 | 214 | University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom | 227.27 | 58.19 | 215 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal | 227.41 | 85.65 | 216 | Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 229.12 | 71.48 | 217 | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) Roma, Italy | 229.99 | 48.97 | 218 | Lille Économie et Management (LEM) Lille, France | 231.7 | 108.37 | 219 | HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Montréal, Canada | 231.81 | 42.79 | 220 | Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Moscow, Russia | 237.4 | 191.4 | 221 | Universität Hamburg Hamburg, Germany | 237.59 | 86.67 | 222 | Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie Warszawa, Poland | 239.75 | 113.43 | 223 | University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee (United States) | 239.9 | 54.11 | 224 | University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado (United States) | 240.22 | 40.78 | 225 | University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam | 240.63 | 18.68 | 226 | New York University Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 241.06 | 51.6 | 227 | Resources for the Future (RFF) Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 244.8 | 48.52 | 228 | University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom | 245.78 | 46.23 | 229 | Università degli Studi Roma Tre Roma, Italy | 246.67 | 70.24 | 230 | Swiss Finance Institute Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 249.63 | 12.62 | 231 | Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin, Ireland | 252.74 | 67.22 | 232 | Seoul National University Seoul, South Korea | 253.15 | 46.46 | 233 | Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany | 253.86 | 50.26 | 234 | City University of New York (CUNY) New York City, New York (United States) | 255.05 | 85.6 | 235 | Carleton University Ottawa, Canada | 256.18 | 62.98 | 236 | Universität Wien Wien, Austria | 256.72 | 61.08 | 237 | University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom | 257.81 | 71.66 | 238 | Université de Genève Genève, Switzerland | 259.47 | 37.65 | 239 | University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece | 259.49 | 68.2 | 240 | Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy | 259.71 | 74 |
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