Top 25% Institutions and Economists in Bulgaria, as of July 2025

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Top 25% institutions in Bulgaria, all authors, all publication years

For Bulgaria, there are 262 authors affiliated with 34 institutions. All institutions in this region.

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author shares
1	[1]	University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria	1.62	84	82.78
2	[4]	Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria	1.97	6	6
3	[3]	Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia, Bulgaria	3.12	28	25.54
4	[2]	Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria	3.46	44	40.75
5	[5]	University of Economics Varna, Bulgaria	5.66	43	42.5
6	[6]	Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE) Sofia, Bulgaria	6.15	5	5
7	[7]	Varna University of Management Varna, Bulgaria	6.43	2	2
---	[---]	Business Faculty, University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria	10.44	4	4
---	[---]	General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria	10.51	9	7.45
8	[8]	Department of Economics, New Bulgarian University Sofia, Bulgaria	11.4	4	3.8

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Top 25% institutions in Bulgaria, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author shares
1	[1]	University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria	1.66	73	71.78
2	[2]	Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia, Bulgaria	3.48	24	22.52
3	[6]	Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria	3.57	6	6
4	[7]	Varna University of Management Varna, Bulgaria	4.58	2	2
5	[3]	Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria	4.7	32	29.5
6	[4]	University of Economics Varna, Bulgaria	5.74	38	37.5
7	[5]	Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE) Sofia, Bulgaria	6.23	3	3
---	[---]	Business Faculty, University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria	8.54	4	4
---	[---]	General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria	9.4	9	7.45
8	[9]	Faculty of Economics, Neofit Rilski Southwestern University Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria	11.6	4	4

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Top 25% authors in Bulgaria, all publications years

For Bulgaria, there are 262 authors affiliated with 34 institutions. All institutions in this region.

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Nikolay Nenov Nenovsky University of National and World Economy, Sofia	2.6
2	[7]	Jeffrey H. Nilsen Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	2.7
3	[1]	Hrabrin Ianouchev Bachev Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE), Sofia	4.45
4	[3]	Stanislav Hristov Ivanov Varna University of Management, Varna	4.53
5	[6]	Henrik Egbert Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	7.16
6	[19]	Karrar Hussain Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	8.83
7	[18]	Deyan Radev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	9.35
8	[4]	Eduard Vasilev Marinov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Department of Economics, New Bulgarian University, Sofia	11.24
9	[8]	Tamara Peneva Todorova Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	11.41
10	[10]	Rossitsa Rangelova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	14.23
11	[25]	Desislava Ivanova Yordanova Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	14.55
12	[5]	Ivaylo Ivanov Staykov	14.77
13	[39]	Kalina Dimitrova Hadjinedelcheva Financial Supervision Commission, Government of Bulgaria, Sofia Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia Bulgarian National Bank, Sofia	14.97
14	[26]	Nikos Fatouros Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	15.02
15	[29]	Mariya Peneva Business Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	15.31
16	[22]	Stefan Petranov Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	16.94
17	[15]	Iskra Beleva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	17.03
18	[32]	Georgy Ganev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	17.45
19	[41]	Mariya Neycheva Center for Economic and Management Sciences, Burgas Free University, Burgas	20.94
20	[9]	Teodor Sedlarski Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	20.97
21	[14]	Plamen D. Tchipev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv	20.99
22	[28]	Kaloyan Ganev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	22.69
23	[72]	Dimitar Metodiev Terziev University of National and World Economy, Sofia	22.98
24	[17]	Ivan Krumov Todorov Faculty of Economics, Neofit Rilski Southwestern University, Blagoevgrad	23.23
25	[34]	Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	24.22
26	[24]	Vesselin Mintchev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia International Business School, Botevgrad	24.39
27	[16]	Kiril Dimitrov University of National and World Economy, Sofia	25.24
28	[12]	Rossitsa Chobanova Chobanova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	25.56
29	[58]	Nedka Ivanova University of National and World Economy, Sofia	28.57
30	[31]	Daniela Ventsislavova Georgieva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	29.35
31	[20]	Alla Valentinovna Kirova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	29.53
32	[13]	Anton Gerunov Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	29.69
33	[43]	Stoyan Totev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	30.64
34	[35]	Irena Zareva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	30.67
35	[37]	Mariana Mateeva Petrova	30.87
36	[23]	Pencho Denchev Penchev General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	31.41
37	[30]	Venelin Boshnakov University of National and World Economy, Sofia	31.51
38	[11]	Michal Stojanov University of Economics, Varna	32.33
39	[44]	Garabed Minassian Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	32.72
40	[63]	Svilena Mihaylova University of Economics, Varna	33.94
41	[62]	Mitko Atanassov Dimitrov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	35.16
42	[21]	Victor Ivanov Yotzov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	39.52
43	[42]	Kristina Stefanova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	41.84
44	[100]	Mark Leonard Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	42.18
45	[46]	Christina Lazarova Nikolova Department of Economics of Transport and Energy, Faculty of Economics of Infrastructure, University of National and World Economy, Sofia Faculty of Economics of Infrastructure, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	42.42
46	[76]	Didar Erdinc Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	42.51
47	[67]	Andriyana Andreeva Andreeva Faculty of Finance and Accounting, University of Economics, Varna	42.74
48	[53]	Yuli Todorov Radev	42.88
49	[57]	Daniela Bobeva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	43.36
50	[33]	Georgi Shopov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	43.61
51	[48]	Spartak Keremidchiev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	45
52	[51]	Atanas Atanasov University of Economics, Varna	45.68
53	[61]	Gergana Ilieva Mihaylova-Borisova Faculty of Financial Accounting, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	46.47
54	[99]	Petar Pandushev Chobanov Faculty of Financial Accounting, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	48.78
55	[60]	Petar Ilkov Peshev General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	49.36
56	[45]	Iskra Bogdanova Balkanska Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	49.8
57	[84]	Matilda Alexandrova University of National and World Economy, Sofia	49.99
58	[27]	Julian Andreev Vasilev University of Economics, Varna	50.43
59	[54]	Tatiana Stefanova Houbenova-Delisivkova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	50.83
60	[38]	Nikolay Sterev University of National and World Economy, Sofia	51.97
61	[90]	Dimitre Nikolov Nikolov Sr. Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE), Sofia	53.17
62	[64]	Bozhidar Lyudmilov Nedev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	54.18
63	[52]	Sonya Georgieva Georgieva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	54.4
64	[47]	Shterjy Nozharov General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	54.99
65	[69]	Paskal Zhelev University of National and World Economy, Sofia	55.73

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Top 25% authors in Bulgaria, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Stanislav Hristov Ivanov Varna University of Management, Varna	2.47
2	[1]	Hrabrin Ianouchev Bachev Institute of Agricultural Economics (IAE), Sofia	2.95
3	[11]	Karrar Hussain Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	4.24
4	[2]	Nikolay Nenov Nenovsky University of National and World Economy, Sofia	6.02
5	[16]	Mariya Peneva Business Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	6.46
6	[19]	Nikos Fatouros Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	7.69
7	[31]	Dimitar Metodiev Terziev University of National and World Economy, Sofia	8.57
8	[4]	Eduard Vasilev Marinov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Department of Economics, New Bulgarian University, Sofia	9.14
9	[26]	Deyan Radev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	9.17
10	[27]	Desislava Ivanova Yordanova Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	11.24
11	[10]	Mariana Mateeva Petrova	11.91
12	[13]	Ivan Krumov Todorov Faculty of Economics, Neofit Rilski Southwestern University, Blagoevgrad	14.36
13	[37]	Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	15.1
14	[7]	Teodor Sedlarski Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	15.33
15	[15]	Tamara Peneva Todorova Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	15.38
16	[6]	Henrik Egbert Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	16.57
17	[14]	Daniela Ventsislavova Georgieva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	17.06
18	[17]	Kiril Dimitrov University of National and World Economy, Sofia	18.09
19	[20]	Kristina Stefanova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	18.49
20	[36]	Andriyana Andreeva Andreeva Faculty of Finance and Accounting, University of Economics, Varna	19.58
21	[8]	Anton Gerunov Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	19.67
22	[9]	Ivaylo Ivanov Staykov	20.81
23	[5]	Michal Stojanov University of Economics, Varna	22.22
24	[18]	Pencho Denchev Penchev General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	22.43
25	[50]	Irena Zareva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	22.9
26	[48]	Petar Ilkov Peshev General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	24.42
27	[99]	Mark Leonard Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	24.77
28	[25]	Atanas Atanasov University of Economics, Varna	25.97
29	[32]	Rossitsa Chobanova Chobanova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	27.32
30	[51]	Vesselin Mintchev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia International Business School, Botevgrad	28.91
31	[21]	Sonya Georgieva Georgieva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	29.11
32	[94]	Vladislav Ivaylov Krastev Faculty of Economics, Neofit Rilski Southwestern University, Blagoevgrad	29.28
33	[42]	Venelin Boshnakov University of National and World Economy, Sofia	29.84
34	[29]	Bozhidar Lyudmilov Nedev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	30.07
35	[56]	Rossitsa Rangelova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	30.32
36	[44]	Daniela Bobeva Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	31.08
37	[24]	Victor Ivanov Yotzov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	32.25
38	[38]	Tsvetana Stoyanova University of National and World Economy, Sofia	33.69
39	[12]	Julian Andreev Vasilev University of Economics, Varna	34.18
40	[34]	Christina Lazarova Nikolova Department of Economics of Transport and Energy, Faculty of Economics of Infrastructure, University of National and World Economy, Sofia Faculty of Economics of Infrastructure, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	34.78
41	[49]	Spartak Keremidchiev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	35.75
42	[78]	Mariya Neycheva Center for Economic and Management Sciences, Burgas Free University, Burgas	36.07
43	[96]	Silviya Hristova Bratoeva-Manoleva University of Economics, Varna	36.34
44	[30]	Shterjy Nozharov General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	37.03
45	[55]	Snezhana Dineva Sulova University of Economics, Varna	37.52
46	[62]	Georgi Shopov Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	38.2
47	[33]	Alla Valentinovna Kirova Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	38.23
48	[41]	Stefan Petranov Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	39.22
49	[77]	Milena Slavcheva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	39.6
50	[43]	Pavel Petrov University of Economics, Varna	39.86
51	[85]	Svilena Mihaylova University of Economics, Varna	41.28
52	[61]	Silvia Parusheva University of Economics, Varna	41.4
53	[28]	Ivan Roussev Faculty of Management, University of Economics, Varna Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia	41.55
54	[60]	Marieta Borisova Hristova General Economics Faculty, University of National and World Economy, Sofia	42.45
55	[23]	Damyan Kirechev University of Economics, Varna	42.47
56	[22]	Ali Veysel Higher School of Insurance and Finance, Sofia	43.07
57	[115]	Didar Erdinc Economics Department, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad	43.27
58	[35]	Vania Petrova Ivanova Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	43.61
59	[73]	Silvia Zarkova D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, Svishtov	44.52
60	[45]	Yanko Hristozov University of National and World Economy, Sofia	45.07
61	[58]	Kaloyan Ganev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	46.86
62	[40]	Plamen D. Tchipev Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv	47.53
63	[39]	Nikolay Velichkov University of National and World Economy, Sofia	49.06
64	[74]	Paskal Zhelev University of National and World Economy, Sofia	49.81
65	[66]	Georgy Ganev Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia	50.5

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