Top Institutions and Economists in New Zealand, as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For a listing of all economics institutions in New Zealand, see EDIRC
For New Zealand, these are 43 institutions with 319 members with a total share of 295.07.

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Entity	Full ranking		Last 10 years		10 best authors		Last 10 years, 10 best authors		Top 5% authors		More
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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand	1.57	22	18.13
2	[2]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	2.21	47	41.14
3	[3]	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	2.27	26	22.34
4	[4]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	3.07	45	38.30
-	[-]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	3.73	36	30.69
-	[-]	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	4.04	20	17.60
5	[5]	University of Canterbury → Business School, Christchurch, New Zealand	5.03	32	31.25
-	[-]	University of Canterbury → Business School → Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand	6.16	29	26.65
6	[6]	University of Otago → School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand	6.25	20	17.30
7	[8]	Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand	7.17	25	24.84
8	[7]	Auckland University of Technology → Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland, New Zealand	7.38	22	20.30
-	[-]	University of Otago → School of Business → Department of Economics, Dunedin, New Zealand	7.65	15	12.60
9	[9]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Canterbury, New Zealand	8.21	12	10.40
-	[-]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government → School of Economics and Finance, Wellington, New Zealand	8.40	35	28.64
-	[-]	Massey University → Business School → School of Economics and Finance, Palmerston North, New Zealand	9.42	15	14.85
10	[10]	Government of New Zealand → Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand	10.34	11	9.65

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	1.37	47	10
-	[-]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	2.77	36	10
2	[2]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Canterbury, New Zealand	2.78	12	10
3	[4]	Auckland University of Technology → Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland, New Zealand	3.49	22	10
4	[5]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	3.92	45	10
5	[3]	Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand	4.08	25	10
6	[6]	Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand	4.48	22	10
7	[8]	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	6.54	26	10
8	[7]	University of Canterbury → Business School, Christchurch, New Zealand	6.86	32	10
9	[9]	University of Otago → School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand	7.03	20	10
-	[-]	Massey University → Business School → School of Economics and Finance, Palmerston North, New Zealand	7.42	15	10
-	[-]	University of Canterbury → Business School → Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand	7.91	29	10
-	[-]	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	8.73	20	10
-	[-]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce → Economics Group, Canterbury, New Zealand	8.94	2	2
-	[-]	University of Otago → School of Business → Department of Economics, Dunedin, New Zealand	9.47	15	10
-	[-]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government → School of Economics and Finance, Wellington, New Zealand	9.64	35	10
10	[10]	Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand	9.96	20	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Jaffe	1.44
2	[1]	Peter C. B. Phillips	1.89
3	[4]	John Gibson	3.08
4	[3]	John Creedy	5.45
5	[8]	Robert MacCulloch	6.48
6	[15]	Dean Hyslop	9.49
7	[9]	Les Oxley	9.95
8	[10]	David Gabauer	10.06
9	[11]	Norman Gemmell	10.39
10	[14]	Alfred A. Haug	10.56
11	[12]	W. Robert Reed	10.90
12	[13]	Jacques Poot	12.75
13	[19]	Philip Vermeulen	12.84
14	[17]	David Fielding	14.54
15	[20]	Saten Kumar	14.84
16	[23]	Ananish Chaudhuri	14.85
17	[18]	Yothin Jinjarak	14.87
18	[16]	Mark J. Holmes	16.19
19	[22]	David Christopher Maré (David Christopher Mare)	16.38
20	[21]	Faruk Balli	18.60
21	[25]	Graeme Guthrie	19.45
22	[24]	Arthur Grimes	20.30
23	[26]	Bart Frijns	20.87
24	[28]	Henk Berkman	21.11
25	[30]	Christopher John McDermott	21.97
26	[29]	Jeremy Edmund Clark	24.13
27	[33]	Eberhard Feess	28.27
28	[32]	Steven James Tucker	28.44
29	[31]	Wanglin Ma	30.91
30	[35]	Tom Coupé (Tom Coupe)	31.00
31	[36]	Suzi Kerr	32.28
32	[37]	Ronald Peeters	32.45
33	[34]	Alireza Tourani-Rad (Alireza Tourani Rad)	33.94
34	[41]	Philip Meguire	35.26
35	[44]	Donggyun Shin	37.95
36	[45]	Jan Feld	38.42
37	[42]	Dorian Owen	39.53
38	[39]	Hatice Ozer Balli	39.71
39	[43]	Stephen Knowles	41.23
40	[47]	Lewis Evans	44.31
41	[48]	Richard Fabling	45.00
42	[46]	Ben R. Marshall	45.05
43	[51]	Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy	45.50
44	[49]	Niven Winchester	47.37
45	[54]	Susan Olivia	49.01
46	[58]	Hai Lin	50.72
47	[143]	Debra Dennis Reed	50.89
48	[56]	Dennis Wesselbaum	51.11
49	[52]	Nathan Berg	52.51
50	[64]	John Tressler	53.32
51	[60]	Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht	53.41
52	[59]	Nuttawat Visaltanachoti	54.85
53	[55]	Yang Hu	56.61
54	[63]	Weshah Razzak	57.33
55	[7]	Shaen Corbet	57.33
56	[65]	Trinh Van Thi Le	57.76
57	[73]	Alfred V. Guender	58.99
58	[62]	Ji Wu	59.71
59	[68]	José DA Fonseca (Jose DA Fonseca)	59.99
60	[70]	Anna Strutt	61.04
61	[27]	Leo Krippner	61.51
62	[61]	Alan Renwick	61.51
63	[75]	Isabelle Sin	61.66
64	[67]	Francis Gordon Scrimgeour	63.23
65	[66]	David K. Ding	63.31
66	[69]	Philip Andrew Stevens	63.47
67	[76]	Elodie Blanc	64.23
68	[89]	John Fountain	65.77
69	[74]	Leon Li	67.93
70	[84]	Christie Smith	68.24
71	[82]	Paul Thorsnes	68.80
72	[85]	Tim Ng	68.94
73	[78]	Robert Allan Buckle	70.52
74	[87]	Richard Watt	72.00
75	[81]	Gail Pacheco	75.18
76	[72]	Hung Do	76.47
77	[91]	Murat Üngör	77.10
78	[86]	David C. Hay	77.40
79	[88]	Gilbert Nartea	77.68
80	[90]	Sholeh Maani (Professor Sholeh Maani)	77.87

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	David Gabauer	1.81
2	[6]	John Gibson	3.54
3	[5]	Faruk Balli	4.10
4	[8]	Saten Kumar	4.58
5	[4]	Wanglin Ma	5.38
6	[3]	Peter C. B. Phillips	5.97
7	[12]	Bart Frijns	10.87
8	[2]	Shaen Corbet	10.89
9	[14]	W. Robert Reed	11.73
10	[9]	Yang Hu	12.20
11	[10]	Ji Wu	12.80
12	[11]	Les Oxley	13.27
13	[13]	Adam Jaffe	13.55
14	[18]	Susan Olivia	16.72
15	[28]	Jan Feld	17.16
16	[20]	Yothin Jinjarak	17.93
17	[15]	Hung Do	20.81
18	[17]	Hatice Ozer Balli	21.02
19	[31]	Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy	21.13
20	[19]	John Creedy	21.22
21	[21]	Mark J. Holmes	21.53
22	[16]	Alan Renwick	22.01
23	[32]	Philip Vermeulen	22.27
24	[25]	Geua Boe-Gibson	23.89
25	[37]	Dennis Wesselbaum	25.44
26	[26]	Arthur Grimes	25.74
27	[24]	Alfred A. Haug	27.39
28	[39]	Isabelle Sin	27.44
29	[23]	Thanh Ngo	27.90
30	[43]	Dean Hyslop	28.98
31	[30]	Wilbur Townsend	29.73
32	[34]	Norman Gemmell	30.17
33	[27]	Puneet Vatsa	30.49
34	[35]	Tom Coupé (Tom Coupe)	32.17
35	[49]	Ronald Peeters	32.27
36	[33]	Leon Li	32.40
37	[41]	Elodie Blanc	32.43
38	[44]	David Fielding	33.17
39	[40]	Alireza Tourani-Rad (Alireza Tourani Rad)	35.26
40	[36]	Khanh Hoang	35.74
41	[47]	Henk Berkman	37.83
42	[54]	Eberhard Feess	38.15
43	[53]	David Christopher Maré (David Christopher Mare)	39.40
44	[38]	Min Bai	39.42
45	[45]	Tahir Suleman	39.67
46	[58]	Peer Ebbesen Skov	41.65
47	[50]	David H. Lont	42.42
48	[48]	Gilbert Nartea	44.16
49	[51]	Muhammad A. Cheema	46.26
50	[56]	Hai Lin	47.47
51	[59]	Richard Fabling	48.32
52	[57]	Jeremy Edmund Clark	48.45
53	[61]	Fang Yao	49.47
54	[52]	Francis Gordon Scrimgeour	51.95
55	[55]	Jacques Poot	52.23
56	[68]	Onur A. Koska	52.44
57	[46]	Michael P. Cameron	53.90
58	[60]	Nuttawat Visaltanachoti	54.41
59	[65]	Adam Richardson	54.44
60	[62]	Ihsan Badshah	54.68
61	[76]	Thomas Schober	54.88
62	[63]	Robert D. Kirkby	56.41
63	[66]	Zack Dorner	56.60
64	[78]	Murat Üngör	56.61
65	[72]	Steven James Tucker	56.61
66	[67]	Nathan Berg	58.90
67	[69]	Niven Winchester	59.35
68	[64]	David C. Hay	60.82
69	[81]	Christie Smith	60.95
70	[73]	Trinh Van Thi Le	61.49
71	[79]	Syed Abul Hasan	61.66
72	[91]	Lynn Riggs	61.86
73	[82]	Graeme Guthrie	63.00
74	[77]	José DA Fonseca (Jose DA Fonseca)	63.48
75	[71]	Mohammad Nourani	64.44
76	[74]	Anna Strutt	64.57
77	[86]	Kuntal K. Das	65.76
78	[89]	Asha Sundaram	67.13
79	[85]	Ben R. Marshall	68.18
80	[88]	Gail Pacheco	70.12

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Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.

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