Top Institutions and Economists in Norway, as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
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For Norway, these are 58 institutions with 542 members with a total share of 509.62.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	1	131	114.92
2	[2]	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	2.37	45	36.31
3	[3]	BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	2.49	58	55.36
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	3.01	45	40.85
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Oslo, Norway	4.39	25	22.18
4	[4]	Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway	4.79	21	19.01
5	[5]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	5.10	33	28.82
6	[6]	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	6.63	43	35.27
7	[7]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Handelshøgskolen, Stavanger, Norway	6.65	23	21.42
-	[-]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	6.71	22	21.70
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	7.07	53	50.13
8	[9]	Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway	7.96	26	20.83
9	[8]	Universitetet i Bergen → Institutt for Økonomi, Bergen, Norway	8.28	25	25.57
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Finans, Oslo, Norway	8.60	23	22.43
10	[10]	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway	9.43	18	15.45
11	[11]	Universitetet i Oslo → Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur (TIK), Oslo, Norway	11.11	11	10.41
12	[12]	OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet → Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	11.96	18	17
13	[13]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Stavanger, Norway	13.18	7	7
14	[14]	Institutt for Samfunnsforskning (ISF), Oslo, Norway	14.89	4	4

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	1	131	10
2	[2]	BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	2.00	58	10
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	2.33	45	10
3	[3]	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	3.20	45	10
4	[4]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Handelshøgskolen, Stavanger, Norway	4.44	23	10
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Oslo, Norway	5.20	25	10
5	[5]	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	5.25	43	10
6	[6]	Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway	5.92	21	10
7	[7]	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway	6.85	18	10
8	[8]	Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway	6.91	26	10
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Finans, Oslo, Norway	7.03	23	10
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	7.08	53	10
9	[9]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	9.65	33	10
10	[10]	OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet → Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	10.83	18	10
11	[11]	Universitetet i Bergen → Institutt for Økonomi, Bergen, Norway	11.07	25	10
-	[-]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	11.47	22	10
12	[12]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Stavanger, Norway	12.69	7	7
13	[14]	Universitetet i Oslo → Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur (TIK), Oslo, Norway	13.23	11	10
14	[15]	CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning, Oslo, Norway	13.31	4	4

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Kjell G Salvanes	1.61
2	[2]	Fabio Canova	1.87
3	[7]	Bertil Tungodden	6.42
4	[6]	Jan Ernst Fagerberg	6.56
5	[8]	Ragnar Torvik	7.44
6	[12]	Michael Olaf Hoel	9.99
7	[14]	Edwin Leuven	10.03
8	[13]	Knut Røed (Knut Roed)	10.07
9	[11]	Karl Ove Moene	10.15
10	[19]	Espen R. Moen	11.00
11	[17]	Geir B. Asheim	13.06
12	[16]	Alexander Wright Cappelen	13.66
13	[20]	Katrine Vellesen Løken (Katrine Vellesen Loken)	14.07
14	[9]	Kjell Hausken	14.15
15	[18]	Halvor Mehlum	15.78
16	[21]	Hilde Christiane Bjørnland (Hilde Christiane Bjornland)	21.60
17	[30]	Andreas Fagereng	22.44
18	[22]	Bernt Bratsberg	22.88
19	[25]	Martin Thomas Falk	22.88
20	[29]	Andreas Moxnes	23.64
21	[24]	Knut Einar Rosendahl	24.58
22	[34]	Hans Hvide	24.67
23	[27]	Steinar Holden	24.74
24	[28]	Erik Ø. Sørensen (Erik O. Sorensen)	24.76
25	[23]	Stein T. Holden	25.09
26	[31]	Erling Barth	25.73
27	[32]	Fulvio Castellacci	26.68
28	[26]	Rolf Aaberge	27.24
29	[33]	Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)	27.32
30	[1]	Ron Boschma	30.01
31	[35]	Guttorm Schjelderup	30.37
32	[36]	Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	31.56
33	[80]	John K. Dagsvik	31.59
34	[37]	Mari Rege	32.30
35	[55]	Trond E. Olsen	33.88
36	[41]	Ingar Haaland	35.70
37	[44]	Tarjei Havnes	35.98
38	[42]	Finn R. Førsund (Finn R. Forsund)	36.02
39	[38]	Tom Broekel	36.56
40	[48]	Glen Philip Peters	37.66
41	[40]	Kjetil Telle	38.70
42	[43]	Karine Nyborg	39.23
43	[39]	Andreas Kotsadam	40.24
44	[53]	Karin S. Thorburn	42.50
45	[51]	Peter Molnár (Peter Molnar)	43.63
46	[49]	Manudeep Bhuller	43.77
47	[56]	Roy Mersland	46.19
48	[47]	Jo Thori Lind	46.60
49	[58]	Simen Markussen	47.50
50	[57]	Dagfinn Rime	47.85
51	[62]	Lars Sørgard (Lars Sorgard)	48.10
52	[52]	Jarle Møen (Jarle Moen)	48.29
53	[50]	Colin P. Green (Colin Peter Green)	51.24
54	[60]	Kjell Erik Lommerud	51.44
55	[65]	Gisle James Natvik	51.64
56	[61]	Snorre Kverndokk	52.57
57	[69]	Gunnar S. Eskeland (Gunnar Saethern Eskeland)	53.35
58	[67]	Francesco Furlanetto	53.96
59	[68]	Kurt Richard Brekke	54.11
60	[59]	Leif Anders Thorsrud	54.26
61	[70]	Jorn Rattso	54.80
62	[75]	Aline Bütikofer (Aline Buetikofer)	55.04
63	[136]	Christian Riis	55.90
64	[66]	Knut Are Aastveit	57.05
65	[71]	Frank Asche	57.44
66	[78]	Q. Farooq Akram	57.47
67	[76]	Christa Noël Brunnschweiler (Christa Noel Brunnschweiler)	58.41
68	[83]	Alexander Willén (Alexander Willen)	58.65
69	[79]	Torberg Falch	59.93
70	[72]	Steinar Strøm (Steinar Strom)	60.74
71	[45]	Benny Geys	62.02
72	[74]	Kjell Arne Brekke	64.10
73	[73]	Hans Jarle Kind	65.22
74	[89]	Stein W. Wallace	65.44
75	[81]	Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr	66.10
76	[84]	Gaute Torsvik	67.79
77	[82]	Gabriel R.g. Benito	67.93
78	[86]	Stale Navrud	71.94
79	[94]	Martin Blomhoff Holm	72.74
80	[92]	Oyvind Norli	75.53
81	[91]	Arild Angelsen	75.61
82	[96]	Thor O. Thoresen	77.13
83	[4]	Sandra E. Black	77.43
84	[90]	Rune Dahl Fitjar	77.53
85	[103]	Tore Nilssen	77.87
86	[95]	Øivind A. Nilsen (Oivind Anti Nilsen)	78.99
87	[104]	Petter Osmundsen	78.99
88	[99]	Richard Priestley	79.70
89	[105]	Ragnar Nymoen	82.10
90	[93]	Rita Ginja	84.22
91	[111]	Ola Kvaløy (Ola Kvaloy)	84.72
92	[100]	Steffen Kallbekken	86.24
93	[88]	Samuli Knüpfer (Samuli Knupfer)	88.74
94	[118]	Simone Valente	88.91
95	[109]	Øystein Foros (Oystein Foros)	89.42
96	[106]	Astrid Kunze	90.09
97	[110]	Stein-Erik Fleten	91.04
98	[113]	Ragnar Enger Juelsrud	93.06
99	[108]	Kjell Vaage	93.38
100	[116]	Martin Eckhoff Andresen	94.07
101	[107]	Torfinn Harding	94.91
102	[10]	Gazi Salah Uddin	95.40
103	[112]	Mads Greaker	96.01
104	[114]	Vegard Høghaug Larsen (Vegard Hoeghaug Larsen)	98.73
105	[124]	Bernt Arne Ødegaard (Bernt Arne Odegaard)	99.97
106	[115]	Arild Aakvik	103.27
107	[117]	Frode Steen	103.40
108	[98]	Kasper Roszbach	103.41
109	[122]	Ivar Kolstad	103.56
110	[46]	Clive L. Spash	106.50
111	[123]	Tor Iversen	107.72
112	[126]	Sissel Jensen	109.33
113	[54]	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter)	109.48
114	[128]	Alex Krumer	110.63
115	[125]	Espen Bratberg	111.35
116	[151]	Knut Kristian Aase	111.93
117	[127]	Junior Maih	112.01
118	[130]	Tommy Sveen	112.45
119	[129]	Lars-Erik Borge	116.07
120	[131]	Alfonso Irarrazabal	119.55
121	[134]	Jørgen Juel Andersen (Jorgen Juel Andersen)	119.81
122	[132]	Pål Schøne (Pal Schone)	120.12
123	[137]	Lars Johannessen Kirkebøen (Lars Johannessen Kirkeboeen)	120.45
124	[138]	Christian N. Brinch	122.10
125	[133]	Rolf Golombek	123.12
126	[139]	Eilev S. Jansen	125.25
127	[143]	Gunnar Bårdsen (Gunnar Bardsen)	126.11
128	[148]	Terje Skjerpen	127.30
129	[144]	Fredrik Wulfsberg	127.80
130	[141]	Mark S. Knell	128.15
131	[149]	Eirik Gaard Kristiansen	130.02
132	[146]	Øyvind Eitrheim (Oyvind Eitrheim)	130.69
133	[156]	Isaiah Hull	132.44
134	[147]	Ola Lotherington Vestad	133.78
135	[152]	Espen Henriksen	133.82
136	[150]	Ådne Cappelen (Adne Cappelen)	134.33

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Kjell G Salvanes	3.26
2	[4]	Andreas Fagereng	3.28
3	[6]	Ingar Haaland	3.95
4	[7]	Peter Molnár (Peter Molnar)	4.55
5	[8]	Bertil Tungodden	7.52
6	[9]	Martin Blomhoff Holm	8.39
7	[1]	Gazi Salah Uddin	10.38
8	[11]	Andreas Kotsadam	10.62
9	[10]	Alexander Wright Cappelen	10.76
10	[14]	Alexander Willén (Alexander Willen)	10.82
11	[16]	Gisle James Natvik	10.92
12	[17]	Tom Broekel	11.46
13	[13]	Manudeep Bhuller	12.11
14	[15]	Aline Bütikofer (Aline Buetikofer)	12.34
15	[19]	Ragnar Enger Juelsrud	14.96
16	[20]	Knut Einar Rosendahl	15.48
17	[28]	Kjell Hausken	18.74
18	[21]	Katrine Vellesen Løken (Katrine Vellesen Loken)	19.43
19	[26]	Martin Eckhoff Andresen	19.61
20	[24]	Vegard Høghaug Larsen (Vegard Hoeghaug Larsen)	19.77
21	[25]	Knut Røed (Knut Roed)	20.10
22	[23]	Andreas Moxnes	20.80
23	[27]	Colin P. Green (Colin Peter Green)	21.91
24	[29]	Knut Are Aastveit	23.01
25	[39]	Gabriel R.g. Benito	24.54
26	[32]	Rune Dahl Fitjar	24.57
27	[31]	Simen Markussen	25.05
28	[36]	Stein T. Holden	25.70
29	[30]	Erling Barth	26.29
30	[35]	Francesco Furlanetto	26.52
31	[33]	Leif Anders Thorsrud	27.94
32	[44]	Martin Thomas Falk	27.95
33	[42]	Roy Mersland	28.85
34	[38]	Alex Krumer	29.14
35	[41]	Jan Ernst Fagerberg	30.82
36	[40]	Glen Philip Peters	32.91
37	[12]	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter)	34.54
38	[3]	Ron Boschma	34.60
39	[46]	Stein W. Wallace	35.54
40	[45]	Hilde Christiane Bjørnland (Hilde Christiane Bjornland)	36.22
41	[43]	Rita Ginja	38.41
42	[49]	Frank Asche	42.73
43	[50]	Fulvio Castellacci	42.82
44	[102]	Ingrid Marie Schaumburg Huitfeldt (Ingrid Huitfeldt)	44.61
45	[52]	Edwin Leuven	45.96
46	[48]	Simon Galle	46.53
47	[58]	Isaiah Hull	48.90
48	[55]	Jørgen Juel Andersen (Jorgen Juel Andersen)	49.16
49	[53]	Ola Lotherington Vestad	49.33
50	[47]	Fabio Canova	51.17
51	[51]	Jarle Møen (Jarle Moen)	53.48
52	[57]	Hans Hvide	53.56
53	[56]	Erik Ø. Sørensen (Erik O. Sorensen)	58.23
54	[71]	Jonna Olsson	59.83
55	[68]	Hidemichi Yonezawa	60.32
56	[65]	Guttorm Schjelderup	60.92
57	[64]	Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)	62.84
58	[73]	Jørgen Modalsli (Jorgen Modalsli)	64.55
59	[67]	Mohammed Mardan	64.59
60	[60]	Andreas Olden	65.76
61	[62]	Steffen Kallbekken	66.18
62	[72]	Inga Heiland	68.53
63	[66]	Tarjei Havnes	68.72
64	[74]	Karine Nyborg	69.02
65	[75]	Gaute Torsvik	71.21
66	[77]	Taoyuan Wei	71.31
67	[88]	Karin S. Thorburn	73.56
68	[82]	Steffen Juranek	73.58
69	[85]	Vincent Somville	74.11
70	[83]	Stale Navrud	74.36
71	[80]	Drago Bergholt	74.88
72	[91]	Thor O. Thoresen	74.90
73	[78]	Bernt Bratsberg	74.94
74	[86]	Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	77.61
75	[84]	Rolf Aaberge	77.83
76	[76]	Dagfinn Rime	78.41
77	[79]	Marte Rønning (Marte Roenning)	80.13
78	[63]	Benny Geys	80.90
79	[89]	Mads Greaker	81.17
80	[93]	Anders Kjelsrud	81.71
81	[97]	Muhammad Azeem Qureshi	83.08
82	[106]	Øystein M. Hernæs (Oeystein Hernaes)	84.07
83	[108]	Henrik Sigstad	84.48
84	[96]	Björn Brey (Bjoern Brey)	86.10
85	[99]	Clifton Makate	86.19
86	[104]	Øystein Foros (Oystein Foros)	86.67
87	[111]	Alessia Russo	86.74
88	[98]	Sissel Jensen	86.87
89	[113]	Kurt Richard Brekke	88.68
90	[94]	Karl Ove Moene	90.48
91	[103]	Evelina Gavrilova	90.77
92	[105]	Stein-Erik Fleten	91.13
93	[100]	Frode Steen	92.04
94	[127]	Dengjun Zhang	92.49
95	[121]	Hamid Boustanifar	93.11
96	[107]	Mari Rege	93.32
97	[112]	Tom-Reiel Heggedal	93.35
98	[116]	Karl Harmenberg	93.64
99	[119]	Jean Paul Rabanal	94.07
100	[109]	Arash Aloosh	95.39
101	[110]	Frode Martin Nordvik	95.39
102	[101]	Moana Silva Simas	98.70
103	[125]	Cloé Garnache (Cloe Garnache)	100.15
104	[128]	Bernt Arne Ødegaard (Bernt Arne Odegaard)	102.10
105	[114]	Espen R. Moen	102.43
106	[130]	Samuel D Hirshman	102.63
107	[124]	Torfinn Harding	102.73
108	[139]	Ola Kvaløy (Ola Kvaloy)	103.41
109	[137]	Jacopo Bizzotto	104.80
110	[122]	Fenella Carpena	105.25
111	[131]	Junior Maih	105.30
112	[136]	Andre K. Anundsen	107.69
113	[138]	Atle Oglend	108.50
114	[132]	Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli (Nicolo Maffei-Faccioli)	109.29
115	[123]	Rudolf Gerardus Egging-Bratseth	110.10
116	[142]	Øivind A. Nilsen (Oivind Anti Nilsen)	110.26
117	[140]	Jo Thori Lind	110.38
118	[133]	Heidi Christina Thysen	110.54
119	[134]	Charlotte Ringdal	110.62
120	[141]	Kristine M. Grimsrud	110.85
121	[129]	Sigurd Mølster Galaasen (Sigurd Molster Galaasen)	111.62
122	[135]	Kjetil Telle	113.78
123	[61]	Jon Hernes Fiva	113.86
124	[145]	Paul Ehling	115.15
125	[143]	Håkon Tretvoll (Hakon Tretvoll)	116.06
126	[146]	Laura Khoury	116.22
127	[144]	Astrid Kunze	117.27
128	[151]	Rolf Golombek	120.56
129	[156]	Simen A. Ulsaker	120.93
130	[152]	Ragnar Torvik	121.07
131	[148]	Morten Sæthre (Morten Saethre)	121.11
132	[126]	Samuli Knüpfer (Samuli Knupfer)	122.60
133	[160]	Geir B. Asheim	123.02
134	[176]	Ola Honningdal Grytten	124.08
135	[159]	Christian N. Brinch	124.54
136	[81]	Emilia Garcia-Appendini	124.68

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