Top Institutions and Economists in Pakistan, as of April 2026

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For Pakistan, these are 111 institutions with 591 members with a total share of 571.00.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan	1	116	109.04
2	[2]	Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	2.30	16	16
3	[3]	State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan	4.03	35	32.05
4	[4]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	5.34	12	11.50
5	[8]	University of Karachi → Applied Economics Research Center (AERC), Karachi, Pakistan	6.59	11	9.50
6	[5]	University of Lahore City Campus → Lahore School of Accountancy and Finance, Lahore, Pakistan	6.72	5	5
7	[7]	Quaid-i-Azam University → Department of Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan	6.73	16	13
8	[6]	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan	6.93	16	14.50
9	[9]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore, Pakistan	7.63	4	3.30
10	[11]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan	11.01	15	13.57
11	[12]	Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology → School of Economic Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	11.16	16	14.67
12	[10]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	11.20	4	4
13	[13]	International Islamic University → International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), Islamabad, Pakistan	11.44	12	11.50
14	[14]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Pakistan	12.00	10	8.58
15	[15]	Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan	12.07	6	5.60
16	[16]	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) → Department of Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	13.01	7	7
-	[-]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	13.87	3	3
17	[17]	Iqra University → Management Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan	17.78	29	28
18	[18]	University of Karachi → Department of Economics, Karachi, Pakistan	20.23	6	5.50
19	[19]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Economics, Vehari, Pakistan	21.04	1	1
20	[22]	Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Karachi, Pakistan	23.50	3	2.50
21	[20]	University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir → Kashmir Institute of Economics, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	23.66	6	5.80
22	[23]	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan	23.82	5	5
23	[24]	University of Sargodha → Department of Economics, Sargodha, Pakistan	24.73	6	6
24	[21]	Government College University → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	24.88	6	3.95
25	[25]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Vehari, Pakistan	25.25	3	2.30
26	[26]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Islamabad, Pakistan	25.53	9	7.91
27	[28]	University of the Punjab → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	25.95	9	6.81

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan	1.85	116	10
2	[2]	Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	2.12	16	10
3	[3]	University of Lahore City Campus → Lahore School of Accountancy and Finance, Lahore, Pakistan	4.04	5	5
4	[6]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore, Pakistan	4.35	4	3.30
5	[5]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	4.49	12	10
6	[4]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Pakistan	5.15	10	8.58
7	[7]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	7.52	4	4
8	[8]	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan	7.86	16	10
9	[9]	Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan	8.21	6	5.60
-	[-]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	8.68	3	3
10	[10]	International Islamic University → International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), Islamabad, Pakistan	8.96	12	10
11	[12]	Quaid-i-Azam University → Department of Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan	11.30	16	10
12	[14]	State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan	12.07	35	10
13	[11]	Government College University → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	14.47	6	3.95
14	[13]	University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir → Kashmir Institute of Economics, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	14.57	6	5.80
-	[-]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management → Department of Economics and Statistics, Lahore, Pakistan	14.85	2	0.73
15	[15]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Economics, Vehari, Pakistan	15.38	1	1
16	[17]	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) → Department of Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	16.68	7	7
17	[16]	Capital University of Science and Technology → Department of Management Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	16.82	2	2
18	[19]	University of Karachi → Applied Economics Research Center (AERC), Karachi, Pakistan	18.38	11	9.50
19	[18]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Vehari, Pakistan	18.67	3	2.30
20	[20]	Iqra University → Management Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan	20.08	29	10
21	[22]	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan	20.35	5	5
22	[21]	Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology → School of Economic Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	20.37	16	10
23	[23]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Sahiwal, Pakistan	21.10	4	2.50
24	[24]	University of Education → Division of Management and Administrative Science, Lahore, Pakistan	21.32	3	2.15
-	[-]	Government of Pakistan → Ministry of Finance → Federal Board of Revenue, Islamabad, Pakistan	22.26	2	2
25	[30]	Government of Pakistan → Ministry of Finance, Islamabad, Pakistan	22.27	2	2
26	[25]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan	25.05	15	10
27	[28]	University of Sargodha → Department of Economics, Sargodha, Pakistan	25.85	6	6

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Syed Ali Raza	2.59
2	[1]	Amjad Ali	3.90
3	[4]	Azam Chaudhry	4.05
4	[6]	Asad Zaman	5.49
5	[10]	Samia, Nasreen	7.41
6	[18]	Farah Said	10.49
7	[8]	Abdul Rashid	11.05
8	[5]	Khalid Zaman, Sr.	11.14
9	[7]	Muhammad Azam	11.15
10	[14]	Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye	11.33
11	[11]	Khalid Ahmed	11.99
12	[33]	Shamyla Chaudry	12.32
13	[16]	Muhammad Nasir	15.20
14	[13]	Faisal Mehmood Mirza	15.24
15	[26]	Zafar Mueen Nasir	16.94
16	[3]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	17.40
17	[40]	Uzma Afzal	17.85
18	[9]	Dawood Mamoon	19.00
19	[22]	Rashid Amjad	21.85
20	[32]	Musleh-ud Din	22.71
21	[24]	Saima Nawaz	23.07
22	[15]	Sofia Anwar	23.37
23	[17]	Muhammad Tariq Majeed	23.93
24	[30]	Faisal Abbas	24.25
25	[20]	Nasir Iqbal	25.24
26	[59]	Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi	25.85
27	[27]	Imran Hanif	28.00
28	[44]	Faiz Ur Rehman	28.80
29	[28]	Masood Ahmed Qazi	29.22
30	[31]	Ummad Mazhar	30.17
31	[36]	Muhammad Nadim Hanif	30.18
32	[29]	Attiya Yasmin Javid	30.75
33	[56]	Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad	30.94
34	[61]	Moazzam Farooq	31.54
35	[50]	Waqar Wadho	31.72
36	[64]	Farooq Pasha	33.15
37	[43]	Faisal Jamil	33.30
38	[19]	Noman Arshed	33.48
39	[21]	Syed Tehseen Jawaid	33.79
40	[47]	Shahbaz Shabbir	35.02
41	[35]	Talat Afza	35.34
42	[34]	Ayesha Afzal	36.08
43	[38]	Shaista Alam	36.63
44	[42]	Ghulam Mohammad Arif	37.43
45	[53]	Javed Iqbal	37.80
46	[39]	Saif Ullah	39.53
47	[48]	Munir Ahmad	40.17
48	[45]	Qaiser Munir	40.49
49	[80]	Syed Muhammad Hussain	41.10
50	[57]	Theresa T. Chaudhry	41.62
51	[37]	Attaullah Shah	41.94
52	[69]	Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani	44.88
53	[46]	Afia Malik	45.25
54	[60]	Abid Aman Burki	45.42
55	[52]	Rehana Siddiqui	47.05
56	[49]	Arshad Hassan	47.19
57	[54]	Haroon Jamal	48.53
58	[66]	Abdul Qayyum Khan	51.26
59	[79]	Agha Ali Akram	53.97
60	[97]	Syed Murtaza Hussain, Sr.	54.29
61	[51]	Naeem Akram	55.32
62	[76]	Sajjad Zaheer	55.40
63	[23]	Danish Ahmed Siddiqui	55.93
64	[77]	Syed Babar Ali	56.08
65	[63]	Junaid Ahmed	58.23
66	[62]	Bisharat Hussain Chang	62.61
67	[71]	Zahid Asghar	62.70
68	[70]	Rana Ejaz Ali Khan	64.87
69	[81]	Lubna Hasan	68.00
70	[74]	Sajawal Khan	68.89
71	[67]	Muhammad Irfan Chani	69.24
72	[65]	Vaqar Ahmed	70.75
73	[82]	Khuda Bakhsh	71.46
74	[73]	Zafar Mahmood	72.55
75	[68]	Khalil Ahmad	72.60
76	[100]	Fazal Husain	76.71
77	[78]	Ambreen Fatima	78.87
78	[132]	Nasreen Nawaz	79.40
79	[72]	Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda	79.67
80	[89]	Asma Hyder Baloch (Asma Hyder)	80.84
81	[91]	Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari	81.10
82	[75]	Abedullah	82.00
83	[84]	Shujaat Farooq	82.23
84	[86]	Wasim Shahid Malik	82.69
85	[87]	Muhammad Shahid Hassan	85.14
86	[83]	Zahid Pervaiz	85.59
87	[143]	Safdar Ali	86.23
88	[25]	Syed Anees Haider Zaidi	86.23
89	[88]	Fiaz Ahmad Sulehri	86.65
90	[92]	Muhammad Abdul Kamal	86.82
91	[102]	Mumtaz Anwar	87.30
92	[96]	Muhammad Farooq Arby	87.43
93	[105]	Ashar Awan	88.28
94	[111]	Naeem Ahmed	89.13
95	[85]	M. Ali Kemal	89.22
96	[101]	Zahoor Ul Haq	90.58
97	[103]	Muhammad Iqbal	90.69
98	[90]	Ather Maqsood Ahmed	91.50
99	[94]	Atiq Rehman	91.79
100	[116]	Najam Us Saqib	92.06
101	[252]	Iram A. Khan	92.94
102	[93]	Masood Sarwar Awan	93.10
103	[119]	Javed Iqbal	93.29
104	[98]	Muhammad Idrees Khawaja	95.93
105	[131]	Aadil Nakhoda	96.04
106	[104]	Rashida Haq	97.41
107	[106]	Karim Khan	97.91
108	[95]	Usman Mustafa	99.01
109	[115]	Kalbe Abbas	99.74
110	[117]	Muhammad Ali	101.14
111	[127]	Muhammad Omer	101.77
112	[123]	Waqas Ahmed	103.13
113	[113]	Irem Batool	104.44
114	[114]	Ejaz Ghani	105.23
115	[121]	Ahmad Nawaz	107.17
116	[107]	Mahmood Khalid	107.42
117	[137]	Omar Farooq Saqib	108.67
118	[41]	Nadeem Haque	108.78
119	[130]	Arshad Ali Bhatti	109.77
120	[128]	Awais Anwar	110.04
121	[129]	Usman Ahmad	111.09
122	[135]	Yasir Riaz	111.29
123	[156]	Muhammad Azmat Hayat	111.97
124	[153]	Zahid Iqbal	113.40
125	[164]	Abdul Farooq	114.14
126	[140]	Mahmood Ul Hasan Khan	115.35
127	[125]	Kashif Imran	116.40
128	[118]	Waheed Akhter	118.27
129	[122]	Maqbool H. Sial	119.36
130	[139]	Zulfiqar Hyder	119.94
131	[124]	Naseem Faraz	120.46
132	[138]	Naved Hamid	120.60
133	[141]	Muhammad Faisal Ali	123.42
134	[154]	Usama Awan	123.72
135	[167]	Shahzad Abbas	124.38
136	[12]	Ali Choudhary	127.17
137	[142]	Hasan Muhammad Mohsin	127.84
138	[159]	Syed Hasan	129.16
139	[133]	Uzma Zia	130.28
140	[145]	Safdar Khan	130.45
141	[144]	Shahnaz Hamid	130.82
142	[151]	Samreen Akhtar Janjua	130.90
143	[149]	Muhammad Jahanzeb Malik	133.09
144	[146]	Abdul Salam	133.35
145	[172]	Mohsin Hassan Alvi	133.46
146	[126]	Jabbar Ul-Haq	134.02
147	[155]	Muhammad Idrees	135.58
148	[55]	Syed Ather Hussain Akbari	137.29

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Syed Ali Raza	1.80
2	[1]	Amjad Ali	3.67
3	[6]	Faisal Mehmood Mirza	6.86
4	[16]	Azam Chaudhry	7.64
5	[3]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	7.82
6	[4]	Imran Hanif	8.05
7	[22]	Farah Said	8.49
8	[10]	Samia, Nasreen	9.43
9	[7]	Khalid Zaman, Sr.	9.83
10	[8]	Muhammad Azam	10.20
11	[9]	Noman Arshed	12.88
12	[19]	Abdul Rashid	13.03
13	[12]	Ayesha Afzal	13.07
14	[11]	Dawood Mamoon	14.56
15	[15]	Saif Ullah	14.82
16	[17]	Saima Nawaz	14.90
17	[14]	Sofia Anwar	15.85
18	[21]	Khalid Ahmed	18.35
19	[18]	Arshad Hassan	18.98
20	[45]	Uzma Afzal	19.32
21	[47]	Shamyla Chaudry	19.67
22	[20]	Bisharat Hussain Chang	20.90
23	[23]	Qaiser Munir	21.16
24	[38]	Agha Ali Akram	21.24
25	[27]	Waqar Wadho	22.09
26	[25]	Nasir Iqbal	23.55
27	[34]	Ummad Mazhar	24.30
28	[5]	Syed Anees Haider Zaidi	28.46
29	[33]	Attaullah Shah	28.78
30	[28]	Muhammad Tariq Majeed	29.66
31	[13]	Danish Ahmed Siddiqui	31.23
32	[55]	Nasreen Nawaz	31.30
33	[32]	Javed Iqbal	31.50
34	[29]	Khuda Bakhsh	31.70
35	[26]	Fiaz Ahmad Sulehri	31.99
36	[30]	Ashar Awan	32.52
37	[40]	Junaid Ahmed	33.50
38	[31]	Muhammad Abdul Kamal	34.53
39	[37]	Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda	37.55
40	[44]	Awais Anwar	39.51
41	[46]	Yasir Riaz	40.20
42	[50]	Faisal Jamil	42.63
43	[60]	Arshad Ali Bhatti	44.36
44	[43]	Muhammad Shahid Hassan	45.07
45	[51]	Atiq Rehman	45.39
46	[36]	Syed Tehseen Jawaid	46.10
47	[49]	Muhammad Faisal Ali	46.96
48	[70]	Theresa T. Chaudhry	47.33
49	[48]	Jabbar Ul-Haq	49.06
50	[56]	Waheed Akhter	49.89
51	[68]	Faisal Abbas	50.09
52	[62]	Naseem Faraz	52.90
53	[67]	Zaheer Anwer	53.33
54	[57]	Naeem Akram	54.09
55	[52]	Muhammad Hanif	56.78
56	[54]	Sabeeh Ullah	56.85
57	[71]	Muhammad Aamir Khan	56.90
58	[58]	Sobia Rose	57.07
59	[65]	Nida Shah	57.78
60	[66]	Irem Batool	58.35
61	[64]	Iftikhar Yasin	58.84
62	[84]	Tauqir Ahmed	58.99
63	[87]	Syed Murtaza Hussain, Sr.	60.04
64	[59]	Muhammad Irfan Chani	60.82
65	[63]	Nawaz Ahmad	61.06
66	[88]	Syed Muhammad Hussain	61.16
67	[81]	Aadil Nakhoda	61.33
68	[74]	Ambreen Fatima	61.34
69	[72]	Zahid Pervaiz	62.54
70	[82]	Haroon Jamal	62.73
71	[101]	Faiz Ur Rehman	63.28
72	[35]	Muhammad Haris	65.60
73	[61]	Afia Malik	66.27
74	[91]	Syed Hasan	66.41
75	[75]	Dr Muhammad Sadiq Shahid (Muhammad Sadiq Shahid)	66.58
76	[80]	Waqar Khalid	66.60
77	[24]	Ali Choudhary	67.33
78	[85]	Sanval Nasim	71.99
79	[39]	Shazia Kousar	73.85
80	[42]	Tanveer Bagh	75.21
81	[93]	Ahmad Fraz	75.46
82	[83]	Attiya Yasmin Javid	78.22
83	[90]	Shaista Alam	79.33
84	[89]	Shujaat Farooq	79.57
85	[76]	Omer Siddique	81.45
86	[104]	Muhammad Nasir	82.41
87	[92]	Khalil Ahmad	86.67
88	[98]	Komal Akram Khan	88.55
89	[79]	Asad Zaman	89.44
90	[99]	Muhammad Sabir	91.10
91	[94]	Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed	92.12
92	[73]	Abid Hussain	92.86
93	[103]	Sana Ullah	93.31
94	[100]	Ghulam Yahya Khan	94.30
95	[95]	Karim Khan	95.02
96	[105]	Rukhsana Kalim	95.93
97	[102]	Ahmad Nawaz	96.35
98	[128]	Rafi Amir-ud-Din	97.19
99	[108]	Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari	97.33
100	[124]	Mazhar Ali	97.48
101	[96]	Masood Ahmed Qazi	98.39
102	[107]	Syed Babar Ali	99.72
103	[117]	Rana Ejaz Ali Khan	99.87
104	[116]	Mumtaz Hussain Shah	100.07
105	[119]	Unbreen Qayyum	101.06
106	[86]	Muhammad Ayaz	102.55
107	[106]	Noor Jehan	103.40
108	[41]	Kashif Munir	103.41
109	[122]	Manzoor H. Memon	103.60
110	[97]	Hassan Rasool	103.96
111	[109]	Lubna Hasan	108.16
112	[123]	Abdul Ghafoor Awan	108.51
113	[112]	Jamshaid Ur Rehman	109.41
114	[53]	Nadeem Haque	110.32
115	[110]	Nazima Ellahi	111.00
116	[111]	Khalil Ullah Mohammad (Mohammad Khalilullah)	111.27
117	[138]	Antonio Marasco	111.83
118	[130]	Asim Iqbal	112.41
119	[141]	Zafar Mueen Nasir	112.67
120	[113]	Muhammad Jehangir Khan	114.13
121	[135]	Sonan Ahmed Memon	114.54
122	[121]	Aamir Hussain Siddiqui	115.56
123	[115]	Muhammad Afzal	115.73
124	[114]	Muhammad Nadim Hanif	116.21
125	[129]	Naveed Khan	117.74
126	[143]	Ahmad Nawaz	118.13
127	[139]	Farooq Pasha	118.36
128	[77]	Farhad Zulfiqar	118.37
129	[118]	Shahid Manzoor Shah	119.76
130	[133]	Farah Waheed	120.76
131	[140]	Syed Sibghatullah Shah	120.86
132	[150]	Rubina Ilyas	121.00
133	[137]	Rafiq Muhammad	121.46
134	[159]	Khalid Waleed	121.92
135	[131]	Zahid Asghar	122.41
136	[156]	Abid Ali Khan	125.29
137	[152]	Muhammad Omer	126.45
138	[120]	Khalid Latif	127.26
139	[145]	Usman Ahmad	127.75
140	[163]	Farhat Rasul	128.04
141	[151]	Muhammad Qasim Attari	128.57
142	[148]	Muhammad Uzair	129.15
143	[154]	Javeria Salam	129.51
144	[126]	Ahmed Waqar Qasim	129.95
145	[132]	Tanweer Ul Islam	130.66
146	[125]	Muhammad Asad Ur Rehman Naseer	130.91
147	[166]	Abdul Qayyum Khan	132.51
148	[161]	Naved Hamid	133.87

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