Top Institutions and Economists in United Arab Emirates, 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 United Arab Emirates, see EDIRC
For United Arab Emirates, these are 30 institutions with 132 members with a total share of 117.48.

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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]	New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	1	47	41.59
2	[2]	United Arab Emirates University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates	2.30	12	11.11
3	[3]	American University of Sharjah → School of Business Administration, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	2.62	18	17.45
-	[-]	American University of Sharjah → School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	3.74	13	12.45
-	[-]	United Arab Emirates University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics and Finance, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates	4.00	7	6.14
4	[4]	Zayed University → College of Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	4.24	6	5
5	[5]	Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	4.64	7	6.20
-	[-]	American University of Sharjah → School of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	6.59	1	1
6	[6]	Abu Dhabi School of Management, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	7.12	1	1
7	[7]	University of Sharjah → College of Business Administration, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	7.24	4	3.90

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	1.24	47	10
2	[2]	United Arab Emirates University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates	2.03	12	10
3	[3]	Zayed University → College of Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	2.86	6	5
4	[4]	Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	4.10	7	6.20
5	[5]	American University of Sharjah → School of Business Administration, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	4.20	18	10
-	[-]	United Arab Emirates University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics and Finance, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates	5.33	7	6.14
-	[-]	American University of Sharjah → School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	5.48	13	10
6	[6]	Abu Dhabi School of Management, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	6.48	1	1
-	[-]	American University of Sharjah → School of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	6.59	1	1
7	[7]	University of Sharjah → College of Business Administration, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	6.99	4	3.90

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Etienne Wasmer	2.10
2	[2]	Robert Carson Allen	2.37
3	[4]	Jean M. Imbs	2.98
4	[6]	John Christopher Ham	3.89
5	[3]	Sanjeev Goyal	6.94
6	[10]	Ernesto Reuben	7.16
7	[9]	Zaghum Umar	7.50
8	[11]	Aktham I. Maghyereh	7.65
9	[8]	Abdulnasser Hatemi-J	7.70
10	[12]	Nikos Nikiforakis	9.07
11	[15]	John Wooders	10.53
12	[14]	Oguzhan Cepni	10.64
13	[16]	Aikaterini Kyriazidou	11.79
14	[17]	Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis	12.06
15	[7]	Yaw Nyarko	14.36
16	[19]	Henry W. Chappell, Jr.	16.97
17	[20]	Khusrav Gaibulloev	17.39
18	[21]	Christian Haefke	19.31
19	[24]	Giovanni Federico	19.94
20	[26]	Olivier Bochet	20.48
21	[22]	Marc Audi	21.38
22	[27]	Mohammad Arzaghi	22.61
23	[23]	Ahmed H. Elsayed	22.87
24	[28]	Costas P. Siriopoulos	23.78
25	[30]	Barthélémy Bonadio (Barthelemy Bonadio)	23.83
26	[25]	Andreas Alexander Jobst	24.07
27	[29]	Ali Mirzaei	24.97
28	[31]	Kerim Peren Arin	24.97
29	[34]	Hervé Crès (Herve Cres)	25.19
30	[32]	Jay Squalli	26.14
31	[13]	Michael Reiter	26.38
32	[33]	Abdul G. Noury	28.37
33	[18]	Maurizio Sobrero	29.23
34	[36]	Laurent L Pauwels	33.32

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Zaghum Umar	1.63
2	[2]	Oguzhan Cepni	2.64
3	[7]	Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis	4.12
4	[3]	Aktham I. Maghyereh	4.83
5	[8]	Ernesto Reuben	5.15
6	[6]	Robert Carson Allen	5.32
7	[4]	Ahmed H. Elsayed	6.39
8	[10]	Barthélémy Bonadio (Barthelemy Bonadio)	7.83
9	[5]	Marc Audi	8.48
10	[12]	Ali Mirzaei	10.72
11	[13]	Khusrav Gaibulloev	11.81
12	[9]	Sanjeev Goyal	13.26
13	[15]	David Samuel Blakeslee	14.10
14	[14]	Etienne Wasmer	14.49
15	[17]	Morgan Hardy	15.67
16	[16]	Umar Nawaz Kayani	17.35
17	[20]	Kerim Peren Arin	17.57
18	[18]	Abdulnasser Hatemi-J	18.13
19	[19]	Costas P. Siriopoulos	18.25
20	[21]	Osama D. Sweidan	18.30
21	[22]	Usman Khalid	20.27
22	[11]	Haitham Nobanee	22.04
23	[25]	Simon Siegenthaler	23.18
24	[23]	Mohammad Al-Shboul	24.08
25	[24]	Nikos Nikiforakis	24.44
26	[28]	John Christopher Ham	25.27
27	[27]	Robert Kubinec	26.06
28	[26]	Peter Van der Windt	26.31
29	[29]	Laurent L Pauwels	27.19
30	[31]	Dario Romero	27.82
31	[30]	Jean M. Imbs	27.98
32	[32]	Marina-Selini Katsaiti	29.73
33	[35]	Andrzej Baranski	33.36
34	[41]	Aaron R Kaufman	35.74

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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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