Top Institutions and Economists in Malaysia, as of May 2026

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For Malaysia, these are 64 institutions with 416 members with a total share of 396.50.

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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]	Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2.17	7	5.58
2	[2]	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) → Sekolah Perniagaan dan Ekonomi, Serdang, Malaysia	2.21	29	28.18
3	[3]	Universiti Malaya → Faculty of Business and Economics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3.46	26	21.65
4	[5]	Monash University → School of Business, Sunway, Malaysia	4.37	29	29
5	[4]	Sunway University → Business School, Sunway, Malaysia	4.56	8	6.70
6	[6]	Universiti Kuala Lumpur → Business School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	6.04	8	8
7	[7]	Multimedia University → Faculty of Business, Malaka, Malaysia	6.34	5	4.80
8	[8]	International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	6.56	27	25.50
9	[9]	i-CATS University College → Faculty of Economics, Business and Accounting, Kuching, Malaysia	8.45	1	0.90
10	[10]	South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	8.66	9	7.54
11	[11]	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak → Faculty of Economics and Business, Samarahan, Malaysia	9.78	22	21.50
12	[12]	Universiti Utara Malaysia → College of Business, Sintok, Malaysia	10.79	25	23.85
13	[15]	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	12.53	7	6.50
14	[14]	University of Nottingham → Business School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	13.29	11	10.40
15	[13]	Universiti Sains Malaysia → Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Minden, Malaysia	13.81	1	1
16	[16]	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia → Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan, Bangi, Malaysia	15.68	12	12

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Sunway University → Business School, Sunway, Malaysia	2.52	8	6.70
2	[2]	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) → Sekolah Perniagaan dan Ekonomi, Serdang, Malaysia	3.03	29	10
3	[4]	Monash University → School of Business, Sunway, Malaysia	3.54	29	10
4	[3]	Universiti Malaya → Faculty of Business and Economics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4.43	26	10
5	[6]	Multimedia University → Faculty of Business, Malaka, Malaysia	4.74	5	4.80
6	[5]	Universiti Utara Malaysia → College of Business, Sintok, Malaysia	4.98	25	10
7	[8]	Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	5.48	7	5.58
8	[7]	Universiti Kuala Lumpur → Business School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	6.25	8	8
9	[10]	South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	7.82	9	7.54
10	[9]	International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	8.86	27	10
11	[12]	University of Nottingham → Business School, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	9.66	11	10
12	[11]	i-CATS University College → Faculty of Economics, Business and Accounting, Kuching, Malaysia	9.96	1	0.90
13	[13]	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak → Faculty of Economics and Business, Samarahan, Malaysia	10.93	22	10
14	[14]	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia → Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan, Bangi, Malaysia	12.75	12	10
15	[16]	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	13.89	7	6.50
-	[-]	Universiti Utara Malaysia → College of Business → School of Economics, Finance and Banking, Sintok, Malaysia	14.65	15	10
16	[15]	Universiti Utara Malaysia → Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Sintok, Malaysia	15.79	7	5.94

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Athanasios Orphanides	2.91
2	[3]	Abul Mansur Mohammed Masih	3.53
3	[5]	Hooi Hooi Lean	3.56
4	[6]	Siong Hook Law	4.19
5	[2]	Donghyun Park	6.02
6	[7]	Arshian Sharif	7.51
7	[17]	Hans Genberg	7.88
8	[10]	Chor Foon Tang	9.88
9	[13]	Usama Al-mulali	10.72
10	[15]	Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah	11.19
11	[11]	Sakiru Adebola Solarin (Solarin Sakiru)	11.51
12	[12]	Mansor H. Ibrahim	12.00
13	[4]	Fadzlan Sufian	14.05
14	[9]	Muzafar Shah Habibullah	14.86
15	[18]	Michael Frese	14.93
16	[8]	Rajah Rasiah	16.06
17	[26]	Kian-Ping Lim	16.58
18	[36]	Eduard Bomhoff	17.08
19	[16]	Md. Mahmudul Alam	17.60
20	[29]	Keshab Shrestha	17.62
21	[23]	W.n.w Azman-Saini	18.92
22	[20]	Mohamed Ariff (Mohamed Ariff Bin Syed Mohamed)	19.31
23	[19]	Fumitaka Furuoka	19.56
24	[25]	Venus Khim-Sen Liew	19.70
25	[47]	Sang Seok Lee	19.75
26	[28]	Nanthakumar Loganathan	22.86
27	[24]	Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha	24.42
28	[31]	Tuck Cheong Tang	25.85
29	[34]	Gareth David Leeves	26.60
30	[30]	Evan Lau	26.82
31	[40]	Chaiporn Vithessonthi	26.85
32	[46]	Ozer Karagedikli (Özer Karagedikli)	26.87
33	[60]	Wing Leong Teo	28.26
34	[33]	Chee-Keong Choong	28.70
35	[27]	Chee-Wooi Hooy	30.09
36	[22]	Chin-Hong Puah	31.42
37	[52]	Rasyad A. Parinduri	32.40
38	[42]	Chandran V G R (Chandran)	32.88
39	[59]	Geoffrey Alan Williams	34.43
40	[21]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	35.39
41	[39]	Abd Halim Ahmad	36.00
42	[37]	Chin Lee	37.54
43	[48]	Nafis Alam	39.59
44	[32]	Wee Yeap Lau	39.88
45	[35]	Tajul Ariffin Masron	40.44
46	[71]	Anella E. Munro	42.23
47	[55]	Abbas Mirakhor	42.58
48	[54]	Chee Yoong Liew	43.89
49	[69]	Grace Hooi Yean Lee	47.06
50	[63]	Koi Nyen Wong	47.93
51	[43]	Elsadig Musa Ahmed	47.98
52	[61]	Lee Chew Ging	48.16
53	[50]	Shahaboddin Shamshirband	48.39
54	[65]	Yoke-Kee Eng	48.40
55	[44]	Evelyn Shyamala Devadason	49.34
56	[56]	Manzoor Ahmad	49.43
57	[62]	Wai-Ching Poon	49.99
58	[88]	Liang Zhang	50.86
59	[58]	Sok-Gee Chan	51.24
60	[68]	Hui-Boon Tan	53.33
61	[57]	M Azali	53.83
62	[45]	Mohd Zaini Abd Karim	57.33
63	[53]	Kim-Leng Goh	57.86
64	[67]	Adam Ng	58.30
65	[73]	Bee Wah Tan	58.87
66	[72]	Rubi Ahmad	59.58
67	[76]	Mahyudin Ahmad	60.85
68	[70]	Kok Fong See	62.70
69	[78]	Tze-Haw Chan	62.77
70	[66]	Zulkefly Abdul Karim	64.17
71	[103]	Yiing Jia Loke	65.14
72	[51]	Abd Ghafar Ismail Ismail	66.59
73	[75]	K.Kuperan Viswanathan	66.76
74	[85]	Nader Ale Ebrahim	68.38
75	[77]	Jamal Othman	70.56
76	[81]	Luke Emeka Okafor	71.35
77	[86]	Zulkornain B. Yusop	71.63
78	[96]	Saizi Xiao	71.75
79	[91]	Jarita Duasa	73.00
80	[97]	Akram Shavkatovich Hasanov	73.54
81	[90]	Meltem Gulenay Chadwick	75.65
82	[80]	Normaz Wana Ismail	76.03
83	[99]	Paul Barnes	76.22
84	[83]	Sallahuddin Hassan	76.87
85	[93]	Siew-Voon Soon	77.36
86	[82]	Hafezali Iqbal Hussain	79.00
87	[92]	Mahmoud Moghavvemi	80.00
88	[95]	Mariani Abdul-Majid	80.20
89	[87]	Baharom Abdul Hamid	81.17
90	[89]	Salina Kassim	83.52
91	[74]	Siti Nurazira Mohd Daud	83.56
92	[112]	Akm Azhar	84.10
93	[84]	Hans-Dieter Evers	85.42
94	[101]	Sayyed Mahdi Ziaei	86.59
95	[49]	Rohail Hassan	87.11
96	[64]	Hasanul Banna	90.58
97	[104]	Eunbi Song	91.29
98	[102]	Fathin Faizah Said	92.06
99	[159]	Jimmy Teng	93.83
100	[94]	Lim Thye Goh	96.67
101	[121]	Chin-Yoong Wong	97.09
102	[109]	Suresh Narayanan	97.09
103	[138]	Dongkoo Chang	97.48
104	[113]	Ng Kok Haur	97.75
105	[105]	Md Saddam Hossain	98.21

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Arshian Sharif	2.59
2	[5]	Sakiru Adebola Solarin (Solarin Sakiru)	3.23
3	[2]	Donghyun Park	4.46
4	[6]	Hooi Hooi Lean	4.92
5	[7]	Siong Hook Law	5.17
6	[4]	Md. Mahmudul Alam	5.46
7	[3]	Abul Mansur Mohammed Masih	5.50
8	[23]	Sang Seok Lee	6.74
9	[8]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	11.90
10	[17]	Fumitaka Furuoka	12.44
11	[15]	Mansor H. Ibrahim	13.32
12	[16]	Manzoor Ahmad	14.78
13	[14]	Tajul Ariffin Masron	16.09
14	[20]	Abd Halim Ahmad	16.84
15	[21]	Chee-Wooi Hooy	17.23
16	[9]	Wee Yeap Lau	17.68
17	[24]	Nafis Alam	17.80
18	[22]	Usama Al-mulali	18.02
19	[19]	Chin Lee	18.27
20	[13]	Athanasios Orphanides	18.51
21	[32]	Chee Yoong Liew	19.19
22	[11]	Chin-Hong Puah	20.06
23	[58]	Ozer Karagedikli (Özer Karagedikli)	23.58
24	[34]	W.n.w Azman-Saini	23.78
25	[39]	Chaiporn Vithessonthi	24.13
26	[41]	Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah	26.42
27	[28]	Luke Emeka Okafor	26.60
28	[27]	Nanthakumar Loganathan	27.31
29	[43]	Mahyudin Ahmad	27.84
30	[47]	Keshab Shrestha	29.09
31	[35]	Sallahuddin Hassan	30.61
32	[50]	Michael Frese	30.66
33	[31]	Hafezali Iqbal Hussain	31.10
34	[30]	Evelyn Shyamala Devadason	31.18
35	[40]	Zulkefly Abdul Karim	31.31
36	[42]	Sok-Gee Chan	32.68
37	[38]	Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha	33.14
38	[44]	Wai-Ching Poon	33.46
39	[46]	Kok Fong See	34.11
40	[61]	Akram Shavkatovich Hasanov	34.25
41	[65]	Saizi Xiao	34.97
42	[18]	Rohail Hassan	35.66
43	[45]	Chor Foon Tang	37.28
44	[26]	Rajah Rasiah	37.54
45	[25]	Hasanul Banna	37.90
46	[37]	Evan Lau	38.97
47	[52]	Kaveh Asiaei	40.33
48	[72]	Eunbi Song	40.67
49	[53]	Mohamed Ariff (Mohamed Ariff Bin Syed Mohamed)	42.04
50	[29]	Muzafar Shah Habibullah	43.20
51	[63]	Siew-Voon Soon	43.33
52	[59]	Fathin Faizah Said	43.73
53	[36]	Elsadig Musa Ahmed	43.82
54	[51]	Kim-Leng Goh	45.04
55	[62]	N.a.m Naseem	46.61
56	[56]	Adam Ng	47.72
57	[57]	A.s. Abdul-Rahim	48.26
58	[54]	Lim Thye Goh	49.04
59	[75]	Meltem Gulenay Chadwick	49.96
60	[49]	Mohd Zaini Abd Karim	50.59
61	[48]	Abd Ghafar Ismail Ismail	53.01
62	[102]	Trang My Tran	54.24
63	[70]	Afzol Husain	54.59
64	[55]	Siti Nurazira Mohd Daud	54.66
65	[68]	Yogeeswari Subramaniam	58.52
66	[64]	Mohammad Falahat	59.69
67	[74]	Ng Kok Haur	59.86
68	[76]	Bm Hakim	61.17
69	[78]	Kian-Ping Lim	63.24
70	[110]	Pauline Khoo	63.30
71	[69]	Tuck Cheong Tang	63.39
72	[66]	Shahaboddin Shamshirband	65.57
73	[77]	Abdul Ghafoor	66.03
74	[84]	Koi Nyen Wong	66.19
75	[116]	Grace Hooi Yean Lee	68.31
76	[73]	Chandran V G R (Chandran)	68.93
77	[85]	Venus Khim-Sen Liew	69.76
78	[80]	Mirzet Šeho (Mirzet Seho)	69.98
79	[125]	Maurizio Fiaschetti	70.63
80	[82]	Baharom Abdul Hamid	71.91
81	[87]	Chee-Keong Choong	75.90
82	[88]	Karim Bux Syed	76.09
83	[79]	Moslem Uddin	76.29
84	[101]	Ravichandran Subramaniam	77.58
85	[126]	Rasyad A. Parinduri	78.62
86	[99]	Rubi Ahmad	80.12
87	[111]	Hon Yoong Lee	81.63
88	[97]	Mariani Abdul-Majid	82.23
89	[89]	K.Kuperan Viswanathan	82.49
90	[83]	Jamal Othman	82.93
91	[81]	Abdullah Al Mamun	83.68
92	[115]	Suresh Narayanan	83.84
93	[91]	Normaz Wana Ismail	84.37
94	[90]	Mohd Haizam Mohd Saudi	84.61
95	[71]	Arsalan Najmi	85.20
96	[95]	Woon Leong Lin	85.41
97	[100]	Thirunaukarasu Subramaniam	85.81
98	[92]	Dilip S. Mutum	87.22
99	[67]	Gareth David Leeves	88.40
100	[105]	Zulkufly Ramly	89.27
101	[94]	Saizal Pinjaman	89.91
102	[108]	Xiu Wei Yeap	89.95
103	[133]	Karam Adib Shaar	90.20
104	[106]	Dzul Hadzwan Husaini	91.02
105	[93]	Norazah Mohd Suki (Norazah)	91.03

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