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

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There are 9321 institutions with 73501 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 320 members with a total share of 296.07.

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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	1.72	22	18.13
2	[2]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	2.26	47	41.14
3	[3]	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	2.46	26	22.34
4	[4]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	3.11	45	38.30
-	[-]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	3.64	36	30.69
-	[-]	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	4.12	20	17.60
5	[5]	University of Canterbury → Business School, Christchurch, New Zealand	4.85	32	31.25
-	[-]	University of Canterbury → Business School → Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand	6.08	29	26.65
6	[6]	University of Otago → School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand	6.09	20	17.30
7	[7]	Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand	6.89	26	25.84
8	[8]	Auckland University of Technology → Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland, New Zealand	7.34	22	20.30
-	[-]	University of Otago → School of Business → Department of Economics, Dunedin, New Zealand	7.50	15	12.60
9	[9]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Canterbury, New Zealand	7.92	12	10.40
-	[-]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government → School of Economics and Finance, Wellington, New Zealand	8.18	35	28.64
-	[-]	Massey University → Business School → School of Economics and Finance, Palmerston North, New Zealand	9.41	16	15.85
10	[10]	Government of New Zealand → Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand	10.30	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	1.51	47	10
-	[-]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	2.83	36	10
2	[2]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Canterbury, New Zealand	3.25	12	10
3	[4]	Auckland University of Technology → Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland, New Zealand	3.54	22	10
4	[5]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	4.02	45	10
5	[3]	Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand	4.06	26	10
6	[6]	Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand	4.39	22	10
7	[8]	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	6.00	26	10
8	[7]	University of Canterbury → Business School, Christchurch, New Zealand	6.40	32	10
9	[9]	University of Otago → School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand	6.79	20	10
-	[-]	Massey University → Business School → School of Economics and Finance, Palmerston North, New Zealand	7.38	16	10
-	[-]	University of Canterbury → Business School → Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand	7.54	29	10
-	[-]	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	8.23	20	10
-	[-]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce → Economics Group, Canterbury, New Zealand	8.59	2	2
-	[-]	University of Otago → School of Business → Department of Economics, Dunedin, New Zealand	9.26	15	10
-	[-]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government → School of Economics and Finance, Wellington, New Zealand	9.37	35	10
10	[10]	Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand	9.89	20	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Adam Jaffe	1.77
2	[1]	Peter C. B. Phillips	2.00
3	[4]	John Gibson	3.22
4	[2]	John Creedy	6.27
5	[11]	Robert MacCulloch	7.01
6	[17]	Dean Hyslop	9.50
7	[9]	Les Oxley	9.74
8	[8]	David Gabauer	10.22
9	[14]	W. Robert Reed	10.31
10	[12]	Norman Gemmell	10.45
11	[16]	Alfred A. Haug	10.74
12	[15]	Jacques Poot	12.61
13	[22]	Philip Vermeulen	13.22
14	[21]	Saten Kumar	13.70
15	[20]	Yothin Jinjarak	13.93
16	[24]	Ananish Chaudhuri	14.42
17	[13]	David Fielding	14.54
18	[10]	Mark J. Holmes	15.57
19	[23]	David Christopher Maré (David Christopher Mare)	16.34
20	[25]	Graeme Guthrie	17.35
21	[18]	Arthur Grimes	17.47
22	[19]	Faruk Balli	17.77
23	[26]	Bart Frijns	20.30
24	[28]	Henk Berkman	20.34
25	[30]	Christopher John McDermott	21.51
26	[31]	Jeremy Edmund Clark	23.43
27	[29]	Wanglin Ma	26.05
28	[33]	Tom Coupé (Tom Coupe)	26.37
29	[35]	Steven James Tucker	26.76
30	[32]	Eberhard Feess	27.08
31	[34]	Suzi Kerr	28.52
32	[37]	Ronald Peeters	30.00
33	[36]	Alireza Tourani-Rad (Alireza Tourani Rad)	33.29
34	[42]	Jan Feld	33.74
35	[40]	Philip Meguire	34.11
36	[39]	Hatice Ozer Balli	38.19
37	[53]	Donggyun Shin	38.40
38	[43]	Dorian Owen	39.56
39	[45]	Stephen Knowles	39.66
40	[51]	Lewis Evans	40.96
41	[48]	Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy	41.18
42	[49]	Ben R. Marshall	43.50
43	[141]	Debra Dennis Reed	43.94
44	[52]	Richard Fabling	44.34
45	[46]	Dennis Wesselbaum	45.10
46	[55]	Nuttawat Visaltanachoti	46.27
47	[59]	Susan Olivia	46.79
48	[54]	Niven Winchester	47.44
49	[47]	Nathan Berg	47.60
50	[57]	Weshah Razzak	48.02
51	[66]	Hai Lin	49.72
52	[67]	John Tressler	50.69
53	[58]	Yang Hu	51.47
54	[65]	Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht	51.49
55	[7]	Shaen Corbet	51.94
56	[63]	Ji Wu	53.32
57	[76]	Isabelle Sin	54.80
58	[83]	John Fountain	54.97
59	[73]	Alfred V. Guender	56.05
60	[71]	Anna Strutt	56.17
61	[27]	Leo Krippner	56.25
62	[69]	Trinh Van Thi Le	57.04
63	[62]	David K. Ding	57.73
64	[64]	Alan Renwick	58.09
65	[68]	Francis Gordon Scrimgeour	59.43
66	[74]	José DA Fonseca (Jose DA Fonseca)	59.48
67	[70]	Leon Li	60.04
68	[61]	Michael P. Cameron	61.57
69	[79]	Elodie Blanc	61.59
70	[75]	Philip Andrew Stevens	62.76
71	[86]	Christie Smith	65.98
72	[87]	Tim Ng	66.36
73	[77]	David C. Hay	67.93
74	[80]	Gail Pacheco	68.55
75	[82]	Robert Allan Buckle	68.72
76	[89]	Paul Thorsnes	68.79
77	[72]	Hung Do	69.51
78	[90]	Richard Watt	70.81
79	[78]	Thanh Ngo	71.86
80	[92]	Murat Üngör	72.06
81	[99]	Yu-Wei Luke Chu	72.07

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	David Gabauer	2.46
2	[5]	John Gibson	3.67
3	[6]	Faruk Balli	4.33
4	[8]	Saten Kumar	5.58
5	[4]	Wanglin Ma	5.78
6	[3]	Peter C. B. Phillips	7.45
7	[12]	Bart Frijns	9.91
8	[2]	Shaen Corbet	11.59
9	[17]	W. Robert Reed	11.76
10	[16]	Adam Jaffe	12.32
11	[9]	Yang Hu	12.62
12	[11]	Les Oxley	13.37
13	[10]	Ji Wu	13.45
14	[21]	Yothin Jinjarak	15.87
15	[20]	Susan Olivia	16.39
16	[32]	Jan Feld	16.70
17	[25]	Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy	18.12
18	[13]	John Creedy	19.11
19	[23]	Mark J. Holmes	20.33
20	[14]	Hung Do	20.95
21	[19]	Hatice Ozer Balli	20.97
22	[15]	Alan Renwick	21.54
23	[35]	Philip Vermeulen	21.75
24	[31]	Geua Boe-Gibson	22.69
25	[26]	Arthur Grimes	22.97
26	[22]	Dennis Wesselbaum	23.14
27	[18]	Thanh Ngo	23.27
28	[48]	Dean Hyslop	23.36
29	[43]	Isabelle Sin	23.39
30	[33]	Wilbur Townsend	24.48
31	[24]	Tom Coupé (Tom Coupe)	25.67
32	[28]	Alfred A. Haug	26.60
33	[30]	Puneet Vatsa	28.80
34	[34]	Norman Gemmell	29.18
35	[47]	Ronald Peeters	30.02
36	[36]	Leon Li	30.98
37	[39]	David Fielding	31.39
38	[45]	Elodie Blanc	31.78
39	[41]	David Christopher Maré (David Christopher Mare)	32.40
40	[38]	Khanh Hoang	33.28
41	[52]	Henk Berkman	34.14
42	[42]	Alireza Tourani-Rad (Alireza Tourani Rad)	34.39
43	[44]	Nuttawat Visaltanachoti	35.94
44	[37]	Min Bai	36.35
45	[54]	Eberhard Feess	36.77
46	[46]	Tahir Suleman	38.98
47	[61]	Peer Ebbesen Skov	39.57
48	[50]	David H. Lont	40.32
49	[40]	Michael P. Cameron	40.84
50	[53]	Gilbert Nartea	43.97
51	[59]	Jeremy Edmund Clark	44.25
52	[55]	Muhammad A. Cheema	45.29
53	[62]	Richard Fabling	45.92
54	[56]	Jacques Poot	46.41
55	[60]	Hai Lin	46.91
56	[68]	Fang Yao	48.58
57	[51]	David C. Hay	49.23
58	[57]	Francis Gordon Scrimgeour	50.36
59	[67]	Zack Dorner	50.69
60	[76]	Murat Üngör	51.00
61	[58]	Robert D. Kirkby	51.03
62	[63]	Onur A. Koska	51.23
63	[72]	Steven James Tucker	51.38
64	[70]	Adam Richardson	53.01
65	[64]	Ihsan Badshah	53.08
66	[86]	Thomas Schober	53.72
67	[95]	Alexander Plum	55.39
68	[83]	Christie Smith	55.76
69	[71]	Graeme Guthrie	56.41
70	[91]	Lynn Riggs	56.58
71	[66]	Nathan Berg	57.21
72	[102]	Hüseyin Murat Özbilgin (Murat Ozbilgin)	57.25
73	[75]	Niven Winchester	59.03
74	[78]	Kuntal K. Das	59.13
75	[77]	Trinh Van Thi Le	59.57
76	[81]	Syed Abul Hasan	59.91
77	[89]	Gail Pacheco	60.17
78	[65]	Mohammad Nourani	60.69
79	[73]	Anna Strutt	60.97
80	[101]	Yao Yao	61.70
81	[85]	Asha Sundaram	62.81

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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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