Top Institutions and Economists in Norway, as of May 2026

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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	1.00	131	114.92
2	[3]	BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	2.41	58	55.36
3	[2]	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	2.43	45	36.31
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	3.07	45	40.85
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Oslo, Norway	4.55	25	22.18
4	[4]	Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway	4.78	21	19.01
5	[5]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	5.14	33	28.82
6	[7]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Handelshøgskolen, Stavanger, Norway	6.58	23	21.42
-	[-]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	6.77	22	21.70
7	[6]	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	6.82	43	35.27
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	6.96	53	50.13
8	[9]	Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway	7.85	26	20.83
9	[8]	Universitetet i Bergen → Institutt for Økonomi, Bergen, Norway	8.07	25	25.57
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Finans, Oslo, Norway	8.36	23	22.43
10	[10]	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway	9.22	18	15.45
11	[11]	Universitetet i Oslo → Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur (TIK), Oslo, Norway	10.53	11	10.41
12	[12]	OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet → Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	11.88	18	17
13	[13]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Stavanger, Norway	12.41	7	7
14	[14]	Institutt for Samfunnsforskning (ISF), Oslo, Norway	14.68	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	1.00	131	10
2	[2]	BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	2	58	10
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	2.36	45	10
3	[3]	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	3.26	45	10
4	[4]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Handelshøgskolen, Stavanger, Norway	4.59	23	10
5	[5]	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	5.23	43	10
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Oslo, Norway	5.34	25	10
6	[6]	Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway	5.95	21	10
7	[7]	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway	6.91	18	10
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	6.95	53	10
8	[8]	Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway	6.95	26	10
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Finans, Oslo, Norway	6.99	23	10
9	[9]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	9.54	33	10
10	[10]	OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet → Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	10.57	18	10
11	[11]	Universitetet i Bergen → Institutt for Økonomi, Bergen, Norway	11.04	25	10
-	[-]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	11.48	22	10
12	[12]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Stavanger, Norway	11.88	7	7
13	[14]	Universitetet i Oslo → Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur (TIK), Oslo, Norway	12.74	11	10
14	[15]	CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning, Oslo, Norway	13.19	4	4

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[4]	Kjell G Salvanes	1.79
2	[3]	Fabio Canova	2.10
3	[10]	Bertil Tungodden	6.61
4	[7]	Jan Ernst Fagerberg	7.05
5	[12]	Ragnar Torvik	8.03
6	[8]	Edwin Leuven	9.79
7	[13]	Karl Ove Moene	9.90
8	[14]	Knut Røed (Knut Roed)	9.94
9	[15]	Michael Olaf Hoel	10.62
10	[16]	Alexander Wright Cappelen	11.94
11	[21]	Espen R. Moen	11.96
12	[17]	Geir B. Asheim	12.75
13	[18]	Halvor Mehlum	14.59
14	[25]	Katrine Vellesen Løken (Katrine Vellesen Loken)	14.85
15	[2]	Kjell Hausken	16.49
16	[19]	Hilde Christiane Bjørnland (Hilde Christiane Bjornland)	19.51
17	[27]	Andreas Fagereng	20.40
18	[23]	Stein T. Holden	20.66
19	[22]	Martin Thomas Falk	21.98
20	[26]	Knut Einar Rosendahl	22.05
21	[29]	Bernt Bratsberg	22.13
22	[34]	Hans Hvide	22.31
23	[32]	Steinar Holden	24.24
24	[31]	Fulvio Castellacci	24.38
25	[28]	Erik Ø. Sørensen (Erik O. Sorensen)	24.70
26	[30]	Erling Barth	24.77
27	[33]	Andreas Moxnes	25.10
28	[36]	Guttorm Schjelderup	27.39
29	[35]	Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)	27.48
30	[1]	Ron Boschma	27.73
31	[20]	Rolf Aaberge	28.33
32	[37]	Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	28.98
33	[57]	Trond E. Olsen	29.16
34	[24]	Andreas Kotsadam	29.17
35	[81]	John K. Dagsvik	30.48
36	[38]	Mari Rege	30.58
37	[48]	Karin S. Thorburn	30.89
38	[41]	Glen Philip Peters	32.32
39	[39]	Ingar Haaland	32.37
40	[49]	Tarjei Havnes	32.68
41	[40]	Tom Broekel	33.66
42	[47]	Finn R. Førsund (Finn R. Forsund)	34.36
43	[42]	Kjetil Telle	36.73
44	[46]	Karine Nyborg	36.99
45	[50]	Peter Molnár (Peter Molnar)	37.82
46	[44]	Jo Thori Lind	38.59
47	[52]	Roy Mersland	39.37
48	[53]	Manudeep Bhuller	39.53
49	[62]	Frank Asche	43.19
50	[64]	Dagfinn Rime	43.85
51	[67]	Simen Markussen	44.31
52	[54]	Colin P. Green (Colin Peter Green)	44.90
53	[66]	Lars Sørgard (Lars Sorgard)	44.91
54	[68]	Gisle James Natvik	46.51
55	[70]	Gunnar S. Eskeland (Gunnar Saethern Eskeland)	46.74
56	[60]	Jorn Rattso	47.09
57	[45]	Kjell Erik Lommerud	47.61
58	[71]	Kurt Richard Brekke	47.93
59	[55]	Jarle Møen (Jarle Moen)	47.95
60	[75]	Christa Noël Brunnschweiler (Christa Noel Brunnschweiler)	48.65
61	[69]	Francesco Furlanetto	49.50
62	[65]	Leif Anders Thorsrud	50.13
63	[72]	Snorre Kverndokk	50.65
64	[78]	Aline Bütikofer (Aline Buetikofer)	51.56
65	[84]	Alexander Willén (Alexander Willen)	52.21
66	[77]	Stein W. Wallace	54.52
67	[73]	Knut Are Aastveit	54.72
68	[56]	Steinar Strøm (Steinar Strom)	55.51
69	[80]	Q. Farooq Akram	56.48
70	[151]	Christian Riis	57.43
71	[82]	Torberg Falch	57.43
72	[51]	Benny Geys	58.48
73	[83]	Gabriel R.g. Benito	61.07
74	[76]	Hans Jarle Kind	61.54
75	[79]	Kjell Arne Brekke	61.92
76	[86]	Gaute Torsvik	65.20
77	[85]	Stale Navrud	65.64
78	[92]	Oyvind Norli	66.39
79	[109]	Knut Kristian Aase	66.61
80	[88]	Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr	66.61
81	[87]	Arild Angelsen	66.63
82	[100]	Petter Osmundsen	66.76
83	[95]	Martin Blomhoff Holm	68.90
84	[98]	Thor O. Thoresen	70.33
85	[99]	Richard Priestley	71.77
86	[90]	Rune Dahl Fitjar	73.18
87	[5]	Sandra E. Black	73.53
88	[104]	Tore Nilssen	74.25
89	[93]	Rita Ginja	75.97
90	[106]	Ragnar Nymoen	76.53
91	[11]	Gazi Salah Uddin	76.85
92	[96]	Øivind A. Nilsen (Oivind Anti Nilsen)	78.04
93	[101]	Steffen Kallbekken	79.95
94	[108]	Martin Eckhoff Andresen	81.43
95	[122]	Ola Kvaløy (Ola Kvaloy)	83.82
96	[111]	Øystein Foros (Oystein Foros)	84.74
97	[127]	Simone Valente	85.50
98	[107]	Astrid Kunze	85.73
99	[91]	Samuli Knüpfer (Samuli Knupfer)	85.90
100	[114]	Ragnar Enger Juelsrud	86.77
101	[105]	Stein-Erik Fleten	86.84
102	[110]	Torfinn Harding	89.96
103	[124]	Mads Greaker	90.79
104	[115]	Kjell Vaage	92.93
105	[119]	Vegard Høghaug Larsen (Vegard Hoeghaug Larsen)	93.70
106	[121]	Tor Iversen	94.06
107	[43]	Clive L. Spash	94.42
108	[116]	Bernt Arne Ødegaard (Bernt Arne Odegaard)	95.23
109	[117]	Michael Frith	97.39
110	[125]	Arild Aakvik	98.85
111	[126]	Frode Steen	100.11
112	[128]	Ivar Kolstad	100.64
113	[94]	Kasper Roszbach	100.78
114	[129]	Sissel Jensen	103.46
115	[58]	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter)	103.73
116	[120]	Tommy Sveen	104.66
117	[132]	Alex Krumer	106.20
118	[118]	Geir Godager	108.27
119	[136]	Alfonso Irarrazabal	108.34
120	[144]	Eirik Gaard Kristiansen	108.91
121	[135]	Mark S. Knell	109.72
122	[131]	Espen Bratberg	110.17
123	[134]	Junior Maih	110.78
124	[138]	Pål Schøne (Pal Schone)	111.04
125	[139]	Christian N. Brinch	112.55
126	[137]	Lars-Erik Borge	114.11
127	[74]	Gernot Doppelhofer	114.38
128	[142]	Lars Johannessen Kirkebøen (Lars Johannessen Kirkeboeen)	116.12
129	[141]	Jørgen Juel Andersen (Jorgen Juel Andersen)	116.30
130	[153]	Espen Henriksen	117.18
131	[146]	Gunnar Bårdsen (Gunnar Bardsen)	117.44
132	[143]	Rolf Golombek	117.79
133	[130]	Cloé Garnache (Cloe Garnache)	120.28
134	[148]	Fredrik Wulfsberg	120.67
135	[152]	Øyvind Eitrheim (Oyvind Eitrheim)	121.24
136	[157]	Terje Skjerpen	121.50

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Kjell G Salvanes	3.88
2	[4]	Andreas Fagereng	3.89
3	[6]	Ingar Haaland	4.48
4	[7]	Peter Molnár (Peter Molnar)	6.92
5	[9]	Bertil Tungodden	7.70
6	[12]	Martin Blomhoff Holm	9.03
7	[10]	Alexander Wright Cappelen	9.51
8	[11]	Andreas Kotsadam	9.80
9	[15]	Alexander Willén (Alexander Willen)	11.33
10	[17]	Gisle James Natvik	11.45
11	[20]	Tom Broekel	11.55
12	[1]	Gazi Salah Uddin	11.63
13	[16]	Aline Bütikofer (Aline Buetikofer)	12.18
14	[14]	Manudeep Bhuller	12.19
15	[21]	Ragnar Enger Juelsrud	14.52
16	[22]	Knut Einar Rosendahl	15.02
17	[25]	Martin Eckhoff Andresen	18.91
18	[23]	Stein T. Holden	19.12
19	[24]	Katrine Vellesen Løken (Katrine Vellesen Loken)	19.38
20	[27]	Knut Røed (Knut Roed)	19.53
21	[28]	Vegard Høghaug Larsen (Vegard Hoeghaug Larsen)	19.90
22	[8]	Kjell Hausken	19.99
23	[33]	Colin P. Green (Colin Peter Green)	21.08
24	[29]	Knut Are Aastveit	21.64
25	[43]	Gabriel R.g. Benito	21.77
26	[30]	Andreas Moxnes	22.04
27	[38]	Rune Dahl Fitjar	23.52
28	[42]	Martin Thomas Falk	23.84
29	[35]	Jan Ernst Fagerberg	23.93
30	[39]	Simen Markussen	24.22
31	[31]	Erling Barth	24.72
32	[46]	Roy Mersland	25.63
33	[41]	Francesco Furlanetto	26.35
34	[40]	Leif Anders Thorsrud	26.84
35	[45]	Alex Krumer	26.89
36	[36]	Glen Philip Peters	28.45
37	[2]	Ron Boschma	30.16
38	[47]	Stein W. Wallace	30.28
39	[44]	Hilde Christiane Bjørnland (Hilde Christiane Bjornland)	31.67
40	[13]	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter)	32.23
41	[50]	Frank Asche	33.82
42	[48]	Rita Ginja	38.08
43	[53]	Fulvio Castellacci	41.69
44	[51]	Simon Galle	42.49
45	[54]	Edwin Leuven	42.89
46	[126]	Ingrid Marie Schaumburg Huitfeldt (Ingrid Huitfeldt)	43.18
47	[64]	Isaiah Hull	46.78
48	[52]	Jarle Møen (Jarle Moen)	47.17
49	[56]	Ola Lotherington Vestad	47.76
50	[59]	Jørgen Juel Andersen (Jorgen Juel Andersen)	47.86
51	[37]	Fabio Canova	48.73
52	[61]	Hans Hvide	48.97
53	[65]	Jonna Olsson	50.06
54	[55]	Erik Ø. Sørensen (Erik O. Sorensen)	51.92
55	[71]	Hidemichi Yonezawa	55.52
56	[76]	Jørgen Modalsli (Jorgen Modalsli)	57.21
57	[49]	Michael Frith	57.62
58	[60]	Andreas Olden	58.13
59	[72]	Guttorm Schjelderup	58.84
60	[73]	Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)	61.75
61	[74]	Mohammed Mardan	62.03
62	[80]	Inga Heiland	62.26
63	[67]	Steffen Kallbekken	63.12
64	[82]	Taoyuan Wei	63.57
65	[57]	Cloé Garnache (Cloe Garnache)	63.57
66	[69]	Tarjei Havnes	65.45
67	[90]	Stale Navrud	66.73
68	[83]	Karine Nyborg	66.90
69	[75]	Gaute Torsvik	67.45
70	[101]	Thor O. Thoresen	67.74
71	[77]	Clifton Makate	68.84
72	[98]	Karin S. Thorburn	69.10
73	[96]	Vincent Somville	70.08
74	[100]	Henrik Sigstad	71.24
75	[87]	Anders Kjelsrud	71.30
76	[92]	Steffen Juranek	71.40
77	[119]	Dengjun Zhang	72.52
78	[91]	Moana Silva Simas	73.18
79	[81]	Dagfinn Rime	73.31
80	[94]	Bernt Bratsberg	73.62
81	[32]	Rolf Aaberge	76.10
82	[102]	Muhammad Azeem Qureshi	76.23
83	[85]	Marte Rønning (Marte Roenning)	76.57
84	[97]	Drago Bergholt	76.95
85	[63]	Geir Godager	77.43
86	[107]	Alessia Russo	78.22
87	[99]	Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	78.35
88	[66]	Benny Geys	78.92
89	[109]	Mads Greaker	79.80
90	[103]	Samuel D Hirshman	81.00
91	[108]	Arash Aloosh	81.36
92	[125]	Hamid Boustanifar	81.46
93	[111]	Björn Brey (Bjoern Brey)	81.54
94	[118]	Øystein M. Hernæs (Oeystein Hernaes)	81.70
95	[110]	Sissel Jensen	82.81
96	[124]	Øystein Foros (Oystein Foros)	84.30
97	[121]	Kurt Richard Brekke	84.73
98	[112]	Stein-Erik Fleten	85.41
99	[78]	Karl Ove Moene	85.56
100	[116]	Bernt Arne Ødegaard (Bernt Arne Odegaard)	87.12
101	[123]	Karl Harmenberg	87.36
102	[117]	Mari Rege	88.28
103	[129]	Tom-Reiel Heggedal	88.33
104	[120]	Evelina Gavrilova	88.79
105	[113]	Frode Steen	89.33
106	[134]	Jean Paul Rabanal	90.44
107	[127]	Frode Martin Nordvik	92.49
108	[132]	Geir B. Asheim	94.91
109	[143]	Jo Thori Lind	95.03
110	[122]	Rudolf Gerardus Egging-Bratseth	95.65
111	[131]	Christian N. Brinch	95.80
112	[133]	Fenella Carpena	96.90
113	[128]	Espen R. Moen	97.40
114	[135]	Heidi Christina Thysen	99.56
115	[152]	Ola Kvaløy (Ola Kvaloy)	100.63
116	[137]	Torfinn Harding	101.17
117	[145]	Atle Oglend	101.45
118	[155]	Øivind A. Nilsen (Oivind Anti Nilsen)	101.99
119	[175]	Ola Honningdal Grytten	102.08
120	[148]	Kristine M. Grimsrud	102.27
121	[146]	Morten Sæthre (Morten Saethre)	102.87
122	[156]	Jacopo Bizzotto	103.61
123	[140]	Kjetil Telle	104.42
124	[138]	Håkon Tretvoll (Hakon Tretvoll)	104.71
125	[157]	Mark S. Knell	105.94
126	[151]	Andre K. Anundsen	105.96
127	[144]	Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli (Nicolo Maffei-Faccioli)	105.97
128	[158]	Laura Khoury	106.21
129	[153]	Junior Maih	107.48
130	[150]	Charlotte Ringdal	107.69
131	[154]	Paul Ehling	107.70
132	[149]	Astrid Kunze	107.76
133	[147]	Sigurd Mølster Galaasen (Sigurd Molster Galaasen)	108.72
134	[159]	Eeva Mauring	110.04
135	[142]	John Östh (John Osth)	110.51
136	[68]	Jon Hernes Fiva	111.06

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