Top Institutions and Economists in Pakistan, as of May 2026

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For Pakistan, these are 111 institutions with 592 members with a total share of 571.80.

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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	1.03	117	110.04
2	[2]	Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	2.29	16	16
3	[3]	State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan	4.14	35	32.05
4	[4]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	5.54	12	11.50
5	[8]	University of Karachi → Applied Economics Research Center (AERC), Karachi, Pakistan	6.56	11	9.50
6	[7]	Quaid-i-Azam University → Department of Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan	6.56	16	13
7	[6]	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan	6.89	16	14.50
8	[5]	University of Lahore City Campus → Lahore School of Accountancy and Finance, Lahore, Pakistan	7.06	5	5
9	[9]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore, Pakistan	7.38	4	3.30
10	[11]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan	10.50	15	13.57
11	[10]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	10.64	4	4
12	[14]	Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology → School of Economic Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	11.26	16	14.67
13	[15]	Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan	11.36	6	5.60
14	[13]	International Islamic University → International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), Islamabad, Pakistan	11.46	12	11.50
15	[12]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Pakistan	11.64	10	8.58
16	[16]	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) → Department of Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	13.06	7	7
-	[-]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	13.10	3	3
17	[18]	Iqra University → Management Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan	17.78	29	28
18	[17]	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan	19.29	5	5
19	[19]	University of Karachi → Department of Economics, Karachi, Pakistan	19.36	6	5.50
20	[20]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Economics, Vehari, Pakistan	19.66	1	1
21	[24]	Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Karachi, Pakistan	22.37	3	2.50
22	[21]	University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir → Kashmir Institute of Economics, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	23.16	6	5.80
23	[22]	University of Sargodha → Department of Economics, Sargodha, Pakistan	23.39	6	6
24	[26]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Islamabad, Pakistan	23.88	9	7.91
25	[23]	Government College University → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	24.90	6	3.95
26	[25]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Vehari, Pakistan	25.05	3	2.30
27	[29]	University of the Punjab → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	25.82	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	2.09	117	10
2	[2]	Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	2.27	16	10
3	[3]	University of Lahore City Campus → Lahore School of Accountancy and Finance, Lahore, Pakistan	4.60	5	5
4	[6]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore, Pakistan	4.70	4	3.30
5	[5]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Pakistan	4.96	10	8.58
6	[4]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	5.02	12	10
7	[7]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	7.09	4	4
8	[8]	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan	7.71	16	10
-	[-]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	8.21	3	3
9	[9]	Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan	8.27	6	5.60
10	[10]	International Islamic University → International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), Islamabad, Pakistan	9.03	12	10
11	[12]	Quaid-i-Azam University → Department of Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan	10.95	16	10
12	[14]	State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan	11.78	35	10
13	[13]	Government College University → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	14.29	6	3.95
14	[15]	University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir → Kashmir Institute of Economics, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	14.35	6	5.80
-	[-]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management → Department of Economics and Statistics, Lahore, Pakistan	14.56	2	0.73
15	[16]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Economics, Vehari, Pakistan	14.84	1	1
16	[18]	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) → Department of Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	15.82	7	7
17	[17]	Capital University of Science and Technology → Department of Management Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	16.84	2	2
18	[11]	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan	16.97	5	5
19	[20]	University of Karachi → Applied Economics Research Center (AERC), Karachi, Pakistan	17.83	11	9.50
20	[19]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Vehari, Pakistan	18.49	3	2.30
21	[22]	Iqra University → Management Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan	20.41	29	10
22	[23]	Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology → School of Economic Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	20.50	16	10
23	[21]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Sahiwal, Pakistan	20.61	4	2.50
-	[-]	Government of Pakistan → Ministry of Finance → Federal Board of Revenue, Islamabad, Pakistan	20.79	2	2
24	[26]	Government of Pakistan → Ministry of Finance, Islamabad, Pakistan	20.83	2	2
25	[24]	Superior University → Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan	21.57	2	2
26	[25]	University of Education → Division of Management and Administrative Science, Lahore, Pakistan	21.68	3	2.15
27	[28]	University of Sargodha → Department of Economics, Sargodha, Pakistan	24.79	6	6

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Syed Ali Raza	3.25
2	[1]	Amjad Ali	4.82
3	[10]	Azam Chaudhry	5.16
4	[8]	Asad Zaman	6.76
5	[12]	Samia, Nasreen	8.56
6	[24]	Farah Said	10.40
7	[5]	Khalid Zaman, Sr.	10.50
8	[9]	Muhammad Azam	10.82
9	[11]	Abdul Rashid	10.89
10	[30]	Shamyla Chaudry	11.95
11	[13]	Khalid Ahmed	12.05
12	[14]	Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye	12.90
13	[16]	Faisal Mehmood Mirza	14.97
14	[19]	Muhammad Nasir	15.17
15	[7]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	17.16
16	[35]	Zafar Mueen Nasir	17.43
17	[44]	Uzma Afzal	18.00
18	[4]	Dawood Mamoon	18.29
19	[25]	Rashid Amjad	20.35
20	[28]	Saima Nawaz	20.70
21	[15]	Muhammad Tariq Majeed	22.03
22	[26]	Musleh-ud Din	22.46
23	[45]	Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi	22.99
24	[22]	Nasir Iqbal	23.13
25	[20]	Sofia Anwar	23.24
26	[27]	Imran Hanif	23.93
27	[34]	Faisal Abbas	23.96
28	[42]	Faiz Ur Rehman	26.98
29	[3]	Attaullah Shah	27.18
30	[29]	Masood Ahmed Qazi	27.49
31	[21]	Syed Tehseen Jawaid	27.69
32	[32]	Attiya Yasmin Javid	28.08
33	[33]	Ummad Mazhar	28.15
34	[17]	Noman Arshed	28.73
35	[57]	Waqar Wadho	29.02
36	[60]	Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad	29.73
37	[31]	Muhammad Nadim Hanif	29.80
38	[40]	Talat Afza	30.49
39	[36]	Ayesha Afzal	31.36
40	[63]	Moazzam Farooq	31.44
41	[48]	Faisal Jamil	31.93
42	[46]	Shahbaz Shabbir	32.90
43	[67]	Farooq Pasha	32.97
44	[41]	Shaista Alam	34.58
45	[6]	Danish Ahmed Siddiqui	35.36
46	[58]	Javed Iqbal	35.74
47	[43]	Ghulam Mohammad Arif	36.28
48	[37]	Saif Ullah	36.44
49	[53]	Theresa T. Chaudhry	37.13
50	[56]	Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani	37.36
51	[39]	Afia Malik	38.49
52	[92]	Syed Muhammad Hussain	39.01
53	[55]	Munir Ahmad	39.12
54	[47]	Qaiser Munir	40.02
55	[50]	Haroon Jamal	41.90
56	[51]	Rehana Siddiqui	43.28
57	[62]	Abid Aman Burki	43.54
58	[79]	Syed Babar Ali	43.86
59	[83]	Sajjad Zaheer	43.99
60	[88]	Agha Ali Akram	44.48
61	[52]	Arshad Hassan	44.70
62	[49]	Naeem Akram	47.28
63	[61]	Junaid Ahmed	50.73
64	[109]	Syed Murtaza Hussain, Sr.	52.00
65	[70]	Abdul Qayyum Khan	52.52
66	[64]	Bisharat Hussain Chang	56.13
67	[77]	Lubna Hasan	56.56
68	[71]	Zahid Asghar	60.82
69	[94]	Asma Hyder Baloch (Asma Hyder)	60.97
70	[68]	Rana Ejaz Ali Khan	62.53
71	[106]	Nasreen Nawaz	62.69
72	[66]	Muhammad Irfan Chani	65.35
73	[72]	Zafar Mahmood	65.71
74	[78]	Sajawal Khan	65.81
75	[82]	Khuda Bakhsh	65.84
76	[118]	Naeem Ahmed	67.45
77	[65]	Vaqar Ahmed	67.48
78	[69]	Khalil Ahmad	69.26
79	[76]	Ambreen Fatima	71.72
80	[108]	Fazal Husain	71.78
81	[23]	Syed Anees Haider Zaidi	72.76
82	[148]	Safdar Ali	73.37
83	[73]	Shazia Kousar	73.79
84	[75]	Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda	74.91
85	[80]	Abedullah	76.63
86	[107]	Ashar Awan	76.72
87	[252]	Iram A. Khan	76.92
88	[85]	Shujaat Farooq	77.99
89	[74]	Ather Maqsood Ahmed	78.19
90	[114]	Mumtaz Anwar	78.75
91	[90]	Wasim Shahid Malik	79.27
92	[91]	Muhammad Abdul Kamal	79.28
93	[86]	Fiaz Ahmad Sulehri	81.39
94	[89]	Muhammad Shahid Hassan	81.64
95	[100]	Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari	81.66
96	[119]	Najam Us Saqib	81.91
97	[95]	Atiq Rehman	82.46
98	[84]	Zahid Pervaiz	82.58
99	[126]	Aadil Nakhoda	84.17
100	[103]	Karim Khan	85.64
101	[93]	M. Ali Kemal	85.76
102	[96]	Masood Sarwar Awan	85.78
103	[124]	Javed Iqbal	87.37
104	[101]	Muhammad Farooq Arby	87.62
105	[110]	Muhammad Iqbal	87.74
106	[112]	Zahoor Ul Haq	88.53
107	[137]	Arshad Ali Bhatti	91.06
108	[99]	Usman Mustafa	91.28
109	[81]	Muhammad Idrees Khawaja	93.11
110	[38]	Nadeem Haque	93.71
111	[111]	Rashida Haq	93.73
112	[125]	Waqas Ahmed	94.49
113	[105]	Mahmood Khalid	95.20
114	[120]	Kalbe Abbas	95.21
115	[129]	Muhammad Omer	95.58
116	[144]	Omar Farooq Saqib	97.43
117	[117]	Naseem Faraz	97.87
118	[123]	Muhammad Ali	98.88
119	[153]	Abdul Farooq	101.12
120	[122]	Ahmad Nawaz	101.70
121	[145]	Mahmood Ul Hasan Khan	102.11
122	[98]	Ejaz Ghani	102.88
123	[115]	Jabbar Ul-Haq	103.19
124	[141]	Yasir Riaz	104.38
125	[169]	Muhammad Azmat Hayat	106.59
126	[131]	Usman Ahmad	106.90
127	[132]	Awais Anwar	107.67
128	[18]	Ali Choudhary	107.93
129	[127]	Kashif Imran	107.96
130	[152]	Shahnaz Hamid	109.54
131	[147]	Usama Awan	109.82
132	[165]	Zahid Iqbal	110.87
133	[143]	Mohsin Hassan Alvi	113.41
134	[121]	Waheed Akhter	113.51
135	[133]	Muhammad Faisal Ali	113.66
136	[161]	Shahzad Abbas	114.64
137	[150]	Asif Mahmood	114.72
138	[160]	Muhammad Jahanzeb Malik	115.69
139	[116]	Muhammad Hanif	116.02
140	[163]	Zaheer Anwer	117.59
141	[199]	Tauqir Ahmed	117.69
142	[139]	Zulfiqar Hyder	118.70
143	[128]	Maqbool H. Sial	119.29
144	[135]	Naved Hamid	120.73
145	[138]	Hasan Muhammad Mohsin	122.14
146	[59]	Syed Ather Hussain Akbari	125.20
147	[142]	Abdul Salam	125.30
148	[157]	Samreen Akhtar Janjua	125.72
149	[146]	Safdar Khan	126.15

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Syed Ali Raza	2.06
2	[1]	Amjad Ali	4.62
3	[10]	Faisal Mehmood Mirza	7.45
4	[6]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	8.17
5	[16]	Azam Chaudhry	8.99
6	[8]	Imran Hanif	9.15
7	[22]	Farah Said	9.22
8	[12]	Muhammad Azam	9.56
9	[9]	Khalid Zaman, Sr.	9.83
10	[13]	Samia, Nasreen	10.22
11	[11]	Noman Arshed	11.81
12	[14]	Abdul Rashid	12.29
13	[15]	Ayesha Afzal	12.40
14	[20]	Saima Nawaz	14.64
15	[18]	Saif Ullah	14.67
16	[17]	Sofia Anwar	15.58
17	[4]	Dawood Mamoon	16.86
18	[23]	Khalid Ahmed	18.01
19	[50]	Uzma Afzal	18.34
20	[21]	Arshad Hassan	19.26
21	[46]	Agha Ali Akram	19.52
22	[24]	Qaiser Munir	20.56
23	[5]	Attaullah Shah	20.99
24	[19]	Bisharat Hussain Chang	21.01
25	[29]	Shamyla Chaudry	21.63
26	[38]	Waqar Wadho	21.79
27	[28]	Nasir Iqbal	22.68
28	[37]	Ummad Mazhar	22.75
29	[3]	Danish Ahmed Siddiqui	22.77
30	[26]	Muhammad Tariq Majeed	26.39
31	[25]	Shazia Kousar	27.24
32	[34]	Nasreen Nawaz	27.47
33	[7]	Syed Anees Haider Zaidi	27.87
34	[32]	Khuda Bakhsh	29.75
35	[39]	Javed Iqbal	30.46
36	[36]	Fiaz Ahmad Sulehri	30.83
37	[31]	Ashar Awan	31.48
38	[44]	Junaid Ahmed	32.01
39	[33]	Muhammad Abdul Kamal	33.93
40	[30]	Syed Tehseen Jawaid	35.87
41	[43]	Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda	36.98
42	[57]	Faisal Jamil	38.69
43	[70]	Arshad Ali Bhatti	38.89
44	[54]	Awais Anwar	39.99
45	[55]	Yasir Riaz	40.49
46	[49]	Naseem Faraz	42.23
47	[56]	Atiq Rehman	42.59
48	[45]	Jabbar Ul-Haq	43.04
49	[48]	Muhammad Shahid Hassan	43.73
50	[52]	Muhammad Faisal Ali	45.06
51	[66]	Theresa T. Chaudhry	45.18
52	[61]	Waheed Akhter	45.66
53	[71]	Faisal Abbas	46.27
54	[42]	Muhammad Hanif	47.58
55	[67]	Zaheer Anwer	48.63
56	[90]	Tauqir Ahmed	50.35
57	[60]	Haroon Jamal	50.60
58	[91]	Syed Murtaza Hussain, Sr.	50.69
59	[102]	Faiz Ur Rehman	51.25
60	[53]	Afia Malik	51.29
61	[62]	Ambreen Fatima	52.00
62	[59]	Sabeeh Ullah	52.03
63	[95]	Syed Muhammad Hussain	52.19
64	[64]	Waqar Khalid	52.92
65	[58]	Sobia Rose	54.03
66	[27]	Ali Choudhary	54.20
67	[80]	Aadil Nakhoda	54.53
68	[87]	Sanval Nasim	55.32
69	[76]	Muhammad Aamir Khan	56.44
70	[63]	Muhammad Irfan Chani	58.44
71	[74]	Nida Shah	59.09
72	[72]	Iftikhar Yasin	59.15
73	[77]	Zahid Pervaiz	60.57
74	[68]	Naeem Akram	61.04
75	[69]	Nawaz Ahmad	61.32
76	[35]	Muhammad Haris	62.11
77	[81]	Dr Muhammad Sadiq Shahid (Muhammad Sadiq Shahid)	64.92
78	[73]	Attiya Yasmin Javid	67.41
79	[97]	Syed Hasan	67.44
80	[51]	Asad Zaman	68.86
81	[78]	Omer Siddique	72.31
82	[47]	Tanveer Bagh	72.74
83	[94]	Ahmad Fraz	73.49
84	[75]	Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed	75.22
85	[111]	Muhammad Nasir	75.23
86	[93]	Shaista Alam	75.63
87	[96]	Shujaat Farooq	78.86
88	[92]	Khalil Ahmad	80.52
89	[85]	Karim Khan	84.27
90	[113]	Mumtaz Hussain Shah	85.09
91	[100]	Komal Akram Khan	85.27
92	[86]	Masood Ahmed Qazi	85.41
93	[133]	Mazhar Ali	85.94
94	[40]	Nadeem Haque	86.66
95	[89]	Muhammad Ayaz	87.38
96	[101]	Syed Babar Ali	90.58
97	[105]	Muhammad Sabir	90.82
98	[99]	Lubna Hasan	91.07
99	[79]	Abid Hussain	91.77
100	[103]	Ghulam Yahya Khan	92.02
101	[108]	Sana Ullah	92.11
102	[106]	Ahmad Nawaz	93.02
103	[88]	Asif Mahmood	93.07
104	[146]	Antonio Marasco	93.36
105	[125]	Rafi Amir-ud-Din	94.32
106	[114]	Rukhsana Kalim	94.46
107	[98]	Hassan Rasool	95.16
108	[109]	Noor Jehan	97.48
109	[128]	Unbreen Qayyum	98.07
110	[129]	Rana Ejaz Ali Khan	98.63
111	[115]	Jamshaid Ur Rehman	98.85
112	[107]	Nazima Ellahi	99.66
113	[118]	Sonan Ahmed Memon	100.21
114	[41]	Kashif Munir	100.36
115	[120]	Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari	100.80
116	[104]	Khalil Ullah Mohammad (Mohammad Khalilullah)	101.02
117	[130]	Manzoor H. Memon	101.65
118	[121]	Abdul Ghafoor Awan	102.29
119	[127]	Asim Iqbal	102.96
120	[112]	Ahmed Waqar Qasim	105.30
121	[145]	Zafar Mueen Nasir	105.49
122	[110]	Abedullah	107.45
123	[119]	Muhammad Jehangir Khan	108.14
124	[122]	Aamir Hussain Siddiqui	110.34
125	[124]	Muhammad Afzal	111.64
126	[82]	Muhammad Nadim Hanif	111.84
127	[131]	Zahid Asghar	112.93
128	[141]	Rafiq Muhammad	113.33
129	[137]	Syed Sibghatullah Shah	113.82
130	[116]	Khalid Latif	114.92
131	[140]	Farah Waheed	114.95
132	[83]	Farhad Zulfiqar	115.41
133	[139]	Naveed Khan	115.53
134	[148]	Farooq Pasha	115.56
135	[150]	Muhammad Omer	115.56
136	[156]	Rubina Ilyas	117.24
137	[135]	Tanweer Ul Islam	117.46
138	[164]	Khalid Waleed	117.83
139	[138]	Shahid Manzoor Shah	118.41
140	[165]	Abid Ali Khan	119.61
141	[161]	Farhat Rasul	119.84
142	[153]	Javeria Salam	123.22
143	[143]	Abdul Waheed Siyal	123.89
144	[158]	Muhammad Qasim Attari	124.93
145	[126]	Muhammad Asad Ur Rehman Naseer	125.04
146	[159]	Muhammad Uzair	125.21
147	[117]	Henna Ahsan	125.36
148	[142]	Amena Urooj	126.02
149	[173]	Abdul Qayyum Khan	127.03

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