| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1 | 31 | 1.67 |
| 2 | Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 2.54 | 5 | 0.56 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 3.21 | 2 | 0.76 |
| 4 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 4.00 | 9 | 2.09 |
| 5 | Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 5.41 | 8 | 1.83 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 5.47 | 14 | 4.03 |
| 7 | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 5.91 | 5 | 1.34 |
| 8 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain | 7.89 | 21 | 5.69 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom | 8.13 | 5 | 0.61 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy | 8.62 | 5 | 0.70 |
| 9 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom | 9.00 | 37 | 0.83 |
| 10 | University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 10.67 | 2 | 0.66 |
| 11 | Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 10.99 | 19 | 2.88 |
| 12 | SKEMA Business School, Lille, France | 11.30 | 2 | 0.46 |
| 13 | California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States) | 11.40 | 3 | 1.82 |
| 14 | University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom | 14.92 | 13 | 3.40 |
| 15 | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland | 14.97 | 9 | 2.46 |
| - | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland | 16.10 | 7 | 2.00 |
| 16 | Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 17.97 | 2 | 0.56 |
| 17 | University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom | 18.61 | 10 | 1.66 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain | 18.65 | 7 | 1.97 |
| 18 | Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 19.20 | 5 | 0.85 |
| 19 | Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 19.23 | 2 | 0.39 |
| 20 | University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States) | 19.38 | 2 | 0.62 |
| 21 | New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 19.58 | 2 | 0.87 |
| 22 | Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 21.08 | 4 | 1.04 |
| 23 | University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada | 24.87 | 4 | 1.10 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica → Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain | 26.21 | 5 | 1.90 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain | 26.21 | 5 | 1.90 |
| 24 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 26.51 | 15 | 1.83 |
| 25 | Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States) | 27.25 | 1 | 0.19 |
| 26 | Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 27.66 | 3 | 0.70 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Milano, Italy | 27.91 | 4 | 0.99 |
| 27 | Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden | 28.56 | 1 | 0.16 |
| 28 | Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia | 28.96 | 8 | 1.26 |
| 29 | University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 29.51 | 3 | 1.66 |
| - | Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia | 29.97 | 8 | 1.26 |
| 30 | George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States) | 30.99 | 3 | 0.89 |
| 31 | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 31.46 | 57 | 0.61 |
| 32 | Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany | 31.89 | 3 | 0.51 |
| 33 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy | 32.75 | 7 | 2.06 |
| 34 | Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China | 33.20 | 1 | 0.12 |
| 35 | Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria | 33.26 | 5 | 2.50 |
| - | Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China | 34.23 | 1 | 0.12 |
| 36 | Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States) | 36.72 | 2 | 0.93 |
| 37 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States) | 37.23 | 2 | 0.14 |
| - | University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom | 37.55 | 7 | 0.56 |
| 38 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France | 37.87 | 8 | 1.51 |
| 39 | Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 38.49 | 6 | 0.96 |
| 40 | Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 39.05 | 5 | 2.27 |
| 41 | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft → Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche Finanzen, München, Germany | 40.90 | 3 | 0.52 |
| 42 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy | 41.87 | 4 | 0.34 |
| 43 | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France | 42.29 | 7 | 1.88 |
| 44 | Universität Basel → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland | 42.60 | 3 | 0.49 |
| - | Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 42.71 | 5 | 0.89 |
| 45 | Bar Ilan University → Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel | 42.99 | 2 | 0.52 |
| - | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 43.07 | 55 | 0.40 |
| 46 | UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia | 43.15 | 4 | 1.34 |
| 47 | University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States) | 43.94 | 2 | 0.34 |
| - | UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia | 44.15 | 4 | 1.34 |
| 48 | New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 44.25 | 5 | 2.22 |
| 49 | Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 45.33 | 2 | 0.52 |
| 50 | Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium | 45.36 | 7 | 2.06 |
| - | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France | 45.91 | 6 | 1.83 |
| 51 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 46.08 | 5 | 0.41 |
| 52 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany | 52.80 | 1 | 0.28 |
| - | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Bonn, Germany | 53.81 | 1 | 0.28 |
| - | Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium | 54.80 | 4 | 0.91 |
| 53 | Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom | 54.82 | 5 | 1.47 |
| - | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany | 55.07 | 4 | 0.88 |
| 53 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany | 55.07 | 4 | 0.88 |
| 55 | CESifo, München, Germany | 55.49 | 46 | 0.85 |
| 56 | University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States) | 56.74 | 2 | 0.34 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain | 57.51 | 8 | 0.83 |
| 57 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany | 57.79 | 12 | 2.13 |
| - | University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management → Department of Economics, Nicosia, Cyprus | 58.15 | 3 | 1.53 |
| 57 | University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management, Nicosia, Cyprus | 58.15 | 3 | 1.53 |
| 59 | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 59.71 | 9 | 1.39 |
| 60 | New Economic School (NES), Moscow, Russia | 59.99 | 3 | 0.44 |
| - | Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wien, Austria | 62.87 | 3 | 1.25 |
| 61 | Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands | 63.16 | 3 | 0.61 |
| 62 | Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 64.87 | 1 | 0.22 |
| 63 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France | 67.30 | 4 | 1.68 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Milano, Italy | 67.55 | 1 | 0.27 |
| - | Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften → Vienna Center for Experimental Economics (VCEE), Wien, Austria | 68.54 | 4 | 1.25 |
| 64 | Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI) → Facoltá di scienze economiche, Lugano, Switzerland | 71.33 | 2 | 0.62 |
| 65 | Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 71.47 | 1 | 0.61 |
| 66 | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 71.49 | 2 | 0.44 |
| 67 | Université de Lyon → Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Lyon, France | 71.89 | 10 | 3.05 |
| - | Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI) → Facoltá di scienze economiche → Istituto di Economia Politica (IdEP), Lugano, Switzerland | 72.35 | 2 | 0.62 |
| - | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 72.50 | 2 | 0.44 |
| 68 | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States) | 72.95 | 3 | 0.27 |
| - | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States) | 72.95 | 3 | 0.27 |
| - | Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 73.93 | 1 | 0.19 |
| 68 | Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 73.93 | 1 | 0.19 |
| 70 | Universidade do Minho → Escola de Economia e Gestão, Braga, Portugal | 74.40 | 3 | 0.97 |
| 71 | University of Birmingham → Department of Economics, Birmingham, United Kingdom | 74.40 | 5 | 1.61 |
| 72 | Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden | 75.59 | 4 | 1.01 |
| 73 | Università degli Studi di Verona → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Verona, Italy | 76.45 | 6 | 2.07 |
| 74 | KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium | 76.49 | 7 | 0.74 |
| 75 | Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen → Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy | 77.34 | 3 | 1.03 |