Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of China, as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For China, these are 556 institutions and 618 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.36	7	0.39
2	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.32	20	0.78
3	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	3.17	12	0.60
4	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	5.34	3	0.49
5	Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	5.67	3	1.43
6	Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China	6.06	4	1.50
7	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	6.66	1	0.21
8	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	6.78	5	1.56
9	University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	7.58	2	0.78
10	Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	8.18	4	1.70
11	Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	8.36	2	0.54
12	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	9.63	4	0.94
13	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	11.90	3	0.58
14	University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	12.96	4	2.57
15	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	13.33	3	0.30
16	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)	14.24	2	0.76
-	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	15.36	1	0.76
17	Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	15.79	3	2.05
-	Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	16.96	1	0.16
18	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	19.48	2	0.37
19	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	20.04	5	0.51
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	21.06	3	0.40
21	Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	22.00	1	0.44
22	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	22.48	2	1.32
23	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	23.29	2	0.37
24	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	23.35	8	1.11
-	Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	23.54	2	0.82
-	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	23.77	3	1.12
24	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia	23.77	3	1.12
26	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	24.28	2	0.22
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	24.86	6	0.97
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	26.94	1	0.21
27	Fudan University → School of Economics, Shanghai, China	27.57	6	3.66
28	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	27.82	2	0.27
29	Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	29.24	5	0.73
30	Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	29.52	3	0.73
31	Peking University → China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Beijing, China	30.29	2	0.76
32	University of Alberta → School of Business, Edmonton, Canada	31.01	2	0.63
33	Chinese University of Hong Kong → Department of Economics, Shatin, Hong Kong	32.50	2	0.97
34	Renmin University of China → School of Labor and Human Resources, Beijing, China	34.26	2	1.71
35	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	35.43	1	0.18
36	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	37.27	6	0.80
37	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	37.58	2	0.19
38	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	39.04	3	0.57
39	Zhejiang University → College of Public Administration, Hangzhou, China	39.87	2	1.62
40	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	40.15	1	0.02
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)	40.50	1	0.64
42	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)	41.39	2	0.63
43	Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China	41.48	1	0.36
44	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)	41.50	3	0.51
-	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)	42.51	3	0.51
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	42.94	7	0.14
45	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) → Business School, Kowloon, Hong Kong	43.56	4	2.71
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	43.97	24	0.97
45	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	43.97	24	0.97
-	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) → Business School → Department of Economics, Kowloon, Hong Kong	44.56	3	1.70
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	45.56	2	0.11
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	46.20	1	0.09
47	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	46.55	4	0.60
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta → Center for Quantitative Economic Research (CQER), Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	47.59	2	0.16
48	Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	48.67	7	3.28
49	Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China	49.63	6	4.19
50	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	50.03	2	0.34
51	Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	50.92	9	1.73
52	Peking University → National School of Development, Beijing, China	51.71	2	0.84
53	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	51.98	1	0.14
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	53.44	3	0.41
54	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	53.55	1	0.25
55	University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	56.64	2	0.63

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Robert C. Feenstra University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	4.22
2	Shang-Jin Wei Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	5.20
3	Gordon Hanson Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.35
4	David Autor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.54
5	Hongbin Li Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	7.09
6	David Dollar †	8.77
7	John Whalley University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	9.15
8	Loren Brandt University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	9.16
9	Junsen Zhang Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	9.35
10	Mark Rosenzweig Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	9.80
11	John Knight †	10.02
12	Scott Rozelle Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	10.62
13	Yi-Ming Wei Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China	11.96
14	Yi Lu Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	13.73
15	Li-An Zhou Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	15.41
16	Hanming Fang University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	16.16
17	David Dorn Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	17.82
18	Xiaobo Zhang International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	17.93
19	Zhiguo He Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	18.41
20	Jikun Huang Peking University → China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Beijing, China	19.02
21	Wei Xiong Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	19.13
22	Carmen Reinhart Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.15
23	Xin Meng Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	21.99
24	Martin Ravallion †	22.06
25	Tao Zha	22.66
26	Marc J. Melitz Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	23.03
27	Ruixue Jia University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)	26.22
28	Raymond Fisman Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	26.35
29	John Strauss University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	28.31
30	Shi Li Zhejiang University → College of Public Administration, Hangzhou, China	30.69
31	Richard B. Freeman	33.54
32	Zhong Zhao Renmin University of China → School of Labor and Human Resources, Beijing, China	34.64
33	Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)	34.73
34	Ann E. Harrison University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	35.32
35	Andres Rodriguez-Clare	35.50
36	Lixin Colin Xu (L. Colin Xu) Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China	37.20
37	Amit Khandelwal Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	39.40
38	Russell Smyth Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	39.83
39	Xiaodong Zhu University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	40.04
40	Yifan Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong → Department of Economics, Shatin, Hong Kong	40.77
41	Xinxin Ma Hosei University → Faculty of Economics, Tokyo, Japan	40.85
42	Gérard Roland (Gerard Roland) University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	41.23
43	Randall Morck University of Alberta → School of Business, Edmonton, Canada	42.19
44	Guojun He University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	42.43
45	Bing Zhang Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China	42.86
46	David Y. Yang Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	43.83
47	Wolfgang Keller	45.22
48	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	46.11
49	Sandra Poncet Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII), Paris, France Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	46.83
50	Guanghua Wan万广华 (Guanghua Wan) Fudan University → School of Economics, Shanghai, China	47.89
51	Albert Park Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) → Business School → Department of Economics, Kowloon, Hong Kong	48.01
52	Wei Huang	49.06
53	Xi Chen	50.82
54	Yuyu Chen Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	50.86
55	易君健 (Junjian Yi) Peking University → National School of Development, Beijing, China	51.65
56	Zhi Wang Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	54.02
57	Eswar Prasad Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	54.29
58	Kalina Manova University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	56.69
59	Panle Jia Barwick University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	58.40
60	Matthew Kahn University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	59.48
61	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	60.55

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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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