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

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There are 9296 institutions with 73242 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For China, these are 553 institutions and 611 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	3.24	12	0.60
4	Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	5.62	3	1.43
5	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	5.64	3	0.49
6	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	5.96	1	0.21
7	Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China	6.13	4	1.50
8	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	6.60	5	1.57
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	7.96	4	1.70
11	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	9.43	4	0.94
12	Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	9.77	2	0.48
13	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	11.42	3	0.58
14	University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	13.00	4	2.57
15	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	13.15	3	0.30
16	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States)	14.25	2	0.76
-	Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	15.34	1	0.76
17	Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	15.75	3	2.05
-	Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	17.39	1	0.16
18	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	19.67	2	0.37
19	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	20.20	5	0.51
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	21.39	3	0.40
21	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	22.24	2	1.32
22	Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	22.44	1	0.44
23	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	22.99	2	0.66
24	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	23.34	8	1.11
-	Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	23.36	2	0.82
25	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	24.03	2	0.36
26	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	24.68	2	0.22
-	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	24.79	3	1.11
26	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia	24.79	3	1.11
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	25.46	6	0.97
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	27.54	1	0.21
28	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	28.33	2	0.27
29	Fudan University → School of Economics, Shanghai, China	28.44	6	3.66
30	Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	30.07	5	0.73
31	Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	30.58	3	0.73
32	Peking University → China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Beijing, China	31.17	2	0.76
33	University of Alberta → School of Business, Edmonton, Canada	32.32	2	0.63
34	Chinese University of Hong Kong → Department of Economics, Shatin, Hong Kong	33.53	2	0.97
35	Renmin University of China → School of Labor and Human Resources, Beijing, China	35.43	2	1.71
36	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	36.14	1	0.18
37	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	37.52	6	0.80
38	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	37.75	2	0.19
39	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	39.67	3	0.59
40	University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)	40.46	1	0.64
41	Zhejiang University → College of Public Administration, Hangzhou, China	40.98	2	1.62
42	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)	42.13	3	0.51
43	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)	42.21	2	0.63
44	Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China	42.71	1	0.36
-	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)	43.14	3	0.51
45	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) → Business School, Kowloon, Hong Kong	43.88	4	2.71
46	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	44.41	24	0.98
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	44.41	24	0.98
-	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) → Business School → Department of Economics, Kowloon, Hong Kong	45.10	3	1.70
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	46.08	2	0.11
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	46.68	7	0.14
47	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	47.02	1	0.02
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	47.04	1	0.09
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta → Center for Quantitative Economic Research (CQER), Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	48.73	2	0.16
48	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	48.95	3	0.61
49	Xiamen University → School of Economics, Fujian, China	49.24	7	3.28
50	Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China	50.82	6	4.19
51	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	51.86	2	0.34
52	Peking University → National School of Development, Beijing, China	52.80	2	0.84
53	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	52.91	1	0.14
54	Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany	53.63	9	1.73
55	University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	53.91	1	0.15

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Robert C. Feenstra University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	3.99
2	Gordon Hanson Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.11
3	David Autor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.31
4	Shang-Jin Wei Fudan University → Fanhai International School of Finance, Shanghai, China	6.25
5	Hongbin Li Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) → Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford, California (United States)	6.80
6	John Whalley University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	8.45
7	David Dollar †	8.60
8	Loren Brandt University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	9.10
9	Junsen Zhang Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	9.47
10	Scott Rozelle Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States)	10.37
11	Mark Rosenzweig Yale University → Economics Department → Economic Growth Center, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	11.02
12	Yi-Ming Wei Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China	11.05
13	John Knight Oxford University → Department of Economics → Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	12.62
14	Li-An Zhou Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	14.65
15	Hanming Fang University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	15.17
16	Yi Lu Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	15.33
17	Wei Xiong Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	17.79
18	Xiaobo Zhang International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	18.13
19	Jikun Huang Peking University → China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Beijing, China	18.28
20	Carmen Reinhart Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	18.60
21	David Dorn Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	18.82
22	Zhiguo He Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	20.06
23	Martin Ravallion †	21.50
24	Xin Meng Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	21.70
25	Marc J. Melitz Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	22.84
26	Tao Zha	22.88
27	Raymond Fisman Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	25.09
28	John Strauss University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	26.94
29	Ruixue Jia University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)	27.99
30	Shi Li Zhejiang University → College of Public Administration, Hangzhou, China	31.54
31	Richard B. Freeman	33.03
32	Andres Rodriguez-Clare	34.14
33	Zhong Zhao Renmin University of China → School of Labor and Human Resources, Beijing, China	34.63
34	Ann E. Harrison University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	34.86
35	Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)	36.96
36	Lixin Colin Xu (L. Colin Xu) Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China	37.81
37	Gérard Roland (Gerard Roland) University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	38.59
38	Xiaodong Zhu University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	38.83
39	Yifan Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong → Department of Economics, Shatin, Hong Kong	41.61
40	Guojun He University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	41.69
41	Russell Smyth Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	41.82
42	Randall Morck University of Alberta → School of Business, Edmonton, Canada	42.63
43	David Y. Yang Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	42.80
44	Xinxin Ma Hosei University → Faculty of Economics, Tokyo, Japan	43.24
45	Bing Zhang Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China	44.21
46	Wolfgang Keller	44.32
47	Amit Khandelwal Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	44.97
48	Sandra Poncet Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII), Paris, France Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	46.63
49	Guanghua Wan万广华 (Guanghua Wan) Fudan University → School of Economics, Shanghai, China	47.48
50	Albert Park Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) → Business School → Department of Economics, Kowloon, Hong Kong	47.57
51	Xi Chen	49.78
52	Yuyu Chen Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China	49.95
53	Wei Huang	53.66
54	Zhi Wang Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China	53.71
55	Eswar Prasad Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	54.49
56	Panle Jia Barwick University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	55.35
57	Kalina Manova University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	55.66
58	易君健 (Junjian Yi) Peking University → National School of Development, Beijing, China	56.06
59	J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom	58.00
60	Matthew Kahn University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	59.23
61	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	59.78

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Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
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