Top Institutions and Economists in New Zealand, as of March 2026

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There are 9296 institutions with 73242 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For a listing of all economics institutions in New Zealand, see EDIRC
For New Zealand, these are 43 institutions with 317 members with a total share of 293.07.

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Entity	Full ranking		Last 10 years		10 best authors		Last 10 years, 10 best authors		Top 5% authors		More
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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand	1.57	22	18.13
2	[2]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	2.21	46	40.14
3	[3]	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	2.27	26	22.34
4	[4]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	3.07	45	38.30
-	[-]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	3.66	35	29.69
-	[-]	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	3.92	20	17.60
5	[5]	University of Canterbury → Business School, Christchurch, New Zealand	5.03	32	31.25
6	[6]	University of Otago → School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand	6.12	20	17.30
-	[-]	University of Canterbury → Business School → Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand	6.18	29	26.65
7	[7]	Auckland University of Technology → Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland, New Zealand	7.31	22	20.30
8	[8]	Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand	7.45	25	24.84
-	[-]	University of Otago → School of Business → Department of Economics, Dunedin, New Zealand	7.58	15	12.60
9	[9]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Canterbury, New Zealand	8.13	12	10.40
-	[-]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government → School of Economics and Finance, Wellington, New Zealand	8.42	35	28.64
-	[-]	Massey University → Business School → School of Economics and Finance, Palmerston North, New Zealand	9.42	15	14.85
10	[10]	Government of New Zealand → Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand	10.34	11	9.65

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand	1.38	46	10
-	[-]	University of Waikato → Waikato Management School → Department of Economics, Hamilton, New Zealand	2.74	35	10
2	[2]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Canterbury, New Zealand	2.78	12	10
3	[4]	Auckland University of Technology → Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland, New Zealand	3.53	22	10
4	[5]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	3.84	45	10
5	[3]	Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand	4.17	25	10
6	[6]	Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand	4.38	22	10
7	[8]	University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand	6.56	26	10
8	[9]	University of Otago → School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand	6.96	20	10
9	[7]	University of Canterbury → Business School, Christchurch, New Zealand	6.97	32	10
-	[-]	Massey University → Business School → School of Economics and Finance, Palmerston North, New Zealand	7.55	15	10
-	[-]	University of Canterbury → Business School → Department of Economics and Finance, Christchurch, New Zealand	7.99	29	10
-	[-]	University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand	8.73	20	10
-	[-]	Lincoln University → Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce → Economics Group, Canterbury, New Zealand	8.88	2	2
-	[-]	University of Otago → School of Business → Department of Economics, Dunedin, New Zealand	9.47	15	10
-	[-]	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government → School of Economics and Finance, Wellington, New Zealand	9.72	35	10
10	[10]	Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand	9.96	20	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Adam Jaffe	1.44
2	[1]	Peter C. B. Phillips	1.88
3	[4]	John Gibson	3.11
4	[3]	John Creedy	5.35
5	[9]	Robert MacCulloch	6.43
6	[15]	Dean Hyslop	9.16
7	[8]	Les Oxley	10.02
8	[10]	David Gabauer	10.24
9	[11]	Norman Gemmell	10.26
10	[13]	Alfred A. Haug	10.30
11	[12]	W. Robert Reed	11.15
12	[14]	Jacques Poot	12.55
13	[19]	Philip Vermeulen	12.86
14	[17]	David Fielding	14.28
15	[20]	Saten Kumar	14.36
16	[21]	Ananish Chaudhuri	14.75
17	[18]	Yothin Jinjarak	15.06
18	[16]	Mark J. Holmes	15.79
19	[23]	David Christopher Maré (David Christopher Mare)	17.11
20	[24]	Faruk Balli	19.20
21	[22]	Arthur Grimes	19.92
22	[25]	Bart Frijns	20.35
23	[26]	Henk Berkman	21.03
24	[27]	Christopher John McDermott	21.19
25	[30]	Graeme Guthrie	23.40
26	[29]	Jeremy Edmund Clark	24.78
27	[32]	Steven James Tucker	27.30
28	[33]	Eberhard Feess	28.35
29	[35]	Tom Coupé (Tom Coupe)	30.28
30	[36]	Suzi Kerr	30.83
31	[31]	Wanglin Ma	31.55
32	[37]	Ronald Peeters	31.69
33	[34]	Alireza Tourani-Rad (Alireza Tourani Rad)	34.65
34	[41]	Philip Meguire	37.19
35	[45]	Jan Feld	39.23
36	[42]	Dorian Owen	39.40
37	[47]	Donggyun Shin	39.68
38	[39]	Hatice Ozer Balli	40.14
39	[43]	Stephen Knowles	41.63
40	[44]	Ben R. Marshall	43.29
41	[48]	Lewis Evans	44.04
42	[46]	Niven Winchester	44.79
43	[49]	Richard Fabling	45.23
44	[51]	Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy	45.86
45	[54]	Susan Olivia	48.43
46	[52]	Nathan Berg	52.20
47	[64]	John Tressler	52.51
48	[143]	Debra Dennis Reed	52.70
49	[61]	Hai Lin	52.79
50	[59]	Hans-Jurgen Engelbrecht	53.23
51	[58]	Weshah Razzak	53.77
52	[60]	Dennis Wesselbaum	53.89
53	[55]	Yang Hu	55.05
54	[57]	Nuttawat Visaltanachoti	55.17
55	[62]	Trinh Van Thi Le	56.11
56	[73]	Alfred V. Guender	56.93
57	[7]	Shaen Corbet	58.76
58	[69]	José DA Fonseca (Jose DA Fonseca)	60.50
59	[74]	Isabelle Sin	61.42
60	[28]	Leo Krippner	61.93
61	[63]	Alan Renwick	62.02
62	[66]	Ji Wu	62.35
63	[72]	Anna Strutt	63.19
64	[65]	David K. Ding	63.29
65	[68]	Philip Andrew Stevens	64.30
66	[76]	Elodie Blanc	64.49
67	[67]	Francis Gordon Scrimgeour	64.56
68	[91]	John Fountain	68.10
69	[85]	Tim Ng	68.47
70	[75]	Leon Li	68.79
71	[84]	Christie Smith	69.21
72	[83]	Paul Thorsnes	70.18
73	[78]	Robert Allan Buckle	70.60
74	[89]	Murat Üngör	73.35
75	[88]	Richard Watt	75.19
76	[82]	Gail Pacheco	75.19
77	[71]	Hung Do	75.56
78	[97]	Yu-Wei Luke Chu	77.23
79	[90]	Sholeh Maani (Professor Sholeh Maani)	77.24
80	[87]	David C. Hay	77.33

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	David Gabauer	1.81
2	[5]	John Gibson	3.40
3	[6]	Faruk Balli	4.24
4	[8]	Saten Kumar	4.51
5	[4]	Wanglin Ma	5.26
6	[3]	Peter C. B. Phillips	5.99
7	[12]	Bart Frijns	10.82
8	[2]	Shaen Corbet	10.97
9	[9]	Yang Hu	11.72
10	[15]	W. Robert Reed	11.98
11	[13]	Adam Jaffe	13.07
12	[10]	Les Oxley	13.07
13	[11]	Ji Wu	14.40
14	[18]	Susan Olivia	16.87
15	[28]	Jan Feld	17.16
16	[20]	Yothin Jinjarak	17.74
17	[14]	Hung Do	20.43
18	[19]	John Creedy	20.66
19	[21]	Mark J. Holmes	20.67
20	[17]	Hatice Ozer Balli	21.36
21	[16]	Alan Renwick	22.05
22	[30]	Philip Vermeulen	22.08
23	[31]	Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy	22.13
24	[24]	Geua Boe-Gibson	23.80
25	[37]	Dennis Wesselbaum	26.14
26	[26]	Arthur Grimes	26.35
27	[23]	Alfred A. Haug	26.45
28	[38]	Isabelle Sin	27.20
29	[44]	Dean Hyslop	27.93
30	[25]	Thanh Ngo	28.91
31	[32]	Norman Gemmell	29.54
32	[27]	Puneet Vatsa	29.82
33	[33]	Wilbur Townsend	31.04
34	[48]	Ronald Peeters	31.84
35	[35]	Tom Coupé (Tom Coupe)	32.35
36	[41]	Elodie Blanc	32.64
37	[45]	David Fielding	32.94
38	[36]	Leon Li	32.97
39	[34]	Khanh Hoang	34.94
40	[40]	Alireza Tourani-Rad (Alireza Tourani Rad)	35.13
41	[53]	Eberhard Feess	36.98
42	[47]	Henk Berkman	37.69
43	[39]	Min Bai	39.11
44	[43]	Tahir Suleman	39.54
45	[55]	David Christopher Maré (David Christopher Mare)	41.65
46	[57]	Peer Ebbesen Skov	41.66
47	[50]	David H. Lont	42.71
48	[49]	Gilbert Nartea	44.83
49	[51]	Muhammad A. Cheema	46.25
50	[54]	Hai Lin	46.73
51	[59]	Richard Fabling	46.83
52	[58]	Jeremy Edmund Clark	48.73
53	[62]	Fang Yao	49.15
54	[52]	Jacques Poot	49.94
55	[56]	Francis Gordon Scrimgeour	52.51
56	[46]	Michael P. Cameron	53.17
57	[64]	Zack Dorner	53.32
58	[63]	Ihsan Badshah	53.35
59	[61]	Robert D. Kirkby	53.81
60	[75]	Thomas Schober	53.83
61	[60]	Nuttawat Visaltanachoti	53.88
62	[74]	Murat Üngör	54.32
63	[72]	Steven James Tucker	55.48
64	[69]	Adam Richardson	55.52
65	[76]	Onur A. Koska	57.07
66	[71]	Niven Winchester	58.12
67	[66]	Nathan Berg	58.65
68	[70]	Trinh Van Thi Le	58.84
69	[77]	Syed Abul Hasan	59.98
70	[79]	Christie Smith	61.47
71	[65]	David C. Hay	61.51
72	[89]	Lynn Riggs	61.95
73	[67]	Mohammad Nourani	62.80
74	[78]	José DA Fonseca (Jose DA Fonseca)	64.20
75	[86]	Kuntal K. Das	65.01
76	[84]	Ben R. Marshall	66.38
77	[81]	Anna Strutt	67.17
78	[88]	Gail Pacheco	68.84
79	[90]	Asha Sundaram	68.98
80	[82]	Mario Andres Fernandez	69.08

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Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
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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