Top Institutions and Economists in Norway, as of March 2026

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For Norway, these are 58 institutions with 542 members with a total share of 510.61.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	1	131	114.92
2	[2]	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	2.41	45	36.11
3	[3]	BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	2.45	58	55.36
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	3.01	45	40.85
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Oslo, Norway	4.39	25	22.18
4	[4]	Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway	4.74	23	20.21
5	[5]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	5.13	33	28.82
6	[7]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Handelshøgskolen, Stavanger, Norway	6.54	23	21.42
7	[6]	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	6.69	43	35.27
-	[-]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	6.79	22	21.70
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	7.21	53	50.13
8	[9]	Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway	7.92	26	20.83
9	[8]	Universitetet i Bergen → Institutt for Økonomi, Bergen, Norway	8.34	25	25.57
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Finans, Oslo, Norway	8.65	23	22.43
10	[10]	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway	9.51	18	15.45
11	[11]	Universitetet i Oslo → Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur (TIK), Oslo, Norway	11.02	11	10.41
12	[12]	OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet → Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	11.88	18	17
13	[13]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Stavanger, Norway	13.11	7	7
14	[14]	Institutt for Samfunnsforskning (ISF), Oslo, Norway	15.15	3	3

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	1	131	10
2	[2]	BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	2.00	58	10
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	2.33	45	10
3	[3]	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	3.17	45	10
4	[4]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Handelshøgskolen, Stavanger, Norway	4.50	23	10
5	[5]	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	5.22	43	10
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Oslo, Norway	5.28	25	10
6	[6]	Universitetet i Oslo → Stiftelsen Frischsenteret for samfunnsøkonomisk forskning, Oslo, Norway	5.86	23	10
7	[8]	Norges Bank, Oslo, Norway	6.90	26	10
8	[7]	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway	6.92	18	10
-	[-]	BI Handelshøyskolen → Institutt for Finans, Oslo, Norway	7.07	23	10
-	[-]	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	7.08	53	10
9	[9]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	9.71	33	10
10	[10]	OsloMet- storbyuniversitetet → Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway	10.78	18	10
11	[11]	Universitetet i Bergen → Institutt for Økonomi, Bergen, Norway	11.25	25	10
-	[-]	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	11.43	22	10
12	[12]	Universitetet i Stavanger → Institutt for Industriell Økonomi, Risikostyring og Planlegging, Stavanger, Norway	12.68	7	7
13	[13]	Universitetet i Oslo → Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur (TIK), Oslo, Norway	13.28	11	10
14	[16]	CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning, Oslo, Norway	13.67	4	4

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[4]	Kjell G Salvanes	1.61
2	[1]	Fabio Canova	1.87
3	[6]	Jan Ernst Fagerberg	6.34
4	[7]	Bertil Tungodden	6.37
5	[8]	Ragnar Torvik	7.59
6	[14]	Edwin Leuven	9.80
7	[9]	Karl Ove Moene	9.89
8	[11]	Michael Olaf Hoel	9.92
9	[13]	Knut Røed (Knut Roed)	10.20
10	[19]	Espen R. Moen	11.10
11	[15]	Alexander Wright Cappelen	12.99
12	[16]	Geir B. Asheim	13.07
13	[10]	Kjell Hausken	14.45
14	[20]	Katrine Vellesen Løken (Katrine Vellesen Loken)	14.98
15	[18]	Halvor Mehlum	15.86
16	[22]	Bernt Bratsberg	22.27
17	[25]	Martin Thomas Falk	22.67
18	[30]	Andreas Fagereng	22.92
19	[21]	Hilde Christiane Bjørnland (Hilde Christiane Bjornland)	23.65
20	[26]	Erik Ø. Sørensen (Erik O. Sorensen)	24.09
21	[23]	Knut Einar Rosendahl	24.15
22	[32]	Andreas Moxnes	24.93
23	[28]	Steinar Holden	25.67
24	[24]	Stein T. Holden	25.89
25	[29]	Fulvio Castellacci	26.15
26	[31]	Erling Barth	26.92
27	[27]	Rolf Aaberge	27.52
28	[36]	Hans Hvide	27.55
29	[33]	Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)	27.97
30	[34]	Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	28.39
31	[35]	Guttorm Schjelderup	28.79
32	[2]	Ron Boschma	30.11
33	[80]	John K. Dagsvik	31.38
34	[37]	Mari Rege	32.11
35	[45]	Tarjei Havnes	34.97
36	[40]	Ingar Haaland	35.41
37	[56]	Trond E. Olsen	35.60
38	[42]	Finn R. Førsund (Finn R. Forsund)	36.33
39	[39]	Kjetil Telle	37.90
40	[38]	Tom Broekel	37.91
41	[41]	Karine Nyborg	38.53
42	[49]	Glen Philip Peters	38.82
43	[47]	Manudeep Bhuller	41.03
44	[52]	Karin S. Thorburn	41.08
45	[43]	Andreas Kotsadam	42.93
46	[53]	Peter Molnár (Peter Molnar)	45.19
47	[59]	Lars Sørgard (Lars Sorgard)	46.03
48	[54]	Roy Mersland	46.26
49	[58]	Simen Markussen	46.31
50	[48]	Jo Thori Lind	47.53
51	[55]	Dagfinn Rime	48.47
52	[60]	Gisle James Natvik	49.14
53	[57]	Jarle Møen (Jarle Moen)	51.28
54	[50]	Colin P. Green (Colin Peter Green)	51.36
55	[61]	Kjell Erik Lommerud	51.94
56	[64]	Francesco Furlanetto	52.69
57	[65]	Gunnar S. Eskeland (Gunnar Saethern Eskeland)	52.89
58	[76]	Aline Bütikofer (Aline Buetikofer)	54.23
59	[66]	Jorn Rattso	55.53
60	[71]	Kurt Richard Brekke	55.82
61	[63]	Knut Are Aastveit	55.82
62	[138]	Christian Riis	56.75
63	[84]	Alexander Willén (Alexander Willen)	56.77
64	[72]	Snorre Kverndokk	57.04
65	[77]	Q. Farooq Akram	57.28
66	[68]	Frank Asche	57.78
67	[78]	Christa Noël Brunnschweiler (Christa Noel Brunnschweiler)	58.75
68	[73]	Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr	59.26
69	[67]	Leif Anders Thorsrud	59.84
70	[79]	Marian Rizov	59.89
71	[70]	Steinar Strøm (Steinar Strom)	60.14
72	[44]	Benny Geys	60.69
73	[81]	Torberg Falch	63.93
74	[74]	Kjell Arne Brekke	64.57
75	[82]	Gabriel R.g. Benito	67.43
76	[91]	Stein W. Wallace	67.51
77	[75]	Hans Jarle Kind	67.52
78	[85]	Gaute Torsvik	69.04
79	[86]	Stale Navrud	71.50
80	[89]	Arild Angelsen	74.88
81	[3]	Sandra E. Black	75.54
82	[93]	Thor O. Thoresen	75.91
83	[97]	Martin Blomhoff Holm	76.02
84	[94]	Oyvind Norli	76.13
85	[90]	Rune Dahl Fitjar	77.42
86	[103]	Tore Nilssen	78.95
87	[99]	Richard Priestley	79.69
88	[105]	Petter Osmundsen	80.87
89	[95]	Øivind A. Nilsen (Oivind Anti Nilsen)	81.11
90	[104]	Ragnar Nymoen	83.16
91	[92]	Rita Ginja	83.41
92	[87]	Samuli Knüpfer (Samuli Knupfer)	85.94
93	[113]	Ola Kvaløy (Ola Kvaloy)	88.30
94	[109]	Øystein Foros (Oystein Foros)	89.46
95	[110]	Stein-Erik Fleten	90.10
96	[102]	Steffen Kallbekken	90.33
97	[116]	Simone Valente	91.32
98	[107]	Astrid Kunze	92.02
99	[106]	Kjell Vaage	92.77
100	[111]	Ragnar Enger Juelsrud	93.22
101	[112]	Mads Greaker	96.78
102	[108]	Torfinn Harding	97.34
103	[12]	Gazi Salah Uddin	98.17
104	[123]	Bernt Arne Ødegaard (Bernt Arne Odegaard)	100.75
105	[98]	Kasper Roszbach	102.87
106	[122]	Ivar Kolstad	103.45
107	[115]	Arild Aakvik	103.58
108	[118]	Tor Iversen	104.46
109	[117]	Frode Steen	105.07
110	[121]	Sissel Jensen	105.16
111	[46]	Clive L. Spash	106.13
112	[120]	Vegard Høghaug Larsen (Vegard Hoeghaug Larsen)	107.07
113	[127]	Alex Krumer	109.41
114	[51]	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter)	109.44
115	[125]	Martin Eckhoff Andresen	109.90
116	[124]	Espen Bratberg	111.39
117	[147]	Knut Kristian Aase	111.61
118	[131]	Tommy Sveen	114.83
119	[129]	Lars-Erik Borge	116.81
120	[128]	Alfonso Irarrazabal	117.60
121	[134]	Lars Johannessen Kirkebøen (Lars Johannessen Kirkeboeen)	119.13
122	[130]	Junior Maih	119.20
123	[136]	Christian N. Brinch	120.90
124	[133]	Pål Schøne (Pal Schone)	122.96
125	[132]	Rolf Golombek	123.02
126	[140]	Jørgen Juel Andersen (Jorgen Juel Andersen)	123.17
127	[145]	Eirik Gaard Kristiansen	125.15
128	[141]	Gunnar Bårdsen (Gunnar Bardsen)	125.75
129	[139]	Eilev S. Jansen	127.21
130	[143]	Fredrik Wulfsberg	128.83
131	[142]	Mark S. Knell	129.35
132	[144]	Øyvind Eitrheim (Oyvind Eitrheim)	129.95
133	[159]	Isaiah Hull	133.45
134	[151]	Terje Skjerpen	133.57
135	[149]	Ådne Cappelen (Adne Cappelen)	136.53
136	[153]	Reidar Øystein Strøm (Reidar Oystein Strom)	137.02

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Kjell G Salvanes	3.23
2	[4]	Andreas Fagereng	3.36
3	[6]	Ingar Haaland	3.85
4	[7]	Peter Molnár (Peter Molnar)	4.55
5	[8]	Bertil Tungodden	7.40
6	[9]	Martin Blomhoff Holm	8.55
7	[1]	Gazi Salah Uddin	10.39
8	[10]	Alexander Wright Cappelen	10.63
9	[16]	Gisle James Natvik	10.79
10	[13]	Andreas Kotsadam	10.80
11	[14]	Alexander Willén (Alexander Willen)	11.15
12	[12]	Manudeep Bhuller	11.70
13	[15]	Aline Bütikofer (Aline Buetikofer)	11.81
14	[18]	Tom Broekel	11.83
15	[19]	Ragnar Enger Juelsrud	14.77
16	[20]	Knut Einar Rosendahl	15.46
17	[21]	Katrine Vellesen Løken (Katrine Vellesen Loken)	19.13
18	[28]	Kjell Hausken	19.38
19	[26]	Martin Eckhoff Andresen	19.85
20	[23]	Vegard Høghaug Larsen (Vegard Hoeghaug Larsen)	20.59
21	[24]	Colin P. Green (Colin Peter Green)	20.73
22	[27]	Knut Røed (Knut Roed)	21.00
23	[25]	Andreas Moxnes	21.83
24	[38]	Gabriel R.g. Benito	23.79
25	[29]	Knut Are Aastveit	24.03
26	[31]	Simen Markussen	24.19
27	[32]	Rune Dahl Fitjar	25.47
28	[30]	Erling Barth	26.31
29	[35]	Stein T. Holden	26.37
30	[44]	Martin Thomas Falk	26.96
31	[33]	Francesco Furlanetto	27.15
32	[36]	Alex Krumer	27.94
33	[42]	Roy Mersland	28.98
34	[34]	Leif Anders Thorsrud	29.93
35	[41]	Jan Ernst Fagerberg	31.72
36	[11]	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter)	32.99
37	[2]	Ron Boschma	33.05
38	[40]	Glen Philip Peters	33.34
39	[49]	Stein W. Wallace	36.07
40	[43]	Rita Ginja	38.40
41	[47]	Hilde Christiane Bjørnland (Hilde Christiane Bjornland)	40.90
42	[50]	Fulvio Castellacci	41.13
43	[48]	Frank Asche	41.83
44	[46]	Simon Galle	43.55
45	[109]	Ingrid Marie Schaumburg Huitfeldt (Ingrid Huitfeldt)	44.01
46	[51]	Edwin Leuven	45.71
47	[58]	Isaiah Hull	48.93
48	[53]	Ola Lotherington Vestad	49.45
49	[54]	Jørgen Juel Andersen (Jorgen Juel Andersen)	49.63
50	[45]	Fabio Canova	49.65
51	[57]	Hans Hvide	53.29
52	[52]	Jarle Møen (Jarle Moen)	54.50
53	[56]	Erik Ø. Sørensen (Erik O. Sorensen)	57.58
54	[68]	Hidemichi Yonezawa	60.17
55	[67]	Guttorm Schjelderup	61.33
56	[71]	Jørgen Modalsli (Jorgen Modalsli)	62.77
57	[64]	Oddbjørn Raaum (Oddbjorn Raaum)	62.84
58	[65]	Mohammed Mardan	63.08
59	[63]	Tarjei Havnes	66.24
60	[87]	Jonna Olsson	67.84
61	[72]	Karine Nyborg	67.87
62	[73]	Inga Heiland	68.27
63	[61]	Andreas Olden	68.28
64	[66]	Steffen Kallbekken	70.17
65	[75]	Gaute Torsvik	70.49
66	[90]	Thor O. Thoresen	71.44
67	[77]	Taoyuan Wei	71.45
68	[84]	Vincent Somville	72.05
69	[79]	Stale Navrud	72.07
70	[80]	Steffen Juranek	72.23
71	[74]	Bernt Bratsberg	72.97
72	[88]	Karin S. Thorburn	73.08
73	[83]	Drago Bergholt	74.89
74	[81]	Rolf Aaberge	75.91
75	[85]	Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	76.87
76	[76]	Dagfinn Rime	77.57
77	[62]	Benny Geys	79.01
78	[95]	Anders Kjelsrud	79.89
79	[82]	Marte Rønning (Marte Roenning)	81.65
80	[91]	Mads Greaker	82.51
81	[104]	Øystein M. Hernæs (Oeystein Hernaes)	82.89
82	[106]	Alessia Russo	83.13
83	[96]	Sissel Jensen	83.57
84	[97]	Muhammad Azeem Qureshi	83.78
85	[103]	Øystein Foros (Oystein Foros)	85.24
86	[100]	Stein-Erik Fleten	87.85
87	[111]	Kurt Richard Brekke	88.09
88	[101]	Evelina Gavrilova	88.27
89	[93]	Karl Ove Moene	88.86
90	[102]	Clifton Makate	88.93
91	[117]	Hamid Boustanifar	90.37
92	[99]	Frode Steen	91.00
93	[112]	Björn Brey (Bjoern Brey)	91.61
94	[105]	Mari Rege	92.15
95	[108]	Tom-Reiel Heggedal	93.05
96	[120]	Jean Paul Rabanal	94.48
97	[127]	Dengjun Zhang	94.48
98	[110]	Arash Aloosh	96.19
99	[98]	Moana Silva Simas	96.30
100	[119]	Karl Harmenberg	99.28
101	[116]	Atle Oglend	99.49
102	[123]	Cloé Garnache (Cloe Garnache)	99.69
103	[107]	Espen R. Moen	99.73
104	[130]	Marian Rizov	99.96
105	[128]	Samuel D Hirshman	101.20
106	[125]	Bernt Arne Ødegaard (Bernt Arne Odegaard)	101.32
107	[138]	Ola Kvaløy (Ola Kvaloy)	102.54
108	[124]	Torfinn Harding	102.76
109	[121]	Fenella Carpena	103.70
110	[136]	Jacopo Bizzotto	104.90
111	[126]	Frode Martin Nordvik	105.47
112	[132]	Andre K. Anundsen	105.65
113	[135]	Øivind A. Nilsen (Oivind Anti Nilsen)	106.10
114	[137]	Henrik Sigstad	106.97
115	[134]	Jo Thori Lind	107.70
116	[118]	Rudolf Gerardus Egging-Bratseth	109.19
117	[131]	Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli (Nicolo Maffei-Faccioli)	110.50
118	[139]	Kristine M. Grimsrud	111.31
119	[129]	Kjetil Telle	112.35
120	[133]	Sigurd Mølster Galaasen (Sigurd Molster Galaasen)	113.03
121	[60]	Jon Hernes Fiva	114.08
122	[143]	Laura Khoury	114.93
123	[142]	Paul Ehling	116.98
124	[141]	Astrid Kunze	117.10
125	[145]	Rolf Golombek	117.51
126	[140]	Charlotte Ringdal	117.57
127	[146]	Håkon Tretvoll (Hakon Tretvoll)	118.08
128	[153]	Simen A. Ulsaker	118.23
129	[148]	Junior Maih	118.50
130	[147]	Morten Sæthre (Morten Saethre)	120.11
131	[122]	Samuli Knüpfer (Samuli Knupfer)	122.32
132	[144]	Geir Godager	122.46
133	[156]	Christian N. Brinch	122.56
134	[159]	Geir B. Asheim	123.77
135	[78]	Emilia Garcia-Appendini	123.82
136	[174]	Ola Honningdal Grytten	124.36

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