Top Institutions and Economists in Pakistan, as of March 2026

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For Pakistan, these are 111 institutions with 587 members with a total share of 567.00.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan	1	112	105.04
2	[2]	Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	2.32	16	16
3	[3]	State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan	3.94	35	32.05
4	[4]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	5.25	12	11.50
5	[8]	University of Karachi → Applied Economics Research Center (AERC), Karachi, Pakistan	6.63	11	9.50
6	[6]	Quaid-i-Azam University → Department of Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan	6.84	16	13
7	[5]	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan	6.97	16	14.50
8	[7]	University of Lahore City Campus → Lahore School of Accountancy and Finance, Lahore, Pakistan	7.07	5	5
9	[9]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore, Pakistan	7.65	4	3.30
10	[10]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan	10.82	15	13.57
11	[12]	Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology → School of Economic Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	10.95	16	14.67
12	[11]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	11.50	4	4
13	[13]	International Islamic University → International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), Islamabad, Pakistan	11.52	12	11.50
14	[14]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Pakistan	11.90	10	8.58
15	[15]	Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan	11.93	6	5.60
16	[16]	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) → Department of Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	12.95	7	7
-	[-]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	13.89	3	3
17	[17]	Iqra University → Management Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan	17.61	29	28
18	[18]	University of Karachi → Department of Economics, Karachi, Pakistan	20.47	6	5.50
19	[19]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Economics, Vehari, Pakistan	21.23	1	1
20	[22]	Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC), Karachi, Pakistan	23.65	3	2.50
21	[23]	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan	23.99	5	5
22	[20]	University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir → Kashmir Institute of Economics, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	24.56	6	5.80
23	[21]	Government College University → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	24.88	6	3.95
24	[24]	University of Sargodha → Department of Economics, Sargodha, Pakistan	25.04	6	6
25	[26]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Islamabad, Pakistan	25.19	9	7.91
26	[25]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Vehari, Pakistan	25.38	3	2.30
27	[28]	University of the Punjab → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	25.67	9	6.81

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

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad, Pakistan	1.90	112	10
2	[2]	Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	2.04	16	10
3	[5]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	4.30	12	10
4	[3]	University of Lahore City Campus → Lahore School of Accountancy and Finance, Lahore, Pakistan	4.35	5	5
5	[6]	Lahore University of Management Sciences → Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB), Lahore, Pakistan	4.40	4	3.30
6	[4]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management, Lahore, Pakistan	4.98	10	8.58
7	[8]	Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan	7.65	16	10
8	[7]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	7.79	4	4
9	[9]	Sukkur Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur, Pakistan	8.12	6	5.60
-	[-]	Abdul Wali Khan University → Faculty of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Mardan, Pakistan	8.92	3	3
10	[10]	International Islamic University → International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), Islamabad, Pakistan	9.00	12	10
11	[11]	Quaid-i-Azam University → Department of Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan	11.07	16	10
12	[13]	State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan	11.72	35	10
13	[12]	Government College University → Department of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan	14.26	6	3.95
-	[-]	University of Management and Technology (UMT) → Dr Hasan Murad School of Management → Department of Economics and Statistics, Lahore, Pakistan	14.67	2	0.73
14	[14]	University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir → Kashmir Institute of Economics, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan	15.05	6	5.80
15	[15]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Economics, Vehari, Pakistan	15.71	1	1
16	[16]	Capital University of Science and Technology → Department of Management Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	16.62	2	2
17	[17]	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) → Department of Economics, Rawalpindi, Pakistan	16.78	7	7
18	[19]	University of Karachi → Applied Economics Research Center (AERC), Karachi, Pakistan	18.35	11	9.50
19	[18]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Vehari, Pakistan	18.62	3	2.30
20	[20]	Iqra University → Management Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan	20.12	29	10
21	[21]	Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology → School of Economic Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan	20.30	16	10
22	[24]	Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan	20.58	5	5
23	[22]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Sahiwal, Pakistan	20.78	4	2.50
24	[23]	University of Education → Division of Management and Administrative Science, Lahore, Pakistan	21.26	3	2.15
25	[30]	Government of Pakistan → Ministry of Finance, Islamabad, Pakistan	22.39	2	2
-	[-]	Government of Pakistan → Ministry of Finance → Federal Board of Revenue, Islamabad, Pakistan	22.39	2	2
26	[25]	Comsats University Islamabad → Department of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan	25.04	15	10
27	[27]	University of Sargodha → Department of Economics, Sargodha, Pakistan	25.72	6	6

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Syed Ali Raza	3.07
2	[4]	Azam Chaudhry	3.67
3	[1]	Amjad Ali	3.90
4	[7]	Asad Zaman	6.61
5	[9]	Samia, Nasreen	7.29
6	[18]	Farah Said	10.29
7	[14]	Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye	10.46
8	[8]	Abdul Rashid	10.96
9	[6]	Muhammad Azam	11.19
10	[5]	Khalid Zaman, Sr.	11.46
11	[11]	Khalid Ahmed	11.72
12	[33]	Shamyla Chaudry	12.86
13	[15]	Muhammad Nasir	14.86
14	[13]	Faisal Mehmood Mirza	15.14
15	[3]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	17.23
16	[26]	Zafar Mueen Nasir	17.46
17	[40]	Uzma Afzal	17.83
18	[10]	Dawood Mamoon	18.07
19	[22]	Rashid Amjad	21.59
20	[32]	Musleh-ud Din	22.90
21	[17]	Muhammad Tariq Majeed	23.01
22	[16]	Sofia Anwar	23.61
23	[25]	Saima Nawaz	24.11
24	[59]	Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi	24.49
25	[30]	Faisal Abbas	24.53
26	[20]	Nasir Iqbal	25.16
27	[28]	Masood Ahmed Qazi	28.10
28	[45]	Faiz Ur Rehman	28.23
29	[27]	Imran Hanif	28.74
30	[36]	Muhammad Nadim Hanif	29.48
31	[31]	Ummad Mazhar	29.66
32	[54]	Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad	30.05
33	[29]	Attiya Yasmin Javid	30.92
34	[52]	Waqar Wadho	31.47
35	[61]	Moazzam Farooq	32.06
36	[41]	Faisal Jamil	32.90
37	[19]	Noman Arshed	33.39
38	[48]	Shahbaz Shabbir	33.89
39	[23]	Syed Tehseen Jawaid	34.21
40	[34]	Talat Afza	34.76
41	[65]	Farooq Pasha	34.80
42	[35]	Ayesha Afzal	36.40
43	[37]	Shaista Alam	36.45
44	[42]	Ghulam Mohammad Arif	36.94
45	[53]	Javed Iqbal	38.17
46	[47]	Munir Ahmad	39.53
47	[57]	Theresa T. Chaudhry	41.06
48	[76]	Syed Muhammad Hussain	41.41
49	[46]	Qaiser Munir	41.52
50	[39]	Saif Ullah	41.77
51	[38]	Attaullah Shah	42.41
52	[68]	Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani	42.74
53	[44]	Afia Malik	44.71
54	[60]	Abid Aman Burki	45.64
55	[51]	Rehana Siddiqui	46.04
56	[49]	Arshad Hassan	47.15
57	[55]	Haroon Jamal	49.01
58	[79]	Agha Ali Akram	53.04
59	[66]	Abdul Qayyum Khan	53.37
60	[21]	Danish Ahmed Siddiqui	53.72
61	[75]	Syed Babar Ali	54.20
62	[94]	Syed Murtaza Hussain, Sr.	54.60
63	[50]	Naeem Akram	54.67
64	[63]	Junaid Ahmed	55.78
65	[78]	Sajjad Zaheer	56.60
66	[62]	Bisharat Hussain Chang	60.36
67	[71]	Zahid Asghar	62.55
68	[70]	Rana Ejaz Ali Khan	62.86
69	[64]	Vaqar Ahmed	68.14
70	[69]	Muhammad Irfan Chani	68.84
71	[80]	Lubna Hasan	69.46
72	[73]	Zafar Mahmood	70.83
73	[81]	Khuda Bakhsh	72.56
74	[67]	Khalil Ahmad	72.84
75	[86]	Sajawal Khan	73.43
76	[99]	Fazal Husain	75.00
77	[72]	Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda	78.95
78	[82]	Shujaat Farooq	79.25
79	[77]	Ambreen Fatima	79.88
80	[85]	Wasim Shahid Malik	80.39
81	[89]	Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari	81.31
82	[91]	Asma Hyder Baloch (Asma Hyder)	81.56
83	[74]	Abedullah	81.85
84	[131]	Nasreen Nawaz	83.69
85	[83]	Muhammad Shahid Hassan	83.75
86	[24]	Syed Anees Haider Zaidi	85.28
87	[250]	Iram A. Khan	86.64
88	[113]	Javed Iqbal	87.25
89	[88]	Ather Maqsood Ahmed	87.30
90	[100]	Muhammad Iqbal	87.82
91	[93]	Muhammad Farooq Arby	87.93
92	[87]	Zahid Pervaiz	87.95
93	[84]	M. Ali Kemal	88.04
94	[109]	Naeem Ahmed	88.17
95	[104]	Mumtaz Anwar	88.55
96	[95]	Muhammad Abdul Kamal	89.44
97	[96]	Usman Ahmad	90.53
98	[144]	Safdar Ali	90.86
99	[101]	Zahoor Ul Haq	90.93
100	[90]	Masood Sarwar Awan	92.11
101	[119]	Najam Us Saqib	92.89
102	[128]	Aadil Nakhoda	93.36
103	[103]	Rashida Haq	94.16
104	[115]	Ashar Awan	95.42
105	[92]	Usman Mustafa	96.57
106	[102]	Atiq Rehman	96.77
107	[97]	Fiaz Ahmad Sulehri	96.84
108	[126]	Muhammad Omer	97.21
109	[106]	Karim Khan	97.77
110	[112]	Kalbe Abbas	99.03
111	[118]	Muhammad Ali	100.81
112	[110]	Ejaz Ghani	101.87
113	[120]	Ahmad Nawaz	102.85
114	[124]	Waqas Ahmed	105.18
115	[105]	Mahmood Khalid	105.79
116	[43]	Nadeem Haque	106.12
117	[134]	Omar Farooq Saqib	108.23
118	[129]	Arshad Ali Bhatti	108.49
119	[135]	Mahmood Ul Hasan Khan	109.27
120	[127]	Awais Anwar	110.20
121	[133]	Yasir Riaz	110.29
122	[114]	Naseem Faraz	110.64
123	[157]	Abdul Farooq	110.90
124	[123]	Kashif Imran	112.54
125	[130]	Zulfiqar Hyder	113.25
126	[151]	Zahid Iqbal	113.49
127	[154]	Muhammad Azmat Hayat	114.53
128	[116]	Waheed Akhter	115.84
129	[121]	Maqbool H. Sial	120.95
130	[139]	Muhammad Faisal Ali	121.68
131	[165]	Shahzad Abbas	121.96
132	[138]	Hasan Muhammad Mohsin	125.01
133	[156]	Usama Awan	125.15
134	[12]	Ali Choudhary	125.65
135	[140]	Naved Hamid	126.19
136	[161]	Syed Hasan	126.86
137	[142]	Shahnaz Hamid	127.99
138	[141]	Abdul Salam	128.25
139	[146]	Safdar Khan	129.31
140	[169]	Mohsin Hassan Alvi	130.70
141	[149]	Samreen Akhtar Janjua	131.33
142	[137]	Uzma Zia	131.45
143	[152]	Muhammad Idrees	131.55
144	[147]	Muhammad Idrees Khawaja	132.11
145	[125]	Jabbar Ul-Haq	134.22
146	[145]	Nida Shah	135.12
147	[153]	Muhammad Jahanzeb Malik	135.53

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Syed Ali Raza	2.10
2	[1]	Amjad Ali	3.60
3	[6]	Faisal Mehmood Mirza	6.83
4	[15]	Azam Chaudhry	7.76
5	[3]	Syed Aun R. Rizvi	7.85
6	[4]	Imran Hanif	7.85
7	[22]	Farah Said	8.31
8	[10]	Samia, Nasreen	9.57
9	[9]	Khalid Zaman, Sr.	9.89
10	[7]	Muhammad Azam	10.51
11	[12]	Ayesha Afzal	12.48
12	[8]	Noman Arshed	12.58
13	[20]	Abdul Rashid	12.81
14	[11]	Dawood Mamoon	14.47
15	[16]	Saif Ullah	15.36
16	[18]	Saima Nawaz	15.46
17	[14]	Sofia Anwar	15.66
18	[21]	Khalid Ahmed	17.66
19	[17]	Arshad Hassan	18.75
20	[46]	Uzma Afzal	18.81
21	[47]	Shamyla Chaudry	19.20
22	[19]	Bisharat Hussain Chang	20.57
23	[38]	Agha Ali Akram	21.17
24	[24]	Qaiser Munir	21.27
25	[26]	Waqar Wadho	21.83
26	[33]	Ummad Mazhar	23.33
27	[25]	Nasir Iqbal	23.60
28	[5]	Syed Anees Haider Zaidi	27.26
29	[13]	Danish Ahmed Siddiqui	28.42
30	[31]	Attaullah Shah	29.01
31	[27]	Muhammad Tariq Majeed	29.26
32	[29]	Javed Iqbal	30.81
33	[55]	Nasreen Nawaz	30.90
34	[28]	Khuda Bakhsh	31.78
35	[40]	Junaid Ahmed	33.23
36	[35]	Fiaz Ahmad Sulehri	34.03
37	[34]	Ashar Awan	35.22
38	[32]	Muhammad Abdul Kamal	35.63
39	[37]	Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda	37.66
40	[44]	Awais Anwar	39.38
41	[45]	Yasir Riaz	39.79
42	[50]	Faisal Jamil	42.37
43	[42]	Muhammad Shahid Hassan	43.93
44	[62]	Arshad Ali Bhatti	44.01
45	[36]	Syed Tehseen Jawaid	44.79
46	[49]	Muhammad Faisal Ali	44.87
47	[51]	Atiq Rehman	46.93
48	[72]	Theresa T. Chaudhry	47.38
49	[48]	Jabbar Ul-Haq	48.38
50	[56]	Waheed Akhter	48.65
51	[66]	Faisal Abbas	48.67
52	[59]	Naseem Faraz	49.86
53	[65]	Zaheer Anwer	52.18
54	[57]	Naeem Akram	53.63
55	[54]	Sabeeh Ullah	54.79
56	[52]	Muhammad Hanif	55.23
57	[58]	Sobia Rose	56.51
58	[63]	Nida Shah	56.99
59	[77]	Tauqir Ahmed	57.48
60	[69]	Muhammad Aamir Khan	58.26
61	[83]	Syed Murtaza Hussain, Sr.	58.37
62	[67]	Iftikhar Yasin	59.42
63	[85]	Syed Muhammad Hussain	59.56
64	[64]	Nawaz Ahmad	59.75
65	[61]	Muhammad Irfan Chani	60.46
66	[74]	Ambreen Fatima	60.50
67	[80]	Aadil Nakhoda	61.04
68	[78]	Haroon Jamal	61.82
69	[99]	Faiz Ur Rehman	61.99
70	[73]	Zahid Pervaiz	62.48
71	[30]	Muhammad Haris	63.66
72	[23]	Ali Choudhary	64.40
73	[60]	Afia Malik	64.43
74	[88]	Syed Hasan	65.51
75	[76]	Dr Muhammad Sadiq Shahid (Muhammad Sadiq Shahid)	68.56
76	[82]	Sanval Nasim	71.31
77	[39]	Shazia Kousar	74.76
78	[70]	Omer Siddique	76.05
79	[86]	Shaista Alam	77.07
80	[79]	Attiya Yasmin Javid	77.47
81	[87]	Shujaat Farooq	77.66
82	[43]	Tanveer Bagh	78.09
83	[94]	Ahmad Fraz	80.95
84	[90]	Usman Ahmad	82.96
85	[104]	Muhammad Nasir	84.82
86	[89]	Khalil Ahmad	85.75
87	[97]	Komal Akram Khan	88.67
88	[101]	Sana Ullah	90.44
89	[95]	Ghulam Yahya Khan	90.67
90	[71]	Abid Hussain	90.86
91	[92]	Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed	91.06
92	[91]	Karim Khan	91.76
93	[100]	Muhammad Sabir	92.93
94	[98]	Ahmad Nawaz	93.36
95	[123]	Rafi Amir-ud-Din	95.52
96	[93]	Masood Ahmed Qazi	95.87
97	[107]	Rukhsana Kalim	96.39
98	[110]	Mumtaz Hussain Shah	96.54
99	[102]	Syed Babar Ali	96.68
100	[124]	Mazhar Ali	96.81
101	[114]	Unbreen Qayyum	97.48
102	[112]	Rana Ejaz Ali Khan	98.99
103	[109]	Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari	99.73
104	[41]	Kashif Munir	100.65
105	[84]	Muhammad Ayaz	100.68
106	[103]	Noor Jehan	101.97
107	[131]	Waqar Khalid	102.47
108	[96]	Hassan Rasool	105.37
109	[126]	Manzoor H. Memon	106.02
110	[106]	Lubna Hasan	106.26
111	[118]	Abdul Ghafoor Awan	107.46
112	[105]	Nazima Ellahi	108.34
113	[136]	Antonio Marasco	108.60
114	[138]	Zafar Mueen Nasir	108.65
115	[53]	Nadeem Haque	108.80
116	[108]	Muhammad Jehangir Khan	109.94
117	[127]	Asim Iqbal	110.01
118	[111]	Aamir Hussain Siddiqui	110.78
119	[117]	Jamshaid Ur Rehman	112.90
120	[135]	Farooq Pasha	114.96
121	[115]	Muhammad Afzal	115.46
122	[141]	Sonan Ahmed Memon	115.70
123	[142]	Ahmad Nawaz	115.71
124	[75]	Farhad Zulfiqar	116.96
125	[147]	Rubina Ilyas	118.46
126	[137]	Syed Sibghatullah Shah	118.74
127	[122]	Muhammad Nadim Hanif	118.82
128	[156]	Khalid Waleed	118.85
129	[130]	Farah Waheed	119.14
130	[119]	Shahid Manzoor Shah	119.40
131	[129]	Zahid Asghar	119.83
132	[132]	Naveed Khan	120.84
133	[139]	Rafiq Muhammad	121.25
134	[125]	Asad Zaman	121.66
135	[149]	Muhammad Qasim Attari	123.87
136	[116]	Khalid Latif	125.10
137	[128]	Khalil Ullah Mohammad (Mohammad Khalilullah)	125.34
138	[160]	Abid Ali Khan	126.79
139	[164]	Farhat Rasul	127.99
140	[121]	Ahmed Waqar Qasim	128.11
141	[152]	Javeria Salam	128.22
142	[120]	Muhammad Asad Ur Rehman Naseer	128.39
143	[154]	Muhammad Omer	128.54
144	[150]	Muhammad Uzair	128.59
145	[162]	Abdul Qayyum Khan	129.08
146	[145]	Yasir Bin Tariq	132.10
147	[133]	Amena Urooj	133.19

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