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title: "Top universities in economics research, 2023–2025"
description: "From 2023 to 2025, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique published the most papers in the 120 tracked economics journals (591), followed by IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (468) and Peking University (404). In 2025 alone, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique led with 234 papers."
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share_text: "From 2023 to 2025, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique published the most papers in the 120 tracked economics journals (591), followed by IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (468) and Peking University (404). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# Top institutions in economics research, 2023–2025

Universities and other research institutions ranked by the papers their authors published in the 120 tracked economics journals in each year from 2023 to 2025, by publication date and OpenAlex affiliations; a paper counts once for each institution (and country) among its authors. Built from the site's archive of every paper of these journals and rebuilt daily.

By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/ai.md)

## Key findings

- From 2023 to 2025, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique published the most papers in the 120 tracked economics journals (591), followed by IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (468) and Peking University (404).
- In 2025 alone, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique led with 234 papers.
- Among countries, United States took part in the most papers (8,074), ahead of China and United Kingdom.

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, 2023–2025*

| # | Institution | Country | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2023–2025 |
|---:|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | France | 177 | 180 | 234 | 591 |
| 2 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | Germany | 168 | 170 | 130 | 468 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | China | 127 | 127 | 150 | 404 |
| 4 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | China | 110 | 123 | 146 | 379 |
| 5 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | United Kingdom | 99 | 139 | 100 | 338 |
| 6 | World Bank | United States | 107 | 109 | 118 | 334 |
| 7 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | China | 111 | 92 | 104 | 307 |
| 8 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | China | 98 | 95 | 103 | 296 |
| 9 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | China | 72 | 87 | 111 | 270 |
| 10 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 86 | 87 | 95 | 268 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom | 89 | 78 | 94 | 261 |
| 12 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | China | 80 | 76 | 92 | 248 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund | United States | 86 | 92 | 70 | 248 |
| 14 | National Bureau of Economic Research | United States | 85 | 85 | 65 | 235 |
| 15 | [University of International Business and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-international-business-and-economics.md) | China | 67 | 90 | 74 | 231 |
| 16 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | China | 57 | 75 | 98 | 230 |
| 17 | University College London | United Kingdom | 80 | 71 | 74 | 225 |
| 18 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | China | 72 | 74 | 76 | 222 |
| 19 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | China | 58 | 81 | 79 | 218 |
| 20 | Monash University | Australia | 74 | 68 | 66 | 208 |
| 21 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 75 | 58 | 74 | 207 |
| 22 | Harvard University | United States | 83 | 65 | 58 | 206 |
| 23 | Shandong University | China | 57 | 70 | 77 | 204 |
| 24 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | Singapore | 63 | 65 | 72 | 200 |
| 25 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | China | 58 | 71 | 70 | 199 |
| 26 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | China | 42 | 76 | 79 | 197 |
| 27 | University of Bologna | Italy | 50 | 83 | 61 | 194 |
| 28 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 58 | 65 | 59 | 182 |
| 29 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | China | 54 | 47 | 73 | 174 |
| 30 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 52 | 69 | 50 | 171 |
| 31 | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | France | 47 | 53 | 71 | 171 |
| 32 | George Mason University | United States | 61 | 58 | 49 | 168 |
| 33 | [Jinan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jinan-university.md) | China | 41 | 55 | 72 | 168 |
| 34 | Capital University of Economics and Business | China | 53 | 55 | 59 | 167 |
| 35 | University of Chicago | United States | 57 | 61 | 48 | 166 |
| 36 | Cornell University | United States | 55 | 53 | 57 | 165 |
| 37 | University of California, Berkeley | United States | 50 | 56 | 54 | 160 |
| 38 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Italy | 51 | 57 | 52 | 160 |
| 39 | Lebanese American University | Lebanon | 81 | 58 | 19 | 158 |
| 40 | Bocconi University | Italy | 41 | 66 | 50 | 157 |
| 41 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 50 | 52 | 53 | 155 |
| 42 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | 55 | 59 | 41 | 155 |
| 43 | Stanford University | United States | 56 | 43 | 54 | 153 |
| 44 | Paris School of Economics | France | 43 | 65 | 44 | 152 |
| 45 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | China | 44 | 52 | 55 | 151 |
| 46 | Yale University | United States | 51 | 54 | 43 | 148 |
| 47 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 47 | 56 | 44 | 147 |
| 48 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 51 | 41 | 54 | 146 |
| 49 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 49 | 51 | 45 | 145 |
| 50 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 47 | 45 | 51 | 143 |

## Countries

*Countries with the most papers, 2023–2025*

| # | Country | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2023–2025 |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | United States | 2,717 | 2,750 | 2,607 | 8,074 |
| 2 | China | 1,915 | 2,419 | 2,693 | 7,027 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 1,223 | 1,247 | 1,222 | 3,692 |
| 4 | Germany | 1,007 | 1,075 | 969 | 3,051 |
| 5 | Italy | 798 | 912 | 941 | 2,651 |
| 6 | France | 636 | 664 | 712 | 2,012 |
| 7 | Spain | 425 | 554 | 557 | 1,536 |
| 8 | Australia | 463 | 478 | 448 | 1,389 |
| 9 | India | 380 | 399 | 439 | 1,218 |
| 10 | Japan | 375 | 414 | 409 | 1,198 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 347 | 365 | 372 | 1,084 |
| 12 | Canada | 347 | 353 | 335 | 1,035 |
| 13 | Switzerland | 265 | 249 | 247 | 761 |
| 14 | Sweden | 231 | 232 | 235 | 698 |
| 15 | South Korea | 184 | 236 | 270 | 690 |
| 16 | Belgium | 210 | 209 | 183 | 602 |
| 17 | Turkey | 144 | 169 | 187 | 500 |
| 18 | Austria | 176 | 147 | 156 | 479 |
| 19 | Norway | 151 | 158 | 163 | 472 |
| 20 | Denmark | 153 | 154 | 134 | 441 |
| 21 | Brazil | 131 | 138 | 161 | 430 |
| 22 | Hong Kong | 117 | 139 | 171 | 427 |
| 23 | Portugal | 113 | 127 | 109 | 349 |
| 24 | Taiwan | 107 | 104 | 126 | 337 |
| 25 | Singapore | 103 | 107 | 126 | 336 |
| 26 | Greece | 98 | 102 | 108 | 308 |
| 27 | Poland | 99 | 93 | 108 | 300 |
| 28 | Chile | 88 | 95 | 99 | 282 |
| 29 | Czechia | 81 | 84 | 114 | 279 |
| 30 | South Africa | 91 | 86 | 96 | 273 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Top institutions in economics research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/economics

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  title = {Top institutions in economics research, 2023–2025},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/economics}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).