Economics, Econometrics and Finance Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Economics, Econometrics and Finance topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Economics, Econometrics and Finance currently has 31 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 100,003 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is 4.6%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Economics, Econometrics and Finance
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Wheaton College - Illinois | United States | 71.7 | 17,629 | 60,209 | 117.3% |
| #2 | University of Milan | Italy | 63.9 | 3,338 | 216,132 | 444.4% |
| #3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 61.0 | 9,607 | 222,009 | -56.7% |
| #4 | University of Zagreb | Croatia | 59.9 | 6,792 | 32,553 | -19.3% |
| #5 | Harvard University | United States | 59.2 | 6,300 | 156,655 | -24.4% |
| #6 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | The Netherlands | 58.1 | 4,916 | 26,916 | -9.3% |
| #7 | New York University | United States | 57.7 | 4,404 | 68,911 | -2.6% |
| #8 | University of York | United Kingdom | 56.7 | 4,044 | 26,944 | -12.3% |
| #9 | University of Toronto | Canada | 56.5 | 4,108 | 136,717 | -20.1% |
| #10 | University of Belgrade | Serbia | 55.1 | 2,965 | 38,909 | -0.3% |
| #11 | McMaster University | Canada | 54.5 | 3,072 | 45,411 | -21.8% |
| #12 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 54.4 | 2,934 | 78,911 | -16.2% |
| #13 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 54.0 | 2,735 | 88,395 | -16.0% |
| #14 | Duke University | United States | 53.3 | 2,431 | 68,734 | -12.6% |
| #15 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 52.8 | 2,241 | 43,898 | -11.5% |
| #16 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 52.2 | 1,706 | 88,325 | 17.2% |
| #17 | Monash University | Australia | 51.8 | 1,967 | 91,042 | -16.0% |
| #18 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Colombia | 51.3 | 1,853 | 26,219 | -17.4% |
| #19 | Xiamen University | China | 51.2 | 1,679 | 51,854 | -4.7% |
| #20 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | 50.6 | 1,458 | 63,829 | 4.9% |
| #21 | Radboud University Nijmegen | The Netherlands | 50.4 | 1,627 | 54,596 | -19.3% |
| #22 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia | 50.3 | 1,581 | 32,985 | -16.9% |
| #23 | Maastricht University | The Netherlands | 50.2 | 1,590 | 40,463 | -20.4% |
| #24 | University of Ottawa | Canada | 49.7 | 1,500 | 42,836 | -22.1% |
| #25 | George Washington University | United States | 49.3 | 1,338 | 28,601 | -15.2% |
| #26 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 48.3 | 1,209 | 41,406 | -22.0% |
| #27 | Tehran University of Medical Sciences | Iran | 47.9 | 1,163 | 39,016 | -25.2% |
| #28 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom | 47.8 | 1,091 | 39,799 | -17.2% |
| #29 | Georgetown University | United States | 47.6 | 978 | 26,953 | -3.8% |
| #30 | UCLouvain | Belgium | 47.3 | 989 | 22,386 | -12.9% |
| #31 | Queen's University | Canada | 45.5 | 758 | 28,079 | -15.9% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.