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Top Development Research Institutions

Financial University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 21 ranked institutions.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1 Financial UniversityRussia · Moscow 100.0 12.9% 410 671#5
2 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia · Moscow 77.2 17.5% 111 211#17
3 Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia · Moscow 63.9 9.2% 222 244#25
4 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia · Moscow 54.5 16.9% 107 158#35
5 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia · Moscow 47.1 8.2% 185 153#26
6 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa · Johannesburg 41.1 20.2% 80 140#38
7 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 36.1 12.8% 136 224#37
8 Institute of EconomicsRussia · Yekaterinburg 31.7 18.8% 96 255#40
9 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia · Saint Petersburg 27.8 17.2% 69 121#20
10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 24.4 12.8% 86 154#29
11 State University of ManagementRussia · Moscow 21.2 12.4% 100 143#34
12 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan · Dushanbe 18.4 11.3% 93 141#57
13 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia · Moscow 15.8 13.1% 68 81#42
14 Baikal State UniversityRussia · Irkutsk 13.3 14.2% 66 100#56
15 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City 11.1 9.4% 75 62#28
16 Weatherford CollegeUnited States · Weatherford 8.9 7.9% 78 54#63
17 Institute of World Economy and International RelationsRussia · Moscow 6.9 10.3% 66 74#53
18 Samara State University of EconomicsRussia · Samara 5.1 3.2% 130 40#41
19 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina · Buenos Aires 3.3 5.7% 72 59#47
20 Ural State University of EconomicsRussia · Yekaterinburg 1.6 4.3% 62 62#70
21 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany · Hamburg 0.0 0.8% 83 0#74

institutions ranked worldwide in Development (21). rank on the composite score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field.

How spread out this pool is

Every row above on one axis — one tick each, right is a higher score. A field where the top few are far clear of everyone and one that runs down evenly look identical as a table.

0 – 5: 3 places5 – 10: 3 places10 – 15: 2 places15 – 20: 2 places20 – 25: 2 places25 – 30: 1 places30 – 35: 1 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 1 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 0 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 places70 – 75: 0 places75 – 80: 1 places80 – 85: 0 places85 – 90: 0 places90 – 95: 0 places95 – 100: 1 places0100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Financial UniversityRussia 410 works
  2. 2 Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsRussia 222 works
  3. 3 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 185 works
  4. 4 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 136 works
  5. 5 Samara State University of EconomicsRussia 130 works
  6. 6 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 111 works
  7. 7 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 107 works
  8. 8 State University of ManagementRussia 100 works
  9. 9 Institute of EconomicsRussia 96 works
  10. 10 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 93 works
  11. 11 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 86 works
  12. 12 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 83 works
  13. 13 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 80 works
  14. 14 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 78 works
  15. 15 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 75 works

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