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Top Countries in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 43 ranked countries.

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: 100 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025

#CountryScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1China 100.0 29.4% 5k 24k#3
2United States 81.6 18.5% 6.3k 26k#1
3United Kingdom 70.8 22.6% 1.9k 9.1k#2
4Russia 63.1 8.8% 6.5k 6.9k#8
5Italy 57.2 26.6% 962 4.2k#5
6Germany 52.4 21.4% 1.3k 5.5k#4
7Ukraine 48.3 10.8% 6.2k 9.4k#13
8India 44.7 16.3% 1.9k 4k#15
9Türkiye 41.6 15.8% 1.6k 3.4k#18
10France 38.8 16.8% 1.1k 2.9k#7
11Spain 36.2 21.5% 800 2.7k#10
12Australia 33.9 20.6% 735 3k#9
13Canada 31.8 21.0% 626 2.5k#6
14South Korea 29.8 21.4% 536 1.7k#23
15Greece 28.0 29.0% 306 1.5k#25
16Poland 26.3 16.8% 677 2k#29
17Switzerland 24.7 22.4% 383 1.8k#12
18Netherlands 23.2 25.2% 364 1.8k#11
19South Africa 21.7 23.9% 478 1.5k#27
20Pakistan 20.4 18.4% 491 1.5k#33
21Indonesia 19.1 8.1% 1.5k 1.7k#43
22Hong Kong 17.8 28.6% 209 1.1k#20
23Brazil 16.6 6.1% 1.7k 1.7k#19
24Japan 15.5 16.0% 731 1.7k#17
25Nigeria 14.4 11.3% 942 1.7k#34
26Malaysia 13.4 18.3% 390 1.1k#28
27Vietnam 12.4 17.3% 449 1.1k#42
28?? 11.4 15.2% 500 1.2k#36
29Portugal 10.5 24.5% 274 921#31
30Belgium 9.6 20.7% 251 1k#14
31Bangladesh 8.7 22.0% 211 697#55
32Hungary 7.9 16.3% 285 556#44
33Taiwan 7.0 21.8% 204 679#30
34Czechia 6.2 16.5% 270 706#38
35Uzbekistan 5.5 7.5% 407 450#58
36Romania 4.7 13.7% 307 526#50
37Thailand 4.0 17.7% 215 492#48
38Kazakhstan 3.3 9.1% 371 457#54
39Iran 2.6 11.2% 291 482#52
40Mexico 1.9 6.3% 451 447#41
41Colombia 126.6 10.0% 211 336#53
42Iraq 62.6 6.9% 244 170#65
43Argentina 0.0 7.2% 222 237#46

countries ranked worldwide in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (43). 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: 8 places5 – 10: 6 places10 – 15: 5 places15 – 20: 4 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 3 places30 – 35: 2 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 places70 – 75: 1 places75 – 80: 0 places80 – 85: 1 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 Russia 6.5k works
  2. 2 United States 6.3k works
  3. 3 Ukraine 6.2k works
  4. 4 China 5k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 1.9k works
  6. 6 India 1.9k works
  7. 7 Brazil 1.7k works
  8. 8 Türkiye 1.6k works
  9. 9 Indonesia 1.5k works
  10. 10 Germany 1.3k works
  11. 11 France 1.1k works
  12. 12 Italy 962 works