Rankings of South African Economic Research Institutions

Research Papers in Economics (IDEAS/RePEc), a repository of Economics publications tracking citations and paper reads, lists the Faculty of Economic & Management (University of Pretoria) as South Africa’s highest ranking economic research institution.  The South African Reserve Bank is ranked 15th in South Africa and Economic Research South Africa is ranked 22nd. The highest ranking researcher in Economics in South Africa is Rangan Gupta. In 2023 alone, he is credited with 81 working paper and article publications on Ideas/RePEc. By way of comparison, the median among top 20 ranked economic researchers in South Africa is less than 3 publications per year.