Talent 100

2026 Edition

Business and Economics

Unveiling the Vanguard of Global Research

Explore measuresHE’s inaugural Talent 100, powered by a sophisticated suite of proprietary metrics designed to provide a more holistic view of individual research gravitas. We look beyond traditional h-indices and volume-based counts to reveal the true influence and trajectory of scholars in the modern academic landscape.

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A Snapshot of Excellence

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While the inaugural Talent 100 features top researchers across six key domains, the Arts and Humanities category has been excluded to ensure the ranking's integrity. Current eligibility criteria, which prioritize high-frequency article outputs, do not yet fully capture the scholarly impact of monographs and long-form chapters central to this field. To maintain our commitment to fairness and accuracy, we are currently refining a more nuanced framework for this domain and look forward to debuting a representative Arts and Humanities ranking in a future edition.

Methodology

Rank Name Institution Publication volume Typical research quality Best works Research gravitas Collaboration intensity Overall Score
39 Zaghum Umar Zayed University 85.3 92.4 89.3 94.0 85.3 90.1
21 Biswajit Sarkar Yonsei University 93.9 93.3 92.8 95.8 89.8 93.5
37 Syed Abdul Rehman Khan Xuzhou University of Technology 83.8 94.6 90.5 97.9 73.9 90.4
11 Boqiang Lin Xiamen University 99.9 87.3 97.9 100.0 100.0 95.2
50 Muhammad Akram University of the Punjab 95.8 75.9 93.8 96.3 96.0 88.7
70 Sanjoy Kumar Paul University of Technology Sydney 77.4 89.7 88.7 98.9 64.4 86.4
82 Muhammad Turki Alshurideh University of Sharjah 93.5 96.6 89.7 54.1 79.5 84.8
91 Maksim Belitski University of Reading 50.6 95.6 84.1 97.4 77.3 83.4
43 Justin Paul University of Puerto Rico System 68.9 97.8 91.0 100.0 76.0 89.3
72 Afees A. Salisu University of Pretoria 95.7 74.1 84.4 93.2 97.1 86.1
67 Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria 100.0 66.7 93.2 97.0 99.9 86.7
77 Vikas Kumar University of Portsmouth 90.5 81.4 85.6 87.3 83.4 85.2
24 Demetris Vrontis University of Nicosia 99.9 84.5 95.2 96.1 98.5 92.9
44 M. Kabir Hassan University of New Orleans 100.0 74.9 94.6 94.0 99.8 89.2
11 Tsan‐Ming Choi University of Liverpool 96.7 94.5 92.6 100.0 89.2 95.2
3 Sascha Kraus University of Johannesburg; University of Siegen 97.4 99.6 94.7 100.0 90.7 97.6
62 Kangyin Dong University of International Business and Economics 72.4 94.1 93.7 92.0 74.1 87.3
53 Andrew Adewale Alola University of Inland Norway; İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi 88.3 82.6 92.4 93.3 91.9 88.3
74 Canh Phuc Nguyen University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City 74.4 87.3 86.5 95.2 85.2 86.0
10 Xuan Vinh Vo University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City 99.8 90.1 95.7 99.0 99.1 95.6
66 Marina Dabić University of Dubrovnik; University of Ljubljana 83.7 89.2 87.1 89.7 78.9 86.9
27 José Arturo Garza-Reyes University of Derby 98.4 87.9 94.1 93.4 88.2 92.1
36 Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente University of Castilla-La Mancha 78.1 97.2 93.3 96.8 74.7 90.5
87 Samuel Adomako University of Birmingham 72.0 87.1 86.1 93.1 78.1 84.2
15 Dragan Pamučar University of Belgrade 99.9 87.1 97.8 99.1 98.5 94.8
32 João J. Ferreira University of Beira Interior 98.8 82.2 91.6 95.1 97.6 91.0
41 Amandeep Dhir University of Agder; University of Stavanger 74.7 99.6 93.9 99.3 62.4 90.0
86 Zaheer Khan University of Aberdeen; University of Vaasa 77.8 86.9 84.1 95.0 67.5 84.3
52 T. Ramayah Universiti Sains Malaysia 98.2 79.9 91.7 88.1 94.4 88.4
61 Joseph Sarkis Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France; Worcester Polytechnic Institute 71.0 95.4 86.9 99.2 70.2 87.5
6 Muhammad Abubakr Naeem United Arab Emirates University 96.7 97.7 94.6 97.3 90.8 96.3
19 Brian M. Lucey Trinity College Dublin 95.4 94.7 92.1 95.0 91.4 94.2
26 Kannan Govindan The University of Adelaide; University of Southern Denmark 86.6 95.6 92.6 99.8 75.3 92.2
57 Harish Garg Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology 94.4 76.0 94.8 97.2 88.5 88.0
99 Mohammad Zoynul Abedin Swansea University 89.0 90.0 89.9 58.5 78.7 82.3
38 Arshian Sharif Sunway University; University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz 76.3 98.6 93.9 98.6 66.0 90.2
2 Satish Kumar Sunway University 99.6 96.4 95.4 99.7 97.4 97.7
30 Weng Marc Lim Sungkyunkwan University; Sunway University; Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus 82.5 99.5 93.2 98.9 64.8 91.6
56 Walid Mensi Sultan Qaboos University 89.3 90.7 90.8 83.2 83.5 88.2
84 Chun‐Ping Chang Shih Chien University 71.3 95.4 88.9 81.6 72.9 84.6
13 Heesup Han Sejong University 97.2 93.6 96.2 97.0 89.8 95.0
96 Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al‐Faryan Saudi Heart Association 97.4 78.9 91.2 63.1 92.4 82.6
78 Wil M. P. van der Aalst RWTH Aachen University 89.8 74.0 92.3 93.5 85.7 85.0
9 Chi‐Wei Su Qingdao University 96.6 96.2 94.9 95.8 93.1 95.7
51 Sang Hoon Kang Pusan National University; University of South Australia 90.6 90.7 90.1 84.8 83.1 88.6
59 Imran Yousaf Prince Sultan University 75.2 96.5 88.9 86.5 82.6 87.7
53 Jiju Antony Northumbria University 99.3 79.6 93.5 86.0 93.8 88.3
7 Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo Near East University 94.3 96.9 96.8 99.2 89.7 96.1
33 Uğur Korkut Pata Mustafa Kemal University 75.9 96.4 93.7 98.9 80.8 90.8
94 Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad Montpellier Business School 66.8 92.3 84.9 89.5 66.8 83.0
92 Rajesh Kumar Singh Management Development Institute 57.9 94.9 88.4 92.3 67.0 83.2
62 Vinit Parida Luleå University of Technology 67.6 98.2 87.7 99.2 64.6 87.3
25 Anil Kumar London Metropolitan University 94.4 96.2 93.8 94.2 72.7 92.7
53 Dalia Štreimikienė Lithuanian Energy Institute; Vilnius University; Vytautas Magnus University 94.7 79.4 92.2 94.0 89.4 88.3
4 Elie Bouri Lebanese American University 99.7 94.3 95.9 99.1 98.9 97.0
4 Muhammad Umar Lebanese American University 95.3 99.4 95.5 99.6 89.0 97.0
65 Vanessa Ratten La Trobe University 99.3 71.2 91.6 98.9 88.2 87.1
13 Yogesh K. Dwivedi King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 91.6 99.9 95.1 99.3 75.6 95.0
20 Farhad Taghizadeh‐Hesary Keio University; Tokai University 99.2 87.6 93.8 98.0 97.0 93.9
87 Emmanuel Mogaji Keele University 75.4 94.7 86.1 81.4 67.8 84.2
100 Marinko Škare Juraj Dobrila University of Pula; University of Warsaw 77.2 86.4 84.4 78.5 81.6 82.2
80 Witold Pedrycz Istinye University; Macau University of Science and Technology; University of Alberta 97.5 70.6 93.2 91.0 84.9 84.9
59 Hasan Dınçer Istanbul Medipol University 97.1 85.6 93.1 75.0 93.7 87.7
57 Serhat Yüksel Istanbul Medipol University 97.0 86.4 93.3 75.1 93.6 88.0
22 Aviral Kumar Tiwari Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 99.8 85.3 95.2 96.5 99.0 93.3
18 David B. Audretsch Indiana University Bloomington; University of Klagenfurt 95.9 91.9 91.0 99.2 96.2 94.4
42 Muhammet Deveci Imperial College London; University College London; University of Nottingham 93.3 91.3 95.8 84.0 77.9 89.6
23 Alfredo De Massis IMD; Lancaster University; University of Chieti-Pescara 96.2 89.3 87.3 99.8 94.4 93.0
49 Muhammad Irfan ILMA University; Shandong Management University 77.7 97.9 94.1 91.5 65.8 88.8
96 Sitara Karim ILMA University; Management Sciences (United States) 63.7 97.5 89.7 80.2 62.6 82.6
64 Dongmin Kong Huazhong University of Science and Technology 80.7 88.6 86.9 91.5 87.0 87.2
75 T.C.E. Cheng Hong Kong Polytechnic University 98.9 71.8 90.3 89.2 94.5 85.7
80 Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik Heriot-Watt University 81.7 84.5 84.9 91.6 79.8 84.9
89 Zeshui Xu Hangzhou Normal University 99.8 59.9 93.7 95.6 99.4 84.0
67 Haitao Wu Hainan University 67.2 98.1 90.5 97.4 58.9 86.7
92 Arunodaya Raj Mishra Government Medical College 66.8 93.7 91.9 88.7 55.5 83.2
27 Festus Vıctor Bekun Gelişim Üniversitesi 89.0 90.8 94.8 98.6 85.9 92.1
29 Sachin Kumar Mangla Fore School of Management 90.8 95.5 93.3 95.1 73.9 92.0
78 Mahdi Salehi Ferdowsi University of Mashhad 91.0 77.7 87.3 88.8 87.7 85.0
71 Nawazish Mirza Excelia Business School 68.2 97.8 88.2 92.5 66.4 86.2
16 Derviş Kırıkkaleli European University of Lefke 95.1 92.0 94.4 98.6 94.3 94.5
34 Sabri Boubaker EM Normandie Business School 91.6 89.2 86.5 96.9 87.7 90.7
72 Samuel Fosso Wamba École Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse 59.8 98.2 87.3 98.7 69.4 86.1
47 Shaen Corbet Dublin City University; University of Waikato 97.8 82.4 89.6 88.0 95.5 89.0
69 Léo‐Paul Dana Dalhousie University 98.7 77.1 87.7 85.1 97.0 86.6
1 Chien‐Chiang Lee City University of Macau 99.9 98.5 97.5 100.0 99.9 99.1
84 Peterson K Ozili Chitkara University; Emerald Group Publishing (United Kingdom); Panjab University 100.0 76.2 92.5 99.6 41.3 84.6
39 Qiang Ji Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institutes of Science and Development; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 87.7 87.9 90.9 98.7 84.4 90.1
44 Shouyang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences 98.3 81.7 92.3 88.1 94.5 89.2
34 Xiaohang Ren Central South University; University of Southampton 81.8 97.5 90.3 93.1 80.4 90.7
96 Yuriy Gorodnichenko Center for Economic and Policy Research; University of California, Berkeley 87.9 72.2 75.3 98.1 88.0 82.6
94 Ahmet Şensoy Bilkent University 71.0 88.3 82.7 94.3 65.8 83.0
16 Dmitry Ivanov Berlin School of Economics and Law 92.5 99.2 88.9 100.0 79.2 94.5
76 Yu Hao Beijing Institute of Technology; Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Tarim University 64.8 97.1 88.9 97.9 54.8 85.3
8 Muhammad Shahbaz Beijing Institute of Technology 96.0 95.5 95.0 99.2 92.0 95.9
31 Khaled Hussainey Bangor University 98.7 85.4 90.0 92.3 97.4 91.3
83 Muntasir Murshed Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies; Daffodil International University; North South University 63.3 96.4 93.7 97.9 46.9 84.7
47 Sunil Luthra All India Council for Technical Education 84.6 95.5 92.6 91.0 65.5 89.0
90 Ahmed A. Elamer Alfaisal University; Mansoura University 67.6 94.0 84.4 86.8 70.9 83.5
44 Vijay Pereira Academy of Management 92.6 90.0 91.5 87.5 79.7 89.2