Brazil's Top 2% Scientists 2025

Brazil has 1,461 scientists on the 2025 single-year Top 2% list, up 9.0% from 1,340 in 2024. That places Brazil 24th in the world by number of listed scientists, up 1 place. Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists (275), followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (106).

Single Year

1,461

+121 (+9.0%) vs 2024

Career Data

1,195

+118 (+11.0%) vs 2024

World rank by count

#24

up 1 place vs 2024

Institutes

250

+59 (+30.9%) vs 2024

Scientists in Brazil on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 71% since 2020.

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+32.7%

2022+11.6%

2023+2.5%

2024+3.6%

2025+9.0%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	853		600
2021	1,132	+32.7%	812	+35.3%
2022	1,263	+11.6%	892	+9.9%
2023	1,294	+2.5%	979	+9.8%
2024	1,340	+3.6%	1,077	+10.0%
2025	1,461	+9.0%	1,195	+11.0%

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Rank in Brazil	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	385	VR Varma, Rajender S.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2
2	1,796	MC Monteiro, Carlos Augusto	Revista de Saúde Pública	Public Health	Rank 15
3	2,600	VC Victora, Cesar Gomes	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 27
4	2,913	BJ Barbedo, Jayme G.A.	Embrapa Agricultura Digital	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 16
5	3,030	SJ Siqueira, J. F.	Universidade Estacio de Sa	Dentistry	Rank 5
6	4,048	TC Tsallis, Constantino	Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 25
7	4,354	CA Cunliffe, Ann L.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 138
8	4,416	CL Coelho, Leandro dos Santos	Universidade Federal do Parana	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 235
9	4,443	FP Fearnside, Philip Martin	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Ecology	Rank 118
10	4,469	WT Webster, Thomas Jay	Universidade Federal do Piauí	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 166
11	4,556	MJ Marengo, José António	Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (Cemaden)	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 79
12	4,978	FN Fageria, Nanda Kumar	Embrapa Arroz e Feijão	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 31
13	5,255	AH Azeredo, Henriette Monteiro Cordeiro de	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Food Science	Rank 36
14	5,316	CR Colwell, Robert K.	Universidade Federal de Goiás	Ecology	Rank 136
15	6,057	GA Gandini, Alessandro	Universidade de São Paulo	Polymers	Rank 33
16	7,330	DF Dantas-Torres, Filipe	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 7
17	8,866	FR Fischer, Ronald	Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino	Social Psychology	Rank 204
18	9,027	Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C.	Universidade Federal do Piauí	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 94
19	9,063	ES Esteves, Sandro C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 25
20	10,396	CM Carvalho Malta, Deborah Carvalho	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Public Health	Rank 100
21	10,418	BA Brandelli, A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Food Science	Rank 94
22	11,041	AI Aprahamian, Ivan	Faculty of Medicine of Jundiaí	Geriatrics	Rank 24
23	12,072	SC Soccol, Carlos Ricardo	Universidade Federal do Parana	Biotechnology	Rank 38
24	12,083	BC Barrios, Carlos Henrique Escosteguy	Oncology Research Center	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 343
25	12,142	HP Hallal, Pedro Curi Curi	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 115
26	12,484	QM Queiroz, M. M.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 374
27	12,639	LE Lima, Eder C.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Chemical Engineering	Rank 69
28	13,058	BA Brunoni, Andre R.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 267
29	13,256	MH Mansur, Herman Sander	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Materials	Rank 246
30	13,727	DG Dotto, G. L.	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Chemical Engineering	Rank 77
31	13,814	ML Martinez, Leandro	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Chemical Physics	Rank 224
32	13,951	TL Tavares, Luís Marcelo M.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Mining & Metallurgy	Rank 4
33	13,962	HB Horta, Bernardo Lessa	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 128
34	14,279	MC Martínez-Huitle, Carlos A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Energy	Rank 399
35	14,301	JA Jório, Ado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 284
36	14,571	ZA Zuardi, A. W.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 288
37	15,830	AC Alves, Claudianor Oliveira	Universidade Federal de Campina Grande	General Mathematics	Rank 54
38	16,315	CJ Calixto, João Batista	Centro de Inovação e Ensaios Pré-clínicos and National Institute for Science and Technology on Innovation in Medicines and Identification of New Therapeutics Targets (INCT-INOVAMED). Avenida Luiz Boiteux Piazza	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 73
39	16,457	SD Silva, Diego Augusto Santos	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Sport Sciences	Rank 71
40	16,562	ZE Zanotto, E. D.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Applied Physics	Rank 330
41	17,952	LP Lotufo, P. Andrade	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 536
42	18,162	OG Olmo, Gonzalo J.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 229
43	19,034	FE Franchini, Emerson	Universidade de São Paulo	Sport Sciences	Rank 81
44	19,199	AL Aragao, L. E.O.C.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Ecology	Rank 417
45	19,494	SR Santos, Raul D.	Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 583
46	19,514	BI Benseñor, Isabela Judith Martins	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 585
47	19,748	MJ Metzger, Jean Paul	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 432
48	20,028	SF Schuch, Felipe B.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Psychiatry	Rank 378
49	20,642	Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 63
50	21,012	DF de Felice, Fernanda Guarino	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 984
51	21,259	LL Lynd, Lee Rybeck	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 77
52	21,946	DN Durán, Nelson Eduardo	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 81
53	22,320	FA Frank, Alejandro Germán	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Operations Research	Rank 101
54	22,745	SA SantˈAna, Anderson S.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 215
55	22,960	GR Guedes, Raul Narciso C.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Entomology	Rank 26
56	23,237	FL Fraceto, Leonardo Fernandes	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Environmental Sciences	Rank 508
57	23,394	MG Malafaia, Guilherme	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano Campus Rio Verde	Environmental Sciences	Rank 512
58	23,678	FD Ferreira, Daniel Furtado	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 164
59	23,743	MH Miot, Hélio Amante	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 75
60	23,937	BM Barreto, Mauricio L.	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Public Health	Rank 232
61	23,938	DJ Dupont, Jairton	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Organic Chemistry	Rank 270
62	24,190	GP Guimarães, Paulo Roberto	Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Ecologia	Ecology	Rank 502
63	24,845	TA Teixeira, Anton̂io Lućio	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,149
64	24,943	DJ Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre Felizola Alexandre Felizola	Universidade Federal de Goiás	Ecology	Rank 512
65	24,993	RM Rodrigues, Marcio Lourenço	Instituto Carlos Chagas, Curitiba	Microbiology	Rank 470
66	25,698	DA de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo Costa	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,183
67	26,106	SA Seabra, Amedea Barozzi	Universidade Federal do ABC	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 927
68	26,177	FS Ferreira, Sergio T.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,216
69	26,353	FF Fernandes, Fabiano A.N.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Food Science	Rank 261
70	26,611	CN Consoli, Nilo Cesar	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 288
71	26,678	BA Barros, Aluisio J.D.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 252
72	27,159	WP Wanke, P. F.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Operations Research	Rank 123
73	27,196	PG Polanczyk, Guilherme V.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 497
74	27,354	WC Wood, Chris M.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Physiology	Rank 43
75	27,876	Toledo Filho, Romildo Dias	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Building & Construction	Rank 209
76	28,118	PR Pereira, Rafael H.M.	Institute for Applied Economic Research	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 88
77	28,177	TS Todorov, S. D.	Universidade de São Paulo	Microbiology	Rank 540
78	28,436	MJ Mungall, James Edward	Universidade de Brasília	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 423
79	28,446	Della Bona, Alvaro	Universidade de Passo Fundo	Dentistry	Rank 115
80	28,748	DO de Oliveira, Jose Antonio Puppim	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Environmental Sciences	Rank 626
81	29,276	SM Schmidt, Maria Inês	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 444
82	29,666	CA Cruz, Adriano G.	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 296
83	29,682	FG Fernandes, G. Wilson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Ecology	Rank 579
84	29,862	RA Rodriguez Amaya, Delia B.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 301
85	30,026	RA Ribeiro, Antonio L.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 879
86	30,184	BP Brancalion, Pedro Henrique Santin	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 595
87	30,188	JR Júnior, Renato Ambrósio	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro	Ophthalmology & Optometry	Rank 118
88	30,569	MJ Martínez, José Mario	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Operations Research	Rank 135
89	31,222	NR Nunes, Rafael C.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 419
90	31,286	BE Brondízio, Eduardo Sonnewend	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Ecology	Rank 622
91	31,369	AR Alves, R. R.N.	Universidade Estadual da Paraiba	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 106
92	31,433	WY Wang, Yuan Pang	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 565
93	31,631	FA Farah, Adriana	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 334
94	31,714	TS Thomaz, Sidinei Magela	Universidade Estadual de Maringá	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 160
95	31,822	NM Nucci, Márcio Luiz Moore	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Microbiology	Rank 617
96	31,858	SR Santos, R. A.S.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 920
97	32,605	PC Pasquini, Celio	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 156
98	32,773	TS Tufik, Sergio Brasil	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,523
99	32,858	MS Monteiro, Sergio N.	Instituto Militar de Engenharia	Materials	Rank 646
100	33,062	FO Franco, Octavio Luiz	Universidade Católica de Brasília	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 514
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Brazil are in the 2025 Stanford Top 2% list?

1,461 scientists affiliated with Brazil are on the 2025 single-year list, and 1,195 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in Brazil has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2025 single-year list, Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists from Brazil, with 275. It is followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas with 106.

How has the number of Top 2% scientists in Brazil changed since 2020?

On the single-year list, Brazil went from 853 scientists in 2020 to 1,461 in 2025, a change of +71.3%.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.