Brazil's Top 2% Scientists 2026

Brazil has 1,510 scientists on the 2026 single-year Top 2% list, up 3.4% from 1,461 in 2025. That places Brazil 24th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists (282), followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (105).

Single Year

1,510

+49 (+3.4%) vs 2025

Career Data

1,304

+109 (+9.1%) vs 2025

World rank by count

#24

No change vs 2025

Institutes

259

+9 (+3.6%) vs 2025

Scientists in Brazil on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 77% 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%

2026+3.4%

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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%
2026	1,510	+3.4%	1,304	+9.1%

Top 10 institutes in Brazil

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Rank in Brazil	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	386	VR Varma, Rajender S.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2
2	686	VG van Genuchten, Martinus Th.	Federal University of Rio the Janeiro	Environmental Engineering	Rank 1
3	1,271	MC Monteiro, Carlos Augusto	Universidade de São Paulo	Public Health	Rank 11
4	2,358	TC Tsallis, Constantino	Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 18
5	2,447	BJ Barbedo, Jayme G.A.	Embrapa Agricultura Digital	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 19
6	2,808	VC Victora, Cesar Gomes	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 32
7	3,288	SJ Siqueira, J. F.	Universidade Estacio de Sa	Dentistry	Rank 5
8	3,760	MJ Marengo, José António	Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (Cemaden)	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 61
9	4,694	FP Fearnside, Philip Martin	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Ecology	Rank 127
10	4,898	FN Fageria, Nanda Kumar	Embrapa Arroz e Feijão	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 37
11	5,140	CL Coelho, Leandro dos Santos	Universidade Federal do Parana	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 286
12	5,654	DF Dantas-Torres, Filipe	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 6
13	5,942	LC Louise Cunliffe, Ann L.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 182
14	6,984	BC Barrios, Carlos Henrique Escosteguy	Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group (LACOG)	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 188
15	7,138	CM Carvalho Malta, Deborah Carvalho	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Public Health	Rank 68
16	7,415	DA de Azeredo, Henriette Monteiro Cordeiro	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Food Science	Rank 64
17	8,521	FR Fischer, Ronald	Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino	Social Psychology	Rank 206
18	8,575	ES Esteves, Sandro C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 25
19	8,910	Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C.	Universidade Federal do Piauí	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 86
20	9,617	BA Brandelli, A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Food Science	Rank 90
21	10,610	TA Tacon, Albert G.J.	Universidade de São Paulo	Fisheries	Rank 14
22	10,977	TL Tavares, Luís Marcelo M.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Mining & Metallurgy	Rank 2
23	13,030	ML Martinez, Leandro	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Chemical Physics	Rank 188
24	13,466	SC Soccol, Carlos Ricardo	Universidade Federal do Parana	Biotechnology	Rank 42
25	13,790	BI Bensenor, Isabela M.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 431
26	13,875	LE Lima, Eder C.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Chemical Engineering	Rank 82
27	14,647	MH Mansur, Herman Sander	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Materials	Rank 276
28	15,489	CJ Calixto, João Batista	Centro de Inovação e Ensaios Pré-Clínicos (CIEnP)	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 82
29	15,578	LP Lotufo, Paulo A.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 489
30	15,596	QM Queiroz, Maciel M.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 470
31	16,545	AL Aragao, L. E.O.C.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Ecology	Rank 361
32	16,555	AM Amante Miot, Helio Amante	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 51
33	16,777	SD Silva, Diego Augusto Santos	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Sport Sciences	Rank 71
34	17,176	SF Schuch, Felipe B.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Psychiatry	Rank 328
35	17,508	AC Alves, Claudianor Oliveira	Universidade Federal de Campina Grande	General Mathematics	Rank 66
36	17,960	JA Jório, Ado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 327
37	18,030	RM Rodrigues, Marcio Lourenço	Instituto Carlos Chagas	Microbiology	Rank 330
38	18,312	Herdeiro, Carlos A.R.	Universidade Federal do Pará	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 216
39	18,624	CJ Castaldelli-Maia, João Mauricio	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 346
40	19,221	DG Dotto, G. L.	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Chemical Engineering	Rank 130
41	19,280	MC Martínez-Huitle, Carlos A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Energy	Rank 518
42	19,380	ZE Zanotto, E. D.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Applied Physics	Rank 347
43	19,420	HB Horta, Bernardo Lessa	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 186
44	20,100	LG Lucchetti, Giancarlo	Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Faculdade de Medicina	Psychiatry	Rank 369
45	20,455	FE Franchini, Emerson	Universidade de São Paulo	Sport Sciences	Rank 96
46	20,508	GM Gonzalez, Maria Cristina	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 130
47	20,924	AM Abdu, Mangalathayil Ali	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 379
48	21,181	BA Barros, Aluisio J.D.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 202
49	21,401	SR Santos, Raul D.	Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 649
50	21,941	PG Polanczyk, Guilherme V.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 406
51	22,320	PM Peres, Mario F.P.	Universidade de São Paulo	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,027
52	22,348	BP Brancalion, Pedro Henrique Santin	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 487
53	22,416	RA Ribeiro, Antonio L.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 674
54	22,504	SM Schmidt, Maria Inês	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 348
55	22,954	GR Guedes, Raul Narciso C.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Entomology	Rank 35
56	23,648	MG Malafaia, Guilherme	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano Campus Rio Verde	Environmental Sciences	Rank 524
57	23,869	AP Artaxo, Paulo Eduardo	Universidade de São Paulo	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 439
58	24,326	FA Frank, Alejandro Germán	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Operations Research	Rank 95
59	24,371	WY Wang, Yuan Pang	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 442
60	24,932	PR Pereira, Rafael H.M.	Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 81
61	25,058	TS Todorov, S. D.	Universidade de São Paulo	Microbiology	Rank 462
62	25,277	CN Consoli, Nilo Cesar	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 285
63	25,394	DN Durán, Nelson Eduardo	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 86
64	25,413	KC Kieling, C. Costa	Hospital Moinhos de Vento	Psychiatry	Rank 462
65	25,432	DS de Sousa, Damião Pergentino	Universidade Federal da Paraíba	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 128
66	26,042	Della Bona, Alvaro	Universidade de Passo Fundo	Dentistry	Rank 104
67	26,338	BM Brennan, Michael John	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Acoustics	Rank 56
68	26,380	FF Fuchs, Flavio D.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 788
69	26,482	RA Rodriguez Amaya, Delia B.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 294
70	26,754	FL Fraceto, Leonardo Fernandes	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Environmental Sciences	Rank 601
71	27,053	MJ Metzger, Jean Paul	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 565
72	27,206	MS Monteiro, Sergio N.	Instituto Militar de Engenharia	Materials	Rank 536
73	27,284	OG Olmo, Gonzalo J.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 359
74	27,376	LL Lynd, Lee Rybeck	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 93
75	27,488	PR Parker, Richard G.	Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW)	Public Health	Rank 259
76	27,927	BM Barreto, Mauricio L.	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Public Health	Rank 264
77	28,253	BM Buzalaf, Marilia Afonso Rabelo	Universidade de São Paulo	Dentistry	Rank 118
78	28,374	OT Olivoto, Tiago	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 206
79	28,637	FO Franco, Octavio Luiz	Universidade Católica de Brasília	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 410
80	29,197	DA de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo Costa	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,430
81	29,692	DB Duncan, Bruce Bartholow	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 452
82	29,902	SJ Souza, Joao Paulo	Pan American Health Organization, Brasilia	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 139
83	30,042	SN Sousa, Nuno Jorge Carvalho	Centro Universitário Max Planck	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,362
84	30,235	GM Galetti, Mauro	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Ecology	Rank 625
85	30,443	FG Fernandes, G. Wilson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Ecology	Rank 631
86	30,466	PC Pasquini, Celio	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 133
87	30,927	TS Thomaz, Sidinei Magela	Universidade Estadual de Maringá	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 144
88	30,940	TF Toledo Filho, R. D.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Building & Construction	Rank 260
89	31,016	Frederico, Guilherme F.	Universidade Federal do Parana	Business & Management	Rank 833
90	31,598	ZA Zuardi, A. W.	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico E Tecnologico Cnpq	Psychiatry	Rank 573
91	31,743	SJ Sousa, José Vanterler Da C.	Universidade Estadual do Maranhão	General Mathematics	Rank 136
92	31,901	SR Schwan, Rosane Freitas	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Food Science	Rank 372
93	32,238	DG Durigan, Giselda	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Ecology	Rank 666
94	32,993	NM Nicolelis, Miguel A.L.	AASDAP	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,489
95	33,109	MJ Martínez, José Mario	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Operations Research	Rank 128
96	33,618	MP Moraes, Pedro Henrique Ribeiro Da Silva	Universidade Cidade de São Paulo	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 437
97	33,820	FD Ferreira, Daniel Furtado	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 245
98	33,841	AM Araujo, Mauricio Guimarães	Universidade Estadual de Maringá	Dentistry	Rank 149
99	34,831	DF DaMatta, Fábio Murilo	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 500
100	34,872	CF Cendes, Fernando	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,563
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Brazil are in the 2026 Stanford Top 2% list?

1,510 scientists affiliated with Brazil are on the 2026 single-year list, and 1,304 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2026 single-year list, Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists from Brazil, with 282. It is followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas with 105.

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 1,510 in 2026, a change of +77.0%.

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.