Brazil's Top 2% Scientists 2020

Brazil has 853 scientists on the 2020 single-year Top 2% list. That places Brazil 26th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP has the most listed scientists (156), followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (56).

Single Year

853

First year listed

Career Data

600

First year listed

World rank by count

#26

First year listed

Institutes

152

First year listed

Scientists in Brazil on the list, by year

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	407	VG van Genuchten, Martinus Theodorus	UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista	Environmental Engineering	Rank 1
2	1,511	VC Victora, Cesar G.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 16
3	2,239	GA Gandini, Alessandro	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Polymers	Rank 13
4	2,524	TC Tsallis, Constantino	Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 29
5	3,171	FP Fearnside, Philip Martin	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Ecology	Rank 107
6	3,526	MC Monteiro, Carlos Augusto	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Public Health	Rank 36
7	3,790	DS dos Santos Coelho, Leandro	Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 134
8	4,324	MJ Marengo, José Antonio	Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN)	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 73
9	5,572	SJ Siqueira, José F.	Iguaçu University	Dentistry	Rank 13
10	6,866	FN Fageria, N. K.	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 29
11	7,437	CA Cunliffe, Ann L.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 190
12	7,609	DJ Dupont, Jairton	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Organic Chemistry	Rank 129
13	8,496	VN Van Noorden, Richard	-	Nursing	Rank 9
14	8,950	DF Dantas-Torres, Filipe	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 9
15	10,231	CJ Calixto, João B.	Centro de Inovação e Ensaios Pré-clínicos	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 51
16	10,266	DA de Azeredo, Henriette Monteiro Cordeiro	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Food Science	Rank 51
17	11,623	MC Martínez-Huitle, Carlos A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Energy	Rank 219
18	12,918	ZA Zuardi, Antônio W.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Psychiatry	Rank 302
19	14,580	DN Durán, Nelson	Universidade Federal do ABC	Biotechnology	Rank 45
20	16,166	MH Mansur, H. S.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Materials	Rank 290
21	16,237	RW Rössler, Wulf	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Psychiatry	Rank 373
22	16,786	BA Brandelli, Adriano	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Food Science	Rank 80
23	16,828	ZE Zanotto, Edgar D.	Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos	Applied Physics	Rank 382
24	17,850	MJ Metzger, Jean Paul	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Ecology	Rank 432
25	18,224	HP Hallal, Pedro C.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 180
26	18,723	ES Esteves, Sandro C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 82
27	19,220	JA Jorio, Ado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 426
28	19,284	BJ Barbedo, Jayme Garcia Arnal	Embrapa Agricultural Informatics	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 99
29	19,583	DJ Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre F.	Universidade Federal de Goias	Ecology	Rank 473
30	20,877	PG Polanczyk, Guilherme V.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Psychiatry	Rank 458
31	21,371	BA Barros, Aluisio	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 211
32	24,190	GJ Goldemberg, José	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Energy	Rank 491
33	24,439	PC Pasquini, Celio	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 114
34	24,771	FD Ferreira, Daniel Furtado	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 142
35	24,774	RJ Rocha, João B.T.	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Toxicology	Rank 98
36	24,845	BK Bakke, K.	Universidade Federal da Paraiba	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 255
37	25,105	TS Tufik, Sergio	Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,465
38	25,181	GM Galetti, Mauro	UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista	Ecology	Rank 567
39	25,198	BI Benseñor, Isabela M.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 732
40	25,200	LP Lotufo, Paulo A.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 733
41	25,750	MJ Martínez, J. M.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Operations Research	Rank 132
42	26,289	JW Junk, W. J.	Instituto Nacional de Cincia e Tecnologia em reas midas (INCT-INAU-UFMT)	Ecology	Rank 593
43	26,338	GA Grimm, Alice M.	Universidade Federal do Parana	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 490
44	26,439	GR Gregorio, Rinaldo	Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos	Polymers	Rank 239
45	27,000	BM Brennan, Michael J.	UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista	Acoustics	Rank 60
46	27,580	VP Vasconcelos, Pedro Fernando da Costa	Instituto Evandro Chagas	Tropical Medicine	Rank 27
47	27,709	MD Malta, Deborah Carvalho	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Public Health	Rank 295
48	27,838	AP Artaxo, Paulo	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 524
49	28,337	SJ Souza, João Paulo	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 142
50	28,727	Farah, Adriana	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 155
51	28,939	MJ Murray, Joseph	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Criminology	Rank 64
52	29,191	BA Brunoni, Andre R.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Psychiatry	Rank 593
53	29,346	CN Consoli, Nilo Cesar	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 239
54	29,973	GR Guedes, Raul Narciso C.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Entomology	Rank 43
55	30,040	SR Schwan, Rosane Freitas	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Food Science	Rank 171
56	30,368	NM Nucci, Marcio	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Microbiology	Rank 631
57	30,369	RD Rodriguez-Amaya, Delia B.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 175
58	30,444	II Izquierdo, Ivan	Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,754
59	30,501	CA Cruz, Adriano G.	Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 176
60	30,627	PB Phalan, Benjamin T.	Universidade Federal da Bahia	Ecology	Rank 672
61	30,783	FG Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Ecology	Rank 675
62	30,959	PM Pimenta, Marcos A.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 668
63	31,023	Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 92
64	31,889	Tavares, Luís Marcelo	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Mining & Metallurgy	Rank 16
65	32,011	SC Soccol, Carlos Ricardo	Universidade Federal do Parana	Biotechnology	Rank 102
66	32,131	SR Santos, Robson Augusto Souza	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 931
67	32,140	SR Santos, Raul D.	Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 932
68	32,322	FF Fernandes, Fabiano A.N.	Universidade Federal do Ceara	Food Science	Rank 191
69	32,438	SM Schmidt, Maria I.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 617
70	32,695	HB Horta, Bernardo	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 357
71	33,105	AR Alves, Rômulo R.N.	Universidade Estadual da Paraiba	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 98
72	34,327	YM Yacoub, Michel Daoud	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 360
73	34,829	MR Muradian, Roldan	Universidade Federal Fluminense	Agricultural Economics & Policy	Rank 50
74	34,965	FS Ferreira, Sérgio L.C.	Universidade Federal da Bahia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 212
75	35,362	BD Blanchard, D. Caroline	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,015
76	35,695	CC Cruz, Cosme Damião	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 207
77	36,420	GM Gonzalez, Maria Cristina	Universidade Catolica de Pelotas	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 266
78	36,494	BM Barreto, M.	Universidade Federal da Bahia	Public Health	Rank 406
79	36,809	MC M. Carvalho, Marly	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Operations Research	Rank 207
80	36,977	CJ Coura, José Rodrigues	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Tropical Medicine	Rank 41
81	37,063	AM Abdu, Mangalathayil Ali	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 697
82	37,438	DF DaMatta, Fábio M.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 487
83	38,097	PR Parker, Richard G.	Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA)	Public Health	Rank 424
84	38,165	LM Labruna, Marcelo B.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 43
85	38,281	AM Araújo, Mauricio G.	Universidade Estadual de Maringa	Dentistry	Rank 139
86	38,294	PM Pimentel, Márcio M.	Universidade de Brasília	Geology	Rank 58
87	38,474	CJ Crippa, Jose	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Psychiatry	Rank 730
88	39,168	WP Wanke, Peter	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Operations Research	Rank 217
89	40,014	FC Ferri, Cleusa P.	Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 423
90	40,029	TS Todorov, Svetoslav Dimitrov	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Microbiology	Rank 846
91	40,205	EH Eckert, Hellmut	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 172
92	40,240	LE Lima, Eder C.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 258
93	40,269	GE Ghisi, Enedir	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Building & Construction	Rank 197
94	41,100	KL Kowalski, Luiz Paulo	A.C.Camargo Cancer Center	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 42
95	41,176	BP Boggio, Paulo Sérgio	Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,330
96	41,201	KA Kowaltowski, Alicia J.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 793
97	41,252	DB Duncan, Bruce B.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 764
98	41,288	PR Pardini, Renata	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Ecology	Rank 882
99	41,404	FG Figueiredo, Giovany M.	Universidade de Brasília	General Mathematics	Rank 182
100	41,925	GG Garlet, Gustavo P.	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Dentistry	Rank 155
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Brazil are in the 2020 Stanford Top 2% list?

853 scientists affiliated with Brazil are on the 2020 single-year list, and 600 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2020 single-year list, Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP has the most listed scientists from Brazil, with 156. It is followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas with 56.

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.