Brazil's Top 2% Scientists 2023

Brazil has 1,294 scientists on the 2023 single-year Top 2% list, up 2.5% from 1,263 in 2022. That places Brazil 25th in the world by number of listed scientists, down 3 places. Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists (244), followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (89).

Single Year

1,294

+31 (+2.5%) vs 2022

Career Data

979

+87 (+9.8%) vs 2022

World rank by count

#25

down 3 places vs 2022

Institutes

197

-2 (-1.0%) vs 2022

Scientists in Brazil on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 52% 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%

Top 10 institutes in Brazil

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Rank in Brazil	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	1,809	MC Monteiro, Carlos Augusto	Universidade de São Paulo	Public Health	Rank 20
2	1,878	VC Victora, Cesar G.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 21
3	2,924	DS dos Santos Coelho, Leandro	Universidade Federal do Parana	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 129
4	3,197	BJ Barbedo, Jayme Garcia Arnal	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 20
5	3,645	FP Fearnside, Philip M.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Ecology	Rank 101
6	3,794	SJ Siqueira, José F.	University of Grande Rio (UNIGRANRIO)	Dentistry	Rank 6
7	4,189	MJ Marengo, J. A.	Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (Cemaden)	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 68
8	4,421	TC Tsallis, Constantino	Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 27
9	4,975	HP Hallal, Pedro C.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 55
10	5,262	FN Fageria, N. K.	Embrapa Arroz e Feijão	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 32
11	6,556	CA Cunliffe, Ann L.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 172
12	7,102	AH Azeredo, Henriette Monteiro Cordeiro de	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Food Science	Rank 46
13	7,148	DF Dantas-Torres, Filipe	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 7
14	9,442	MD Malta, D. C.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Public Health	Rank 107
15	9,656	BA Brandelli, Adriano	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Food Science	Rank 68
16	10,135	MK Mousavi Khaneghah, Amin	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 69
17	11,072	CJ Calixto, João B.	Centro de Inovação e Ensaios Pré-clínicos	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 59
18	11,253	LP Lotufo, Paulo	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 385
19	11,513	ZA Zuardi, Antônio W.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 252
20	11,540	ES Esteves, Sandro C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 51
21	12,932	ZE Zanotto, Edgar Dutra	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Applied Physics	Rank 262
22	13,722	DJ Dupont, Jairton	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Organic Chemistry	Rank 177
23	14,123	HB Horta, Bernardo	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 148
24	15,839	DG Dotto, Guilherme Luiz	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Chemical Engineering	Rank 84
25	16,437	LE Lima, Eder C.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Chemical Engineering	Rank 91
26	16,722	PG Polanczyk, Guilherme V.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 346
27	17,333	TS Tufik, Sérgio	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 931
28	17,516	SF Schuch, Felipe B.	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Psychiatry	Rank 365
29	17,570	DN Durán, Nelson	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 58
30	17,847	SC Soccol, Carlos Ricardo	Universidade Federal do Parana	Biotechnology	Rank 60
31	17,941	MH Mansur, Herman S.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Materials	Rank 314
32	18,678	BI Bensenor, Isabela M.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 616
33	18,826	SR Santos, R. D.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 622
34	19,012	MC Martínez-Huitle, Carlos A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Energy	Rank 418
35	19,605	SR Santos, Robson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 654
36	20,528	BA Barros, Aluísio J.D.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 214
37	20,749	CN Consoli, Nilo Cesar	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 205
38	21,438	GR Guedes, Raul Narciso C.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Entomology	Rank 28
39	21,803	PC Pasquini, Celio	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 100
40	21,852	NM Nucci, Marcio	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Microbiology	Rank 512
41	22,001	JW Junk, Wolfgang J.	Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso	Ecology	Rank 460
42	22,056	SA Sant'Ana, Anderson S.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 182
43	22,231	AL Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e.Cruz de	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Ecology	Rank 465
44	22,534	RD Rodriguez-Amaya, Delia B.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 187
45	22,686	FE Franchini, Emerson	Universidade de São Paulo	Sport Sciences	Rank 86
46	22,782	BM Barreto, Maurício L.	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Public Health	Rank 237
47	22,799	SD Silva, Diego Augusto Santos	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Sport Sciences	Rank 87
48	23,247	FA Farah, Adriana	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 199
49	23,349	MJ Metzger, Jean Paul	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 487
50	23,382	FG Fernandes, G. W.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Ecology	Rank 488
51	23,858	LE Latrubesse, Edgardo	Universidade Federal de Goiás	Geography	Rank 117
52	24,280	BA Brunoni, André Russowsky	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 489
53	24,641	FD Ferreira, Daniel Furtado	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 167
54	24,657	GP Guimarães, Paulo R.	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 509
55	24,668	BJ Bové, Joseph Marie	Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura	Microbiology	Rank 578
56	24,895	ML Martínez, Leandro	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Chemical Physics	Rank 375
57	25,288	SM Schmidt, Maria Inês	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 452
58	25,758	FS Ferreira, Sérgio T.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 517
59	26,316	DA de Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 79
60	26,442	DA de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 905
61	26,970	SJ Sforcin, José Maurício	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 83
62	27,446	VL van Leeuwen, Piet W.N.M.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Organic Chemistry	Rank 362
63	27,450	SJ Souza, Joao P.	Universidade de São Paulo	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 143
64	27,581	WS Witkin, Steven S.	Universidade de São Paulo	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 144
65	27,596	Tavares, Luís Marcelo	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Mining & Metallurgy	Rank 11
66	28,118	AP Artaxo, Paulo	Universidade de São Paulo	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 517
67	28,432	SA Seabra, Amedea Barozzi	Universidade Federal do ABC	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 876
68	28,447	QM Queiroz, Maciel M.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 685
69	28,592	CM Correia, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 215
70	29,209	LM Labruna, Marcelo B.	Universidade de São Paulo	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 32
71	29,220	SR Schwan, Rosane F.	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Food Science	Rank 244
72	29,348	DB Duncan, Bruce B.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 522
73	29,746	AM Abdu, Mangalathayil A.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 553
74	29,805	DF DaMatta, Fábio M.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 435
75	30,002	DS De Sousa, Damião P.	Universidade Federal da Paraíba	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 149
76	30,086	AR Ambrósio, Renato	Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro	Ophthalmology & Optometry	Rank 129
77	30,752	JA Jorio, Ado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 602
78	31,125	Della Bona, Alvaro	Universidade de Passo Fundo	Dentistry	Rank 121
79	31,209	BO Berwanger, Otavio	Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 995
80	31,496	OG Olmo, Gonzalo J.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 355
81	31,632	TS Todorov, Svetoslav Dimitrov	Universidade de São Paulo	Microbiology	Rank 738
82	31,937	AC Alves, Claudianor O.	Universidade Federal de Campina Grande	General Mathematics	Rank 125
83	32,006	FF Fernandes, Fabiano A.N.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Food Science	Rank 274
84	32,323	CA Cruz, Adriano G.	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 277
85	32,625	Toledo Filho, Romildo Dias	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Building & Construction	Rank 195
86	32,668	PR Parker, Richard	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro	Public Health	Rank 351
87	32,988	MJ Martínez, J. M.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Operations Research	Rank 154
88	33,650	GJ Goldemberg, José	Universidade de São Paulo	Energy	Rank 770
89	34,026	DS de Souza, Evandro L.	Universidade Federal da Paraíba	Food Science	Rank 300
90	34,354	DG De-Deus, Gustavo	Universidade Federal Fluminense	Dentistry	Rank 136
91	34,595	GM Galetti, Mauro	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Ecology	Rank 684
92	34,601	BP Brancalion, Pedro H.S.	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 685
93	34,612	FL Fraceto, Leonardo Fernandes	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 174
94	34,716	CG Cordeiro, Gauss M.	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Statistics & Probability	Rank 196
95	34,850	DA de Azevedo, Afonso Rangel Garcez	Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense	Materials	Rank 607
96	35,124	FF Fuchs, Flávio D.	Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,101
97	35,163	GR Gregorio, Rinaldo	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Polymers	Rank 294
98	35,562	SF Scarano, Fabio R.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Ecology	Rank 701
99	35,643	PB Phalan, Benjamin T.	Centre for Conservation of Atlantic Forest Birds	Ecology	Rank 702
100	35,676	Carvalho, Marly Monteiro	Universidade de São Paulo	Operations Research	Rank 169
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Brazil are in the 2023 Stanford Top 2% list?

1,294 scientists affiliated with Brazil are on the 2023 single-year list, and 979 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2023 single-year list, Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists from Brazil, with 244. It is followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas with 89.

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 1,294 in 2023, a change of +51.7%.

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.