Brazil's Top 2% Scientists 2024

Brazil has 1,340 scientists on the 2024 single-year Top 2% list, up 3.6% from 1,294 in 2023. That places Brazil 25th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists (249), followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (96).

Single Year

1,340

+46 (+3.6%) vs 2023

Career Data

1,077

+98 (+10.0%) vs 2023

World rank by count

#25

No change vs 2023

Institutes

191

-6 (-3.0%) vs 2023

Scientists in Brazil on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 57% 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	439	VR Varma, Rajender S.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2
2	611	VG van Genuchten, Martinus Theodorus	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Environmental Engineering	Rank 1
3	1,804	MC Monteiro, Carlos Augusto	Universidade de São Paulo	Public Health	Rank 15
4	1,928	VC Victora, Cesar G.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 18
5	2,849	BJ Barbedo, Jayme Garcia Arnal	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 17
6	3,630	TC Tsallis, Constantino	Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 25
7	3,789	SJ Siqueira, José F.	Grande Rio University	Dentistry	Rank 5
8	4,243	DS dos Santos Coelho, Leandro	Universidade Federal do Parana	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 204
9	4,483	CA Cunliffe, Ann L.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 136
10	5,091	FN Fageria, N. K.	Embrapa Arroz e Feijão	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 32
11	5,303	FP Fearnside, Philip Martin	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Ecology	Rank 135
12	5,830	AH Azeredo, Henriette M.C.	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Food Science	Rank 36
13	6,614	MJ Marengo, José Antonio	Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (Cemaden)	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 114
14	7,510	DF Dantas-Torres, Filipe	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 7
15	9,565	MC Martínez-Huitle, Carlos A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Energy	Rank 226
16	10,284	ES Esteves, Sandro C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 33
17	10,636	BA Brandelli, Adriano	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Food Science	Rank 72
18	11,380	MD Malta, Deborah Carvalho	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Public Health	Rank 120
19	11,610	AI Aprahamian, Ivan	Faculty of Medicine of Jundiaí	General Chemistry	Rank 44
20	11,776	CJ Calixto, João Batista	Centro de Inovação e Ensaios Pré-Clínicos (CIEnP)	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 59
21	12,533	LE Lima, Eder C.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Chemical Engineering	Rank 65
22	12,821	ZA Zuardi, Antonio Waldo	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 277
23	13,864	LP Lotufo, Paulo A.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 438
24	14,093	DG Dotto, Guilherme Luiz	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Chemical Engineering	Rank 77
25	15,282	MH Mansur, Herman Sander	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Materials	Rank 272
26	15,462	JA Jorio, Ado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 303
27	15,825	ML Martínez, Leandro	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Chemical Physics	Rank 264
28	16,063	SC Soccol, Carlos Ricardo	Universidade Federal do Parana	Biotechnology	Rank 51
29	17,425	HB Horta, Bernardo L.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 180
30	17,653	ZE Zanotto, Edgar D.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Applied Physics	Rank 341
31	18,550	FD Ferreira, Daniel Furtado	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 119
32	18,845	DN Durán, Nelson	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 67
33	19,468	BC Barrios, Carlos H.	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 634
34	19,765	SF Schuch, Felipe Barreto	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Psychiatry	Rank 393
35	19,882	SD Silva, Diego Augusto Santos	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Sport Sciences	Rank 79
36	21,136	AC Alves, Claudianor O.	Universidade Federal de Campina Grande	General Mathematics	Rank 90
37	21,504	SR Santos, Raul D.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 670
38	21,611	QM Queiroz, Maciel M.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 611
39	23,266	BA Brunoni, Andre Russowsky	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 448
40	23,307	NS Nabavi, Seyed Fazel	Federal Institute of Education	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 70
41	23,701	NM Nucci, Marcio	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Microbiology	Rank 490
42	23,888	PG Polanczyk, Guilherme V.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 459
43	23,967	BM Barreto, Maurício L.	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Public Health	Rank 238
44	24,161	BA Barros, Aluisio J.D.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 242
45	24,169	MJ Metzger, Jean Paul	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 503
46	24,385	SR Santos, Robson Augusto Souza	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 754
47	24,409	SM Schmidt, Maria Inês	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 399
48	24,508	AL Aragão, Luiz E.O.C.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Ecology	Rank 508
49	24,702	DA de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,006
50	25,961	MH Miot, Hélio Amante	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 80
51	26,759	FS Ferreira, Sérgio T.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,310
52	26,880	FA Frank, Alejandro G.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Operations Research	Rank 120
53	27,643	BI Bensenor, Isabela M.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 832
54	27,784	PC Pasquini, Celio	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 130
55	27,926	DB Duncan, Bruce B.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 451
56	28,023	AM Abdu, M. A.	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 501
57	28,084	TL Tavares, Luís M.	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Mining & Metallurgy	Rank 9
58	28,141	JW Junk, Wolfgang J.	Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso	Ecology	Rank 580
59	28,256	FF Fuchs, Flavio D.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 853
60	28,419	BP Brancalion, Pedro H.S.	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 586
61	28,475	FL Fraceto, Leonardo F.	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Environmental Sciences	Rank 553
62	28,681	WP Wanke, Peter Fernandes	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Operations Research	Rank 129
63	28,896	TS Tufik, Sergio	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,428
64	28,942	SA Seabra, Amedea B.	Universidade Federal do ABC	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 935
65	29,155	FG Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Ecology	Rank 606
66	29,411	SA Sant'Ana, Anderson S.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 252
67	29,424	CN Consoli, Nilo Cesar	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 286
68	29,775	RD Rodriguez-Amaya, Delia B.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 259
69	29,870	GR Guedes, Raul N.C.	Universidade Federal de Vicosa	Entomology	Rank 41
70	30,444	Carvalho, Marly Monteiro	Universidade de São Paulo	Operations Research	Rank 140
71	30,560	BM Brennan, Michael J.	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Acoustics	Rank 58
72	30,867	DA de Azevedo, Afonso R.G.	Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense	Materials	Rank 563
73	31,316	BM Buzalaf, Marília Afonso Rabelo	Universidade de São Paulo	Dentistry	Rank 126
74	31,695	FO Franco, Octavio L.	Universidade Catolica Dom Bosco	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 567
75	32,341	FA Farah, Adriana	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 288
76	32,835	GM Galetti, Mauro	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Ecology	Rank 666
77	32,889	Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 106
78	33,004	RJ Rocha, Joao Batista Teixeira da	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria	Toxicology	Rank 120
79	33,034	DS de Sousa, Damião Pergentino	Universidade Federal da Paraíba	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 163
80	33,158	MJ Murray, Joseph	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Psychiatry	Rank 621
81	33,453	VL van Leeuwen, Piet W.N.M.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Organic Chemistry	Rank 409
82	33,620	CF Cendes, Fernando	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,662
83	33,943	GJ Goldemberg, José	Universidade de São Paulo	Energy	Rank 874
84	34,330	SR Schwan, Rosane Freitas	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Food Science	Rank 309
85	34,496	BJ Bové, Joseph Marie	Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura	Microbiology	Rank 718
86	34,855	WY Wang, Yuan Pang	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 640
87	35,173	ZA Zhidenko, A.	Universidade Federal do ABC	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 434
88	35,220	GM Gonzalez, Maria Cristina	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 249
89	35,418	CA Cruz, Adriano G.	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro	Food Science	Rank 320
90	35,446	DS de Souza, Evandro Leite	Universidade Federal da Paraíba	Food Science	Rank 321
91	35,547	MV Mironov, Vladimir	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 149
92	35,596	MJ Martínez, J. M.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Operations Research	Rank 165
93	35,974	AR Ambrósio, Renato	Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro	Ophthalmology & Optometry	Rank 153
94	35,990	NA Nóbrega Alves, Romulo Romeu da	Universidade Estadual da Paraiba	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 115
95	36,111	BM Bruschi, Marcos Luciano	Universidade Estadual de Maringá	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 179
96	36,380	KA Kowaltowski, Alicia J.	Universidade de São Paulo	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 653
97	36,408	CJ Crippa, Jose A.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 665
98	36,412	MG Malafaia, Guilherme	Universidade Federal de Uberlândia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 710
99	36,632	Della Bona, Alvaro	Universidade de Passo Fundo	Dentistry	Rank 157
100	36,859	SL Sarubbo, Leonie A.	Universidade Catolica de Pernambuco	Energy	Rank 942
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Brazil are in the 2024 Stanford Top 2% list?

1,340 scientists affiliated with Brazil are on the 2024 single-year list, and 1,077 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2024 single-year list, Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists from Brazil, with 249. It is followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas with 96.

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 1,340 in 2024, a change of +57.1%.

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.