Brazil's Top 2% Scientists 2026: Career-Long List

Brazil has 1,304 scientists on the 2026 career-long Top 2% list, up 9.1% from 1,195 in 2025. That places Brazil 27th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists (264), followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (99).

Single Year

1,510

+49 (+3.4%) vs 2025

Career Data

1,304

+109 (+9.1%) vs 2025

World rank by count

#27

No change vs 2025

Institutes

205

+10 (+5.1%) vs 2025

Scientists in Brazil on the list, by year

The career-long count has more than doubled since 2020.

Career-long list, change on the previous year

2021+35.3%

2022+9.9%

2023+9.8%

2024+10.0%

2025+11.0%

2026+9.1%

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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%

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Rank in Brazil	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	427	VG van Genuchten, Martinus Th.	Federal University of Rio the Janeiro	Environmental Engineering	Rank 1
2	540	VR Varma, Rajender S.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Organic Chemistry	Rank 11
3	2,039	TC Tsallis, Constantino	Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 14
4	2,226	VC Victora, Cesar Gomes	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 19
5	2,966	FP Fearnside, Philip Martin	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia	Ecology	Rank 64
6	4,203	SJ Siqueira, J. F.	Universidade Estacio de Sa	Dentistry	Rank 11
7	5,374	MC Monteiro, Carlos Augusto	Universidade de São Paulo	Public Health	Rank 46
8	7,649	CL Coelho, Leandro dos Santos	Universidade Federal do Parana	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 185
9	8,284	CJ Calixto, João Batista	Centro de Inovação e Ensaios Pré-Clínicos (CIEnP)	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 52
10	8,432	LL Lynd, Lee Rybeck	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 21
11	9,141	MJ Marengo, José António	Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (Cemaden)	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 110
12	9,263	NM Nicolelis, Miguel A.L.	AASDAP	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 750
13	9,776	VL Van Leeuwen, Piet W.N.M.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Organic Chemistry	Rank 195
14	10,052	II Izquierdo, Ivan A.	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 802
15	11,491	FN Fageria, Nanda Kumar	Embrapa Arroz e Feijão	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 40
16	14,292	CJ Cohen, Jon	Brazil's Hospital Premier	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 225
17	15,099	DF Dantas-Torres, Filipe	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 17
18	17,431	CF Cendes, Fernando	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,331
19	18,990	VL Villa, Luísa Lina	Universidade de São Paulo	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 825
20	19,286	FS Ferreira, Seérgio Henrique	Universidade de São Paulo	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 141
21	19,376	BN Berkovits, Nathan J.	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 252
22	19,684	BA Brandelli, A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Food Science	Rank 83
23	19,904	SR Santos, R. A.S.	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 850
24	19,991	Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C.	Universidade Federal do Piauí	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 159
25	20,921	FR Fischer, Ronald	Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino	Social Psychology	Rank 253
26	22,925	ZE Zanotto, E. D.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Applied Physics	Rank 519
27	23,182	KL Kowalski, Luiz Paulo	Universidade de São Paulo	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 25
28	24,096	LC Louise Cunliffe, Ann L.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 268
29	24,145	LP Lotufo, Paulo A.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 977
30	24,224	PR Parker, Richard G.	Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW)	Public Health	Rank 229
31	24,661	DS de Souza, W. D.	Universidade do Estado do Amazonas	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 34
32	25,314	UD Ugarte, Daniel	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Applied Physics	Rank 587
33	25,413	RA Rodriguez Amaya, Delia B.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Food Science	Rank 114
34	25,535	GF Graeff, F. G.	Universidade de São Paulo	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,873
35	25,753	BA Barros, Aluisio J.D.	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 246
36	26,494	DA de Azeredo, Henriette Monteiro Cordeiro	Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa	Food Science	Rank 120
37	27,017	NM Nucci, Márcio Luiz Moore	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Microbiology	Rank 674
38	27,761	GJ Goldemberg, Jóse	Universidade de São Paulo	Energy	Rank 345
39	27,875	MJ Metzger, Jean Paul	Universidade de São Paulo	Ecology	Rank 505
40	28,213	JA Jório, Ado	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Applied Physics	Rank 659
41	28,668	BM Barreto, Mauricio L.	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Public Health	Rank 270
42	28,755	BJ Bové, Joseph Marie	Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura	Microbiology	Rank 729
43	29,176	TS Tufik, Sergio Brasil	Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa (AFIP)	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,101
44	29,177	EH Eckert, Hellmut G.	Universidade de São Paulo	Chemical Physics	Rank 609
45	29,456	BJ Barbedo, Jayme G.A.	Embrapa Agricultura Digital	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 135
46	29,800	ES Esteves, Sandro C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 238
47	30,043	DJ Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre Felizola Alexandre Felizola	Universidade Federal de Goiás	Ecology	Rank 546
48	30,098	ZA Zuardi, A. W.	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico E Tecnologico Cnpq	Psychiatry	Rank 688
49	30,346	GR Gazzinelli, Ricardo T.	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Immunology	Rank 937
50	30,421	RJ Rocha, Joao Batista Teixeira Da	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Toxicology	Rank 123
51	30,440	IT Iwasita, Teresa	Universidade de São Paulo	Energy	Rank 390
52	30,707	SN Sousa, Nuno Jorge Carvalho	Centro Universitário Max Planck	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,204
53	30,926	GJ Geromel, Josè C.	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 253
54	32,213	WB Wajchenberg, Bernardo Léo	Universidade de São Paulo	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 746
55	32,805	MC Martínez-Huitle, Carlos A.	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Energy	Rank 423
56	32,887	DN Durán, Nelson Eduardo	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Biotechnology	Rank 85
57	33,517	SC Soccol, Carlos Ricardo	Universidade Federal do Parana	Biotechnology	Rank 90
58	33,794	LY Levin, Yan	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 275
59	34,233	VA Varandas, António J.C.	Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo	Chemical Physics	Rank 702
60	34,587	KA Kowaltowski, Alicia Juliana	Universidade de São Paulo	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 1,344
61	34,818	WB Welz, Bernhard	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 209
62	35,096	Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 102
63	35,489	DV Dodonov, Viktor V.	Universidade de Brasília	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 289
64	35,662	DS De Souza, Carlos E.	Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Petropolis	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 293
65	35,773	Herdeiro, Carlos A.R.	Universidade Federal do Pará	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 519
66	36,005	CJ Coura, José Rodrigues	Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz	Tropical Medicine	Rank 60
67	36,210	BM Brennan, Michael John	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Acoustics	Rank 67
68	36,628	MH Mansur, Herman Sander	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Materials	Rank 479
69	36,813	FJ Frenkel, Jacob Karl	Universidade Federal de Uberlândia	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 54
70	37,550	AP Artaxo, Paulo Eduardo	Universidade de São Paulo	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 573
71	37,796	SJ Squire, Jeremy Andrew	Universidade de São Paulo	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,635
72	37,845	LM Labruna, Marcelo Bahia	Universidade de São Paulo	Mycology & Parasitology	Rank 56
73	37,863	SR Santos, Raul D.	Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,484
74	38,022	EM Eberlin, M. N.	Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 235
75	38,545	SF Sharipov, Felix M.	Universidade Federal do Parana	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 310
76	38,954	TA Tacon, Albert G.J.	Universidade de São Paulo	Fisheries	Rank 68
77	39,328	MO Malta, Oscar L.	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Applied Physics	Rank 925
78	39,801	FG Fernandes, G. Wilson	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Ecology	Rank 721
79	40,071	AM Abdu, Mangalathayil Ali	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 608
80	40,400	DJ Dórea, José Garrofe	Universidade de Brasília	Toxicology	Rank 164
81	41,458	GM Galetti, Mauro	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	Ecology	Rank 745
82	41,616	BI Bensenor, Isabela M.	Universidade de São Paulo	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,602
83	42,485	DJ Dias, João Carlos Pinto	Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas (INI)	Tropical Medicine	Rank 70
84	42,654	TW Terra, Walter Ribeiro	Universidade de São Paulo	Entomology	Rank 70
85	42,759	TS Todorov, S. D.	Universidade de São Paulo	Microbiology	Rank 1,072
86	44,221	FO Franco, Octavio Luiz	Universidade Católica de Brasília	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 1,651
87	44,382	AC Alves, Claudianor Oliveira	Universidade Federal de Campina Grande	General Mathematics	Rank 177
88	45,068	MJ Martínez, José Mario	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Operations Research	Rank 148
89	45,242	HB Horta, Bernardo Lessa	Universidade Federal de Pelotas	Public Health	Rank 438
90	45,265	OG Olmo, Gonzalo J.	Universidade Federal do Ceará	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 673
91	45,895	CM Carvalho Malta, Deborah Carvalho	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Public Health	Rank 442
92	46,086	BR Boddey, Robert Michael	Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 223
93	46,424	PG Polanczyk, Guilherme V.	Universidade de São Paulo	Psychiatry	Rank 956
94	47,384	PC Pasquini, Celio	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 304
95	47,987	AS Adhikari, Sadhan K.	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho	General Physics	Rank 295
96	48,044	SR Schwan, Rosane Freitas	Universidade Federal de Lavras	Food Science	Rank 258
97	48,391	RV Rocha, Vanderson G.	Universidade de São Paulo	Immunology	Rank 1,397
98	48,704	FB Flynn, Barbara B.	Fundacao Getulio Vargas	Business & Management	Rank 558
99	50,114	VH Vasconcelos, H. L.	Universidade Federal de Uberlândia	Ecology	Rank 885
100	50,189	DS de Souza Mourão, Paulo Antônio	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 1,858
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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 career-long list, Universidade de São Paulo has the most listed scientists from Brazil, with 264. It is followed by Universidade Estadual de Campinas with 99.

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

On the career-long list, Brazil went from 600 scientists in 2020 to 1,304 in 2026, a change of +117.3%.

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.