Colombia's Top 2% Scientists 2026

Colombia has 135 scientists on the 2026 single-year Top 2% list, up 5.5% from 128 in 2025. That places Colombia 63rd in the world by number of listed scientists, down 1 place. Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists (16), followed by Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia (12).

Single Year

135

+7 (+5.5%) vs 2025

Career Data

+3 (+3.8%) vs 2025

World rank by count

#63

down 1 place vs 2025

Institutes

+5 (+9.8%) vs 2025

Scientists in Colombia on the list, by year

The single-year count has more than doubled since 2020.

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+54.2%

2022+9.5%

2023+18.5%

2024+6.2%

2025+25.5%

2026+5.5%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	48		33
2021	74	+54.2%	42	+27.3%
2022	81	+9.5%	46	+9.5%
2023	96	+18.5%	54	+17.4%
2024	102	+6.2%	55	+1.9%
2025	128	+25.5%	78	+41.8%
2026	135	+5.5%	81	+3.8%

Top 10 institutes in Colombia

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Rank in Colombia	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	18,775	LP López-Jaramillo, P.	Universidad de Santander	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 581
2	27,165	RN Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson Guillermo	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 121
3	27,618	Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.	Fundación Universitaria Autónomade las Américas	Microbiology	Rank 520
4	31,671	AP Arbeláez, Pablo Andrés	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,541
5	33,459	MN Muñoz, Nubia	Instituto Nacional de Cancerología	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 995
6	34,131	AJ Anaya, Juan Manuel	Universidad de la Costa	Immunology	Rank 623
7	34,673	Garzón, Juan	Universidad Católica de Oriente	Education	Rank 500
8	41,749	MG Montoya Giraldo, Oscar Danilo	Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas	Energy	Rank 1,211
9	42,021	HJ Hernández, José G.	Universidad de Antioquia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 464
10	44,203	GL Guzman, L. A.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 161
11	46,592	BE Barrios, Edmundo	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 329
12	52,519	OD Ojeda, Diana	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Geography	Rank 279
13	52,839	BS Beebe, Stephen E.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 814
14	54,542	VL Verchot, Louis Vincent	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 394
15	63,523	AJ Abellán-García, Joaquín	Universidad del Norte	Building & Construction	Rank 569
16	64,530	GJ Georgin, Jordana	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,441
17	69,942	MC Mendivil, Carlos O.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 979
18	71,919	FO Felipe Oliveira Silva, Luis Felipe Oliveira	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,618
19	73,076	AP Aschner, Pablo J.	Hospital Universitario San Ignacio	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,019
20	74,326	BJ Buendia, Jefferson Antonio	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,052
21	74,649	LD Lindsay, D. Stephen	University of Victoria	Experimental Psychology	Rank 823
22	78,051	CL Colorado Lopera, Henry Alonso	Universidad de Antioquia	Materials	Rank 1,761
23	80,063	CC Cardona, Carlos Ariel	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Chemical Engineering	Rank 680
24	80,308	RF Ruiz-Jiménez, Francisco J.	Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 119
25	80,558	MD Mejía de Gutiérrez, Ruby	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Building & Construction	Rank 732
26	83,341	MJ Montoya-Torres, Jairo R.	Universidad de La Sabana	Operations Research	Rank 331
27	84,386	YJ Yepes-Nuñez, Juan Jose	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Allergy	Rank 169
28	86,213	MJ Mesa, Jaime Alberto	Universidad del Norte	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,951
29	86,308	GH García-Perdomo, Herney Andrés	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 541
30	87,470	SA Sanabria, Alvaro Enrique	CEXCA Centro de Excelencia en Enfermedades de Cabeza y Cuello	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 74
31	89,082	AN Alvis-Guzman, Nelson Rafael	Universidad de la Costa	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,214
32	89,526	SM Smith, Malcolm A.	Instituto Nacional de Cancerología	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,718
33	91,498	OJ Osorio-Tobón, J. Felipe	Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia	Food Science	Rank 1,211
34	91,537	TL Taylor, Luke	Bogotá	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,245
35	91,981	GA Garces-Ruiz, Alejandro	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 2,792
36	97,269	RJ Rada, Juan	Universidad de Antioquia	General Mathematics	Rank 462
37	97,467	FD Franco, Dison Stracke Pfingsten	Universidad de la Costa	Chemical Engineering	Rank 863
38	99,439	VH Vargas-Uricoechea, Hernando	Universidad del Cauca	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,353
39	102,857	SO Sarmiento, Olga Lucía L.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Public Health	Rank 1,037
40	104,460	VA Valencia-Arias, Alejandro	Institucion Universitaria ITM	Education	Rank 1,448
41	105,626	BT Brady, Tammy M.	Children's National Hospital	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 2,498
42	106,451	RL Reyes, Luis F.	Universidad de La Sabana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,431
43	110,224	CE Coy-Barrera, Ericsson David	Universidad Militar Nueva Granada	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,319
44	110,401	CC Castaneda-Orjuela, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,485
45	110,560	FC Fauquet, Claude Maurice	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,873
46	113,501	PG Prieto, Germán A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,519
47	113,615	RO Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Juan Rafael	Universidad de Antioquia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 5,229
48	113,709	TR Torres-Palma, Ricardo A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 2,644
49	119,355	GC Grande-Tovar, Carlos David	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,453
50	120,133	KK Kupferschmidt, Kai	Polines	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,628
51	121,334	KV Kouznetsov, Vladímir V.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,486
52	122,786	RI Rao, Idupulapati M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 921
53	123,879	DJ Daes, Jorge E.	Carrera 50 No 79-223 PH B	Surgery	Rank 522
54	126,944	LF Lopera, Francisco Javier	Universidad de Antioquia	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 5,083
55	133,335	CL Caraballo, Luis R.	Universidad de Cartagena	Allergy	Rank 248
56	134,244	CO Cardona, Omar D.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 254
57	135,745	BL Barrero, Lope H.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,827
58	136,009	AA Abdulai, Abdul Rahim	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,020
59	138,843	RA Rubiano, Andrés M.	Universidad El Bosque	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 5,540
60	139,819	AJ Arellana, Julian Alberto	Universidad del Norte	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 523
61	140,895	PJ Pino-Ortega, J.	National Pedagogical University	Sport Sciences	Rank 647
62	141,358	PJ Portilla, Jaime	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,747
63	144,431	GW Gil-González, Walter Julián	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 4,545
64	144,498	OJ Orozco, Jahir A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 997
65	148,727	MJ Moreno-Piraján, Juan Carlos	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,851
66	149,052	GR González-Hernández, Rafael J.	Universidad del Norte	Applied Physics	Rank 2,683
67	154,360	GL Giraldo, Liliana S.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,935
68	158,322	RA Reyes-Muñoz, Alejandro	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Microbiology	Rank 3,010
69	158,533	Florez, Ivan D.	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,087
70	161,824	GM Guido Musso, Carlos Guido	Universidad Simón Bolívar	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 996
71	182,575	GM Govindaraj, Mahalingam	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 3,215
72	188,604	CA Cardona, Andrés Felipe	Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Cancer Treatment and Research Center (CTIC)	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 5,803
73	190,892	CA Cortés, Andrés J.	Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, AGROSAVIA	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 3,374
74	191,307	FC Firacative, Carolina	Universidad del Rosario	Microbiology	Rank 3,637
75	191,985	SJ Solarte-Toro, Juan Camilo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Biotechnology	Rank 845
76	192,640	PS Prada, Sergio I.	Fundación Valle del Lili	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,471
77	194,603	BV Bermúdez, Valmore José	Universidad Simón Bolivar, Cúcuta	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 4,230
78	199,680	YC Yaguna, Carlos E.	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,274
79	201,438	CC Calderón, Carlos A.	Universidad del Rosario	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 1,588
80	201,813	RR Remans, Roseline	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,589
81	202,276	Carrillo, Julian	Universidad Militar Nueva Granada	Civil Engineering	Rank 1,152
82	203,426	SE Stashenko, Elena E.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 943
83	203,618	GD Godoy, Daniel Agustín	Meditech Foundation	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 7,988
84	203,714	SS Salas S., Alvaro H.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	General Mathematics	Rank 1,048
85	206,444	DV de Vries, Esther	Universidad Javeriana Facultad de Medicina	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 6,404
86	210,223	EJ Escorcia-Gutierrez, José	Universidad de la Costa	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 9,400
87	213,093	PM Palencia, Manuel S.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Polymers	Rank 2,264
88	214,383	PM Pulleman, Mirjam M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,687
89	219,177	AH Arguello, Henry Fuentes	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 9,810
90	219,775	GL Grisales-Noreña, Luis Fernando	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Energy	Rank 7,163
91	222,894	AC Ardila, Carlos Martin	Universidad de Antioquia	Dentistry	Rank 1,052
92	224,209	VM Villegas, María Virginia	Universidad El Bosque	Microbiology	Rank 4,292
93	224,399	CF Cortés, Farid B.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 7,347
94	232,157	LM Linares-Vásquez, Mario	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Software Engineering	Rank 443
95	232,704	RL Rodriguez-Villamizar, Laura A.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Toxicology	Rank 879
96	233,474	CJ Cock, James H.	Alliance Biodiversity and CIAT	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,855
97	234,693	ME Mosquera-Vargas, Edgar Eduardo	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Applied Physics	Rank 4,368
98	239,741	OL Ortiz López, Claudia C.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Biotechnology	Rank 1,093
99	242,155	FC Franco, Camilo A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 8,004
100	244,351	RD Rosselli, Diego A.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Health Policy & Services	Rank 517
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Frequently asked questions

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

135 scientists affiliated with Colombia are on the 2026 single-year list, and 81 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2026 single-year list, Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists from Colombia, with 16. It is followed by Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia with 12.

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

On the single-year list, Colombia went from 48 scientists in 2020 to 135 in 2026, a change of +181.2%.

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.