Colombia's Top 2% Scientists 2025

Colombia has 128 scientists on the 2025 single-year Top 2% list, up 25.5% from 102 in 2024. That places Colombia 62nd in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists (16), followed by Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia (10).

Single Year

128

+26 (+25.5%) vs 2024

Career Data

+23 (+41.8%) vs 2024

World rank by count

#62

No change vs 2024

Institutes

+11 (+27.5%) vs 2024

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%

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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%

Top 10 institutes in Colombia

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Rank in Colombia	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	3,433	BC Béné, Christophe	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Development Studies	Rank 2
2	16,473	AJ Anaya, Juan Manuel	Universidad de la Costa	Immunology	Rank 333
3	19,713	LP López-Jaramillo, P.	Universidad de Santander	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 590
4	23,845	Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.	Fundación Universitaria Autónomade las Américas	Microbiology	Rank 445
5	29,312	RN Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson Guillermo	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 140
6	32,980	AP Arbeláez, Pablo	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,454
7	33,781	MN Muñoz, Nubia	Instituto Nacional de Cancerología	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,006
8	46,868	MJ Moldowan, John Michael	Biomarker Technologies Inc	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 701
9	48,177	MG Montoya Giraldo, Oscar Danilo	Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas	Energy	Rank 1,400
10	48,572	Garzón, Juan	Universidad Católica de Oriente	Education	Rank 624
11	53,881	HJ Hernández, José G.	Universidad de Antioquia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 658
12	55,073	BE Barrios, Edmundo	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 388
13	55,333	MD Mejía de Gutiérrez, Ruby	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Building & Construction	Rank 459
14	55,847	KK Kupferschmidt, Kai	Polines	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 760
15	56,741	FO Felipe Oliveira Silva, Luis Felipe Oliveira	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,255
16	58,815	AD Armenteras, Dolors	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Ecology	Rank 1,111
17	60,927	OD Ojeda, Diana	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Geography	Rank 304
18	63,320	AP Aschner, Pablo J.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 904
19	72,467	CC Cardona, Carlos Ariel	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Chemical Engineering	Rank 580
20	72,914	VL Verchot, Louis Vincent	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 517
21	78,000	BS Beebe, Stephen E.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,209
22	78,683	SA Sanabria, Alvaro Enrique	Universidad de Antioquia	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 66
23	79,341	RF Ruiz-Jiménez, Francisco J.	Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 111
24	79,783	GA Garces-Ruiz, Alejandro	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 2,396
25	82,181	VC Velasco, Carlos	Universidad de La Sabana	Food Science	Rank 977
26	83,900	GJ Georgin, Jordana	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,939
27	86,700	BF Bessone, Fernando Oscar	Universidad del Rosario	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 899
28	88,144	WE Wollenberg, Eva Lini	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Environmental Sciences	Rank 2,049
29	88,465	YJ Yepes-Nuñez, Juan Jose	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Allergy	Rank 196
30	91,430	MJ Montoya-Torres, Jairo R.	Universidad de La Sabana	Operations Research	Rank 409
31	93,898	VF Villegas, Francisco J.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Surgery	Rank 400
32	97,498	TR Torres-Palma, Ricardo A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 2,268
33	98,302	FC Fauquet, Claude Maurice	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,584
34	102,031	RI Rao, Idupulapati M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 720
35	104,045	TL Taylor, Luke	Bogotá	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,330
36	104,591	AJ Abellán-García, Joaquín	Universidad del Norte	Building & Construction	Rank 914
37	104,655	GH García-Perdomo, Herney Andrés	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 666
38	108,948	CC Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,385
39	109,801	SP S P Franco, Dison Stracke Pfingsten	Universidad de la Costa	Chemical Engineering	Rank 945
40	111,124	CL Colorado Lopera, Henry Alonso	Universidad de Antioquia	Materials	Rank 2,494
41	111,336	KV Kouznetsov, Vladímir V.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,413
42	115,342	SO Sarmiento, Olga Lucía L.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Public Health	Rank 1,169
43	116,739	RJ Rada, Juan	Universidad de Antioquia	General Mathematics	Rank 582
44	117,061	PG Prieto, Germán A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,669
45	118,188	RJ Radolf, Justin David	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas	Microbiology	Rank 2,270
46	124,132	AN Alvis-Guzman, Nelson Rafael	Universidad de la Costa	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,543
47	132,336	MJ Moreno-Piraján, Juan Carlos	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,697
48	132,964	OJ Orozco, Jahir A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 934
49	134,411	GW Gil-González, Walter Julián	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 4,218
50	134,817	GL Giraldo, Liliana S.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,731
51	136,444	EP Espitia, P. J.P.	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Food Science	Rank 1,792
52	138,598	GL Guzman, L. A.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 504
53	139,747	OJ Osorio-Tobón, J. Felipe	Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia	Food Science	Rank 1,847
54	140,165	CO Cardona, Omar D.	INGENIAR: Risk Intelligence	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 280
55	142,174	MC Mendivil, Carlos O.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,844
56	144,508	CA Coleman-Jensen, Alisha Judith	Economic Research Service	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 892
57	148,895	GC Grande-Tovar, Carlos David	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,944
58	152,315	RA Rubiano, Andrès Mariano	Universidad El Bosque	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 6,246
59	152,705	CE Coy-Barrera, Ericsson David	Universidad Militar Nueva Granada	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,983
60	152,877	GM Guido Musso, Carlos Guido	Universidad Simón Bolívar	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 967
61	154,314	RJ Rodriguez, J. A.B.	Universidad de Antioquia	Respiratory System	Rank 909
62	164,144	LF Lopera, Francisco Javier	Universidad de Antioquia	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 6,688
63	166,091	HJ Hurtado, Jorge Eduardo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Civil Engineering	Rank 844
64	169,938	DV de Vries, Esther	Universidad Javeriana Facultad de Medicina	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 5,207
65	172,738	RA Reyes-Muñoz, Alejandro	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Microbiology	Rank 3,421
66	172,956	CA Cardona, Andrés Felipe	Science	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 5,320
67	173,231	CL Caraballo, Luis R.	Universidad de Cartagena	Allergy	Rank 331
68	181,456	PM Pulleman, Mirjam M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,363
69	181,952	VM Valdés-Tresanco, Mario S.	Universidad de Antioquia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2,446
70	182,699	OG Ospina-Tascón, Gustavo Adolfo Giraldo	Universidad Icesi	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 541
71	184,551	GF Gonzalez, Fabio A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 7,665
72	188,680	RL Reyes, Luis F.	Universidad de La Sabana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,299
73	189,333	Carrillo, Julian	Universidad Militar Nueva Granada	Civil Engineering	Rank 972
74	191,652	PS Prada, Sergio I.	Fundación Valle del Lili	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,329
75	194,924	TR Tavera Romero, Carlos Andrés	Universidad Santiago de Cali	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 8,081
76	197,733	SS Salas S., Alvaro H.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	General Mathematics	Rank 1,021
77	198,082	RO Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Juan Rafael	Universidad de Antioquia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 8,212
78	198,639	BL Barrero, Lope H.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,417
79	203,246	LM Linares-Vásquez, Mario	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Software Engineering	Rank 418
80	208,618	DF Duarte Forero, Jorge	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Energy	Rank 6,704
81	208,674	CF Cortés, Farid B.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 6,707
82	208,981	VM Villegas, María Virginia	Universidad El Bosque	Microbiology	Rank 4,103
83	216,379	OC Ortiz, Claudia Cristina	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Biotechnology	Rank 1,036
84	216,762	SJ Solarte-Toro, Juan Camilo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Biotechnology	Rank 1,041
85	218,424	SE Stashenko, Elena E.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 974
86	227,145	Florez, Ivan D.	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,692
87	231,170	DC Duque, C. A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Applied Physics	Rank 4,500
88	233,609	FC Franco, Camilo A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 7,569
89	246,145	DJ Daes, Jorge E.	Clínica Porto Azul	Surgery	Rank 1,328
90	247,597	PM Phipps, Maureen Glennon	American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,906
91	252,934	CH Ceballos, Hernán	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 4,448
92	253,540	MJ Malagón-Rojas, Jeadran N.	Instituto Nacional de Salud	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 2,969
93	257,583	GL Granda, L. N.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 3,010
94	258,363	CJ Coronado, J. J.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 2,515
95	262,108	HA Hoyos, Alfredo Ernesto	Dhara Clinic	Surgery	Rank 1,441
96	270,613	RJ Rojas, John Jairo	Universidad de Antioquia	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 2,184
97	277,843	GM González-Curbelo, Miguel Ángel	Universidad EAN	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 2,330
98	278,004	GL Grisales-Noreña, Luis Fernando	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Energy	Rank 9,038
99	281,562	AN Alexander, Neal Douglas Edward	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas	Tropical Medicine	Rank 392
100	282,835	ME Mosquera-Vargas, Edgar	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Applied Physics	Rank 5,586
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Colombia are in the 2025 Stanford Top 2% list?

128 scientists affiliated with Colombia are on the 2025 single-year list, and 78 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2025 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 10.

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 128 in 2025, a change of +166.7%.

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.