Colombia's Top 2% Scientists 2022

Colombia has 81 scientists on the 2022 single-year Top 2% list, up 9.5% from 74 in 2021. That places Colombia 62nd in the world by number of listed scientists, down 3 places. Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists (10), followed by Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (6).

Single Year

+7 (+9.5%) vs 2021

Career Data

+4 (+9.5%) vs 2021

World rank by count

#62

down 3 places vs 2021

Institutes

+3 (+9.4%) vs 2021

Scientists in Colombia on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 69% 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	4,969	Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.	Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas	Microbiology	Rank 105
2	5,744	BC Béné, Christophe	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Development Studies	Rank 3
3	9,746	CB Campbell, Bruce M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Ecology	Rank 246
4	17,969	MN Muñoz, Nubia	National Cancer Institute of Colombia	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 677
5	22,865	AJ Anaya, Juan Manuel	Universidad del Rosario	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 148
6	24,010	LP Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio	Universidad de Santander	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 765
7	26,784	AP Arbeláez, Pablo	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 790
8	38,515	BS Beebe, Stephen E.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 565
9	51,292	VL Verchot, Louis V.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 331
10	53,731	GR Gutiérrez, Ruby Mejía De	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Building & Construction	Rank 282
11	58,446	GA Garces, Alejandro	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 1,256
12	58,648	FC Fauquet, Claude M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 884
13	62,851	GL Garcia, Luis	Universidad de Antioquia	Microbiology	Rank 1,496
14	68,045	RI Rao, Idupulapati M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 432
15	70,733	KV Kouznetsov, Vladimir V.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Organic Chemistry	Rank 982
16	75,578	CA Cardona Alzate, Carlos Ariel	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Chemical Engineering	Rank 492
17	88,520	SA Sanabria, Alvaro	Universidad de Antioquia	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 123
18	93,794	TR Torres-Palma, Ricardo A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,275
19	96,140	SL Silva, Luis Felipe Oliveira	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,311
20	99,204	TA Tickner, Arlene B.	Universidad del Rosario	International Relations	Rank 139
21	100,803	CO Cardona, O. D.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 168
22	101,997	PG Poveda, Germán	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 1,916
23	102,974	LM Linares-Vasquez, Mario	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Software Engineering	Rank 173
24	103,681	SO Sarmiento, Olga L.	Facultad de Medicina	Public Health	Rank 1,094
25	104,348	BN Bernal, Nicolás	Universidad Antonio Nariño	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 1,311
26	108,641	HJ Hurtado, Jorge E.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Civil Engineering	Rank 394
27	114,361	AN Alvis-Guzmán, Nelson R.	Universidad de Cartagena	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,364
28	116,447	EP Espitia, Paula J.P.	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Food Science	Rank 993
29	118,333	BL Barrero, Lope H.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,409
30	120,728	RJ Ramírez, Juan David	Universidad del Rosario	Microbiology	Rank 2,836
31	126,031	MJ Montoya-Torres, Jairo R.	Universidad de La Sabana	Operations Research	Rank 559
32	126,777	CV Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier	Universidad de la Costa	Sport Sciences	Rank 579
33	127,456	TL Taylor, Luke	Bogotá	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,515
34	132,819	FL Fajardo, Luis F.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 4,997
35	135,912	OJ Orozco, Jahir	Universidad de Antioquia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 953
36	136,393	Bonilla-Aldana, D. Katterine	Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas	Microbiology	Rank 3,209
37	138,719	RÁ Restrepo, Ángela	Corporacion para Investigaciones Biologicas	Microbiology	Rank 3,251
38	149,850	CC Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 1,771
39	155,460	BO Barbosa, Oveimar	Universidad del Tolima	Biotechnology	Rank 708
40	155,642	GF Guhl, Felipe	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Tropical Medicine	Rank 286
41	161,009	MO Montoya, Oscar Danilo	Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas	Energy	Rank 3,866
42	166,247	MJ Moreno-Piraján, Juan Carlos	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2,480
43	167,412	SM Sánchez-Silva, Mauricio	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Civil Engineering	Rank 647
44	169,501	OC Ortiz, Claudia	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Biotechnology	Rank 790
45	169,659	DV de Vries, Esther	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 6,397
46	169,664	DJ Duarte-Forero, J.	Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia	Energy	Rank 4,075
47	175,691	GH García-Perdomo, Herney Andrés	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 1,297
48	175,831	CJ Coronado, J. J.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 1,523
49	180,959	OM Oliveira, Marcos L.S.	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 2,692
50	181,180	LP Laissue, Paul	Universidad del Rosario	Genetics & Heredity	Rank 664
51	182,907	CF Cortes, Farid B.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 4,443
52	184,940	GL Giraldo, Liliana	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2,810
53	184,964	GF González, Fabio A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 4,894
54	185,161	CL Caraballo, Luis	Universidad de Cartagena	Allergy	Rank 391
55	187,869	YC Yaguna, Carlos E.	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,294
56	188,773	SE Stashenko, Elena	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 782
57	192,429	RJ Rada, Juan	Universidad de Antioquia	General Mathematics	Rank 1,074
58	192,669	MF Martinez, Fleming	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Chemical Engineering	Rank 1,462
59	196,175	ÁC Álvarez-Moreno, Carlos Arturo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina	Tropical Medicine	Rank 378
60	204,253	LM Losada, M.	Universidad Antonio Nariño	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,469
61	235,901	AN Alexander, Neal D.E.	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas	Tropical Medicine	Rank 470
62	246,734	OJ Orozco-Arroyave, Juan Rafael	Universidad de Antioquia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 6,411
63	258,304	FC Franco, Camilo A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 6,478
64	288,134	SF Stiles, F. Gary	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Ornithology	Rank 99
65	291,312	VA Viloria, Amelec	Universidad de la Costa	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 7,615
66	293,198	LK Lewandrowski, Kai Uwe	Fundación Universitaria Sanitas	Orthopedics	Rank 2,059
67	295,004	RJ Rojas, John	Universidad de Antioquia	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 2,457
68	305,360	GJ Garcia-Sucerquia, Jorge	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Optics	Rank 1,332
69	305,920	CL Colorado Lopera, Henry Alonso	Universidad de Antioquia	Materials	Rank 6,385
70	309,612	DG Díaz, Gonzalo J.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Dairy & Animal Science	Rank 1,026
71	312,591	DJ Daes, Jorge	Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Clinica Portoazul	Surgery	Rank 2,171
72	315,647	CC Cadena, Carlos Daniel	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Ornithology	Rank 108
73	335,643	Lain, Santiago	Universidad Autónoma de Occidente	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 2,868
74	347,721	GW Gil-González, Walter	Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo	Energy	Rank 8,750
75	389,858	OC Ordoñez, Carlos A.	Fundación Valle del Lili	Surgery	Rank 2,796
76	401,249	RJ Rosero, Javier A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 1,721
77	410,675	DD Delgado, Daniel Ricardo	Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia	Chemical Engineering	Rank 3,525
78	414,829	Florez, Ivan D.	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 4,392
79	428,883	PA Paternina-Caicedo, Angel	Universidad del Sinu	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 4,510
80	587,327	CJ Cardona-Arias, Jaiberth Antonio	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 6,065
81	769,830	FD Forero, Dimitri	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Zoology	Rank 549
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Colombia are in the 2022 Stanford Top 2% list?

81 scientists affiliated with Colombia are on the 2022 single-year list, and 46 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2022 single-year list, Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists from Colombia, with 10. It is followed by Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical with 6.

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 81 in 2022, a change of +68.8%.

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.