Colombia's Top 2% Scientists 2025: Career-Long List

Colombia has 78 scientists on the 2025 career-long Top 2% list, up 41.8% from 55 in 2024. That places Colombia 64th in the world by number of listed scientists. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical has the most listed scientists (9), followed by Universidad de Antioquia (9).

Single Year

128

+26 (+25.5%) vs 2024

Career Data

+23 (+41.8%) vs 2024

World rank by count

#64

No change vs 2024

Institutes

+13 (+50.0%) vs 2024

Scientists in Colombia on the list, by year

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

Career-long list, change on the previous year

2021+27.3%

2022+9.5%

2023+17.4%

2024+1.9%

2025+41.8%

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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	4,945	MN Muñoz, Nubia	Instituto Nacional de Cancerología	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 213
2	28,234	AJ Anaya, Juan Manuel	Universidad de la Costa	Immunology	Rank 919
3	28,526	BC Béné, Christophe	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Development Studies	Rank 16
4	29,282	Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.	Fundación Universitaria Autónomade las Américas	Microbiology	Rank 747
5	37,805	LP López-Jaramillo, P.	Universidad de Santander	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,494
6	40,293	RJ Radolf, Justin David	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas	Microbiology	Rank 1,019
7	46,909	RA Restrepo, Angela M.	Corporacion para Investigaciones Biologicas	Microbiology	Rank 1,189
8	52,353	MJ Moldowan, John Michael	Biomarker Technologies Inc	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 907
9	54,105	FC Fauquet, Claude Maurice	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 707
10	57,431	AP Arbeláez, Pablo	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,225
11	66,366	KK Kupferschmidt, Kai	Polines	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 835
12	70,396	QJ Quinn, John P.	International Center for Medical Research and Training	Microbiology	Rank 1,767
13	77,180	VL Verchot, Louis Vincent	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 386
14	80,023	BS Beebe, Stephen E.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,112
15	85,095	OT O'Leary, Timothy J.	Veterans Health Administration	Pathology	Rank 244
16	87,061	SL Satler, Lowell F.	MedStar Washington Hospital Center	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 2,864
17	91,236	PM Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin	Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia	Immunology	Rank 2,484
18	93,224	KV Kouznetsov, Vladímir V.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,668
19	94,035	AP Aschner, Pablo J.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,960
20	104,285	CJ Cárdenas, Juan Camilo C.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Economics	Rank 897
21	111,975	RI Rao, Idupulapati M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 585
22	119,375	BE Barrios, Edmundo	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 620
23	124,935	FR Falabella, Rafael F.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 763
24	128,869	HJ Hurtado, Jorge Eduardo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Civil Engineering	Rank 281
25	129,180	GF Guhl-Nannetti, Felipe	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Tropical Medicine	Rank 282
26	148,276	AN Alexander, Neal Douglas Edward	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas	Tropical Medicine	Rank 334
27	149,379	GL García, Luís Fernando	Universidad de Antioquia	Microbiology	Rank 3,648
28	150,017	AF Arias, Fernando	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 1,438
29	150,460	SA Sanabria, Alvaro Enrique	Universidad de Antioquia	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 452
30	153,071	RP Rozing, Pieter M.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Orthopedics	Rank 1,161
31	157,983	WE Wollenberg, Eva Lini	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,285
32	158,940	SF Stiles, F. Gary	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Ornithology	Rank 44
33	163,632	YC Yaguna, Carlos E.	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,530
34	169,507	HJ Hernández, José G.	Universidad de Antioquia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2,852
35	172,412	GA Garces-Ruiz, Alejandro	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 2,593
36	175,676	CC Cardona, Carlos Ariel	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Chemical Engineering	Rank 924
37	178,047	MD Mejía de Gutiérrez, Ruby	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Building & Construction	Rank 517
38	179,261	ML Mayer, Leonard W.	PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute	Microbiology	Rank 4,317
39	183,003	OJ Olivero-Verbel, Jesus T.V.	Universidad de Cartagena	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,539
40	184,808	GM Guido Musso, Carlos Guido	Universidad Simón Bolívar	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 1,890
41	188,031	DV de Vries, Esther	Universidad Javeriana Facultad de Medicina	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 6,868
42	194,317	GF Gonzalez, Fabio A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 4,226
43	195,776	AJ Aristizabal-Ochoa, J. Darío	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Civil Engineering	Rank 474
44	198,118	EM El-Sharkawy, Mabrouk A.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 2,941
45	202,332	FO Felipe Oliveira Silva, Luis Felipe Oliveira	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,755
46	203,618	RJ Rada, Juan	Universidad de Antioquia	General Mathematics	Rank 1,350
47	216,233	CO Cardona, Omar D.	INGENIAR: Risk Intelligence	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 273
48	221,361	GJ Garcia-Sucerquia, Jorge Iván	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Optics	Rank 897
49	227,410	FA Falconar, Andrew Keith I.	Universidad del Norte	Tropical Medicine	Rank 514
50	238,256	CJ Cock, James H.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,422
51	250,213	TR Torres-Palma, Ricardo A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 2,238
52	254,411	SE Stashenko, Elena E.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 1,132
53	264,396	MF Martinez, Fleming	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Chemical Engineering	Rank 1,480
54	269,506	AN Alvis-Guzman, Nelson Rafael	Universidad de la Costa	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 3,530
55	274,657	DG Diaz, Gonzalo J.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Dairy & Animal Science	Rank 987
56	278,655	MÁ Moncayo, Álvaro	Academia Nacional de Medicina	Tropical Medicine	Rank 657
57	279,190	SA Silveira, Antônio Carlos T.	Academia Nacional de Medicina	Tropical Medicine	Rank 658
58	285,938	MG Montoya Giraldo, Oscar Danilo	Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas	Energy	Rank 4,691
59	286,267	CJ Coronado, J. J.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 2,182
60	307,335	PM Phipps, Maureen Glennon	American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 4,055
61	314,325	TL Taylor, Luke	Bogotá	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 4,158
62	321,002	SN Saravia, Nancy Gore	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas	Tropical Medicine	Rank 748
63	331,667	LJ Lynch, John D.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Zoology	Rank 240
64	335,313	SM Sánchez-Silva, Mauricio	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Civil Engineering	Rank 952
65	357,198	PM Pardo Martínez, Clara Ines	Universidad del Rosario	Energy	Rank 6,169
66	363,650	Lain, Santiago	Universidad Autónoma de Occidente	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 2,812
67	368,193	MF Mondragón, Fanor	Universidad de Antioquia	Energy	Rank 6,386
68	378,157	OJ Orozco, Jahir A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 3,447
69	415,893	GJ Gómez-Marín, Jorge Enrique	Universidad del Quindio	Tropical Medicine	Rank 1,000
70	422,329	DI Dyner, Isaac	Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano	Energy	Rank 7,579
71	424,900	BL Barrero, Lope H.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 5,691
72	444,978	CC Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 5,984
73	453,510	CJ Carmona-Fonseca, Jaime	Universidad de Antioquia	Tropical Medicine	Rank 1,103
74	483,124	PV Pérez Vásquez, Manuel Antonio	Universidad del Sinu	Religions & Theology	Rank 187
75	513,679	GW Gil-González, Walter Julián	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 9,556
76	554,594	CJ Cardona-Arias, Jaiberth Antonio	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 7,635
77	580,616	RG Rosero García, Javier	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 2,325
78	850,017	VJ Vega, J. A.Reyes	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Energy	Rank 17,362
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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 career-long list, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical has the most listed scientists from Colombia, with 9. It is followed by Universidad de Antioquia with 9.

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

On the career-long list, Colombia went from 33 scientists in 2020 to 78 in 2025, a change of +136.4%.

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.