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

Colombia has 81 scientists on the 2026 career-long Top 2% list, up 3.8% from 78 in 2025. That places Colombia 65th in the world by number of listed scientists, down 1 place. Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists (10), followed by Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (7).

Single Year

135

+7 (+5.5%) vs 2025

Career Data

+3 (+3.8%) vs 2025

World rank by count

#65

down 1 place vs 2025

Institutes

+1 (+2.6%) vs 2025

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%

2026+3.8%

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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%
2026	135	+5.5%	81	+3.8%

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Rank in Colombia	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	5,424	MN Muñoz, Nubia	Instituto Nacional de Cancerología	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 226
2	27,334	Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.	Fundación Universitaria Autónomade las Américas	Microbiology	Rank 685
3	27,551	AJ Anaya, Juan Manuel	Universidad de la Costa	Immunology	Rank 876
4	28,560	SM Smith, Malcolm A.	Instituto Nacional de Cancerología	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,243
5	34,699	LD Lindsay, D. Stephen	University of Victoria	Experimental Psychology	Rank 472
6	35,217	LP López-Jaramillo, P.	Universidad de Santander	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,386
7	49,537	RA Restrepo, Angela M.	Corporacion para Investigaciones Biologicas	Microbiology	Rank 1,236
8	54,596	AP Arbeláez, Pablo Andrés	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,256
9	55,137	FC Fauquet, Claude Maurice	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 723
10	67,174	KK Kupferschmidt, Kai	Polines	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 861
11	75,655	BS Beebe, Stephen E.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,054
12	76,872	VL Verchot, Louis Vincent	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 395
13	89,666	AP Aschner, Pablo J.	Hospital Universitario San Ignacio	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,836
14	90,341	OT O'Leary, Timothy J.	Veterans Health Administration	Pathology	Rank 257
15	91,572	KV Kouznetsov, Vladímir V.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Organic Chemistry	Rank 1,616
16	96,196	PM Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin	Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia	Immunology	Rank 2,549
17	103,970	CJ Cárdenas, Juan Camilo C.	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Economics	Rank 907
18	108,842	BE Barrios, Edmundo	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 580
19	111,544	RI Rao, Idupulapati M.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 591
20	129,197	FR Falabella, Rafael F.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 776
21	131,490	HJ Hurtado, Jorge Eduardo	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Civil Engineering	Rank 306
22	135,456	GF Guhl-Nannetti, Felipe	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Tropical Medicine	Rank 298
23	138,467	SA Sanabria, Alvaro Enrique	CEXCA Centro de Excelencia en Enfermedades de Cabeza y Cuello	Otorhinolaryngology	Rank 393
24	148,208	HJ Hernández, José G.	Universidad de Antioquia	Organic Chemistry	Rank 2,461
25	157,868	SF Stiles, F. Gary	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Ornithology	Rank 39
26	159,167	YC Yaguna, Carlos E.	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,439
27	159,725	GA Garces-Ruiz, Alejandro	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 2,462
28	161,543	WE Wollenberg, Eva Lini	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,404
29	161,592	AF Arias, Fernando	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 1,504
30	161,999	RP Rozing, Pieter M.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Orthopedics	Rank 1,221
31	170,981	CC Cardona, Carlos Ariel	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Chemical Engineering	Rank 912
32	171,604	MD Mejía de Gutiérrez, Ruby	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Building & Construction	Rank 536
33	179,493	OJ Olivero-Verbel, Jesus T.V.	Universidad de Cartagena	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,591
34	179,518	GM Guido Musso, Carlos Guido	Universidad Simón Bolívar	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 1,806
35	188,537	ML Mayer, Leonard W.	PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute	Microbiology	Rank 4,470
36	188,841	RJ Rada, Juan	Universidad de Antioquia	General Mathematics	Rank 1,225
37	190,350	FO Felipe Oliveira Silva, Luis Felipe Oliveira	Universidad de la Costa	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,717
38	194,248	DV de Vries, Esther	Universidad Javeriana Facultad de Medicina	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 7,038
39	194,369	AJ Aristizabal-Ochoa, J. Darío	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Civil Engineering	Rank 493
40	198,209	GF Gonzalez, Fabio A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 4,595
41	207,868	CO Cardona, Omar D.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 264
42	208,105	EM El-Sharkawy, Mabrouk A.	Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 3,100
43	209,952	LM Linares-Vásquez, Mario	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Software Engineering	Rank 483
44	223,130	MG Montoya Giraldo, Oscar Danilo	Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas	Energy	Rank 3,624
45	223,738	GJ Garcia-Sucerquia, Jorge Iván	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Optics	Rank 875
46	229,231	CJ Cock, James H.	Alliance Biodiversity and CIAT	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 1,365
47	238,003	FA Falconar, Andrew Keith I.	Universidad del Norte	Tropical Medicine	Rank 533
48	247,924	TR Torres-Palma, Ricardo A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 2,359
49	256,679	AN Alvis-Guzman, Nelson Rafael	Universidad de la Costa	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 3,351
50	259,026	SE Stashenko, Elena E.	Universidad Industrial de Santander	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 1,154
51	263,721	MF Martinez, Fleming	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Chemical Engineering	Rank 1,516
52	280,150	DG Diaz, Gonzalo J.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Dairy & Animal Science	Rank 999
53	283,121	CJ Coronado, J. J.	Universidad del Valle, Cali	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 2,169
54	289,975	SA Silveira, Antônio Carlos T.	Academia Nacional de Medicina	Tropical Medicine	Rank 663
55	290,538	TL Taylor, Luke	Bogotá	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 3,815
56	290,902	MÁ Moncayo, Álvaro	Academia Nacional de Medicina	Tropical Medicine	Rank 665
57	294,133	OJ Orozco, Jahir A.	Universidad de Antioquia	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 2,518
58	294,418	DV Darío Vélez, Iván Darió B.	Universidad de Antioquia	Tropical Medicine	Rank 672
59	316,974	SF Sánchez, Francisco Javier	Universidad de los Llanos	Fisheries	Rank 1,069
60	318,987	SM Sánchez-Silva, Mauricio	Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia	Civil Engineering	Rank 954
61	331,623	LJ Lynch, John D.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Zoology	Rank 235
62	342,339	SS Salas S., Alvaro H.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales	General Mathematics	Rank 2,691
63	346,462	Lain, Santiago	Universidad Autónoma de Occidente	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 2,701
64	356,255	PM Pardo Martínez, Clara Ines	Universidad del Rosario	Energy	Rank 6,443
65	366,372	MF Mondragón, Fanor	Universidad de Antioquia	Energy	Rank 6,677
66	409,982	BL Barrero, Lope H.	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 5,456
67	411,897	GJ Gómez-Marín, Jorge Enrique	Universidad del Quindio	Tropical Medicine	Rank 969
68	418,156	Carrillo, Julian	Universidad Militar Nueva Granada	Civil Engineering	Rank 1,341
69	421,852	CC Castaneda-Orjuela, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 5,632
70	424,284	CL Colorado Lopera, Henry Alonso	Universidad de Antioquia	Materials	Rank 7,181
71	424,438	GW Gil-González, Walter Julián	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira	Energy	Rank 7,989
72	425,531	DI Dyner, Isaac	Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano	Energy	Rank 8,020
73	448,739	BJ Buendia, Jefferson Antonio	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 5,984
74	456,005	CF Cortés, Farid B.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 8,671
75	471,228	PV Pérez Vásquez, Manuel Antonio	Universidad del Sinu	Religions & Theology	Rank 202
76	475,833	CJ Carmona-Fonseca, Jaime	Universidad de Antioquia	Tropical Medicine	Rank 1,152
77	511,956	FC Franco, Camilo A.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellin	Energy	Rank 9,939
78	524,299	CJ Cardona-Arias, Jaiberth Antonio	Universidad de Antioquia	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 7,090
79	550,498	AJ Abellán-García, Joaquín	Universidad del Norte	Building & Construction	Rank 2,137
80	610,411	RG Rosero García, Javier	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 2,470
81	611,574	MH Marcuse, Herbert	Institute for Social Research	Literary Studies	Rank 331
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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 career-long list, Universidad de Antioquia has the most listed scientists from Colombia, with 10. It is followed by Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical with 7.

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 81 in 2026, a change of +145.5%.

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.