Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2025

Mexico has 415 scientists on the 2025 single-year Top 2% list, up 9.5% from 379 in 2024. That places Mexico 42nd in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (54), followed by Tecnológico de Monterrey (31).

Single Year

415

+36 (+9.5%) vs 2024

Career Data

420

+36 (+9.4%) vs 2024

World rank by count

#42

No change vs 2024

Institutes

135

+22 (+19.5%) vs 2024

Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 37% since 2020.

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+20.1%

2022+0.3%

2023-2.7%

2024+6.8%

2025+9.5%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	303		291
2021	364	+20.1%	342	+17.5%
2022	365	+0.3%	330	-3.5%
2023	355	-2.7%	352	+6.7%
2024	379	+6.8%	384	+9.1%
2025	415	+9.5%	420	+9.4%

Top 10 institutes in Mexico

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Rank in Mexico	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	888	CC Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 57
2	5,883	SG Santoyo, Gustavo	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Microbiology	Rank 93
3	6,218	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 161
4	6,823	CJ Crossa, José Luis	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 69
5	6,926	Iqbal, Hafiz M.N.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Environmental Sciences	Rank 142
6	8,104	HB Husted, Bryan W.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 245
7	8,127	RJ Rodríguez, José Antonio	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo	Chemical Physics	Rank 141
8	8,553	SR Service, Robert F.	San Francisco	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 156
9	8,901	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudio Avanzados, Campus Guanajuato	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 103
10	8,914	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, José Francisco	Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 107
11	9,992	RM Reynolds, M. P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 117
12	10,592	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 178
13	11,351	EO Erenstein, Olaf	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 72
14	11,434	KM Kumar, Manish Santhos	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 249
15	11,583	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 120
16	12,323	SM Selman-Lama, Moisés E.	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 67
17	12,356	CG Ceballos, Gerardo G.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Ecology	Rank 279
18	12,602	RC Rosales, Carlos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Immunology	Rank 256
19	13,575	SS Serna-Saldivar, Sergio O.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 124
20	14,635	AA Anzueto, Antonio R.	South Texas Veterans Health Care System	Respiratory System	Rank 78
21	14,808	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 138
22	15,951	BP Boddupalli, Prasanna M.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 199
23	18,383	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 74
24	19,044	SC Sánchez, Carmen	Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala	Biotechnology	Rank 67
25	19,657	BS Barquera, Simón	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica	Public Health	Rank 193
26	21,904	SR Singh, Ravi Prakash	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 288
27	22,095	RM Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Education	Rank 269
28	22,273	BG Borges, Guilherme Luiz Guimaraes	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 420
29	22,734	SS Sánchez, Sebastián F.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 257
30	22,789	OR Ortega, Romeo S.	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 241
31	22,962	HM Hajiaghei-Keshteli, Mostafa	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,067
32	23,443	VA Varela, Ana Sofía	Instituto de Quimica de la UNAM	Organic Chemistry	Rank 267
33	23,969	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,110
34	25,268	CE Cuevas, Erik V.	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,166
35	26,171	FL Fridman, Leonid M.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 277
36	28,834	ÁJ Álvarez-Ramírez, José J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Food Science	Rank 287
37	29,306	RI Romieu, Isabelle	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Tlalpan	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 885
38	29,597	BC Benjet, Corina	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 538
39	30,287	BM Basin, Michael V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 323
40	31,017	BP Balvanera, Patricia	Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad	Ecology	Rank 617
41	31,439	Venegas-Andraca, Salvador E.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Optoelectronics & Photonics	Rank 58
42	32,287	SM Schatz, Michael K.	Kaiser Permanente Southern California	Allergy	Rank 78
43	33,415	AC Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos Alberto	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 499
44	33,713	SW Symmans, William Fraser	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,002
45	34,552	AC Aguilar, Cristóbal N.	Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila	Biotechnology	Rank 125
46	34,555	GC Goodacre, Charles J.	Loma Linda University School of Dentistry	Dentistry	Rank 148
47	34,700	RJ Rubio, José De Jesús	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,524
48	35,336	RJ Rivera-Dommarco, Juan Ángel	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Tlalpan	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 232
49	35,420	SE Sansinenea, Estibaliz	Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla	Organic Chemistry	Rank 424
50	36,020	EJ Escalante-Garcia, J. Ivan	Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN	Building & Construction	Rank 273
51	36,439	MJ Mahlknecht, Jürgen	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 819
52	37,301	Shruti, V. C.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Environmental Sciences	Rank 830
53	37,682	SS Snapp, Sieglinde S.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 263
54	38,493	Oliva, Diego	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,679
55	38,554	DS Dong, S. H.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 525
56	39,245	DE Díaz-Montes, Elsa	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Food Science	Rank 415
57	40,883	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Energy	Rank 1,137
58	41,154	AJ Armstrong-Altrin, John S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geology	Rank 44
59	41,417	GG González-Águilar, Gustavo Adolfo	Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo	Food Science	Rank 438
60	42,922	RD Romero, David	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 460
61	43,613	DC Dávila-Cervantes, Claudio Alberto	FLACSO México	Public Health	Rank 404
62	43,816	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Toxicology	Rank 150
63	45,500	AM Abdul Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Development Studies	Rank 41
64	46,078	PR Peeters, Rik	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas	Political Science & Public Administration	Rank 373
65	46,354	PJ Pedraza-Chaverri, José	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 744
66	48,844	KG Kutralam-Muniasamy, Gurusamy	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,061
67	49,738	BL Bello-Peréz, Luís Arturo	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Food Science	Rank 553
68	50,080	MJ Medina-Franco, José Luis	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 165
69	50,356	KF Knaul, F. M.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Public Health	Rank 481
70	51,015	PA Pardo, Annie	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Respiratory System	Rank 287
71	51,224	SH Sira-Ramírez, Hebertt J.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 541
72	51,550	Kharisov, Boris I.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 158
73	53,306	PR Pérez-Padilla, Rogélio	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 305
74	53,676	CI Campos-Nonato, Ismael Ricardo	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 736
75	53,990	MJ Mas-Caussel, Jean F.	UNAM Campus Morelia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 568
76	54,233	VE Vázquez-Semadeni, Enrique C.	Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 687
77	54,385	Melin, Patricia	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,317
78	54,397	YW Yu, Wen	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,319
79	54,786	Morones-Ramírez, José Rubén	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Biotechnology	Rank 199
80	55,318	PA Prasad, Ajnesh	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 1,343
81	56,547	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de la UNAM	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 355
82	57,231	VJ Villaseñor, José Luís	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 1,085
83	58,841	SL Simental-Mendía, Luis Ernesto	Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 845
84	59,637	RB Rodríguez-Iturbe, Bernardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 371
85	59,909	VS VERMA, SURENDRA P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 877
86	60,446	RJ Rosell, Julieta A.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 924
87	61,124	SL Sánchez-Lozada, Laura Gabriela	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 380
88	61,162	AO Arrieta, Oscar Gerardo	Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,854
89	63,992	Segura Campos, Maira Rubi	Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán	Food Science	Rank 722
90	64,033	RR Romero-Troncoso, R. J.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 223
91	64,342	MM Medina-Mora, M. E.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Psychiatry	Rank 1,037
92	65,407	RP Rosset, Peter Michael	El Colegio de la Frontera Sur	Geography	Rank 336
93	66,336	KJ Kickul, Jill R.	EGADE Business School	Business & Management	Rank 1,550
94	66,397	MF Masset, Frédéric S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 812
95	68,103	Bonilla-Petriciolet, Adrián	Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes	Chemical Engineering	Rank 541
96	68,107	Jacobo-Velázquez, Daniel A.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 778
97	68,329	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 100
98	69,640	JA Jakus, Adam E.	Dimension Inx Corp	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 276
99	69,741	Juárez-Maldonado, Antonio	Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,079
100	70,125	DE Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 451
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Frequently asked questions

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

415 scientists affiliated with Mexico are on the 2025 single-year list, and 420 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2025 single-year list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 54. It is followed by Tecnológico de Monterrey with 31.

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

On the single-year list, Mexico went from 303 scientists in 2020 to 415 in 2025, a change of +37.0%.

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.