Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2026

Mexico has 468 scientists on the 2026 single-year Top 2% list, up 12.8% from 415 in 2025. That places Mexico 42nd in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (57), followed by Tecnológico de Monterrey (39).

Single Year

468

+53 (+12.8%) vs 2025

Career Data

461

+41 (+9.8%) vs 2025

World rank by count

#42

No change vs 2025

Institutes

145

+10 (+7.4%) vs 2025

Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 54% 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%

2026+12.8%

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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%
2026	468	+12.8%	461	+9.8%

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Rank in Mexico	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	968	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 66
2	3,079	SG Santoyo, Gustavo	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Microbiology	Rank 41
3	3,968	CJ Crossa, José Luis	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 32
4	7,075	Iqbal, Hafiz M.N.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Environmental Sciences	Rank 151
5	8,584	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 101
6	8,599	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 217
7	9,171	EO Erenstein, Olaf	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 54
8	9,241	SR Service, Robert F.	University of San Francisco	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 172
9	9,772	HB Husted, Bryan W.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 306
10	10,032	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 150
11	10,848	RJ Rodríguez, José Antonio	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo	Chemical Physics	Rank 157
12	11,140	KM Kumar, Manish Santhos	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 243
13	11,336	SS Serna-Saldivar, Sergio O.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 109
14	12,320	CG Ceballos, Gerardo G.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Ecology	Rank 283
15	12,489	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, José Francisco	Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 155
16	12,993	BP Boddupalli, Prasanna M.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 166
17	13,335	RC Rosales, Carlos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Immunology	Rank 252
18	14,833	RM Reynolds, M. P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 196
19	14,890	RM Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Education	Rank 233
20	15,438	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 148
21	16,728	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 176
22	18,892	OR Ortega, Romeo S.	ITAM - Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 197
23	20,069	CB Cohen, Boyd D.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 586
24	22,781	SC Sánchez, Carmen	Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala	Biotechnology	Rank 71
25	22,828	VA Varela, Ana Sofía	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Organic Chemistry	Rank 247
26	25,266	SM Selman-Lama, Moisés E.	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 132
27	25,467	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 100
28	25,586	FL Fridman, Leonid M.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 272
29	25,918	HM Hajiaghei-Keshteli, Mostafa	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,293
30	26,466	BP Balvanera, Patricia	Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad	Ecology	Rank 550
31	26,480	TJ Terven, Juan R.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,317
32	26,967	MJ Medina-Franco, José L.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 90
33	28,120	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,384
34	28,680	AC Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos Alberto	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 432
35	29,040	SR Singh, Ravi Prakash	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 407
36	29,601	BS Barquera, Simón	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica	Public Health	Rank 278
37	30,472	CE Cuevas, Erik V.	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,489
38	31,111	DE Díaz-Montes, Elsa	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Food Science	Rank 361
39	32,842	Venegas-Andraca, Salvador E.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Optoelectronics & Photonics	Rank 61
40	33,171	SE Sansinenea, Estibaliz	Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla	Organic Chemistry	Rank 368
41	33,849	BC Benjet, Corina	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 606
42	34,319	ÁJ Álvarez-Ramírez, José J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Food Science	Rank 409
43	34,393	EJ Escalante-García, José Iván	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Building & Construction	Rank 297
44	35,073	BG Borges, Guilherme Luiz Guimaraes	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 625
45	35,566	RJ Rivera-Dommarco, Juan Ángel	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Tlalpan	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 246
46	36,235	OM Olson, Mark Earl	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 532
47	37,344	RI Romieu, Isabelle	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,120
48	37,495	KF Knaul, F. M.	Tómatelo a Pecho AC	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 582
49	37,523	AJ Armstrong-Altrin, John S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geology	Rank 38
50	39,082	BM Basin, Michael V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 403
51	39,432	PR Peeters, Rik	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas	Political Science & Public Administration	Rank 352
52	39,995	GG González-Águilar, Gustavo Adolfo	Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo	Food Science	Rank 486
53	41,606	AC Aguilar, Cristóbal N.	Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila	Biotechnology	Rank 137
54	42,199	PJ Pedraza-Chaverri, José	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 608
55	44,435	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Energy	Rank 1,278
56	44,984	ZR Zhu, Renyuan	Universidad Iberoamericana	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 570
57	45,675	SL Simental-Mendía, Luis Ernesto	Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 673
58	46,425	OY Orlov, Yury V.	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 490
59	47,387	AM Asad, Muzaffar	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 1,205
60	48,427	MJ Mahlknecht, Jürgen	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,065
61	49,017	DE Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 332
62	49,025	KR Kravitz, Richard L.	UC Davis School of Medicine	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 736
63	49,998	CI Campos-Nonato, Ismael Ricardo	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 751
64	50,155	Shruti, V. C.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,100
65	51,031	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Toxicology	Rank 180
66	51,093	Oliva, Diego Alberto	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,421
67	51,345	RJ Rubio, José De Jesús	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,431
68	52,487	DS Dong, S. H.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 661
69	52,597	PR Pérez-Padilla, Rogélio	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 299
70	52,791	RJ Rosell, Julieta A.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 812
71	53,672	FL Farfan-Cabrera, Leonardo Israel	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 514
72	53,885	DC Dávila-Cervantes, Claudio Alberto	FLACSO México	Public Health	Rank 506
73	54,145	MF Masset, Frédéric S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 707
74	54,796	FR Furszyfer-del Rio, Dylan Daniel	Iniciativa Climatica de Mexico	Energy	Rank 1,626
75	56,011	AJ Araus, José Luís	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 873
76	56,568	LO Loyola-González, Octavio	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,651
77	57,355	Juárez-Maldonado, Antonio	Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 900
78	59,170	YW Yu, Wen	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,760
79	59,178	MN Méndez-Sánchez, Nahúm	Fundacion Clinica Medica Sur	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 621
80	60,109	AI Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 110
81	60,856	PA Pardo, Annie	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Respiratory System	Rank 338
82	61,553	KG Kutralam-Muniasamy, Gurusamy	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,381
83	61,823	GA Gelbukh, Alexander F.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,900
84	62,192	VR Villaseñor Ríos, José Luis	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 1,218
85	62,420	SR Silva Rodríguez de San Miguel, Jorge Alejandro	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,398
86	62,800	Jacobo-Velázquez, Daniel A.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 795
87	63,722	Morones-Ramírez, José Rubén	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Microbiology	Rank 1,237
88	63,793	GF Guerrero-Romero, Fernando	Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 906
89	63,807	PF Paez-Osuna, Federico	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,428
90	63,991	SL Sánchez-Lozada, Laura Gabriela	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 401
91	64,943	VS VERMA, SURENDRA P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 891
92	65,088	MO Montesinos-López, Osval Antonio	Universidad de Colima	Developmental Biology	Rank 1,387
93	65,338	AO Arrieta, Oscar Gerardo	Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,977
94	65,541	RP Rosset, Peter Michael	El Colegio de la Frontera Sur	Geography	Rank 351
95	65,547	VE Vázquez-Semadeni, Enrique C.	Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 839
96	65,554	PA Poznyak, Alexander S.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 712
97	66,903	RB Rodríguez-Iturbe, Bernardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 417
98	66,933	BL Bello-Peréz, Luís Arturo	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Food Science	Rank 849
99	67,148	RH Ruiz, Héctor A.	Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila	Biotechnology	Rank 235
100	67,233	KB Kharisov, Boris Ildusovich	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 195
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Mexico are in the 2026 Stanford Top 2% list?

468 scientists affiliated with Mexico are on the 2026 single-year list, and 461 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2026 single-year list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 57. It is followed by Tecnológico de Monterrey with 39.

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 468 in 2026, a change of +54.5%.

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.