Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2020

Mexico has 303 scientists on the 2020 single-year Top 2% list. That places Mexico 39th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (45), followed by University of California, San Francisco (14).

Single Year

303

First year listed

Career Data

291

First year listed

World rank by count

#39

First year listed

Institutes

105

First year listed

Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

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%

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Rank in Mexico	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	523	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 33
2	1,829	MM Matthay, Michael A.	University of California, San Francisco	Respiratory System	Rank 6
3	2,318	MB Metzger, Boyd E.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 41
4	2,562	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, J. F.	Tecnológico Nacional de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 15
5	4,533	CS Carmichael, S. Thomas	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 316
6	4,867	SB Spellberg, Brad	University of Southern California	Microbiology	Rank 77
7	4,970	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudio Avanzados, Campus Guanajuato	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 50
8	7,116	WJ Wixted, John T.	University of California, San Diego	Experimental Psychology	Rank 134
9	7,854	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 156
10	10,297	CM Cooperberg, Matthew	UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 59
11	10,327	AA Apkarian, Apkar V.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 631
12	10,511	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 275
13	10,686	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 53
14	10,889	RJ Rubio, José de Jesús	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 345
15	11,298	CJ Crossa, José	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 138
16	11,320	HB Husted, Bryan W.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 293
17	12,019	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 370
18	12,381	FL Fridman, Leonid	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 146
19	13,337	RM Reynolds, Matthew	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 158
20	13,381	CG Ceballos, Gerardo	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 334
21	14,913	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 181
22	15,707	DJ Davis, John M.	University of Illinois at Chicago	Psychiatry	Rank 360
23	15,942	BD Bauer, Doug C.	University of California, San Francisco	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 317
24	16,135	DL DiPietro, Luisa A.	University of Illinois at Chicago	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 47
25	16,846	EU Elkayam, Uri	Keck School of Medicine of USC	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 519
26	16,854	SH Sira-Ramirez, Hebertt	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 199
27	17,318	BJ Buckley, J. S.	Institute of Mining and Technology	Energy	Rank 336
28	18,469	BG Brent, Gregory A.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 362
29	18,534	CF Chaloupka, Frank J.	University of Illinois at Chicago	Public Health	Rank 183
30	18,895	SL Sharma, L.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 113
31	19,206	WL Webster, Lynn	PRA Health Sciences	Anesthesiology	Rank 53
32	22,437	LC Lowell, Clifford A.	University of California, San Francisco	Immunology	Rank 518
33	22,438	AJ Armstrong-Altrin, John S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geology	Rank 33
34	26,252	PJ Paice, Judith A.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Nursing	Rank 42
35	26,340	GA García, Angel E.	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Chemical Physics	Rank 498
36	26,367	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Energy	Rank 533
37	27,095	BG Borges, Guilherme	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 562
38	29,068	Melin, Patricia	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 789
39	30,824	MT Markow, Therese Ann	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 277
40	30,926	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 181
41	31,962	SM Selman, Moisés	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 202
42	32,192	XY Xu, Yunbi	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 404
43	32,324	BR Buijs, Ruud M.	Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de la UNAM	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,852
44	32,777	OY Orlov, Yury	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 373
45	33,323	PM Prakriya, Murali	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Physiology	Rank 82
46	33,667	VS Verma, Surendra P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 677
47	33,740	BS Barquera, Simón	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Public Health	Rank 370
48	36,177	HM Hussain, Maha	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,266
49	36,487	EO Erenstein, Olaf	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 212
50	37,298	RP Ravdin, Peter	University of Texas Health Sciences Center	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,315
51	38,209	MJ Mas, Jean François	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 303
52	38,443	ME Martínez-Romero, Esperanza	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Microbiology	Rank 809
53	39,215	AV Arora, Vineet M.	The University of Chicago	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 412
54	39,814	HC Horbinski, Craig M.	Northwestern University	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,258
55	40,108	RB Rodriguez-Iturbe, B.	Department of Nephrology, INC Ignacio Chávez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 295
56	40,159	PJ Pfaus, James G.	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 91
57	41,476	YW Yu, Wen	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 463
58	42,694	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 321
59	42,921	AE Awh, Edward	The University of Chicago	Experimental Psychology	Rank 609
60	43,095	NC Noguez, Cecilia	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Applied Physics	Rank 932
61	43,305	Iqbal, Hafiz M.N.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 470
62	43,348	SC Sánchez, Carmen	Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala	Biotechnology	Rank 153
63	43,373	DS Dong, Shi Hai	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 458
64	43,975	GG Gonzalez-Aguilar, G. A.	Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo	Food Science	Rank 264
65	44,202	MM Medina-Mora, Maria Elena	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 800
66	44,245	WB Wiederhold, Brenda K.	Scripps Memorial Hospital	Clinical Psychology	Rank 197
67	44,340	MD Morales-Morales, David	Instituto de Quimica de la UNAM	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 205
68	44,493	AK Andriotis, Konstantinos	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 136
69	44,594	SA Schaeffer, Anthony J.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 332
70	45,671	BP Balvanera, Patricia	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 962
71	46,491	BM Basin, Michael V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 502
72	46,741	SL Sánchez-Lozada, L. G.	Dept. Cardio-Renal Physiopathology, INC Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 348
73	47,553	ER Effros, Rita Brickman	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Immunology	Rank 1,034
74	49,270	AJ Alvarez-Ramirez, J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa	Food Science	Rank 295
75	51,294	PJ Pedraza-Chaverri, José	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,850
76	52,132	SA Schedler, Andreas	Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C.	Political Science & Public Administration	Rank 319
77	52,659	RJ Ruiz-García, Jorge	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 95
78	53,737	KY Kanwar, Yashpal S.	Northwestern University	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 399
79	55,421	SR Singh, Ravi Prakash	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 784
80	55,623	MB Mealey, Brian L.	UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry	Dentistry	Rank 212
81	55,648	PF Páez-Osuna, Federico	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 615
82	56,189	OG Oskam, Gerko	CINVESTAV Unidad Merida	Energy	Rank 1,201
83	56,479	FL Ferrari, Luca	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,099
84	56,755	EJ Escalante-Garcia, J. Ivan	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Building & Construction	Rank 289
85	57,073	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Toxicology	Rank 222
86	57,279	CE Cuevas, Erik	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,467
87	57,473	MS Mackey, Sean C.	Stanford University School of Medicine	Anesthesiology	Rank 157
88	58,710	SF Sánchez-Sesma, Francisco J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,138
89	59,248	CJ Czernin, Johannes	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	Rank 299
90	59,727	RP Rosset, Peter	El Colegio de la Frontera Sur	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 348
91	59,842	PD Peters, Debra P.C.	New Mexico State University	Ecology	Rank 1,214
92	60,080	IF Izrailev, F. M.	Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 532
93	60,120	OE Olguín, E. J.	Instituto de Ecología, A.C.	Biotechnology	Rank 220
94	60,764	LJ López-Bucio, José	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 878
95	61,046	MF Masset, F. S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 548
96	61,393	WJ Wiencke, John K.	University of California, San Francisco	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,141
97	63,335	AF Aureli, Filippo	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 165
98	63,753	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 167
99	64,422	LR Leyva-Ramos, Roberto	Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi	Chemical Engineering	Rank 430
100	65,165	Kharisov, Boris I.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 325
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Mexico are in the 2020 Stanford Top 2% list?

303 scientists affiliated with Mexico are on the 2020 single-year list, and 291 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2020 single-year list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 45. It is followed by University of California, San Francisco with 14.

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.