Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2020: Career-Long List

Mexico has 291 scientists on the 2020 career-long Top 2% list. That places Mexico 37th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (51), followed by Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados (15).

Single Year

303

First year listed

Career Data

291

First year listed

World rank by count

#37

First year listed

Institutes

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Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

Career-long list, change on the previous year

2021+17.5%

2022-3.5%

2023+6.7%

2024+9.1%

2025+9.4%

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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	1,771	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 38
2	1,895	YK Yaffe, Kristine	University of California, San Francisco	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 194
3	5,575	MB Metzger, Boyd E.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 184
4	8,380	MA Malik, Asrar B.	University of Illinois College of Medicine	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 365
5	9,244	SM Sailor, Michael	University of California, San Diego	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 112
6	9,741	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudio Avanzados, Campus Guanajuato	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 83
7	10,941	WJ Wixted, John T.	University of California, San Diego	Experimental Psychology	Rank 163
8	11,283	EU Elkayam, Uri	Keck School of Medicine of USC	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 551
9	11,590	GA García, Angel E.	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Chemical Physics	Rank 290
10	12,149	SB Spellberg, Brad	University of Southern California	Microbiology	Rank 283
11	12,381	WR Wilson, Robert S.	Rush University Medical Center	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,083
12	12,565	MR Mehta, Ravindra L.	University of California, San Diego	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 133
13	12,594	WM Whooley, Mary A.	University of California, San Francisco	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 604
14	13,401	DW Dillmann, Wolfgang H.	University of California, San Diego	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 641
15	13,430	ST Schnitzer, Thomas J.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 121
16	13,673	RM Roach, Mack	UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 664
17	13,785	SH Sira-Ramirez, Hebertt	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 90
18	14,232	MA Malhotra, Atul	University of California, San Diego	Respiratory System	Rank 147
19	14,984	AA Apkarian, Apkar V.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,296
20	15,158	SN Schiller, Nelson B.	University of California, San Francisco	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 698
21	15,422	ER Effros, Rita Brickman	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Immunology	Rank 587
22	15,602	EV Edgerton, V. Reggie	University of California, Los Angeles	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,358
23	15,927	RP Ravdin, Peter	University of Texas Health Sciences Center	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 764
24	16,509	SM Selman, Moisés	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 174
25	16,554	AD Alarcón-Segovia, Donato	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 138
26	16,593	PV Papadopoulos, Vassilios	University of Southern California	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 470
27	16,731	HC Hsu, Chi Yuan	University of California, San Francisco	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 188
28	17,069	SW Smith, Wade S.	University of California, San Francisco	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,451
29	17,361	VV Vallon, Volker	University of California, San Diego	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 197
30	17,784	BR Buijs, Ruud M.	Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de la UNAM	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,504
31	18,745	SK Shokat, Kevan M.	University of California, San Francisco	Developmental Biology	Rank 903
32	19,812	MT Markow, Therese Ann	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 213
33	20,501	SL Sharma, L.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 166
34	20,982	BG Brent, Gregory A.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 572
35	21,890	FM Ferguson, Mark K.	The University of Chicago	Respiratory System	Rank 218
36	23,010	AJ Albores-Saavedra, Jorge	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Pathology	Rank 83
37	23,205	GB Glick, Benjamin S.	The University of Chicago	Developmental Biology	Rank 1,073
38	23,687	WJ Wiencke, John K.	University of California, San Francisco	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,153
39	26,274	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 297
40	27,466	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 631
41	28,058	CJ Crossa, José	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 321
42	28,148	PJ Pfaus, James G.	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 84
43	28,350	DS Dong, Shi Hai	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 441
44	29,903	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 496
45	30,026	KP Katz, Patricia	University of California, San Francisco	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 229
46	30,850	FL Fridman, Leonid	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 218
47	32,515	HB Husted, Bryan W.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Business & Management	Rank 289
48	33,523	DM Dodd, Marylin	University of California, San Francisco	Nursing	Rank 45
49	35,184	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 108
50	35,243	RM Reynolds, Matthew	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 416
51	35,328	ME Martínez-Romero, Esperanza	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Microbiology	Rank 864
52	35,939	RB Rodriguez-Iturbe, B.	Department of Nephrology, INC Ignacio Chávez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 412
53	38,279	AF Aureli, Filippo	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 120
54	38,649	HC Hsieh, Chih Lin	USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center	Developmental Biology	Rank 1,556
55	40,055	VS Verma, Surendra P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 650
56	43,091	SJ Sotelo, Julio	Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 3,196
57	45,258	MA Meneses, A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 3,358
58	45,484	IF Izrailev, F. M.	Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 448
59	45,948	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Toxicology	Rank 233
60	46,068	AJ Armour, J. Andrew	University of California, Los Angeles	Physiology	Rank 212
61	47,720	RG Ruiz-Palacios, Guillermo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Microbiology	Rank 1,168
62	48,020	SS Shah, Sanjiv J.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,865
63	48,173	BJ Buckley, J. S.	Institute of Mining and Technology	Energy	Rank 462
64	49,129	JE Juaristi, Eusebio	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Organic Chemistry	Rank 950
65	49,138	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 826
66	49,596	CG Ceballos, Gerardo	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 813
67	49,781	KR Kelly, Rafael	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 355
68	51,533	BA Bravo, Alejandra	Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM	Microbiology	Rank 1,285
69	53,185	YW Yu, Wen	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 377
70	53,376	BG Borges, Guilherme	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 1,055
71	54,489	BR Burgos-Vargas, Rubén	Hospital General de Mexico	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 401
72	54,748	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Energy	Rank 527
73	54,903	BD Batlle, Daniel	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 657
74	56,205	PM Prakriya, Murali	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Physiology	Rank 268
75	57,154	MH Middlekauff, Holly R.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 2,131
76	57,841	KJ Keppie, J. Duncan	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 952
77	58,018	MM Moshinsky, Marcos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 947
78	59,385	OJ Oró, J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 546
79	59,971	MR Moreno-Sánchez, Rafael	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 2,256
80	60,745	VR Vazquez-Duhalt, Rafael	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Biotechnology	Rank 195
81	60,800	HM Hernández-Avila, Mauricio	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Public Health	Rank 574
82	60,924	PF Páez-Osuna, Federico	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 308
83	60,933	DM De Maio, Antonio	University of California, San Diego	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 2,294
84	61,016	ÁE Álvarez-Buylla, Elena R.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 772
85	61,366	SD Skaggs, David L.	Children's Hospital Los Angeles	Orthopedics	Rank 425
86	61,960	NC Noguez, Cecilia	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Applied Physics	Rank 1,561
87	62,962	AM Aluja, Martín	Instituto de Ecología, A.C.	Entomology	Rank 119
88	63,470	KI Kurtz, Ira	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 755
89	63,822	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 224
90	64,939	BR Buijs, Ruud M.	Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de la UNAM	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 4,601
91	65,514	SP Sebastian, P. J.	Instituto de Energías Renovables-UNAM	Energy	Rank 681
92	65,802	EG Eiceman, G. A.	New Mexico State University	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 477
93	66,077	FJ Fripiat, J. J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Physical Chemistry	Rank 271
94	66,738	PL Possani, Lourival D.	Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 2,499
95	66,858	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 471
96	67,184	CJ Clark, J. David	VA Palo Alto Health Care System	Anesthesiology	Rank 251
97	67,577	OG Oskam, Gerko	CINVESTAV Unidad Merida	Energy	Rank 706
98	67,690	MB Mealey, Brian L.	UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry	Dentistry	Rank 334
99	68,093	RJ Rehman, Jalees	University of Illinois College of Medicine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 2,471
100	68,990	PA Pardo, Annie	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Respiratory System	Rank 719
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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 career-long list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 51. It is followed by Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados with 15.

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.